| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 5 secs | 0 Comments
If you want to walk in the light not in the darkness, you need to go on being filled with the Spirit. Instead of getting drunk, which leads to debauched behaviour, keep getting filled with the Holy Spirit, who empowers walking in the light. That leads us to sing to each other – whether is […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 12 secs | 0 Comments
The first verse of today’s reading echoes the first verse of the chapter – live like your calling. We have been given, and re-born into, God’s wonderful grace; so now live in the light of grace. Live a life worthy of your calling. Don’t be like the Gentiles – as in those who don’t believe. […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 44 secs | 0 Comments
For the last three chapters Paul has been teaching us about grace and the glorious church, establishing who we are and what we are a part of. “Therefore” – shows us Paul is giving us the outworking of this grace and glorious church. Firstly he wants us to walk in a manner worthy of the […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 24 secs | 0 Comments
It was these next two chapters of Ephesians that gripped me with a revelation of the glorious church that I have lived with for three decades, and will continue with me to my dying breath! I was so saddened at the ‘Word on the Wash’ meeting, to hear the speaker say, as a throwaway line, […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 8 secs | 0 Comments
We love to watch “Phil Spencer: Secret Agent”, where the property expert visits homes that aren’t selling and tells them why. Then over the next two weeks helps them make the property saleable. It’s a classic ‘before and after’ scenario – get rid of the naff carpets and bright paint jobs and go for neutral […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 55 secs | 0 Comments
Do you ever say “God bless!” to someone, or end an email to a Christian with “Blessings”. Sometimes I might say “Oh, bless!” when someone has done something a bit silly. Trouble is we may have made the word a bit meaningless and wet! The word ‘bless’ is pretty powerful! It means to pronounce words in […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 19 secs | 0 Comments
Christ’s Law We see Christ’s law stamped across Paul’s concluding statements in his letter to the Galatians. This law of Christ is of course love (Ch5v14), and it permeates through Paul’s instructions for how the Galatians and every believer should go on believing and doing. In fact it permeates the whole of the New Testament. […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 49 secs | 0 Comments
Called to Freedom Here Paul makes it clear that some believers had gone off-track from their pursuit of Christ and his grace (v.7). They’ve returned to the law as their means of justification (v.4), or their being in right standing with God. They are throwing away the riches of grace for the fool’s gold of […]
| By Andy Moyle | 4 mins 14 secs | 0 Comments
Paul is again reminding us that the purpose of the law was to show us our need for God. He uses examples from the Old Testament to explain why we are no longer under the law. Abraham had children with two women – Hagar (Sarah’s slave) and Sarah (his wife). Paul uses the example of […]