Below you’ll find previous entries for Daily Inspiration – or to see them arranged by theme, head to this webpage.
Advent 2025
- Day 24: 24th December, Christmas Eve – ‘The Light shines in the darkness’Read more...
‘The people walking in darkness have seen a great light…. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.’
We live ...
- Day 23: 23rd December – ‘They opened their treasures’Read more...
Our best wedding present was in many ways the most unlikely. Like most couples we’d received a lot of wonderful gifts to start a new home. Shortly after ...
- Day 22: 22nd December – ‘Greatly disturbed’Read more...
In February each year, the charity Open Doors publishes its World Watch List. This constitutes the 50 countries where it is most dangerous to be a Christian – places where it is ...
- Day 21: 21st December – ‘We saw his star’Read more...
On this day (21st December) in 2020, the two largest planets in the solar system, Jupiter and Saturn, aligned so closely to one another in the sky that ...
- Day 20: 20th December – ‘Magi came…’Read more...
‘We three kings of Orient are, bearing gifts we traverse afar…’
The image of the Wise Men or Kings is so iconic that it’s etched ...
Autumn 2024: The Book of Acts, chapters 1-14: how God’s Spirit changes the lives of Jesus’ followers and begins to change the world, too. May we too be inspired afresh in our generation!
Summer 2024: The Book of Daniel – the life of Daniel and his friends is a story for our times: how to live with faith and integrity in a different culture. This series unpacks both the iconic stories and also the powerful prophecies!
Spring 2024: Daily Inspiration in John: our reflections on John chapters 1-10 can be viewed via this link, either to read on-screen or to download to your device:
New Year 2024: ‘The Shock of the New’ – Isaiah chapters 40-55. One of the great prophetic visions, as fresh today as ever. Thirty days of amazing promises, and renewed hope!
Autumn 2023: ‘Good News!’ – The Gospel of Mark. History changes for good as Jesus arrives – fast-paced and full of practical, life-transforming wisdom: we can never tire of what Mark has to teach us!
- Thursday 16th November – Mark 8:14-21 ‘Use your loaf’Read more...
I must confess I love a good pun! Thankfully, Jesus does, too. Squeezing through eyes of needles, having ears to hear, finding planks in eyes… set in context, these are all meant to bring a smile to our faces. And we saw a few days ago how Jesus ...
- Wednesday 15th November – Mark 8:1-13 ‘Groundhog Day?’Read more...
I don’t know if you’ve seen Bill Murray’s classic film, which is the title of today’s reflection. It details the story of a chap whose life is on endless repeat. Whatever happens on any day, the next one begins exactly as before. It’s very funny, and perhaps a ...
- Tuesday 14th November – Mark 7:31-37 ‘Everything well’Read more...
A minister friend of mine who spent some time in America loved to tell the story of a preacher he knew who had a healing ministry. Whenever he gathered people for an evening meeting which offered prayer for healing, this preacher would turn up on stage (and yes, ...
- Monday 13th November – Mark 7:24-30 ‘Heavenly leftovers’Read more...
Growing up in a family of six, mealtimes were always a bit of a scrum. First to finish got first dibs on the leftovers, so the three teenagers tended to eat quickly! It was rare for there to be anything left, but if that ever happened, what found ...
Summer 2023: The Book of Colossians – Christ is all we need! Let’s be encouraged by the supremacy and sufficiency of Jesus in this remarkable letter: Colossians – Daily Inspirations day-by-day
- Monday 21st August – Colossians 2:6-7 ‘Continuing in him’Read more...
Today is one of the great ‘so what’ passages of Scripture. Last week we basked in the greatness of Jesus, day after day. Today we get to the punchline: ‘so, then….’ if Jesus is all of that, how do we respond? Not surprisingly, the answer is quite simple: ...
- Friday 18th August – Colossians 1:28-29 ‘Complete in Christ’Read more...
Today I want to introduce you to a word that is not very well-known, but is one of the most important words in the bible, and that is the little Greek word teleios. Now teleios is quite a hard word to define, but it’s the word used here ...
- Thursday 17th August – Colossians 1:24-27 (ii) ‘Glorious riches’Read more...
If you were asked to summarise the purpose of life in a few words, what would you say? What’s the point of it all? What represents the ‘grand plan’?
It’s a tough question, but in these stunning verses we get close to an answer. God’s ...
- Wednesday 16th August – Colossians 1:24-27 ‘For the sake of his body’
Who’d be a leader? As General Hopper declares in the great animated film ‘Ants’: ‘The first rule of leadership is – it’s always your fault.’ And we are all too painfully aware of the damage that can be done by leaders who are corrupted by power.
When I was training in my previous role in the commercial world, an old colleague once said to me: ‘If ever you feel intimidated in a meeting, just imagine them all sitting in their underpants.’ It’s a fairly comical strategy, but many will testify that it works!