So four very different topics this week- first just to flag up Risen!- The Musical’s return to the New Theatre Royal on April 9th and 10th There will be two performances – Saturday at 7.30 pm and Sunday at 2.30 pm. The Show is being filmed by Global Fire Creative for broadcast on Christian Cable TV. Ticket prices start at just £5.00 and all details including booking tickets can be found on www.risenthemusical.com
Rehearsals for Risen! start this Sunday and I will be joining our Musical Director, Joffy Girling in Ealing at the London College of Music to be reunited with the fabulous London Touring Cast.
Also I hope you like our promo video also filmed by Global Fire Creative
Second I would like to thank dear Merilyn Christian- Edwards who rang on Monday to remind me that I became a Christian on February 22nd 1997 – so that’s nineteen years ago- I have to say I am so glad that I did!
Third I forgot to announce a couple of weeks ago that on February 2014 I started writing this blog – so that is over two years now!
Forth I need to return to the subject of why is there suffering the world. In recent weeks I have been suggesting that much is due to our own fault, however there is, of course suffering which appears to be beyond our control – natural disasters that strike without warning and seemingly without cause. How do we explain these?” In his book “It Makes Sense” Stephen Gaukroger says that another part of the jigsaw puzzle of explanations re suffering is that we live in a fallen world. To use his words;
Christians believe that God made a perfect world. Unfortunately human beings decided they knew better than God how things ought to be run and turned their backs on Him. This resulted in a rift between Him and the human race which like the fall out after a nuclear explosion also had an effect on creation. A once perfect world became imperfect and human beings found themselves in alien, hostile territory surrounded by a natural environment infected by sickness and disease. (You can read the full story in the first three chapters of the Bible) So we are now at the mercy of disasters which are symptoms of the malfunction in the relationship between ourselves and Creator.
So is that the end of the jig saw puzzle pieces that make some sense of why there is suffering in the world? No there are more and I’ll look at another one next week, plus no doubt tell you how that first rehearsal of Risen!- The Musical went.