| By Andy Moyle | 42 secs | 0 Comments
In 2 Samuel 5:20, David experiences breakthrough against the Philistines “Then David inquired of the LORD, saying, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will You give them into my hand?” And the LORD said to David, “Go up, for I will certainly give the Philistines into your hand.” So David came to Baal-perazim and defeated […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 3 secs | 0 Comments
Jesus paints a picture of persistence in prayer with a dad being miffed to being woken up at midnight by a friend! As Tom Wright puts it “there are all sorts of ways God isn’t like a sleepy friend, but Jesus is foccusing on one point of comparison only: he is encouraging a kind of […]
| By Andy Moyle | 40 secs | 0 Comments
To do the work of the kingdom – preaching, healing and deliverance, we need two things power and authority Luke 9v1. In Luke 9 Jesus gave power and authority to the twelve. In Luke 10 the 72 others come back having exercised the same power and authority v17, so Jesus must have given it to […]
| By Andy Moyle | 11 secs | 0 Comments
We are taking a group to Newday this year again – please book in at newdaygeneration.org. If you’d like to sponsor a young person to go, you can give online on our BT My donate Newday page
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 17 secs | 0 Comments
It’s a common expression “their ceiling is our floor” – we use it in Christian circles to talk about the fact that we stand on the shoulders of those who went before us. We want to press in and go past where the previous generation got to. In Luke 7 John the Baptist, who is […]
| 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 […]