A CHOICE FOR BRITAIN

Either to embrace the life of God's era with all its beauty and creative possibilities or choose the way of celebrity with all its ugliness and aroma of death.

Light shone forth from the Royal Marriage service for all to see and embrace.

REDEMPTION TO COME

Science will yet serve God's purposes of redemption as man recoils from the abolition of man, drawing back from a precipice of self-destruction.

Rationalism will yet save man from himself as it embraces spirituality.

Maybe God will yet be gracious and restore man's faculties of perception with beauty and justice leading the way and energise them with a loving heart.

GODLY THEME

In God's Story there is a marriage of service and celebration.
The theme runs through from eternity to eternity.

KINGDOM OF LIGHT

Jesus plunged into the kingdom of darkness on the eve of the Sabbath of Passover. Taking our sin upon Him, being made sin for us, the gates of hell could not hold out against Him.

There He crushed and broke the power of sin and death, defeating them in their own citadel. Returning in victory, He inaugurated His Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven, to ever reign as its King.

'The kingdom of this world is become the Kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ'.
Handel's Messiah proclaimed this and so should we.

TRUE MEN

Men who give moral effort to subduing the belly of desires to reason of the mind have 'trained emotions'.

C S Lewis described them as 'men with chests'. Society needs many such.

SPIRITUALITY

The quest of men's lives, knowing we are more than just bodies. A voice from another room.

It is to be found in a life of given-ness, enriching the lives of others. The Messiah was given for this - the redemption and renewal of God's cosmos.

Those who hear the voice calling them to do the same are given the life and power to do so.

This is my beloved son, who brings me great delight. Hear Him.

EASTER

The high point in the celebration of a life given for us to enrich us and bring us peace. We either turn our faces towards that life or we love death and turn away.

EARLY YEARS

In order to live out the life of true humanity it is perhaps not too fanciful to think that Jesus spent His early years learning to listen to others in their toil and suffering, but sharing also in their joys.

Children of men in whom He found His chief delight and for whom He gave His life so that they could share His joy. Proverbs 8

COVERINGS

God loves to clothe His creation in beautiful dress. Daisies are now in profusion, clothing the grass together with other dainty flowers. If He loves to do this how much more His own people, as Jesus said. Nature has no casual clothes. Even weeds have their symmetry and beauty. We should dress in similar fashion.

In Ezekial 16 He clothes His chosen bride in fine raiment, something every girl dreams of. Yet she still plays the whore, turning after other lovers.

Only those who are dressed in the raiment He provides will be at the wedding feast. Perhaps another metaphor is fruit. We cannot go empty-handed.

IMAGES

How paltry our image of ourselves, yet we indulge it everyday.

Man in the image of God. 

What greater destiny to give our children.
The God of creation greater by far than any avatar.

TRUE SCIENCE

Science pulls our home to pieces, nothing too sacred to touch. The world is our domain and we seek paradise restored, progressing ever on but never arriving.

Redemptive science? Science true to the facts, embracing God's creative acts, acts which hold all things together for our good, promising a life to come. Science which restores God's kingdom, awaiting His return.

Man corrupts all he touches.

GOD'S STORY

O man seek not your glory,
Seek it alone in Him
Who made you for His story,
And rescue all from sin.

To rescue from all sin,
And find a home in Him,
The beauty of the ages
Come to dwell within.