Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Belsen 70 years ago today.

For those of you who believe in the Ascent of Man (written by Charles Darwin  over a century ago) scenes such as greeted the liberating British forces must be difficult to fit into your formula of life.
70 years ago today, through the perimeter fence of Belsen Concentration Camp, living skeletons peered vacantly at the British soldiers who had arrived to liberate them. These effigies of the living dead who wandered around aimlessly among the piles of corpses  of their former inmates were the detrius of Hitler's final solution.
After all, encouraged by atheistic doctrines of evolution and the survival of the fittest, why should any one other than the Master Arian race be allowed to live and propagate?
Let the inferior peoples of the Jews and the gypsies be enslaved or eliminated, it was just the logical interpretation of the godless creed of natural selection.
Let no one ever think that this ideology can be fitted neatly into the great Gospel of Salvation through Jesus Christ, where every one is created by God, every one is known to God, every one is  of value to God and every one can be ultimately redeemed by the love of God in the cross of Jesus Christ.
The two messages are as antithetical as Heaven and Hell and in one of those two places rests the culmination of either creed.

Ian

Monday, April 13, 2015

Come and join us

It may not seem impressive by mega-church standards but meet the group that Pauline and I pastor in Barrie.
A couple of years ago a few of us began to meet together, believing that the Gospel message was still the greatest news ever made known to mankind. I mean, what could be better than the assurance of our sins forgiven through the merits of Jesus Christ and His promise that one day we would live with Him in heaven?
 Do you have something better to share?
So here we are, now numbering thirty or so, meeting week by week in a commodious house, wonderfully finished and made available to us by two of our church members.
No, it is not mega-church but Jesus shows up every Sunday: we have the blessing of His Presence, the richness of His Word well preached, sweet praise and worship, good fellowship over coffee and  NO MORTGAGE!
If you live around here come and join us any Sunday.
Give me a call on 705- 733-1307

Jubilate.

Ian