In the midst of challenging times, it was an unexpected pleasure this week to hear Sarah and Jonny on UCB2 Radio, where Bright City were featured as the artist of the week!! ‘Christ In Me’ is a great Easter song. https://youtu.be/di5NZtRnV-M The opening sequences in the video also have significant resonances, for me, with the scenes from the Notre Dame devastation which you may remember from this time last year, and about which I recall speaking here in the garden at The Cairn. Here is one of the pictures from Notre Dame, as a reminder: And here are the pictures from St Peter’s Church, Brighton (from a building which now stands empty, due to current circumstances): Strange circumstances, both years.
But, in a sense, both serve to demonstrate the same central point about Easter, that: ‘Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever’ (Hebrews 13:8). The Word of God is, truly, more reliable than the ground underneath our feet. ‘Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away’ said Jesus (Matthew 24:35). So, as believers in Jesus, we carry this great hope of the Resurrection and of a New Creation. And we draw fresh confidence and courage this Easter that: ‘since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our ‘God is a consuming fire’’ (Hebrews 12:28-29). And this may be a helpful place to start in responding to that; Bright City’s Easter song from last year, ‘Hope Lives’: https://youtu.be/xj61gedgLx4 Happy Easter!
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