Every Day with Jesus

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Find revelation and encouragement through Every Day with Jesus, a world-renowned Bible reading notes publication from Waverley Abbey Trust. With readings, thoughts, prayers and actions to take, you as a reader will be enriched in your faith and see its impact in all areas of life.

  1. 12/31/2023

    31st Dec 2023 - Waiting for Jesus

    One of the great privileges of going to church is to meet elderly saints, the kind who have walked with Jesus for so much of their life that it seems to shine through on their faces. This is how I picture Simeon and Anna, two devout prophets who yearned to see the coming of the Messiah. Anna is described as ‘very old’ at ‘eighty-four’, and she’d enjoyed only seven years of marriage before becoming a widow (vv36–37). She spent her years worshipping ‘night and day, fasting and praying’ (v37). God told Simeon he would see the Messiah in his lifetime (v26).

    4 min

  2. 12/30/2023

    30th Dec 2023 - Waiting for Good from Galilee

    Unfortunate residents of Slough are forever blighted by the infamous poem by John Betjeman, which suggests that the town is so awful it should be razed to the ground. Though literary critics say it’s a protest poem against industrialisation, nevertheless, several mayors of Slough have objected to it.

    4 min

  3. 12/29/2023

    29th Dec 2023 - Waiting for a Tyrant to Die

    Do evil people live longer lives? Former president Robert Mugabe, initially celebrated as a progressive anti-colonialist ruler of Zimbabwe, committed genocide against approximately 20,000 Ndebele people. Social scientist Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann wrote there was ‘clear evidence that Mugabe was guilty of crimes against humanity’,* and Uganda-born John Sentamu criticised his ‘unjust and brutal regime’.** Mugabe lived to the ripe old age of 95.

    4 min

  4. 12/28/2023

    28th Dec 2023 - Waiting To Be Comforted

    Christmas can be a joyful time with church and family, full of happiness. However, it can also be a painful time, full of loneliness and sorrow. If we have endured grief, loss, or trauma during the year, this will be the time we feel it acutely. If we have had painful Christmases in the past, it’s hard to celebrate without those memories casting shadows on the present.

    4 min

  5. 12/27/2023

    27th Dec 2023 - Waiting to Worship

    Despite the Magi having to stop in at Jerusalem and ask for directions to Bethlehem, they didn’t actually need that information. God was the one who ended up leading them. They had seen the star originally when Jesus was born, charted the approximate location, and ended up in Jerusalem.

    4 min

  6. 12/26/2023

    26th Dec 2023 - Waiting on a King

    A theologian once asked her class for biblical metaphors for waiting. The men spoke first and listed growing plants, harvesting and farming. The theologian nodded but kept asking for more suggestions. Finally, a woman spoke up. ‘Pregnancy,’ she said, and cited Romans 8:22, which describes all of creation in labour pains. The men looked at her in astonishment. That metaphor would never have occurred to them.

    4 min

  7. 12/25/2023

    25th Dec 2023 - The Long Wait Is Over

    The long wait for a Messiah began at the beginning. When Abraham was promised a descendant who would bless all peoples, the world waited for a son. When Moses, Ezekiel, Isaiah, Micah, Hosea and John the Baptist rebuked God’s people for continuing to sin and abandon God’s instructions, the world waited for a saviour from those sins.

    4 min

  8. 12/24/2023

    24th Dc 2023 - Waiting for Emmanuel

    For the avoidance of controversy, pick your own favourite football team, and imagine them playing in a cup final. The fans are yelling, cheering them on in the stands. Just then, it’s announced that the most skilful football player who ever lived (again – you pick!) is coming to play on your team.

    4 min
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Find revelation and encouragement through Every Day with Jesus, a world-renowned Bible reading notes publication from Waverley Abbey Trust. With readings, thoughts, prayers and actions to take, you as a reader will be enriched in your faith and see its impact in all areas of life.

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    Waverley Abbey
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    2021 - 2023
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