| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 57 secs | 0 Comments
Kingdom growth “Jesus, did you hear about the 14 young hockey players who died in the bus crash in Canada, or the 56 murders this year in London? Were they worse sinners than others because of what happened to them?” No, Jesus answers, and unless you repent you will perish. People came to Jesus with […]
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Nobody likes waiting… Nobody likes waiting in our culture – waiting for the family to finally be ready, waiting for people to get home when dinner’s ready, or queuing in a fast food restaurant. This chapter of Luke is about stewardship – v. 1-12 our stewardship of the Gospel, v. 13-34 of possessions and in […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 27 secs | 0 Comments
The viewing level As part of our trip to London last Saturday for Isobel’s birthday, we visited the Tate Modern gallery. I suggested going up to the new “viewing level” on the 10th floor. I was expecting some nice views of the London skyline from behind a window; instead, a door took us out onto […]
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The cup Jesus is on the way to Jerusalem to die on the cross, rise again and ascend to the Father so the Spirit can come! Along the way, there’s a series of meals with Jesus where we learn much about the gospel and the Christian life: 1) Levi – the traitor to Israel has […]
| By Andy Moyle | 4 mins 32 secs | 0 Comments
Shameless persistence! In yesterday’s reading, we looked at how to pray, in terms of content, and today, Jesus shows us how to pray with regard to heart attitude. Should we be meek and lowly, begging God for a meagre response to our unworthy prayers? Quite the contrary! Jesus tells the story of someone who asks […]
| By Andy Moyle | 7 mins 54 secs | 0 Comments
Mary and Martha The gospel of Luke is the story of Jesus heading towards Jerusalem to die for us and rise again. It’s written as a series of journeys that include meals. Each meal unfolds a bit more of the gospel. There’s some strange teaching going round now where people say the teaching of the Gospel […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 32 secs | 0 Comments
Demonstrate, define, delegate and debrief The first paragraph makes tough reading. Three volunteers are being rejected. Previously we have seen that the 12 lacked power (9:40), lacked unity (9:46-48) and lacked compassion (9:54). Now as Jesus is about to send out the 72, some of the new volunteers lack commitment. The trouble is, we would […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 17 secs | 0 Comments
Go up into the cloud to come back to the crowd There’s something powerful about praying in a triplet – if you can get down to praying more than sharing, it keeps you focused onto doing business with the Father. Jesus takes the trio of Peter, James and John up a mountain to pray. There’s […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 35 secs | 0 Comments
I’m not ashamed of the Gospel Here we have one of the best known of Jesus’ miracles and our reaction to this can mean we sometimes gloss over passages like this quickly because we have read them so many times before. This miracle is mentioned in Matthew 14, Mark 6 and John 6. Having mentioned […]