| By Andy Moyle | 4 mins 42 secs | 0 Comments
Financial planning for Eternity The parable of the dishonest manager (in some bibles translated as the ‘shrewd’ manager) follows on from the parable of the prodigal son and is another example of someone who lives a reckless life, but who ultimately turns his attention to securing his future. The prodigal son returns home; the reckless […]
| By Andy Moyle | 5 mins 47 secs | 0 Comments
Our wonderful God The Pharisees and scribes are complaining at Jesus – just for a change! – at the fact that He is hanging out with tax collectors and sinners. He has time and time again talked about the gulf between doing religious acts for the sake of looking good, of making oneself ‘holy’ by […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 38 secs | 0 Comments
Demonstrate, define, delegate and debrief The first paragraph makes tough reading. Three volunteers are being rejected. Previously we have seen that the 12 lacked power (9:40), lacked unity (9:46-48) and lacked compassion (9:54). Now as Jesus is about to send out the 72, some of the new volunteers lack commitment. The trouble is, we would […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 22 secs | 0 Comments
Luke Chapter 4 This chapter follows the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist when the Holy Spirit descended upon Him. Being filled with the Spirit Jesus was led into the wilderness to be tempted by Satan for forty days. That is a seriously long time, during which time Jesus ate nothing. It is very […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 54 secs | 0 Comments
Prepare the Way Historical setting A.D.28. History – names, dates and places may interest you or remind you of boring school days and wondering what the relevance of it all is. Here we have Luke setting the time and place with great accuracy as a typical Greek historian. Luke lists all the power figures of […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 39 secs | 0 Comments
Foretold Luke Chapter 1 Why did Luke decide to write his narrative of the life of Jesus Christ, particularly as he never met Jesus (as far as we know) and Matthew had already written a perfectly good account? In fact, according to verse 1 there were many people who had written about Jesus, although now […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 55 secs | 0 Comments
The 4,000 Jesus had taught and ministered to the crowd for three days, so they are starving! As many had come a distance to see Him, He didn’t want them collapsing on the way home. The sums involved are somewhat intriguing. When Jesus fed the 5,000 Jews there were 12 baskets left over from 5 […]
| By Andy Moyle | 4 mins 37 secs | 0 Comments
I love spending time around the Burnhams where I spent my childhood, reminiscing about how things were and noting the changes that have taken place since. Jesus returned with his disciples to Nazareth where he had spent his childhood and early adulthood. I don’t think somehow that he had gone to reminisce and visit his […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 24 secs | 0 Comments
The resurrection is the turning point of history alongside the cross. Jesus is the first to be permanently raised from the dead. That means that Death could not hold him As Paul writes later in 1 Cor 15 “Where oh death is your victory?” Death came about because the perfection of creation was marred by […]