David Kidd

Jesus Christ said - feed the hungry, help the poor, protect the vulnerable, love your neighbour even if they’re different to you, then gave up His life for everyone, even those who hated Him. If I’m going to listen to someone, it’s Him, if I’ve got a King, it’s Him ♥️

Percy Thrower must have been fuming 😬 #TOTP

Scousers ♥️ 👏👏👏 #TOTP

If you know. You know. ♥️ #TOTP

This Top of the Pops is taking me back to my newspaper round in 1987 listening to Now That’s What I Call Music 9 on my Walkman and fuming that I couldn’t fast forward dodgy songs and run away from Alsatians at the same time…🤣 #TOTP

Me not wanting to be rude to the 90s but actually really only here for 80s Top of the Pops…😉♥️ #TOTP

I am normally deeply irritated by the Faithfuls, they are soooo annoying. But… no no no no no NO. Do NOT murder this absolute legend. A solid gold faithful in life 😱♥️ #TheTraitors

The traitors must ADORE Roxy, she leads everyone away from them every day!!!!!! #TheTraitors 😱

Jessie is a genius and her Mum did a cracking job 👏👏👏♥️ #TheTraitors

The older I get the more I so miss the melting pot that was weekly Top Of The Pops. It was always either epic, crap, cutting edge, cringeworthy, the stuff of legend, the talk of the playground or frankly embarrassing. I was privileged to be there ♥️ #TOTP

The Reflex is such a Time Machine of a song. I hear it and all I can see is Walkmans and Commodore 64s. And I love it.. ♥️ #TOTP

Harriet though….👏👏👏 #TheTraitors

Ah bless her, Jessie is pretty much Miss Marple and no one is listening 😱♥️ #TheTraitors

Gandalf and Frodo rocking this reboot… #TheTraitors

The entire Traitors audience to Reece right now…. #TheTraitors

Fitting. Christmas #TOTP and Wham! Both going out on a high…👏👏👏😎♥️

To be fair, he even did mullets better than everyone else too… 👏👏👏😎♥️ #TOTP

Ah, Michelle and Lofty’s song. If you know. You know… #TOTP

1986! My O level year & I was sacked from my afternoon paper round (got paid £1.50 a week!) cos I wanted to watch Liverpool v Everton FA Cup Final, & they wouldn’t give me the time off so I took it anyway (worth it too 🤣)… and I finally got a Walkman! Merry Christmas 🎅🏼♥️ #TOTP

The most widespread misconception about Christianity is that it is a performance-based religion. It is not. We do not get right with God by performing good deeds, and we do not stay right with God by avoiding bad ones. Christianity is about the grace and mercy of Jesus, from beginning to end. Jesus addresses this directly in Luke 17. He describes a servant who has done everything his master commanded. Even then, Jesus says the servant is not to expect special thanks, but should say, “We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.” In other words, obedience, even if it were complete, does not put the master in the servant’s debt. Let’s say you go to a restaurant. You do not say to the server, “Sit down and eat first while I wait.” No, you take your seat, place your order, and expect the meal to be served. When everything is done, the server has not done anything extraordinary. They have simply done their job. That is the point Jesus is making. Doing what is required does not earn special standing or reward. The trouble is that none of us have even done what was required! None of us who serve the great King have perfectly obeyed his commands. We have all fallen short in our pursuit of good and in our resistance to evil. If our standing with God depended on our performance, there would be no hope for any of us, only the expectation of future, deserved punishment. So how are we made right with God? Only one way. Not by trusting in our performance but the performance of another. Jesus the Messiah accomplished what we failed to accomplish. He lived the obedience we do not live, and then, as our substitute, he suffered and died in our place. Through his life, death, and resurrection, grace and mercy are given to those who do not deserve them. Christianity, then, is not a religion of performance. It is a religion of grace. Grace poured out abundantly in Jesus Christ our Savior. ___ We read Luke 17 today in Bible in One Year. To join us in 2026 for Bible in One Year, visit 1517.org/oneyear-signup

Emmanuel is two words in Hebrew, Immanu (“with us”) and El (“God”). This child is the “with-us-God” or, as we say in better English, “God with us.” Ages before this God-with-us boy was born, he was already with his people, but not in a flesh-and-blood sort of way. He told the patriarchs, Isaac and Jacob, “I am with you” (Gen. 26:24; 28:15). Before he sent Moses into Egypt, he said from the burning bush, “I will be with you” (Exod. 3:12). He repeated this promise to Joshua (Deut. 31:23) and others. It’s one thing for God to be with us as God, but it’s on a whole different level for God to be with us as a fellow human being who spent forty weeks in utero, learned how to crawl then walk, suffered through puberty, and eventually faced the firing squad of Roman crucifiers. We have that God. And that human God, Jesus of Nazareth, is also our king and Lord. Just consider what that means. Having friends is good. They can be there for us, in good times and bad times. We can lean on them and seek their advice. But our regular friends, well, they have their limitations. They have their own problems, of course, and their own lives, so they can’t be there for us 24/7. Nor can they, if necessary, move heaven and earth to do something for us. Our flesh-and-blood God can. He is king. He is Lord. All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to him. And all that authority he exercises for us, his friends, his brothers, his sisters, at whose side he always sticks close. Just imagine if you had the phone number of the most powerful person in the world, could call or text him anytime, ask him to help you, no matter what, and he would do it in a heartbeat. What we have in Jesus makes that seem like child’s play. He is the Creator of heaven and earth. He is King of all nations. He is Lord of all. Most importantly, he is your Emmanuel, the God with you and the God for you. We have a God who knows intimately what it is to feel a heart breaking, hot tears running down his cheeks, and blood flowing from gaping wounds. He knows what it’s like to be both loved and hated, as well as betrayed. There is no human emotion foreign to his experience. There is no human need that he has not felt pressing into his soul. Jesus is our fully divine and fully human God. The image-maker made into the image. The creator become creature. If you’ve ever wondered just how far the Lord of heaven and earth would go to make sure you were his own, peer down into the manger and look up onto the cross. There’s your answer.