Daily Scripture:For as by man came death:by man has come also the resurrection of the dead;For as in Adam all die:even so in Christ shall all be made alive. (1 Corinthians 15 v 21-22)Daily Reflection:Imagine a world where peace, contentment, love and beauty was all there was to experience. This was the world God created at the beginning of all time for us to enjoy. Sin entered the Garden of Eden when Eve and Adam ate the forbidden fruit encouraged by Satan. The penalty for sin was that man would eventually die. God loved His creation, His people, so much that He didn't allow Satan to have the last word - He became human in Jesus, stepped down from Heaven and sacrificed Himself on the cross so that death would no longer have the final word. Because of Christ's death and resurrection, we are reconciled to God, and every believer, so the Bible says, can live life to the full on earth and spend eternity with God after death. Today, choose to be alive, really alive - as the verse above promises. Vicki Young
The Third Sunday of EasterService led by Revd Rosemary Kobus van Wengen & Revd Ylva Blid-MackenzieService link here: https://youtu.be/C-0KSEQKeYQ
Daily Scripture1 Sing to the Lord a new song;sing to the Lord, all the earth.2 Sing to the Lord and bless his name;tell out his salvation from day to day. (Psalm 96:1-2)Daily ReflectionSinging, the thing we long for now, perhaps more than ever! It is not until something is taken away from us, or temporarily suspended in this case, that we really understand what it means to us, how much we love it and how necessary it is. Singing, whether in the shower, on stage or in church, brings us alive. We feel our spirit soar and our mood lift and we can feel united, both with others and with something higher, which some of us will name as the Lord.Soon we shall surely once again be allowed to sing together with others, and not just on a screen, but for real, with real people. Never again will we take this wonderful experience and expression of the human spirit for granted, having glimpsed a world without it. Revd Ylva
Daily ScriptureBeloved, we are children of God now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. But we know that when Christ appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. (1 John 3.1,2)Daily ReflectionWhen, in the Creed, we proclaim our belief in ‘the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting’ do we ever wonder what that resurrected life will be like? As John says, we cannot know. But is certain that we are not heading for some sort of disembodied immortality, which would hardly be grounds for the joyful expectation of eternal life which is at the very core of our faith. Paul speaks of the release from our ‘corruptible’ bodies, subject to aging, pain and sickness, into a new body, imperishable and free of corruption.What will this be like? We do not know.But what we do know, says John, that now, in this life, we are children of the Father whose loving care surrounds us both in this world and the next.Thanks be to God!Revd Rosemary
