I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 5th of August, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start off in the Book of Genesis 37:2:

”…and Joseph brought a bad report of them to his father.”

Then we go straight to Acts 10:34:

”Then Peter opened his mouth and said: “In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality.”

There are no favourites in God’s kingdom and that’s good news. If we look through the Bible, time and time again, favourites cause trouble. Rebecca, the mother of Esau and Jacob, her twins - if you read the story you’ll see she favoured Jacob more than Esau and that caused a lot of pain, a lot of hurt and a lot of pressure. Don’t put your children under that kind of pressure. I’m talking to parents today. That coat of many colours caused Joseph a lot of pain. It caused him to be sent away by his brothers. They sold him into slavery and he had a terrible life until the Lord redeemed him. Don’t do it!

That teacher’s pet is not a child that gets special treatment, normally it ends up that that child gets ostracised by the rest of the students in the class. We need to treat our children equally. We need to love them equally. It doesn’t matter if you have a particular soft spot for a child because that child is excelling in sport, the sport that you excelled in at school, or that child is very musical and you happen to be a good musician, so you show partiality to that child. Don’t do that! We need to make sure that our children know that they are loved equally by mom and dad and that will give them peace and an opportunity to excel in their particular areas.

Today, mom and dad, let us really have a good hard look at our children, at our family, and by the way some of those children are already grown up and have children of their own, and yet they still feel that mom and dad had favourites. Today, let us be as Jesus is. He sees no partiality in colour, in culture, in sex. He sees us all as His creation. He loves us all equally and He died for us all equally.

Today, remember you are very special in the eyes of the Lord.

Jesus bless you and have a lovely day,
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 4th of August, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start off in 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.”

We have got to be so careful what we say, folks. You know, the most powerful member of the human body, the tongue. The tongue can make or break a person very quickly.

We go to the Book of James 3:10:

“Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so. Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening?”

Of course not!

There is a young man that I am mentoring. He sent me a beautiful message the other day and I really want to share this with you. He is speaking about the honey bee. Now, you know I am a bee-keeper. I love bees, I really do. They are incredible insects but the bee can be sweet and the bee can sting. Ask me about it! I know. That little bee can get in anywhere and he can sting you. I am talking particularly about the African bee, and the same thing applies with our tongue. What we say can make or break a person. Death and life are found in our very words. I want to encourage you today, even as the Lord is encouraging me, to be very careful how we talk. If you have got nothing good to say about someone, rather don’t say anything but rather encourage one another.

This world at the moment is in a terrible state. People are depressed, they are stressed out, they are fearful. A word in season, an encouraging word can make or break a person. I want to speak to my men. Men, build up your wives, tell them every single morning when you wake up… the first thing I tell Jill, I have been doing it for over 50 years, “Good morning Jill. I love you!” You know, those words are very powerful and she reciprocates. She says, “And I love you too, Angus”.

Tell your children that you love them. When they come home with their school report. “Is that the best that you did?”,

“Yes, that’s the best I could do, dad.”

“Well, that is good enough for me and it’s good enough for your mother.”

I want to tell you I don’t know how many times people have written to me and told me, “We enjoyed that little message you brought this morning.” It makes my day! You say, “But Angus, you get that all the time.” No, I don’t. Today, let us be the honey bee that makes the sweet honey, not the bee that stings.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 3rd of August, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go straight to the Gospel of Luke 14:18 and 24:

”But they all with one accord began to make excuses.”

Then we go right down to verse 24. Jesus says:

“For I say to you that none of those men who were invited shall taste my supper.”

This is a story that Jesus told about a man who prepared a wonderful banquet, invited his guests, then they all made excuses, they couldn’t come. I believe the Lord is challenging us this morning and saying, ”Stop making excuses, no more excuses!” You see the servant went and invited all the people and the first one said, ”Look, I can’t make it. I’ve just bought a new piece of ground and I must go and see it.” The next one said, ”Please excuse me because I’ve just bought five yokes of oxen and I have to test them. Can you please excuse me?” Another one said, ”I’ve just got married so I can’t come.”

What is your excuse today? What is my excuse today? We cannot come. “Lord we want to serve you but we’ve got too much on our plate.” We want to have a bit of fun first, we want to sow some wild oats and then we will make our decision and come to the banquet. The Lord says that it might be too late.

I want to tell you a story that happened to Jill and I. Many years ago, we went to Israel. Now on our return home after our break there, I got the times mixed up. You see the plane was leaving at midnight. Now I didn’t know whether it was the early hours of the morning or the late hours of the previous evening. Anyway, I got there, I was devastated. The lady said to us, ”Your plane has already left. It’s on it’s way to South Africa.” They had to put us in a hotel in Tel Aviv and we had to stay there for a number of days until we could get another booking.

I want to tell you today, don’t make anymore excuses. There is nothing more important than accepting the invitation to the banquet by the Lord. Maybe you’ve never done it, maybe you’ve always said, ”Ah, that’s for other people, that’s not for me.” I want to tell you as I’m getting older the time is running out. I don’t know how many of my colleagues of my age group have gone home to be with the Lord or have gone somewhere else, but I want to tell you today, accept gladly the invitation because remember what the host said to his servant? ”Go out to the highways and the byways and invite all those who are blind and lame, and those who are sick, and those who are sleeping in the streets. Bring them to the banquet.” Do not be left behind! As an indication that you’ve accepted the invitation. Would you like to pray this prayer with me?

Dear Lord Jesus,

Please forgive me for making excuses. I do realise there is nothing more important than accepting this invitation which You have freely given to us.

We don’t deserve it but because you love us, You have invited us to Your table.

Today, I accept Your invitation.
In Jesus name, amen.

God bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 2nd of August, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to the Gospel of Luke 14:14. Jesus says: “And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you; for you shall be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”

The Lord is telling us that if you give things to people who can repay you, well, you have your reward here on earth, but if you give things to people who cannot repay you, then there is the proof that you are doing it for the Lord, and you will be paid amply when you get to Heaven.

George Müller, the founder of the children’s homes in Bristol, England, I have been there - I have seen those buildings where he took care of literally thousands of children, and something like 60 million pounds went through his hands, and he never asked for a penny. Incredible faith! But when he died and he left very little. They checked on the accounts and when they were going through the finances, they saw that there was a donor that had been putting money into the children’s fund for years and years, and they never knew who it was. But of course, when he died and his estate was wrapped up, they found out that George Müller, himself, was putting in an amount of money every single month towards the children’s home. Now, that is doing something as unto the Lord.

You and I need to start doing that a bit more. It hasn’t happened to me often but it has happened to me a few times, that when I have gone out for a meal with my wife and we sat at the restaurant and had a good time together, there have been lots of people in the restaurant, we have ordered a lovely meal, and when we have finished, I say to the waitress, “Can you bring us the bill please?” And she says, “Oh no, sir. There is no bill.” And I say, “What do you mean?” She says, “There are people who have just left the restaurant who paid for your meal”. I don’t know who they are, but God knows who they are. I have never seen them before because I did not recognise anybody in that restaurant.

I want to say to you today, do something that there is no reward for on this earth and the Lord will reward you amply in Heaven. Do something for people who cannot repay you.

Jesus bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 1st of August, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Book of Psalms 18:32:

”It is God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect.”

Then we go to a very well-known scripture, 2 Corinthians 12:10:

”Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

I want to say to you today, if you are feeling weak, maybe you are feeling I just can’t go on anymore, lock into God. It’s a good place to be. Sometimes it’s a dangerous place when you think you’ve got it all together, you’ve got it all tied up. That’s when the fall normally comes, but I tell you what, when you are on your knees and you are weak, you can’t fall any further. I don’t know how many times I’ve had to speak at a big open-air meeting, where there are multitudes of people. I go up the steps onto that platform, and I’m being honest with you, I feel absolutely weak and powerless, and that’s when I cry out to God. ”Lord, please, please, help me.” And you know something? Every single time, He helps me and He’ll do it for you too.

It doesn’t matter what you’re going through at the moment. Remember, when you are weak, then He is strong. That’s why Paul can say, ”I rejoice in my tribulation. Tribulation worketh patience, patience character and character hope.” (Romans 5:3-4)

I want to say to you that humble people are normally people who have been through fiery trials. I get fearful sometimes with some young people who are out there, and they can do it all and they name it and they claim it. It’s almost like they’re getting ready for a fall. So folks, I want you to understand one thing. The Lord is our strength, and He is the One Who will see you and me through if we put our total trust in Him.

May God bless you, especially when you’re feeling weak, because that is when you will be strong,
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 31st of July, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to the first book in the Bible, the Book of Genesis 32:32:

”…He touched the socket of Jacob’s hip in the muscle that shrank.”

The Lord touched the hip of Jacob and displaced his hip and for the rest of his life, he limped with a displaced hip. Then we go straight to 2 Corinthians 12:8-9, Paul says:

“Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.”

I want to speak to you today about pain. Are you in pain today? Have you just lost a loved one, someone very close to you? Have you just had an injury and the doctor says you will never play sport again? Have you had a situation where you are physically weak and the one you love the most has left you because he or she said they can’t live with you? Well, I want to tell you something now. The Lord says to you today and to me, “My grace, my undeserved loving kindness is enough for you.”

Folks, I know about healing. I pray for the sick. I have seen blind eyes open, I have seen deaf ears unstopped, I have seen people get out of wheelchairs and walk. I have seen it with my eyes. You have seen the movie, “Faith Like Potatoes”, where we prayed for a dead woman and God raised her up, but I want to speak to you today about pain.

My best example is a hero of mine. A Scottish preacher by the name of George Matheson. At the age of twenty years old, he started going blind and his fiancée left him. She said, ”I can’t live with a blind man for the rest of my life.” I want to tell you about that man. That man was tipped to be one of the greatest preachers in Scotland, but because he went blind, he was put on the side, but you know what he did? When he was sitting in the lounge, when his young sister was about to get married. They were doing all the preparations. She was his eyes, you see. She had dedicated her life to helping him, and now she had found her lover, and she was getting married and she was about to leave him. He was forty years old, he was all by himself. He sat in the corner and he wrote a hymn, probably one of the greatest hymns ever written, “Oh love that will not let me go, I hide myself in thee.”

You know, it’s only when an orange gets squeezed that you can taste the beautiful nectar. Today, maybe you’re going through a rough time. The Lord says to you, ”My Grace is sufficient for you.” Trust in Him and He will do the rest for you because He is more than you or I will ever need!

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 30th of July, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to the Gospel of Luke 14:3:

“Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”

That is what the Pharisees were asking Jesus. Jesus answered in verse 5. He says:

“Which of you, having a donkey or an ox that has fallen into a pit, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?”

We are talking this morning about priorities. What is important in your life? Going to church on the Sabbath? Absolutely! You can ask any member of my family and they will tell you, if it is at all possible, that is where I will be on Sunday morning, but what Jesus is saying, “What about the ox or the donkey who has fallen into a hole on a Sunday?" Do you leave it there until after the church service then pull it out and probably find that it is dead? No, you have to stop. You have to take your jacket off, you have to roll up your sleeves, you have to get covered in mud, and pull that animal out to save its life, then go to church. Then, of course, the Pharisees in the church criticise you because they will say, “Look how dirty that person is coming into the house of the Lord.”

I want to say something to you, my dear friend. Many times it has happened to me. As we are driving out of the gate of the farm, what do we see? All the cows are on the district road. Now that is a huge danger for traffic. What do we do? We stop. We have to push all the cattle back into the paddock, close the gate and go to church. When we get to church, we are late, and the Pharisees are saying, ”Look at these people! They don’t even respect the house of God.” We need to be very careful that we don’t point fingers until we know the full story.

I am an evangelist, you know that - my busiest day is on a Sunday, that’s right, when everybody is in church. So when do I go to church? I go to church every single day of the week. Every morning, I am a 4 o’clock man, you know that. That’s when I spend time in the presence of God, just like my Saviour did, but when the ox is in the hole, pull him out first. It might be somebody who just absolutely needs you. You say “But I can’t be late for church.” What is more important? To help who is destitute and stranded on the road, or to make sure that you get to church and you are all nice and tidy and clean? Let’s get our priorities in order.

God bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 29th of July, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go the Gospel of Luke 13:34. Jesus says:

”How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!”

So sad. If you ever have the privilege of going to Israel and you sit on the side of the Mount of Olives, you look straight across the Kidron valley, and you see the Temple Mount on the other side. Now Jesus sat there and He wept over Jerusalem. He said like a mother hen protects her brood of chicks, He wants to do the same for you and me today. Please let Him! There is a little chapel that is built there in the shape of a teardrop. Isn’t that beautiful? I’ve sat in that little chapel and there are pictures of little chickens and chicks inside the chapel to remind us of this statement that the Lord made.

Many years ago, a pastor told me a story about something he saw on the slopes of the mighty Drakensberg Mountains in KwaZulu-Natal. They had been burning firebreaks, and those fires on the side of the mountain are vicious, and they run at a tremendous speed, and often people are overcome by the smoke and the fumes and even get burnt to death. They were walking over the ashes of a firebreak that they had made because it was winter time and there they found a little partridge, a Franklin, and this partridge was lying on the ground. It had been burnt. The fire had gone over it but it’s wings were stretched out and one of the men took that little partridge and turned it over and underneath that mother hen were four or five little partridge chicks. She had protected them with her very life.

Today, Jesus wants to do the same for you. He is weeping because He sees what you are doing to yourself and what you are doing to others. Repent today, say “Sorry Lord,” and turn from your wicked ways and start to follow Him with all of your heart.

Jesus bless you and goodbye.