| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 42 secs | 0 Comments
To live like a Corinthian was to live a debauched, immoral life. Paul is writing to people who have been saved into a church plant in a decadent society. The first thing he does is to remind them of their identity – made holy in Christ, called to be holy and the church of God. […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 14 secs | 0 Comments
Don’t write yourself off from being involved in God’s mission and our vision to be a multicultural family, passionately pursuing God, drawing people in, sending people out, resulting in Church Planting in the region and the re-evangelisation of Northern Europe. Yesterday’s reading showed us three ways anyone can be involved By giving, 15:26-28 By praying, […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 30 secs | 0 Comments
It would be easy to think that after the Great Exposition of chapters 1-11 and the Great Exhortation of chapters 12-15:13, Paul is winding down with some travel plans and greetings. He’s been delayed in his plans to visit Rome (1:23, 15:23) and during the delay, has been church planting in “backwaters” rather than the […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 16 secs | 0 Comments
People pleasers are a pain! Ingratiating themselves with others to curry favour. Flattering others to win approval. Saying what they think you want to hear, even if it’s a lie. If that’s you, stop it! Live for an audience of One – be a God pleaser. In today’s reading Paul has exhorted us to be […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 13 secs | 0 Comments
The practical outworking of grace now comes into focus – how a church can hold together when everyone is so different. Paul shows us two issues: eating meat and holy days. He then shows us how to stay together when we have come to different conclusions on them. The issue of eating meat or not […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 8 secs | 0 Comments
One of the patterns in Paul’s letters is that he always starts with who we are in Christ, then brings some doctrine, usually about grace, before moving on to how to live in the good of it. We need truth that will empower behaviour. In Romans, Paul takes 11 chapters to outline grace and then […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 9 secs | 0 Comments
The main thrust of Romans – that there is a righteousness revealed from faith – has finally been completed! Jews and Gentiles are dirty rotten stinking sinners, in need of the grace of God. When we respond to Jesus, believing God raised Him from the dead and confessing with our mouths that Jesus is Lord, […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 47 secs | 0 Comments
These chapters are difficult and controversial! The American Religious Right has bought into Zionism and so US foreign policy follows that. Many Christians, inspired by the Scofield Bible and US Television preachers, buy into a version of Christianity which I believe is wholly at odds with Paul’s writings here, and based on a misunderstanding […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 25 secs | 0 Comments
Righteous by law observance = no-one Righteous by faith through God’s grace = anyone We don’t need to look for Jesus in heaven or anywhere else, he is close at hand. Close at hand when people like us open our mouths and tell others. Verse 9, which we use in baptism services, tells us if […]