| 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 […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 19 secs | 0 Comments
An interrupted miracle Jesus is on the way to do a miracle for Jairus’ daughter when He is interrupted by another miracle! The woman with 12 years of bleeding is ceremonially unclean under the law. Touching her would make you unclean. With the new covenant, not only is she not ceremonially unclean, but touching the […]
| By Andy Moyle | 4 mins 49 secs | 0 Comments
Pistis and Phobos! The stories in today’s Bible reading, where Jesus calms the storm and heals the demon-possessed man, have been discussed in some detail already by Andy Moyle and Andy King, so rather than cover the same ground, I am going to focus on two key themes that stood out from these narratives, and […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 27 secs | 0 Comments
Be careful little ears how you hear Today’s passage finishes with a warning: “Take care, then, how you hear.” The parable of the sower shows us a lot of bad ways of hearing the word of God. And one good way. I used to read this with a ‘what happens, happens’ angle, thinking that we […]
| By Andy Moyle | 8 mins 59 secs | 0 Comments
Ruining a dinner party? Imagine you are at a respectable dinner party – at the local mayor’s house. The dinner is in honour of a visiting speaker. Of course you are excited, because you’ve heard about the speaker and are intrigued about his views. During the meal, suddenly the doorbell rings and you think nothing […]