| 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 […]
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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 […]
| By Andy Moyle | 4 mins 52 secs | 0 Comments
Okay God! It never ceases to amaze, how much truth, help and blessing there is in our daily readings. I get fresh insights from the Lord most days, even from passages I have read many times. The temptation is to read familiar passages quickly, even skimming them – don’t! Try reading the passage out loud […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 37 secs | 0 Comments
Wait for it… TripAdvisor places the Book of Kells higher than the Guinness factory tour for things to do in Dublin. It’s a set of wonderfully illustrated Gospel manuscripts from around AD800. If you were to go to see it, you wouldn’t get to see the gospels themselves straight away. Oh no, you go through […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 5 secs | 0 Comments
Is it or isn’t it? Today’s reading contains a large portion called the ‘long ending’ that is prefixed in many translations with “The earliest manuscripts and some other ancient manuscripts do not have Mark 16:9-20”. The gospel would come to a crunching and rather odd end if it finished in v8, so the theory goes […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 18 secs | 0 Comments
My God, My God why have you forsaken me? The thing that is glaringly striking to me from this passage is that for the first and last time Jesus addresses his Father, not as Father, but God. As all the wrath of God for sin is heaped on him and the Father turns away; at […]