| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 31 secs | 0 Comments
The silence is broken As a teenager I once took part in a ‘sponsored silence’ event at school on a Saturday morning. The lack of conversation, for what seemed like endless hours, was very eerie and it was a massive relief when we could finally chat again and listen to one anothers’ stories. For humans, […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 1 sec | 0 Comments
Resurrection It was the biggest and most important miracle on the face of the earth. My attention goes to the first thing the resurrected CHRIST said- “Go and tell my brothers.” What a glorious progress in relationship between CHRIST and his disciples from being called friends and now brothers!!! Wait a minute! Brothers??? I mean […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 14 secs | 0 Comments
Dark days It was a dark day – between the sixth hour (3pm) and the ninth hour (6pm), there was darkness over the land. There’s not a lot of corroboration of that from outside the Bible – but 8th Century Syncellus cites a book from 220AD by Julius Africanus who cites Thallus from around 52AD who tried […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 32 secs | 0 Comments
The Cross Jesus before Pilate Jesus’ silence before his accusers is the best modelling of the endurance under persecution that He commands. In Matt 10:17-18 Jesus had told the disciples “They will hand you over to the local councils and flog you in their synagogues. On my account you will be brought before governors and […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 13 secs | 0 Comments
Peter’s failure Peter’s failure is complete and utter. Having vociferously denied that he would deny Jesus, he does so, three times, including oaths and swearing to be sure. He may have imagined his boldness in the moment, standing with Christ against the Sanhedrin. Then it turns out that when a servant girl asks him if […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 39 secs | 0 Comments
Betrayed! Betrayal is hard because it can only come through a friend or a loved one. It’s not an act of a stranger, a random cruelty or victim of circumstances. Betrayal can only come in the hands of the ones you love. It’s worse than rejection. Rejection opens a wound, but betrayal rubs salt in […]
| By Andy Moyle | 4 mins 13 secs | 0 Comments
When times are tough, pray! “And when they had sung a hymn…” It’s not the purpose of worship, but it does calm the soul. As Jesus and the disciples head out to the Mount of Olives, there’s a calmness to Jesus even as He predicts all his disciples will fall away at his arrest. As […]
| By Andy Moyle | 5 mins 2 secs | 0 Comments
The Passover Lamb Passover was a time of celebration when the Jews remembered how God had “passed over” their houses during the final plague in Egypt. By applying the blood of a lamb to their doorposts, the Jews were protected from the plague, sparing their firstborn children. God said “when I see the blood, I […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 36 secs | 0 Comments
Living in the light of salvation Jesus told the two parables in this passage to teach us about how God wants us to live in the light of our salvation. We receive this salvation through God’s grace, not by what we do – we cannot earn it! We see in the first parable that although […]