| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 15 secs | 0 Comments
All it takes, Love to serve In my initial days of being in the ministry even though there was passion and fire, something was missing, and I was confused as I didn’t know what was missing. I was enjoying life as I always imagined being busy serving GOD and what I meant was actually serving […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 59 secs | 0 Comments
Clinging, receiving, believing and life Don’t cling! Mary stuck around to check out the empty tomb further. Having seen two angels, she encounters the risen Lord. As soon as she hears Him say, “Mary,” she recognises it is Jesus. The good shepherd calls his own sheep by name and they follow Him because they know […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 49 secs | 0 Comments
God has a plan! At first glance today’s reading seems to detail two separate parts of the gospel narrative, with unrelated details. There is a sub-theme though, hidden beneath the retelling of what have to be the greatest moments in human history. It begins in verse 31: “Then the Jews…so that the bodies would not […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 31 secs | 0 Comments
Delivered to the cross Firstly Jesus was flogged, v.1 – There were three levels of flogging in the Roman Empire: Fustigatio – which was less severe for “light” offences. Flagellatio – a brutal flogging Vereberato – a scourging, where the victim was tied to a post and beaten by several soldiers until they were exhausted. […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 10 secs | 0 Comments
Are you the King of the Jews? I love the way John writes with such irony. The Jewish leaders won’t enter Pilate’s palace so they don’t get ceremonially unclean for the Passover; and yet they are manipulating the judicial system to kill the one who is the True Passover. If a Jew had to do […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 39 secs | 0 Comments
Arrest Jesus and the disciples head out to the garden of Gethsemane (which means oil-press as it was in an olive grove.) Judas comes with the temple police, chief priests and Pharisees. A band of Roman soldiers also came – the word used could mean anything up to 600 people. They were there to make […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 11 secs | 0 Comments
These chapters of Jesus praying for us are so encouraging. Jesus is praying for you! Yes you! The Saviour and Creator of the world is interceding for you. He, I would say is pretty good at prayer! His prayers get answered. God’s choice, our choice The first few verses show us that God has chosen […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 56 secs | 0 Comments
The Spirit and Prayer Two things jump out at me in this passage: 1) Jesus needed to go back to heaven once His work was finished so that Spirit could come. 2) The strong encouragement of the power of prayer, which seems a little frustrating as I don’t get everything I ask for! Holy Spirit […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 24 secs | 0 Comments
A change of perspective The first part of today’s reading is about the vine and branches, and remaining in Christ. There’s a change of salvation-history perspective from the old covenant to the new. Old Israel gives way to Jesus and under this fresh new covenant revelation, ‘servants’ gives way to ‘friends’ – v15. The imagery […]