daily reading by christian aid uk

Excerpt: Am I now seeking human approval, or God’s approval? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still pleasing people, I would not be a servant of Christ. - Galatians 1:10. Living for God’s approval rather than human acclaim doesn’t mean setting ourselves up against other people. In...

Excerpt: When Jesus became aware of this, he departed. Many crowds followed him, and he cured all of them, and he ordered them not to make him known. - Matthew 12:15-16. Jesus doesn’t seem to want the attention! He’d just healed a man on the Sabbath day, and this compassionate act was not met...

Excerpt: Now for some time a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and amazed all the people of Samaria. He boasted that he was someone great, and all the people, both high and low, gave him their attention and exclaimed, ‘This man is rightly called the Great Power of God.’ They...

Excerpt: While Peter was still speaking, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who heard the word. The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles, for they heard them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then...

Excerpt: Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be baptized by him. John would have prevented him, saying, ‘I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?’ But Jesus answered him, ‘Let it be so now; for it is proper for us in this way to fulfil all righteousness.’ Then he...

Excerpt: For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name. - Ephesians 3:14 Paul presents God as the Father of all living things: the source of every nation, the origin of every language, the beginning of every history. Something...

Excerpt: In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, asking, ‘Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage.' - Matthew 2:1-2 Sometimes those on...

Excerpt: And what more should I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets— who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions, quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the...

Excerpt: By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called a son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. He considered abuse suffered for the Christ to be greater wealth than the treasures of...

I read something today that we might experience sometimes too. Reading with Compassion by Christian AID UK Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help and my God. - Psalm 42:11. Exceprt: We all have hard days, and...