https://odb.org/2025/08/18/god-will-keep-it 1 John 3:1–3 (NIV): See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what weContinue reading “The promise to come”
Category Archives: Second Coming
Jesus the Son of God
https://odb.org/2025/05/16/for-the-record Mark 1:1–8 (ESV): 1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.2 As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way; the voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight”. 4 JohnContinue reading “Jesus the Son of God”
Recognising Jesus
https://odb.org/2025/05/09/loves-great-surprise John 20:11–16 (NIV): 11 Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb 12 and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot. 13 They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?” “They have takenContinue reading “Recognising Jesus”
Our appointment with death
https://odb.org/2024/11/21/the-appointment Hebrews 9 NIV: 27 Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, 28 so Christ was sacrificed oncei to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him. RomansContinue reading “Our appointment with death”
Other people’s business
https://odb.org/2024/11/07/other-peoples-business Philippians 4:2-3 NIV I plead with Euodia, and I plead with Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord. 3 Yes, and I ask you, my true companion, help these women since they have contended at my side in the cause of the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my co-workers, whose namesContinue reading “Other people’s business”
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