| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 11 secs | 0 Comments
The gospel is incredible. It is the manifold, or multi-coloured, wisdom of God to be made known everywhere on heaven and earth. As Paul explains it, you can tell he is blown away by it and wants to pray and praise God. He bows the knee, putting down his pen to talk to his Father […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 58 secs | 0 Comments
At the start of the movie Saving Private Ryan, an old man is visiting the D-Day cemeteries in Normandy with his family. He breaks down crying in front of row after row of white crosses and finally mumbles: “Did I earn it?” It turns out, he is the Private Ryan saved by Tom Hanks’ platoon […]
| By Amie Lymer | 2 mins 46 secs | 0 Comments
Wow what an incredible chapter! There is so much in this chapter. I have read it several times and got something new out of it each time. This passage speaks so much of our identity – who we are now we have Christ in our lives. V7 ‘Since we are now joined to Christ, we […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 49 secs | 0 Comments
Yesterday we saw Paul sneakily sum up the whole law as “love your neighbour” (Gal 5:14) If we walk in the Spirit doing that we fulfil it. Sneaky because although “Love God” would have been the more obvious choice – we can fake that, whereas loving people is hard to fake and really needs empowering […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 52 secs | 0 Comments
One of the worst sermons I ever listened to started with a glorious exposition on the grace of God from Romans 6. It ended with the application point that we must still obey the ten commandments to be a good Christian. In the final ten minutes the preacher undid all the grace he had taught […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 36 secs | 0 Comments
I don’t like thorns! We spent a happy afternoon in September picking the juiciest blackberries to freeze for winter. We are enjoying blackberry and apple steamed puddings and crumbles at the weekends now. But I don’t like all the thorns as you are picking them. They are sore and hard to get out with tweezers. […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 0 secs | 0 Comments
One of the outcomes of the Jerusalem council in Acts 15 was that the Gentile churches were encouraged to remember the poor. (The Jerusalem church elders recognised formally that the kingdom of God was open to all – that Gentiles were welcomed with the good news of the Gospel). Paul recounts that was the very […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 24 secs | 0 Comments
This is one of those power packed passages with so much to takeaway! Our Earthly bodies are frail In the previous chapter our bodies are compared to jars of clay, in this one to tents. Both are pretty fragile, but we are promised a far better heavenly body. That is guaranteed by the Spirit and […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 21 secs | 0 Comments
2 Corinthians Chapters 3 & 4 Treasure in Jars of Clay In chapter 3 of this letter Paul is comparing the old covenant with the new covenant, and drawing out many amazing truths about the new covenant and how it affects the lives of the people who comprise this church. In verses 1 – 3 […]