Well, folks, let's open our Bibles, I am using the NKJV today and have a look at what the Word of God has to say about this whole business of repentance, fasting, and those things we see around us like Ash Wednesday and Lent. You know, as we go through the Scriptures studying and preaching verse by verse, we find that God isn't interested in a lot of religious show or seasonal ceremonies. He's after the heart.

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20 February 2026

Read more: Rend Your Heart, Not Your Garments

Folks, let's open our Bibles to Revelation chapter 3, verse 20, where the Lord Jesus says these tender words: "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" (Revelation 3:20,) I am using the NKJV today.

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20 February 2026

Read more: A Simple Invitation - Setting the Table for Two with Jesus

You know, here in the UK, folks get all excited about this thing called Pancake Tuesday, or Shrove Tuesday.

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17 February 2026

Read more: Pancake Tuesday - Just a Tradition, Folks - Let's Keep Our Eyes on Jesus

Well, folks, here we are on Valentine's Day again. As I was running over Conic Hill last night, thinking about this devotional today, running past the SPAR grocery store in Drymen, the shop is full of hearts and flowers, cards and candy. But let's take a moment and turn to the Word of God, because that is where we find the real truth about love and we will let the words speak to you.

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14 February 2026

Read more: Valentine's Day - Looking at Love Through the Eyes of Scripture

You know, folks, life has a way of bringing us to places we never expected. Back in 2012 and 2013, my wife and I went through something that broke our hearts wide open ~ we lost two precious babies in the womb to miscarriage. 

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13 February 2026

Read more: Grieving the Loss of Little Ones - A Father's Heart and God's Comfort

God's Way of Speaking in the Old Days – And How Much Better It Is Now

I have been watching Tyler Gaulden of Hillcrest Baptist Church doing a teaching series on the temple and priests. As I watch and study what he is teaching and go through the Word of God, we come across these interesting things in the Old Testament that make us stop and think.

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12 February 2026

Read more: The Urim and Thummim

From Avoiding Judgment to Adoring His Presence

In the quiet moments, yesterday, while hiking up a local hill here in Helensburgh, away from the noise of the world, I’ve felt it, a deep longing to be close to God, to dwell in His presence, to escape the pull of this sinful age.

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10 February 2026

Read more: Rekindling the Fear of the Lord

Jeremiah 49:34-39

You know, folks, as we go through the Bible and even in your own reading, we come to these prophecies against the nations, and they remind us that God is sovereign over every kingdom on earth.

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07 February 2026

Read more: God's Word on Elam - Iran - Past Blessings, Coming Judgment, and Glorious Hope

This verse caught me the other day, and it can be found in 2 Corinthians 4:16. Paul writes, “Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day” (NKJV).

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04 February 2026

Read more: Though the Outward Man Perish, the Inward Man Is Renewed Day by Day

Folks, as we pause on this International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, marking the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945, our hearts turn to one of the darkest chapters in human history. The Shoah, the Holocaust, saw six million Jewish people, God's chosen nation, systematically murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators between 1941 and 1945. Two-thirds of Europe's Jews were wiped out in gas chambers, mass shootings, starvation, and forced labour. It was evil unleashed, hatred against the people through whom the Messiah came (Romans 9:4-5).

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27 January 2026

Read more: From Yellow Badge to Yellow Ribbon - God's Faithfulness to His People