| 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
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 20 secs | 0 Comments
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 […]
| 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 […]