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"and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels..." (Isaiah 61:10) I’m currently engaged to be married. The wedding is on the horizon, a point in the distance that my whole life is moving towards.  It’s strange living between a promise and a reality.  The offer has already been made, and I have accepted - you can tell by the jewel on my...

"as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest..." (Isaiah 61:10) Over the past two days we have read that the garments of salvation enable us to see the world in a different way, and to be covered in the robes of righteousness means to live a life reflecting the truth and life which you find in Jesus. Isaiah then goes on to...

"and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness..." (Isaiah 61:10) What are you wearing? At the start of the year I went through my wardrobe and threw out everything that wasn’t ‘me’ - that didn’t reflect the person I am. You know those items that look cool, you bought from some hipster-vintage stall and think one day you might be able...

You will spend 3,500 days of your life at work.  Or at least you will if you’re an average British worker.  That’s 84,000 hours or over 5 million minutes.  Your work fills more of your waking hours than anything else in your life.  So if you’re serious about Jesus being Lord of your life, you must know what the Bible...

"For he has clothed me with garments of salvation..." (Isaiah 61:10) I recently changed the photo on my driving license. The original photo was from 9 years ago, before I could drive, before I knew Jesus, and before I knew that I did not suit brunette hair.  The photo on the license doesn’t look like me anymore. The 9 years of aging...

"I delight greatly in God, my soul rejoices in Him..." (Isaiah 61:10) My first week of university my flat went to do a pub quiz, we walked as a group and the whole way there I was focusing on saying something funny, interesting, and trying to ask good questions. I was pretty nervous and so focused on the people around me that...

It’s not very often that we get the chance to try something again, or to try and do it better. As Jess prepared to start her masters last summer, she spent some time reflecting on what she wished she had done differently as part of her undergraduate degree. Her number one answer was this: Go in straight away and tell...