| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 3 secs | 0 Comments
I’m an armchair mountaineer; which is a little strange as I’m scared of heights and wouldn’t real-life climb for all the tea in China! I loved Joe Simpson’s “Touching the Void” and have just finished Bear Gryll’s “Facing Up”, describing his ascent of Everest. He reached the pinnacle, the summit, safely and made it back […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 48 secs | 0 Comments
Romans 7:7-25 is one of those passages that people take in isolation from the thread that Paul has been building thus far, and therefore get wrong. This is not describing the battle of the Christian life. Sure the Christian life is a battle, but this passage should not be used to describe your struggles with […]
| By Andy Moyle | 4 mins 51 secs | 0 Comments
Sin, law, grace, … and marriage?? I love the fact that twice in chapter 6 of Romans, the ‘logical’ conclusion of what Paul says is “let’s keep sinning because of grace”. To me that shows good grace based teaching. Of course the conclusion is wrong (hence the inverted commas around ‘logical’). However when grace is […]
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If in our reading of Romans to this point we are not asking the question “Can we continue in sin then?”, we have not understood grace yet. Grace begs that question. The answer is “By no means!”, “Perish the thought!”, “No way, man!” Throughout the book of Romans, Paul asks a series of questions with […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 27 secs | 0 Comments
Several years ago, I was fortunate enough to take part in a fascinating school trip to Chongqing, China, the largest city on earth by area, with a population of over 30 million. One afternoon, while sitting on the school field watching our student sports leaders teach their Chinese counterparts tag rugby, I noticed white flakes […]
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Abraham is given as the example of faith by Paul. He was an old man who was given an amazing promise by the Lord that he would be a father of many nations. He believed patiently for 25 years for the promise to begin to be fulfilled – Romans 4:3 “Abraham believed God and it […]
| 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 […]