Comments on: When heaven is now…

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 12:30:06 +0000

In reply to Linda McGrath. Lovely to hear from you Linda. Those were great days and you were such an important part of them.

By: Linda McGrath

Linda McGrath — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 07:56:01 +0000

Thanks Brian. As always …I really enjoy reading your posts. Miss the old days when I could hear them from the pulpit
Blessings Linda

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 12:21:08 +0000

In reply to Karen Siggins. Thanks for great insights there Karen.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 12:19:19 +0000

In reply to Jay Matenga. Those scratches do indeed run deep, and trivialise Gods first creation.

By: Karen Siggins

Karen Siggins — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 05:01:26 +0000

Thanks for this Brian.
At Lesmurdie Baptist Church we started a curious walk through Ecclesiastes this week. Our first conclusion is that we are designed for order like our good, creative and ordered God. Of course we don’t always get order in ways we can see or in the ways we want and that’s the moment (or more accurately these are the repeated moments!) when we can choose to say, ‘I don’t see order here. I am most certainly not in control here…but that doesn’t mean there is no order and it does not mean no one is in control’. And somehow it seems to me we are then freer to be present in the good, ordered moments like the one you described with your family; like the first warm day of spring; like a good meal shared with friends.

By: Lynn White

Lynn White — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 02:18:08 +0000

Absolutely agree, especially in the parts of the world i’ve recently been and people i’ve been with (and continue to be). Great book too, the year it won various prizes, our whole family read it.

By: Jay Matenga

Jay Matenga — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 01:16:05 +0000

Thanks Brian,

I love the way you frame the confusion, “of what we misleadingly call ‘heaven’ but which in the Bible is more fully represented as a world renewed…”. These days every time I hear references to life on the other side of eternity as “heaven” I have to bite my lip. Some scratches on the theological record run deep don’t they?

By: Deidra

Deidra — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 01:11:48 +0000

Thank you Brian.

By: Brenden

Brenden — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 22:50:05 +0000

Amen.
Thanks Brian