| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 40 secs | 0 Comments
Betrayed! Betrayal is hard because it can only come through a friend or a loved one. It’s not an act of a stranger, a random cruelty or victim of circumstances. Betrayal can only come in the hands of the ones you love. It’s worse than rejection. Rejection opens a wound, but betrayal rubs salt in […]
| By Andy Moyle | 4 mins 13 secs | 0 Comments
When times are tough, pray! “And when they had sung a hymn…” It’s not the purpose of worship, but it does calm the soul. As Jesus and the disciples head out to the Mount of Olives, there’s a calmness to Jesus even as He predicts all his disciples will fall away at his arrest. As […]
| By Andy Moyle | 5 mins 1 sec | 0 Comments
The Passover Lamb Passover was a time of celebration when the Jews remembered how God had “passed over” their houses during the final plague in Egypt. By applying the blood of a lamb to their doorposts, the Jews were protected from the plague, sparing their firstborn children. God said “when I see the blood, I […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 36 secs | 0 Comments
Living in the light of salvation Jesus told the two parables in this passage to teach us about how God wants us to live in the light of our salvation. We receive this salvation through God’s grace, not by what we do – we cannot earn it! We see in the first parable that although […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 17 secs | 0 Comments
Signs and Parables of the end No-one except God the Father knows when Jesus will return, the judgement will occur and then eternal life on the new heaven and the new earth. Our priorities are to endure, v.13, interpret the signs in a balanced and wise way, v.28-33, and be watchful so that we are […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 42 secs | One Comment
Read the red bits and pray for power I’ll never forget the words of David Carr – “Read the red bits and pray for power”. The red bits are the words of Jesus. Read them and ask for power to do what He did. In today’s passage Jesus debunks a lot of end time nonsense, […]
| By Andy Moyle | 4 mins 34 secs | 0 Comments
Born a legalist, made a Pharisee I like the Royal Navy adverts on the radio at the moment. A young (to me anyway) person describes what they do in the Navy. Then they say “Born in Stoke Poges (or wherever) made in the Navy.” The reality is that we are all born legalists but if […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 14 secs | 0 Comments
Would you rather? As I play ‘Dad’s taxi’ rather a lot, I get to overhear my teenagers and their friends. They play “Would you rather?” a lot. Two unpalatable choices and you have to choose. In the escalating conflict with the religious leaders, the Pharisees come to Jesus with their would you rather? Should you […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 15 secs | 0 Comments
Do you want the good news or the bad news? When I first read this passage I saw a lot of bad news! Violence, murder, destruction, rejection, weeping and gnashing of teeth! But the more I looked at it, the more I realised there was so much more good news in there! Jesus talks about […]