Today is Easter Sunday, the high point of the Christian calendar, the moment when light bursts forth from the empty tomb and we see that not even death could defeat our Saviour. Easter Sunday is the day when God’s plan of salvation is revealed more fully to people,...

Today’s household object is the bed and our Bible passage is Matthew 27:62-66.   Most of us nowadays have a bed on which we can sleep. This has not historically always been the case, and even now, on camping holidays, we do not have a comfortable bed but a mat...

Servanthood, suffering, sacrifice – these are the things we see magnified in this last week of Jesus’s life. They were things prophesied by Isaiah many years beforehand: Isaiah said of the Suffering Servant, ‘He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of...