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Great Blessings, Great Risk

[A ‘Tuesday Challenge‘ originally prepared for the congregation of Horley Baptist Church during November 2026]

From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.
Luke 12 v48 [NIVUK]

In some social circles the opulent display of worldly wealth can bring admiration and an encouragement for others to emulate such success. However, it can also arouse jealousy and attract the attention of people with intentions of a less noble variety. Equally importantly, being blessed with worldly success can bring a risk of pride or complacency.
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To Sleep or not to Sleep?

[A ‘Tuesday Challenge‘ originally prepared for the congregation of Horley Baptist Church during November 2026]

Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
Luke 22 v46 [NIVUK]

The change of the clocks at the end of last month gave many people in the northern hemisphere an extra hour overnight. Anecdotally, it seems that this is often used as an excuse for an additional hour’s sleep, but that may not be the best use of the time.
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News Has Consequences

[A ‘Tuesday Challenge‘ originally prepared for the congregation of Horley Baptist Church during September 2026]

He will not be afraid of evil tidings; His heart is steadfast, trusting in the Lord.
Psalm 112 v7 [NKJV]

So much of the content of our daily news bulletins is ‘evil tidings’ or, in contemporary terms, bad news. It is often said that bad news travels faster than good news, an observation that was first expressed in a literary context as long ago as the 16th century.[1] Perhaps the oxymoron of a ‘good gossip’ helps to perpetuate the hypothesis.
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Against the Wall

[A ‘Tuesday Challenge‘ originally prepared for the congregation of Horley Baptist Church during September 2026]

A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds ate it up. Some fell on rocky ground, and when it came up, the plants withered because they had no moisture. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the plants. Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown.
Luke 8 v5-8 [NIVUK]

Following the conquest of Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 586BC the walls of the city had been torn down, effectively leaving the city defenceless and in disgrace. In 444BC Nehemiah was called by God to go to Jerusalem and rebuild its walls.
So who was Nehemiah and what has he to do with the parable of the sower as recorded in Luke chapter 8?
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Here Comes the Sun

[A ‘Tuesday Challenge‘ originally prepared for the congregation of Horley Baptist Church during August 2026]

And God said, ‘Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years’. God made two great lights – the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night.
Genesis 1 v14,16 [NIVUK]

One day last week a large proportion of the population of western Europe spent the evening staring at the sun. They were expecting to see the sun disappear, hopefully only temporarily. Such was the anticipation of this event that some hotels in Spain and Iceland were booked as long as four years ago.
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A Hot Topic

[A ‘Tuesday Challenge‘ originally prepared for the congregation of Horley Baptist Church during June 2026]

And when the south wind blows, you say, “It’s going to be hot,” and it is.
Luke 12 v55 [NIVUK]

In the northern hemisphere the longest daily period of daylight hours has passed and, although we may not notice it yet, the evenings are starting their slow transition to winter darkness.
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