by Andy Roland | Jun 30, 2019 | Newsletter
family holiday on Dartmoor www.bibleinbrief.com aoroland@gmail.com facebook/revandybooks twitter.com/rev_andy_books I have been writing this on a balcony at Bigbury-on-Sea, Devon, where I am part of a large family holiday. Beautiful weather, beautiful scenery,...
by Andy Roland | Jun 10, 2019 | Apostles and their Letters, Bible, Pentecost
WHO/WHAT? WHEN? WHY? Who?/What? Language questions In the Old Testament the same word ‘ruach’ means both wind and spirit. So Genesis 1.3 can be translated, “the spirit of/from God was moving over the waters”, or “a wind from God was moving over the waters”....
by Andy Roland | May 30, 2019 | Bible
MAY 2019 www.bibleinbrief.com aoroland@gmail.com facebook/revandybooks twitter.com/rev_andy_books CALL TO GRENFELL As you know, two years ago there was a horrifying fire at Grenfell Tower, North Kensington. The church and...
by Andy Roland | May 15, 2019 | Bible, Easter, Jesus
Examining the Evidence The central plank of the Christian faith is the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. Which makes it all the more surprising that the actual written evidence in the New Testament, unlike that for the crucifixion, is quite meagre. Here I want to...
by Andy Roland | Apr 25, 2019 | Easter, Holy Week, Newsletter
www.bibleinbrief.com aoroland@gmail.com facebook/revandybooks twitter.com/rev_andy_books THE BREXIT EFFECT The Brexit crisis has loomed large in my life this month, half because of my personal feelings, half because of the effect on Linda and her...
