| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 10 secs | 0 Comments
There’s an impressive array of miracles at the start of today’s reading – Simon’s mother-in-law, lots of sick people who all get healed and demonised people set free. After each ministry time, Jesus withdraws to recharge spiritually (4:23 and 5:16). Then Jesus starts to preach at the lakeside, but the crowd is large and they […]
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Returned in the power of the Spirit Jesus returned from the wilderness in the power of the Spirit to begin His ministry. On the Sabbath he went to the synagogue – standing to read. He read Isaiah 61 and then sat down to teach. Flick open your Bible to Isaiah 61 – it’s interesting to […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 47 secs | 0 Comments
The Son of God In yesterday’s reading Jesus was baptised and the Father said, “You are my beloved Son, with you I am well pleased.” Today, we read (you did read it didn’t you?!) a long genealogy of unpronounceable names that ends with the son of Adam, the son of God. Then in chapter 4 […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 54 secs | 0 Comments
Prepare the Way Historical setting A.D.28. History – names, dates and places may interest you or remind you of boring school days and wondering what the relevance of it all is. Here we have Luke setting the time and place with great accuracy as a typical Greek historian. Luke lists all the power figures of […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 27 secs | 0 Comments
Jesus at the turn of manhood This is the only narrative of Jesus’ life between infancy and His mission starting at the age of 30. Jesus is 12 years old, so this is the the year before His Bar Mitzvah, or becoming a man (being a teenager is a modern invention!). Luke, the only gospel […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 52 secs | 0 Comments
The old and the young; the old and the new Have you ever watched a film so many times that you think you know the entire script off by heart? You could have a go in your head at quoting it back to yourself, or listing the key scenes, but the chances are you’ll miss […]
| By Andy Moyle | 5 mins 19 secs | 0 Comments
Shepherds At Christmas time, we love the nativity story, especially if you have little children acting it out as cute angels and shepherds in a DIY stable. But we miss a lot, by looking at it with our 21st Century Western assumptions and using a word that has historically been badly translated! Luke 2:7 No room […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 57 secs | 0 Comments
We have perfect peace Thousands of years ago God had sworn an oath to Abraham (v73): ‘I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies, and in your offspring […]
| By Andy Moyle | 5 mins 45 secs | 0 Comments
God uses faithful women! Luke 1:39-56 stands out as the only time in the New Testament that a meaningful conversation between two women is recorded. There is another example of women speaking together – when Mary Magdalene, Mary, the mother of James and Salome went to anoint Jesus’ body with spices, “they were saying to […]