Christ Church Huntingdon Blog

These times of social distancing have been hard, haven’t they? One of the things that I have discovered is that everyone is missing hugs with relatives. If you want a lovely little video , look at the moment caught on the BBC website where Scottish grandchildren Noah and Isaac could hug their grandparents Bobby and Ellen Bell near Motherwell for the first time, as restrictions up there unlocked last week. One of my neighbours specifically mentioned that she was missing hugs with her grandson. And how do you explain to 1-year olds that they have to stay 2m if possible from their friends and wider family? That’s all part of why coming out of lockdown is so much more complex than going into it. We all need human contact, and we all need physical human contact too. And that’s what makes one particular little episode in Luke’s gospel so amazing. It’s a time when Jesus met a man with leprosy. Now this was of course 2 millenia before the Coronavirus, and yet “lepers”, as they were c...

The speaker over these 5 weeks has been me, Joel, a man who lived 3500 years ago in the land of Israel! I lived during a national crisis when locusts devoured our crops and affected everyone in the land. And so there are some parallels with life in your day in the Huntingdon area living through Covid19 and the resulting financial crisis. I thought it would be good to share 5 lessons that we had to learn in our day that might be helpful in yours. I’ve summed them up as follows… Look around . Survey the damage. Take a long, hard look at what has happened. Look down . Mourn and weep and wail for the devastation that has come. Financial, emotional, even the toll on human life itself. Look up . Let this crisis make you think about the important things of life and death. May it point you back to God. Look out . Days of natural disasters can point us forward to the bigger day when God comes in judgement, when no-one who is unforgiven will be spared. So turn back to God through...