ALL THE ESSENTIALS

At the center of the Christian faith is the conviction that there is a God of power who is able to do exceedingly abundant things in nature and in history. This conviction is stressed over and over again in the Old and New Testaments. The God whom we worship is not a weak and incompetent God. God is able to beat back gigantic waves of opposition and to bring low prodigious mountains of evil. This ringing testimony of the Christian faith is that God is able. There are those who seek to convince us that only humanity is able. Their attempts to substitute a human centered universe for a God centered universe is not new. It had its modern beginnings in the Renaissance and subsequently in the Age of Reason, when some people gradually came to feel that God was an unnecessary item on the agenda of life. In these periods others questioned whether God was any longer relevant. The laboratory began to replace the church, and the scientist became a substitute for the prophet. Not a few joined Sw

The Christian Institute in a report of Wed. 22 December 2010 shows an attempty by the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) under the direction of Peter Tatchell to redefine marriage. Peter Tatchell has rallied four homosexual couples whose application for civil marriage licences were refused and four heterosexual couples whose application for  civil partnerships were also refused. Tatchell is now taking the fight to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) claiming their human rights had been breached. A clerical error by Camden council has delayed the case by one month. Simply the case is meant to blur the lines between marriage and civil partnerships  rendering the value and sanctity of marriage as between a man and woman, useless. Expertys do not foresee GLF winning this case but whatever the outcome this is a clear sign of the times we live in. The GLF in a manifesto of 1971 revised in 1978 clearly stated; “We must aim at the abolition of the family”. GLF described the family as “. . . t