Word for the Week

Keeping the main thing, the main thing

Week beginning: 29th January, 2017 | By Debbie Woods | Manchester

'Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching… But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.'

Hebrews 10:23-25; 39 (NIV)

One month on, I wonder how many of us are persevering with resolutions made this year. Health, fitness, work-life balance, reading our Bibles and praying more?

Through warnings and exhortations the writer of Hebrews urges his readers to hold unswervi