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A religious and a secular basis for society. (Part 5)

A religious and a secular basis for society Part 5: Unwittingly, secular ideology is a failed attempt to compensate for the loss of religion I consider that this is an almost completely unobserved factor in the malaise of modern society – certainly I have not heard anyone else comment on it. Because modern ideologies areContinue reading “A religious and a secular basis for society. (Part 5)”

A religious and a secular basis for society. (Part 4)

A religious and a secular basis for society Part 4: The freedom of faith compared with the shackles of identity Compare the joyous, love-filled confidence that I have just described through faith in God with the modern ideologies’ reliance on gaining your identity from certain external categories to which you belong. These ideologies assert thatContinue reading “A religious and a secular basis for society. (Part 4)”

A religious and a secular basis for society. (Part 3)

A religious and a secular basis for society Part 3: Perfectly clear vision, perfect assurance Let’s return to why being a “wretched sinner” has been turned into a positive rather than a negative. It’s because it intrinsically goes together with, “who is loved by God”. Here is my foundation in life. I can ask forContinue reading “A religious and a secular basis for society. (Part 3)”

A religious and a secular basis for society. (Part 2)

A religious and a secular basis for society Part 2: The modern concept of identity is used to escape responsibility and challenge However, as those who promote the pernicious identity politics ideologies have raised the question about my identity, I will try and answer it, to show where my confidence comes from. Many people todayContinue reading “A religious and a secular basis for society. (Part 2)”

A religious and a secular basis for society. (Part 1)

(An analysis in 7 parts of the ideological foundations of today’s secular society, as opposed to the former religious basis. It doesn’t fall easily into my usual three categories, but I have put it in the faith stream as being about fundamental values.) A religious and a secular basis for society Part 1: The emptinessContinue reading “A religious and a secular basis for society. (Part 1)”

Passing beneath Christ’s outstretched arm. (Part 5)

Passing beneath Christ’s outstretched arm Part 5: His shed blood transfers God’s grace to us And you say you are changed? Yes, but forgive me, not changed enough. Yet changed completely, and certainly sufficiently. How can you say that a drop of Christ’s blood fell into your soul but you are not changed enough? IsContinue reading “Passing beneath Christ’s outstretched arm. (Part 5)”

Passing beneath Christ’s outstretched arm. (Part 4)

Passing beneath Christ’s outstretched arm Part 4: It is reality And the blood? How are we to make sense of this? It does not matter that Jesus was just one man, living in one place, at one time. He is a universal person because he embraces and embodies all that is human and all thatContinue reading “Passing beneath Christ’s outstretched arm. (Part 4)”

Passing beneath Christ’s outstretched arm. (Part 3)

Passing beneath Christ’s outstretched arm Part 3: Changed forever That look of love, if you caught it, if you chose to pass through rather than turn aside, and if you paused to look as you passed through, rather than simply rushing into freedom regardless of the cost paid for your freedom – though perhaps anyoneContinue reading “Passing beneath Christ’s outstretched arm. (Part 3)”

Passing beneath Christ’s outstretched arm. (Part 2)

Passing beneath Christ’s outstretched arm Part 2: Born again Jesus said we must be born again, and no-one is quite sure what that means, certainly not me. But perhaps it means this action. That, as once we entered the world through such a confined channel, to the pain and joy of our mothers, so now,Continue reading “Passing beneath Christ’s outstretched arm. (Part 2)”

Passing beneath Christ’s outstretched arm. (Part 1)

(A devotional reflection in 5 parts, taking up a thought from “Jesus holds open a door”) Passing beneath Christ’s outstretched arm Part 1: A look of love Passing beneath Christ’s outstretched arm, a drop of his blood falls into our souls and this, to us, is pure grace. The life of Christ, in agony, dripsContinue reading “Passing beneath Christ’s outstretched arm. (Part 1)”