NO TRUCE WITH THE ENEMY

Ever since Cain killed Abel we are called on to resist sin which is crouching at our door with a desire to have us. It is no mere right and wrong with which we have to do. Knowing the law is not enough to protect us. There is another force active and enticing, well versed in the art of deceit. Complacency will kill us.

'Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.'
1 Peter 5 vs 8

HOPE

Society is a living organism, to be led by the 'invisable hand of consensual politics'.There can be no rigid plans but rather respect for others who may differ, as well as towards ageless customs and traditions and a concern for generations yet to be.

Roger Scruton

SEXUAL PERVERSION

Bringer of death rather than life.

Fruitfulness delights God above all else and He has bound one of our greatest delights with it too.

'It is man who has taken fun out of fertility.'
C S Lewis

THE 'BIG SOCIETY'

News comes today of a way forward out of increasing moral lawlessness, the 'rule of the untamed "I"', escaping the shackles of 'big government.' It is those duped with illusions of progression into 'modernity' who are blind to our bankrupt state.

Returning to the wisdom of many ages brings hope of the restoration of respect towards the individual and the survival of a society where men care about each other rather than personal prosperity.

WIDOW

C S Lewis commented that 'whoever married the spirit of the age would soon be a widow.'
Evolutionism and Christianity have got into bed together and produced a still birth. They have together destroyed man in the image of God, the only hope of a renewed humanity in Christ.

Whose seed was He if not the seed of a woman called Eve?

ILLUSION

Ever since Satan spoke to Eve in Eden, deceiving her as to the true characture of God, fallen man has been living surrounded by illusions and fallacies. They are death-dealing illusions and so become delusions. We are blind to reality and conceive fallacies to deal with the falleness of our world and ourselves. The untamed 'I' will always work against the well-being of the collective 'we.'Down through the ages the collective wisdom of the 'we' has been preserved but there are few who hear its voice.

The Laodicean Church proved that it is possible to be deceived as to our true spiritual state. The call was to hear the voice of the Lord of the Church who sought fellowship with His people.

As in Hebrews '...exhort one another daily, while it is called "Today", lest you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin...it is said 'Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion'.

Thoughts engendered by Roger Scruton in 'The Uses of Pessimism'

BED FELLOWS

Science without God as a priori, may well be the enemy of God, but the Church is happy to marry it.

We are to be 'stewards of the earth and our frail nature' not lords over them. That place belongs to God alone.

VOMIT

Christians, complacent in a fleshy world such as we have, are blind. Such are drifting, unaware of the strength of the currents of life drawing them ever further from godliness. They make the Lord of the Church naseous with their lukewarmness. Rather a Dawkins than the insipid leaders of our time.

SHACKLES

Some governments promote moral lawlessness but shackle society. They maintain that families, schools and churches are 'the slaughter houses of children' because of their moral constraints and seek to put them in shackles. They are blind to the slaughter of the unborn. Some would say they are necessary sacrifices on the altar of woman's freedom.

'...and they shall call good evil, and evil good.'

THE RULE OF FREEDOM

True freedom comes from obedience to the laws and constraints that protect the "we" in society, guarding against the 'untamed freedom of the "I".'

PALLID CHRISTIANITY

To C S Lewis as a child, the church services were 'Christianity leached of its true colour.'

Should we be surprised that men turn away from the sickly hue of its complacency?

'Because you are neither hot nor cold, but lukewarm I will spit you out of my mouth.'
Laodicean Christians in Revelation 3

LISTENING

The community of the 'we' seek to conserve the values of the past and protect the sanctity of those yet unborn.

As Roger Scruton says 'It is the voice of wisdom in a world of noise and for that very reason no one hears it'

LIFE AND DEATH

I was walking past a house where the front garden was being replaced with stones. Probably less upkeep was the purpose.

How like us to replace life with death.

Or perhaps we forget that God said 'you shall work by the sweat of your brow.'

Aging bodies and flooding in cities is the price we pay.

SCIENCE

Science that is no friend of God is no friend of man. Its hidden agenda is '... and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.'

The first ethical code it must satisfy, is the ethical code of God's revelation in Scripture. The God whose name is 'I Am' preceeds all.

'In Him we live and move and have our being.'

NARCISSISM

Narcissism is said to be the mark of our times. That delightful story of the youth, gazing at his reflection in the water, turned into a flower, forever admiring himself.

The ultimate narcissism is the inordinate love of those of the same gender as ourselves. A sterile relationship that bears no fruit, displeasing to God who desires generations of children made in His image.

A CHRISTIAN

Someone who has recognised, needed and embraced Jesus Christ. It is this that brings such joy to the Father and to those who do, He gives the authority to become His sons and daughters.

'This is my beloved Son in whom I'm well pleased. Hear ye Him.'

'...as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name.'