I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 26th of December, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Book of John 12:3:

”Then Mary took a pound of very costly oil of spikenard (thats perfume) anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.”

We’re talking about Mary, who was the sister of Lazarus and Martha.

Today is Boxing Day. Some people call it the Day of Goodwill. It is that day of being grateful for the birth of our beloved Saviour and friend, the Lord Jesus Christ. It’s the day that we go the extra mile for Jesus. Mary took a very precious investment that she had. According to my Bible, the equivalent in value of a pound of this expensive perfume equals a full year's wages for a worker. Think about how much money you bring home every month, times it by twelve and that is how much it was worth. She poured the whole container over Jesus feet and then she wiped His feet with her hair. That is love. Undiluted love, holding back nothing!

Now, I can hear somebody saying, ”But I would love to do that for Jesus as well but He’s not here now.” Well, if we go to Matthew 25:40, Jesus said: “

Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.”

So yes, we can do it. We can find someone that we love dearly, we can find someone who has nothing, someone who is lonely, and we can give them something which is very precious to us, and that is the equivalent of doing it for the Lord.

So this day let us go out and let us find somebody who is very lonely, somebody who is very poor in spirit, not necessarily financially, and give them something which will touch their hearts deeply, and Jesus will be very happy with us. Today is the Day of Goodwill, let us share the goodwill of Christ wherever we go!

God bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 25th of December, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, wishing you a very, very happy Christmas. Yes, we made it again - what a wonderful day, a very blessed Christmas! I want to thank you on behalf of our whole team whom I never mention. I’m talking about my producer, Gary, I’m talking about my editor, Candice, I’m talking about my beloved wife Gill and all our family at Shalom, and the Shalom fellowship. I want to wish you a very blessed Christmas Day!

It’s a time of mixed emotions, isn’t it? Some of our loved ones have already gone home to be with Jesus and they won’t be sharing Christmas Day with you, but I want to tell you something, by the Grace of God, they are waiting for you in Heaven and that’s something to look forward to. So there is only one scripture verse today which in my humble opinion is appropriate for Christmas Day, which sums up the whole Bible, which consists of no less than 66 books, and I’m going to read it to you out of the Amplified Version. Yes, I am talking about John 3:16.

“For God so [greatly] loved and dearly prized the world, that He [even] gave His [One and] only begotten Son…”

Dads, how would you like to give your only son to die for the sins of others, even while they are still sinners? It’s hard enough to give your son up for fellow believers, but to give him up for other sinners. That’s what our Heavenly Father did. I cannot even comprehend the pain that must have taken place when they said farewell to each other and Jesus came down from Heaven to Earth in the form of a little baby. We carry on:

”… so that whoever (now whoever means whoever) believes and trusts in Him (in God) [as Savior] shall not perish (shall not die) but have eternal life.”

That’s what Christmas Day is all about! We are remembering the tremendous price that was paid for you and me so that we could have eternal life.

Today, let us do that to one another: ”Greater love has no one than this,” the Bible says ”than to lay down one’s life for his friends.” John 15:13, and that’s exactly what took place 2000 years ago in a little town called Bethlehem. Jesus bless you today as you have a peaceful and a happy Christmas.

Merry Christmas!
God bless you and goodbye

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 24th of December, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

Yes indeed, it is Christmas Eve, a very special birthday. It’s the birthday of the greatest human being that has ever lived, but I’ve got a very interesting thought for today for you. God put it on my heart early this morning. Psalm 19:14:

”Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.”

Now, those of you who know me well know that I will not start preaching until I have prayed that prayer and preferably on my knees. “Why?” You say because it is a wonderful but great responsibility to bring God’s word to people. This tongue of ours over this Christmas period must be harnessed correctly and that’s not a joke. I belong to a very big family myself and I want to tell you there are people that are coming from very far. You’ve got members of your family coming from overseas, they have been waiting for this time. Be careful what you say.

If you go to the Book of James 3:6, this is what it says:

”And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.”

Wow!

How many world wars have started because of something that has been said? How many families are in divorce because of words spoken that you wish you’d never said them? How many disasters have taken place, bad business deals, broken relationships because of a word said in anger? Don’t do it. Today, count to ten before you say it and then you probably won’t say it. You can’t bring words back once they are out. They are like that pillow full of feathers. You take it out into the wind, you open up that pillow, the feathers go all over the place. You will never put those feathers back in that pillowcase.

We need to speak Jesus. He is all that counts and if you speak Jesus today, you cannot make a mistake. Let’s be gentle, let’s be loving with each other. Let us not be part of an unruly fire that can destroy a relationship. Today, let us be as gentle and as kind as we can to each other.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful Christmas Eve,
Goodbye.