Without Christ, a "Christian culture" cannot exist. This is the great lie agnostic Britain has told itself: "We can be just as nice to each other without the foolish concept of God".
With every shooting, knifing, explosion, the administrative class parrots: "The injured are in our thoughts.
This is a tawdry euphemism to avoid the word "prayers", which once came to British lips.
It might offend.
Your thoughts acheive nothing - spare me your thoughts. Only the power of God, evoked in faithful prayer, can aid victims.
Britain is a blown egg, and its return to strength can only be achieved by one coversiin to Christ at a time.
Yes. His loss felt like personal loss. It was reading him that made me realise that my core philosophy is conservative. Have a long stretch of his books on my bookshelves. He's much missed
We do need to think about how God made Britain great, how He blessed it so it could be a blessing to others. When did this start? I guess at the writing of the Book of Life ... but in practical terms from Alfred (making the 10 Commandments the foundation of English law) onwards through Wycliffe & Lollards, Reformation, Puritans, Revival, Wilberforce/Shaftesbury. God does not separate the spiritual from the corporeal - he made and loves it all and so the practical reformers, the builders, governors, engineers, explorers, military, artists all play a part in the Kingdom and all need our thanks & prayer & involvement.
Amen. It’s amazing how alien the thought of modern evangelicalism is, for example, from the that of the Clapham Sect (Wilberforce et al), who sought to put their faith into concrete action within and for their nation, just as Alfred had done.
Without Christ, a "Christian culture" cannot exist. This is the great lie agnostic Britain has told itself: "We can be just as nice to each other without the foolish concept of God".
With every shooting, knifing, explosion, the administrative class parrots: "The injured are in our thoughts.
This is a tawdry euphemism to avoid the word "prayers", which once came to British lips.
It might offend.
Your thoughts acheive nothing - spare me your thoughts. Only the power of God, evoked in faithful prayer, can aid victims.
Britain is a blown egg, and its return to strength can only be achieved by one coversiin to Christ at a time.
Amen. Christ or chaos.
Read also Roger Scruton's "Elegy for England"
Scruton is excellent.
Yes. His loss felt like personal loss. It was reading him that made me realise that my core philosophy is conservative. Have a long stretch of his books on my bookshelves. He's much missed
We do need to think about how God made Britain great, how He blessed it so it could be a blessing to others. When did this start? I guess at the writing of the Book of Life ... but in practical terms from Alfred (making the 10 Commandments the foundation of English law) onwards through Wycliffe & Lollards, Reformation, Puritans, Revival, Wilberforce/Shaftesbury. God does not separate the spiritual from the corporeal - he made and loves it all and so the practical reformers, the builders, governors, engineers, explorers, military, artists all play a part in the Kingdom and all need our thanks & prayer & involvement.
Amen. It’s amazing how alien the thought of modern evangelicalism is, for example, from the that of the Clapham Sect (Wilberforce et al), who sought to put their faith into concrete action within and for their nation, just as Alfred had done.