Category Archives: Redemption

Morality without redemption is frightening

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Or, to put it otherwise: ‘cancel culture makes liars of us all’.

The current fad for toppling statues of the great and the good when their ‘goodness’ is found to have been mixed with ‘badness’ is chilling in its implications.  Yesterday, it was Edward Colston.  Tomorrow, it may be John Newton, Winston Churchill, or even Mother Theresa herself.  And are you quite sure that there is not something lurking in your Twitter account that will not, one day, be held up to your eternal shame?…

Ruth 4 – At the gate – sermon notes

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The story of Ruth has been told as a drama in four Acts.  In Act 1 we meet some of the principle characters on the Highway, the road that leads from the country of Moab on the east of the Dead Sea to the town of Bethlehem in Judea.  Elimelech, his wife Naomi, and their two sons had fled Bethlehem during a famine, and had settled in Moab.  There the two sons married Moabite women.  But before long Elimelech and the two sons died, leaving Naomi and her two daughters-in-law Orpah and Ruth. …

Redemption

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Whereas the imagery of propitiation is that of the temple court, the imagery of redemption is that of the market-place. The basic meaning of ‘to redeem’ is to buy or buy back, whether as a purchase or as a ransom. Strongly implied is the plight from which we needed to be ransomed.…