by Andy Roland | Jun 13, 2018 | Apostles and their Letters, Bible
ST PAUL AND JESUS INTRODUCTION A favourite way of attacking Christianity is to assert that it went downhill because of St Paul. He complicated the simple message of Jesus and made the church a guilt factory. Apart from the fact that Jesus’ message was far from simple...
by Andy Roland | Jun 12, 2018 | Newsletter
REV ANDY’S NEWS JUNE 2018 FIVE STEPS TO FAITH – THE LAUNCH The launch of Five Steps to Faith was a lovely evening. Not as many as I was hoping for, but a smallish group of people who really took part. One decision I made which really paid off was to move the...
by Andy Roland | Jun 6, 2018 | Apostles and their Letters, Bible
PAUL ON FOOD Introduction It was all very well sorting out a compromise over how Jews and Gentiles could enter the new Jesus community, i.e. through adult baptism, NOT through adult circumcision and baptism. But if you were to have any kind of common life between...
by Andy Roland | May 24, 2018 | Church’s Year, Trinity
East vs West Here are some thoughts I have about what western Christians think is a great problem, and eastern Christians take as a fundamental truth. There is a great little book called “The Orthodox Way” by Kallistos Ware, explaining simply how Orthodox Christians...
by Andy Roland | May 10, 2018 | Ascension Day, Bible, Church’s Year, Jesus
WHAT HAPPENED ON ASCENSION DAY? You will be reading this while I am in Germany, celebrating Ascension Day, or, as they charmingly call it, Himmefahrt. This means Sky Journey, and everyone in Europe takes it off as a public holiday. Only in pagan old England is it...
