Thank You

Merry Christmas to all of the members of our community and our followers online!

Pax,

Peter Hardy.

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“You never know when you are making a memory.” – Rickie Lee Jones

Jonah

Well it’s Jonah. A Biblical story about the titular prophet.  In our group we performed it as a pantomime, as a traditional British end to the year (it also marked the end of our look at the Old Testament).

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“Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.” – Kahlil Gibran

The Monarchy, Part 2: Negatives

David by Pedro Berruguete

This was a session that we didn’t have time to do this year (it is so long as to be split into two parts) so we have no answers to the questions here but as the Kings are an essential part of the biblical story it still makes an interesting exercise. 

The Monarchy, Part 1: Positives

Michelangelo's David

This was a session that we didn’t have time to do this year (it is so long as to be split into two parts) so we have no answers to the questions here but as the Kings are an essential part of the biblical story it still makes an interesting exercise.

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“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Thought for the Week 12/12/2011

From Mark Laynesmith, Anglican Chaplain:

I’d always known that the story of Christ’s conception is also found in the Qur’an, but until last week I’d never read it alongside the Bible’s version.

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Variations on a theme:

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it the superficial appearance of being right.” – Thomas Paine

“To have a right to do a thing is not the same as to be right in doing it.” – G. K. Chesterton

“One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed of so much real shame as well.” – Louis Kronenberger

Believing in Jesus

The Risen Christ

We began the previous discussion on Jesus’ biography by listing various titles that he had. Two of these are especially famous- 1) the Christ, i.e. the Messiah, the ‘Lamb of God’ and Saviour of the World, and 2) the Son of God; God the Son.  We will look at the first of these -what God does in Jesus- in future discussions on salvation. In this session we will continue looking at who Christians believe in, concentrating on the image of the Son of God.