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...
by Andy Roland | May 7, 2018 | Apostles and their Letters, Bible
WHY WE GET PAUL WRONG – Part 2: The Question of Circumcision The word “mystery” is a favourite of Paul’s. He uses it twenty times. Here is an example: “the...
by Andy Roland | Apr 19, 2018 | Apostles and their Letters, Bible
WHY WE GET PAUL WRONG Part 1 Introduction Paul wrote an awful lot. And he wrote very emphatically about everything. The Church has always seen him as a prime source for its theology, its understanding of what the Christian faith is all about. BUT the Church always...
by Andy Roland | Apr 12, 2018 | Apostles and their Letters, Bible
WHO WAS ST PAUL? by Rev Andy Paul was a Jewish rabbi who wrote over 20% of the New Testament, indeed some of the most important parts of it, and appears in another 8%. Almost a third of it! But in general people know almost nothing about him. So who was this...
by Andy Roland | Apr 1, 2018 | Bible, Church’s Year, Easter, Jesus
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN HOLY WEEK? Part 9 SUNDAY ...
by Andy Roland | Mar 31, 2018 | Bible, Church’s Year, Holy Week, Jesus
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN HOLY WEEK? Part 8 SATURDAY ...
