Tuesday 2nd April NUMBERS 33 and 34 Moses is commanded by The Lord to itemise the stages in the journey that they have taken from the Exodus to the Promised Land. There are exactly 40 stages mentioned, which... facebook.com/readthebigpict…

Wednesday 3 April NUMBERS 35 and 36 “Simeon and Levi are brothers---their swords are weapons of violence. Let me not enter their council, let me not join their assembly, for they have killed men in their anger... facebook.com/readthebigpict…

Thursday 4 April LUKE 10 In Luke 9, Jesus sent out the ‘Twelve’ (apostles) in a mission to proclaim the gospel exclusively to the Galilean Jews. In today’s reading, he sends out ‘Seventy-Two’ others to cover a... facebook.com/readthebigpict…

Friday 5 April DEUTERONOMY 3 and 4 Moses continues to remind the Children of Israel that God had then given them a great victory over the other Amorite king, Og, who ruled over the northern end of the... facebook.com/readthebigpict…

Tomorrow (Sunday 7th April) is First Sunday and we are delighted to welcome our guest speaker, Alan Cass. Alan is part of Eastgate Church, Northfleet, Kent, and he has some words of encouragement for us in TCF.... facebook.com/57823352887339…

Sunday 7 April DEUTERONOMY 5, 6 and 7 Growing up in a God-fearing, Bible-believing home does have its drawbacks. It is tempting to think that all the real action happened between your parents and the Lord,... facebook.com/readthebigpict…

Monday 8 April LUKE 12 If yesterday’s reading (Luke 11) was about training his disciples in prayer, then today’s is about ‘Fear’! “Fear Him who, after your body has been killed, has authority to throw you into... facebook.com/29361060068909…

Tuesday 9 April DEUTERONOMY 11, 12 and 13 The search for the source of the Nile is a topic that has fuelled both fact and fiction - including a couple of the latest 'Top Gear' episodes! The reason is that the... facebook.com/readthebigpict…

Wednesday 10 April LUKE 13 How do we react to human disasters? Are they a punishment from God for rebellious, irresponsible behaviour – or are they a kind of random consequence of living in a ‘broken’, fallen... facebook.com/readthebigpict…

Thursday 11 April DEUTERONOMY 14, 15 and 16 Food, Finance and Festivals - these three topics largely make up today's readings. The food laws have been referred to previously and more or less boil down to... facebook.com/readthebigpict…

Friday 12 April LUKE 14 Luke’s gospel contains five of the seven times that Jesus is recorded as healing on the Sabbath. He really DID want to make an important point, didn’t he! (Which was what?) Most... facebook.com/readthebigpict…

Saturday 13 April LUKE 15 A pivotal chapter, with an ‘obsession’ with ‘Mission’! (That’s good, btw.!) The chapter consists of three simple fictional stories crafted to illustrate Jesus’ response to the... facebook.com/readthebigpict…

Sunday 14 April LUKE 16 It is surprising how often the topic of money comes up in the gospels. Most times it is Jesus himself who raises it. In this chapter he illustrates how cleverly some of the people of... facebook.com/readthebigpict…

Monday 15 April LUKE 17 Today’s reading starts with an interesting look at ‘forgiveness’. Do you ALWAYS have to forgive someone? What does that forgiveness look like in practice? What about people who do you... facebook.com/29361060068909…

Tuesday 16 April DEUTERONOMY 24, 25, 26 and 27 The subject of legitimate divorce was as live a topic in Jesus' day as the question of legitimate marriage is in ours. Two 'schools' of rabbis - Shammai and... facebook.com/readthebigpict…

Wednesday 17 April LUKE 18 Today, in a series of parables or encounters, Jesus tells us what a disciple’s attitude and behaviour towards God should be like. First, the parable of the ‘Persistent Widow’:... facebook.com/readthebigpict…

Monday 22 April LUKE 21 Bill Gates and his wife have already given away 28 billion dollars of their fortune to charitable work worldwide; they intend to give away at least 95 percent of all their money eventually.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Givin…

Monday 29 April JOHN 1 If the first verses of Genesis introduce the beginning of the world, the first verses of John's Gospel refer to a much, much earlier time! Jesus Christ, the Eternal Son of God, is given... facebook.com/29361060068909…

Tuesday 30 April JOSHUA 16, 17, and 18 Judah’s allotment of land had now been sorted and it was the turn of Ephraim and Manasseh, the sons of Joseph, to receive theirs next. Some of the time they were known... facebook.com/29361060068909…

What an incredible weekend we had with Mark Birch-Machin from Speakers Of Life. Thank you God for everything you said out of this time together. So good to see so many people from so many local churches in attendance.... facebook.com/thurrockcf/pos…