| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 20 secs | 0 Comments
The last “amazed” of Mark’s gospel is rather surprisingly not great teaching or great miracles, but silence. In Mark 15 Pilate is amazed, because Jesus keeps his mouth firmly shut as accusations fly. Pontius Pilate was a nasty piece of work.A harsh man, blasphemous and brutal – sacked a few years later for it and […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 13 secs | 0 Comments
Mark 12:13-17 I remember the poll tax riots in the UK in 1990. The poll tax was hugely unpopular and a mass demonstration turned ugly and then into a riot on Trafalgar Square. In Jesus’ time the poll tax was a per person tax levied on citizens of occupied territories and was just unpopular. The […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 15 secs | 0 Comments
Recently David Taylor and I went to an online seminar on the book of Job (the seminar series is called Dusty pages – helping preachers engage with the parts of the Bible that are hard) From that seminar, we are going to do a “Going deeper” session on the book of Job very soon. Suffering […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 45 secs | 0 Comments
There’s only one parable that is unique to Mark’s gospel and it’s the parable of the growing seed in Mark4 :26-29. In it Mark uses the Greek word automate (where we get automatic) to tells is that all by itself the soil produces corn. We don’t need to feel any pressure about whether people will […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 59 secs | 0 Comments
This time the disciples are utterly amazed when Jesus steps into the boat they are in 2 miles out from shore in the middle of a storm and the night! The narrative is in Mark 6:45-52.The disciples have just witnessed the feeding of the five thousand. Jesus has been teaching a large and hungry crowd. […]
| By Andy Moyle | 9 mins 39 secs | 0 Comments
This month’s sermon series is on the power of the Spirit. We need the power of the Spirit. We are a charismatic church – not just nice songs – we want the manifestation of the presence of God as we gather.We need the power of the Spirit in daily life tooJust like Bazalel in the […]
| By Andy Moyle | 4 mins 42 secs | 2 Comments
As we allow God’s Spirit to empower us to speak in languages we have not learned, we create a clear channel through which the other gifts can also flow. Here is one testimony from Jackie Pullinger, a Croydon girl who became a missionary to Hong Kong and to China, taken from her best-selling book ‘Chasing […]
| By Andy Moyle | 4 mins 3 secs | 0 Comments
Mark 6:1-6There are only two times in the gospel that Jesus is amazed and both times it has to do with faith. Jesus was amazed by the faith of the Centurion (Luke 7:9), in Mark 6:5 Jesus is amazed by the lack of faith among the people of his home town.During this series I have […]
| By Andy Moyle | 7 secs | 0 Comments
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