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Encounter is presented as a book of daily devotions. Each page is devoted to one day and has a passage of scripture to read, some comments to ponder, a verse for the day, and a prayer to add to your own.

Many, many times in these past 60+ years I have read the Gospels and each time I have been deeply moved and inspired by how Jesus lived his life, what he said and what he did, especially dying for me on a cross and rising again from the dead. I am inspired and moved, not so much by reading the historical account of a great man, but by encountering in the pages of the Bible, a contemporary figure, who seeks to live his life of love and forgiveness through those who love him.

That is why I have written Encounter. It follows Jesus through the three years of his public ministry leading up to his crucifixion. It invites the reader to stand in wonderment with Jesus’s disciples, at his teaching, his miracles and his humility. It invites us to confront the same doubts, ask the same questions and struggle with the same fears that this very human group of followers experienced. It seeks to convey the heartbeat of Jesus, the hopes and fears of those who came to him and the joy they experienced when they knew that they were in the presence of God himself.

My prayer is that people will obtain it for themselves and as a gift for a loved one and that each reader will be encouraged as I am, to pursue the journey of becoming more like Jesus, God’s Son and our Saviour.