| By Andy Moyle | 10 mins 30 secs | 0 Comments
Food pays an important part of our mission here at The Gateway. Leadership team starting thinking through our core values – our ways in Christ, everyone said FOOD first! Gospel of Luke 1/5 sentences is somehow related to a meal. Jesus either going to a meal, coming from a meal, having a meal with people! […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 53 secs | 0 Comments
Acts 6 (today’s New testament in a Year reading!) shows that the rapid growth of the New Testament church meant it was creaking. The Grecian Jewish converts were complaining that their widows were not getting looked after as well as the Hebraic Jewish convert’s widows. This is at a time before the first Gentiles became […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 13 secs | 0 Comments
Peter and John had healed a beggar in Jesus’ name on their way to pray. On the back of it they preached the Gospel, accusing the crowd (who would have been there shouting “Crucify Him”) of killing the author of life Jesus and urrging them to repent and turn to the Lord so there sins […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 23 secs | 0 Comments
Acts 2 is power packed stuff! The church is birthed in power as the Holy Spirit comes on the 120 in a really visible way with some obvious signs following. The people outside are amazed and perpelexed, with some making fun (isn’t that what people do when they don’t understand?!). Peter gets up to preach, […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 15 secs | 0 Comments
If you’ve been following the New Testament in a Year Reading Plan, you will have got to Acts 1 today, which marks Jesus ascending and waiting for the Holy Spirit to descend! After Jesus was crucified and rose again, he appeared to his followers for 40 days (Acts 1:3) before ascending (Acts 1:9) to the […]
| By Andy Moyle | 7 mins 25 secs | 0 Comments
I love John’s Gospel. Here’s some some notes from the sermon series on John in 2012-2013. The first section of John, the Prologue, is like a cinema foyer with posters advertising what is coming… Need for Speed – Pretty people drive cars fast while engaging in criminal activity. Die Hard 43 – Bruce Willis is […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 20 secs | 0 Comments
Janet is still smiling and quoting an encouraging email she got 24 hours ago from the chair of governors at her school. Encouragement is powerful – we use the word to talk about pointing out the positive in someone else. Its root meaning implies putting “courage in”. Just before Joshua became leader of Israel to […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 50 secs | 0 Comments
Jesus words “And let the one who has no sword sell his cloak and buy one” brought me up short this morning as we continue on through the New Testament in a year. Is Jesus advocating that his followers take up arms to personally defend themselves? Er, no! The key to why he said that […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 30 secs | 0 Comments
In Luke 21:5-24 Jesus prophecies the destruction of the Temple and the trampling of Jerusalem by the Gentiles. He doesn’t prophecy here or anywhere else that the physical Temple will be rebuilt. The temple and Jerusalem were indeed trampled in AD 70 under Emporer Titus. There’s no need for a physical temple anymore – Jesus […]