The Christian Faith
This section of the website provides more extended teaching on larger content areas, such as the Creed and the Sacraments. It begins with Introduction·to the Christian Faith. More content will be added in due course.
The section entitled Short Talks comprises stand-alone talks and articles on different aspects of the Christian Faith, including the teaching of Jesus, the seasons of the Church’s Year and Feasts and Festivals.·
Was crucified, dead and buried
The Crucifixion
After Jesus had been scourged, and his own clothes had been put back on him, he was forced to carry the heavy beam, which was to form the cross-bar of his Cross, through the streets of Jerusalem. But worn out and weak with loss of blood from the flogging, he fell under the weight of the beam. The soldiers therefore ordered a passer-by called Simon, who came from Cyrene in North Africa, to carry it for him.
He descended into Hell
If you are going to wait for someone, one of the first things you will ask them is, “How long will you be?” If they call out, “I won’t be a moment”, or “I’m coming in half a tick”, you then know that you’ve probably got at least five minutes longer to wait! People have always been like that. Think of what has happened to the word ‘presently’. At one time ‘presently’ meant ‘at the present moment’, ‘now, at once’, but people who said they would do something ‘presently’ used to wait so long before doing it that the word has come to mean ‘soon’ or ‘later on’.
Our Saviour
If you heard on the radio of a family being rescued by a fire-fighter, or of a ship’s crew being saved by a lifeboat, you would know more or less how the rescue was made and also what would have happened to the unfortunate people if nothing had been done. But when you learn that Our Lord Jesus Christ has saved us from our sins, you may not find it easy to understand. You know that he died on the Cross to save us, but that was a long time ago and you may wonder what difference it can make to us today.