Christ Church Huntingdon Blog

  I’d like to start with something that was said in March last year as the pandemic was spreading across the nation. “I do think that looking at it all, we can turn the tide within the next 12 weeks” [1] . That was Boris Johnson, predicting that the Covid situation would be better by June last year. Well I’m not being critical, I couldn’t have done a better job as Prime Minister over the last year. And in fact, I have made the same mistakes- on our street here in Huntingdon we were talking about having a street party last summer at the end of the pandemic. It’s now nearly a year since the first lockdown, and my kids are still at homeschool. Well it’s been great to hear the government’s latest steps forward and the progress made with the vaccine. The point I’m trying to make is that there are a lot of things we just don’t know. We don’t know when this Island will be Covid free. We don’t know what will come post Covid. We don’t know what today will hold, we don’t know what tomorr...

Hope is a powerful word isn’t it. I think it’s one of those words that instantly conjures up an emotional reaction along with it, a sort of buzzword that can be used in all kinds of speeches or advertising to evoke an emotional response. I’m thinking of the red white and blue popart image of Barack Obama, with four letters emblazoned on to the bottom – HOPE. ¹  Or the 2019 Britain’s got talent finalist, a masked magician whose message was “It was always about hope, and never giving up.” ²  Hope speaks to our generation and to our society. Something about the need for hope resonates with us. But what is hope really? Well I think hope is a belief in a positive future that is not yet a present reality. Sometimes that’s hope in something concrete, like hope that we can go on summer holidays this year. Other times that’s hope in something a bit more vague, like a better life, or a fairer world. But in any case, hope is a belief in a positive future that is not yet a present reality...

W ell Storm Darcy has been pummelling the country with ice and snow. Here in Huntingdon temperatures this week have mainly been below zero, with highs of 1 degree! I thought it called for a micro bible study on snow. Are you ready for a whistle stop tour with 3 quick stops… 1) The Creator . In Job 38, God spoke to Job, a man who was suffering intensely, saying, “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow”. God is the creator of every snowflake. He sends them, and he stores them. Each one is unique and different like you and I. God is the creator, and we marvel at its beauty. And that points us to the Creator who made it. 2) The Cleansing . Snow throughout Bible times was considered one of the most pure white substances known to man. No wonder again and again the bible uses it to describe something clean.  And so verses like Isaiah 1:18 are very precious. If you are texting right now, just pause a moment and listen to this beautiful verse. “Though your sins are like sc...