| 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 […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 24 secs | 0 Comments
At the end of this passage we finally see Paul arrive in Rome. It has been quite a journey, starting in Chapter 22 with his imprisonment. It has literally taken years of slow progress. However even now, so close to that goal, I noticed that the pattern of doing things is still the same. Even […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 34 secs | 0 Comments
There is no storm too fierce, no pit too deep, and no trouble too great for God’s loving arms of salvation to reach those who are welcoming of them. We must believe this. The world needs to believe this; for it’s the saving light that we crave. You may have come across the words “this […]