| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 22 secs | 0 Comments
Love trumps knowledge! As Christians we love God, who is the source of love. God fills us with His love that overflows to others. When we love others we don’t want them to stumble and sin. That’s the heart behind this passage. If eating a kebab (which is probably halal and therefore sacrificed meat), or […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 30 secs | 0 Comments
With Paul, there’s a thread running through the whole letter, a building argument, and so sometimes splitting it up into portions can make its overall meaning less clear. So why does Paul veer off into circumcision and slavery in the middle of a chapter about sex and marriage? The main point is don’t be pressured […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 40 secs | 0 Comments
New believers in Corinth were getting pretty confused. It’s understandable when the culture was as pleasure seeking and sex-saturated as ours. Some were throwing off moral restraint completely and others entering into celibacy to be more spiritual. So Paul starts today’s reading with a quote from their letter to him – “It is good for […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 45 secs | 0 Comments
The first 11 verses can really be summed up by love (or lack of it!). Paul is reminding the believers in Corinth that they need to show love to each other. For a start they are taking each other to court and so are having decisions made by people whose lifestyle they disagree with! Not […]
| By Andy Moyle | 5 mins 3 secs | 0 Comments
In Romans 1:18-32, we looked at God’s response to sexual immorality in the world. In today’s Bible reading, Paul specifies our required reaction to sexual immorality in the church. Corinth was a notable den of iniquity. Sexual immorality (Greek: porneia, where we get our word ‘pornography’) was rife among the pagans and comprised any sexual […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 9 secs | 0 Comments
Not many centuries after Paul had written this, ‘apostles’ had come to mean popes, missing the point entirely. Popes were a mechanism to ensure apostolic succession and protect from error. That didn’t happen! We have just got back from holiday in Sicily where we saw charismatic Catholics doing a mission and watched a mass on […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 48 secs | 0 Comments
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Today we see vividly through this section of Scripture that the gospel of Jesus Christ is not made powerful by man’s intellect or persuasive words but it is sufficiently powerful on its own, as the power of God. Paul stresses this from the very start of the chapter in highlighting the huge gap between the state […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 49 secs | 0 Comments
“You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory. Victory at all costs—Victory in spite of all terror—Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival.” “We shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on the beaches, we shall […]