Wednesday, 14 November 2012
CHRISTIANITY
Christianity is a biography and Biblical history a series of biographies.
We must harness our narrative to the same story of man made into the image of God and devoting his life to serving God and man.
COMMON SENSE
Commonsense through the ages is being vindicated by scientific research. Man really is made in God's image, the only identity we need. As such our purpose in life is to represent Him in all His diversity.
'God has made us what we are. God has created us in King Jesus for the good worksthat he prepared, ahead of time as the road we must travel'
Ephesions 2:10
VIRTUE
Commonsense in service of civilisation ensuring it's preservation. Those who hold to it are the true nobility of the land. Servanthood leads to knighthood.
A look through the past will discover this truth which shines in every age.
The me-hood of today must give place to we-hood if we are to have a civil society tomorrow.
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
RE-CREATION
God broke into history with the birth of Jesus, His Messiah Son. It was the 'big bang' of a new creation which continues to reverberate throughout the world. The angels sang as the Master of the Universe entered enemy territory and they've been singing ever since, as each new citizen enters the Kingdom of Heaven..
It is now for the church to march throughout the world to effect that new creation, bringing redemption, with Jesus at its head.
It is now for the church to march throughout the world to effect that new creation, bringing redemption, with Jesus at its head.
Saturday, 7 July 2012
THE HEAVENLY MAN
Every moment of every day we are evolving, changing into someone that we weren't before. We are always 'becoming'. It is God's way of working in the world. Change is built into nature.
The point is who are we becoming? Humanity was ruined by sin and could only become a dying breed, sons of evil and full of wicked deeds and lovers of death.
From eternity God ordained that man should be rescued from this fate and be reborn as His children. We now live for life, becoming heavenly men who bring life to the world which is becoming God's kingdom on earth.
Jesus, God's Saviour King, is that redeemer. Through His life, death and resurrection, we too become heavenly men, becoming more and more the image of that true Heavenly man.
The point is who are we becoming? Humanity was ruined by sin and could only become a dying breed, sons of evil and full of wicked deeds and lovers of death.
From eternity God ordained that man should be rescued from this fate and be reborn as His children. We now live for life, becoming heavenly men who bring life to the world which is becoming God's kingdom on earth.
Jesus, God's Saviour King, is that redeemer. Through His life, death and resurrection, we too become heavenly men, becoming more and more the image of that true Heavenly man.
Friday, 22 June 2012
WORDS
Their life resides in their meaningfulness to our human matrix.
Science seeks to vivisect them apart from life, but kills them in the process.
Science seeks to vivisect them apart from life, but kills them in the process.
IMAGERY
Metaphors suck the poison out of our lives, inspiring joy and diluting the pain in our sorrows.
The ultimate human metaphor - man in the image of God, Jesus the one true image.
The ultimate human metaphor - man in the image of God, Jesus the one true image.
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
BEACHCOMBING
We are like waves breaking on the shores of the islands of others. We cast forth what we have been holding in our depths, be it treasure or simply broken pieces from a broken world.
Sunday, 6 May 2012
NEW MAN
God's actions and creativity are interpreted by His Words, reaching their height in the one true Logos of God. In Jesus He was bringing a new order into being, God's Kingdom on earth, uniting God and man in a new Manhood made truly in the image of God, restoring the intimate relationship intended from the beginning.
Sin, with its hostility to God and man, will aways strive to distort this creation and image. Its hold over man was broken when Jesus drew this hostility into himself and was crucified to receive the full condemnation of God on sin resident in the flesh. The New man rose with a new identity for his people.
Only by union with Him can restored manhood be realised, showing the world of seen and unseen powers that he truly loves and obeys the one true God, even as Jesus does. This new manhood is sent out, even as the Father sent His son, to redeem all of creation.
Sin, with its hostility to God and man, will aways strive to distort this creation and image. Its hold over man was broken when Jesus drew this hostility into himself and was crucified to receive the full condemnation of God on sin resident in the flesh. The New man rose with a new identity for his people.
Only by union with Him can restored manhood be realised, showing the world of seen and unseen powers that he truly loves and obeys the one true God, even as Jesus does. This new manhood is sent out, even as the Father sent His son, to redeem all of creation.
THE GOSPEL
Words of image and logic intertwine, creating a story which will awaken and draw out the heart of man to worship God and serve His creation, both nature and man in His image.
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