by Andy Roland | Aug 18, 2019 | Bible, Law, Psalms & Wisdom, Psalms
WHAT? Psalms – the best known and least understood bit of the Bible. Easy to find, though. Just open most Bibles in the middle, and there you have them. So, what are the Psalms? Originally a hymn book, created in and for the Temple in Jerusalem. ...
by Andy Roland | Jul 31, 2019 | Newsletter
www.bibleinbrief.com [email protected] facebook/revandybooks twitter.com/rev_andy_books WHAT’S BEEN HAPPENING? CHURCH and POLITICS I’ve done a a lot of church this month. I baptised one baby and did a couple of pre-baptism visits, using material from my...
by Andy Roland | Jul 12, 2019 | Bible, Prophets
30% of the writings of the Hebrew Scriptures are made up of the writings of the prophets. These are the scrolls of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and the Twelve – twelve short books. But they are hard to read because they are not in any chronological...
by Andy Roland | Jun 30, 2019 | Newsletter
family holiday on Dartmoor www.bibleinbrief.com [email protected] 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”....
