Terry Boyle

Dr Terry Boyle serves as Pastor for Insight for Living UK. His ministry involves teaching a weekend radio programme, hosting the weekday Insight for Living broadcast, helping with issues that come in from listeners, and providing a personal and local approach to Chuck Swindoll’s ministry.

Terry was born in Windsor, England. He moved to the United States in 1981. Although he began his professional life as a biochemist, Terry holds a Th.M. in Pastoral Ministry and a Ph.D. in Biblical Studies from Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas.

Terry served as senior pastor of Skillman Bible Church in Dallas until he and his family moved back to the UK in 2007, to take on the role of pastor for Insight for Living United Kingdom.

Terry and his wife Rose Ann have been married for twenty seven years, and they have three grown children: Hannah, Emily, and Terence.

Primary Colours

Posted on 23rd January 201710th November 2017 by Terry Boyle

Physics teaches us that the range of colours you see on your TV screen are in fact all produced by varying proportions of red, green and blue light. Mix these three primary colours together and you get white light. It’s a little different for mixing paints, but the idea of three primary colours still holds. […]

Peering Into the Crucible

Posted on 23rd January 201710th November 2017 by Terry Boyle

During a visit to speak at a church, I held up my battered wedding ring to illustrate a point about hardship and trials. You see my poor marriage band has seen a lot of trouble. It once was lost (but now it’s found). It’s been broken, patched, patched again, and broken again. With each round […]

Routine Maintenance

Posted on 23rd January 201710th November 2017 by Terry Boyle

Tyres – check! Seatbelts – check! Mirrors – check! Ignition – click, click, click . . . nothing. There’s an old proverb that says “a stitch in time saves nine.” It’s a proverb about preventive maintenance. It speaks about needlecraft, but the wisdom it contains applies elsewhere. Take care of things while they’re easy to […]

Promises, Promises

Posted on 23rd January 201710th November 2017 by Terry Boyle

I promise! Dangerous words, let me tell you. I am of the impression that no two words can reveal our character with more precision. No two words can so easily attract the interest of those who want to catch us out, trip us up, put us down. We see it played out in politics every […]

Pharisee? Me?

Posted on 23rd January 201710th November 2017 by Terry Boyle

God gave the sacrificial system to the Israelites. In Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy we are introduced to what Paul would later call “the tutor.” (Galatians 3:24). The Law was intended to lead us to Christ, to teach about the necessity of sacrifice, and to anticipate the “fullness of time” when Christ’s sacrifice would ultimately […]

Out of the Shadows

Posted on 20th January 201730th July 2019 by Terry Boyle

“Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?…The Shadow knows!” Back in the day, before many of us were born, this iconic line introduced a mystery thriller series on American radio. The Shadow was played by Orson Welles among other actors during the course of three decades on air. Each episode would sign […]

Living Well

Posted on 20th January 201710th November 2017 by Terry Boyle

If there was one thing my dad taught me, it was to enjoy language – to find pleasure in the way words work together. Puns, riddles, crosswords and spelling games were the à la carte fun-fare when I was a lad. His favourite poem was “If” by Rudyard Kipling. But should someone ask him if […]

It Takes Grace to Get Along

Posted on 20th January 201730th July 2019 by Terry Boyle

In Paul’s letter to the church at Philippi, joy is one of the main themes, along with perseverance and hope. These make Philippians one of the best-loved of the New Testament letters. Quarrels don’t readily spring to mind. But chapter four specifically names two women who were at odds. Paul names them, and recruits help […]

In the Bleak Mid-Winter

Posted on 20th January 201710th November 2017 by Terry Boyle

Every season of the year can bring its own characteristic blessing. The far-off summer holds warm memories and hopeful expectations of riverside picnics, days at the beach, and lazy naps in the sun. Autumn has that first tang of wood smoke in the air, the trees in glorious gold and the promise of hot soups […]

In Living Colour

Posted on 20th January 201710th November 2017 by Terry Boyle

There used to be a cinema by the bridge in Windsor called the ABC Playhouse. It’s long gone now, but it was a special place to me. As a boy I saw Mary Poppins there, the first feature length film I had seen that incorporated cartoon animation with live actors. Penguins for waiters – what […]