| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 6 secs | 0 Comments
Luke shows a couple of fights Jesus had over the Sabbath. Jesus was often criticised for breaking the Sabbath but as Michael Eaton writes “There is not the slightest hint anywhere in the gospels that he ever disobeyed anything that was required by the Mosaic legislation.” Jesus kept the law, but no more than He […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 20 secs | 0 Comments
Life as a Christian has changed irreversibly since my wife and I became parents nearly five years ago. Whilst our two daughters are beautiful gifts from God, getting to church involves the kind of military precision that only an 18-month-old’s toileting habits can undermine. On the (many) days when I play guitar in the church […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 1 sec | 0 Comments
John the Baptist was the last of the Old Covenant prophets. He fulfilled Isaiah 40 to be the one preparing the way of the Lord. His job was to get people turning from their sin (repentance) and baptised. That dealt with their past but gave them no power for future obedience. You can see his […]
| By Andy Moyle | 7 mins 52 secs | 0 Comments
The Holy Spirit and the birth of Christ The birth of Jesus Christ sees a bursting forth of Holy Spirit activity. In the Old Testament just 150 people over some 2,000 years had been filled with the Spirit, usually for a special task. Suddenly we see 7 filled with Spirit in a short space of […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 9 secs | 0 Comments
Mark maybe the shortest Gospel with only 16 chapters, but some like todays are long and power packed! The Parable of the tenants The story of the vineyard and its’ tenants is the story of Israel over the previous 1500 years. The vineyard is the land of Israel they were given, which had a hedge […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 45 secs | One Comment
One of the things I learnt when I moved to King’s Lynn is that it always snows during the Mart. And so it has for a good few years, but not this year! That will be a relief for flooded Britain! My wife assures me that “rain before seven, dry by eleven.” That’s not been […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 24 secs | 0 Comments
Feeding of the four thousand This isn’t an editorial mistake, Jesus feeds a big, big crowd for the second time! Jesus is filled with compassion. Most were following just out of idle curiosity, but Jesus loves the faithless and the graceless. He doesn’t just feed them, He will die for them too. With Jesus, nothing […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 2 secs | 0 Comments
The issue of demonisation can be a thorny one. Hollywood movies don’t particularly help either. In Mark 5 Jesus casts out a Legion of demons from a man in a Gentile area into a herd of two thousand pigs who drown themselves! It’s pretty plain – the man was oppressed badly by evil spirits and […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 17 secs | 0 Comments
Mark is to the point, simple, pithy and condensed. It’s the shortest Gospel and starts at the start of Jesus’ ministry. The first sentence declares Jesus “Son of God” – to Jews that’s an assertion He is God. That’s what we needed a saviour who is God! The next sentence shows us that Jesus fulfils […]