The Christian Faith
This section of the website provides more extended teaching on larger content areas, such as the Creed and the Sacraments. It begins with Introduction·to the Christian Faith. More content will be added in due course.
The section entitled Short Talks comprises stand-alone talks and articles on different aspects of the Christian Faith, including the teaching of Jesus, the seasons of the Church’s Year and Feasts and Festivals.·
Judge of the living and the dead
The injustices of this life
One of the first things you find out in life is that you don’t get what you deserve – which sometimes, perhaps, is just as well! At home, at school and when you go out to work, you get blamed for what someone else has done; or you break something by accident and you are punished for doing it on purpose. And then, when you work hard and do something good, perhaps no one even notices it. So everything seems very unfair. Of course it’s also true that there are times when you do what you know is wrong, and are not found out – but I guess you know all about that.
The resurrection of the body and the life everlasting
Bowhead whales can live up to 211 years making them one of the longest living animals on earth. (1)
Our life, which at most is scarcely more than 100 years and usually less, seems short compared with the bowhead whale, but we live longer in the end! Nobody knows what happens to whales when they die but we do know that we, after death, live for ever and shall never stop thinking.
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He ascended into Heaven
The Ascension
After Jesus had been raised from the dead on Easter Day he appeared to all his Apostles at different times and in different places for 40 days. On the fortieth day, which was a Thursday, he appeared to his Apostles for the last time, and because it was the last time he said goodbye to them in a way he had never done before.