| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 27 secs | 0 Comments
Several years ago, I was fortunate enough to take part in a fascinating school trip to Chongqing, China, the largest city on earth by area, with a population of over 30 million. One afternoon, while sitting on the school field watching our student sports leaders teach their Chinese counterparts tag rugby, I noticed white flakes […]
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Abraham is given as the example of faith by Paul. He was an old man who was given an amazing promise by the Lord that he would be a father of many nations. He believed patiently for 25 years for the promise to begin to be fulfilled – Romans 4:3 “Abraham believed God and it […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 18 secs | 0 Comments
Justification by faith is one of the central themes of Romans, which is a gem of logical reasoning in which Paul, step by step, works his way through the arguments that might be put up against the gospel of grace. In this passage he has just started looking at the role of the law in […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 11 secs | 0 Comments
Paul is building to the fact that we all need the righteousness of God that comes by faith. Over the last few days we have seen Naughty Gentiles need it Moral people need it Jews need it We are all under sin – v.9. Paul backs that up with some quotes from Scripture – between v.10-18 […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 2 secs | 0 Comments
You decide to take a trip by aeroplane. You check out the prices on a comparison site and plump for a mix of convenience and price – after all who wants to save £20 by flying at 2am? Finally the day approaches and you get through security, the scrum of duty free (why on earth […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 46 secs | 0 Comments
“The gospel is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jews first and also to the Gentiles” (Romans 1:16). That’s the heading for most of the letter to the Romans as Paul outlines the gospel of grace. The first job is that we need to know what we need to […]
| By Andy Moyle | 4 mins 44 secs | 0 Comments
Yesterday’s Bible passage finished with Paul sharing that the gospel of Christ bears within it the power of God to save us. There is an inherent power within the gospel which speaks to our souls and those who believe are saved. Today Paul explains what we are saved from and the consequences of ignoring […]
| By Andy Moyle | 4 mins 39 secs | 0 Comments
I find the New Living Translation version of the opening verses of Romans 1 much easier to follow than the ESV, so here it is: ‘This letter is from Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, chosen by God to be an apostle and sent out to preach his Good News. God promised this Good News […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 55 secs | 0 Comments
A few years ago, I took Jenny to see the Coen brothers film, No Country For Old Men. I’ll keep quiet as I don’t want to spoil it, but I will tell you this: it finished so abruptly that Jen is still, to this day, annoyed about having to sit through the preceding two hours […]