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News

CHRISTIAN AND GOSPEL MUSIC CHART LAUNCHED

PHILIP HALCROW

THE first Official Christian and Gospel Albums Chart was published last week.

To mark the launch of the chart, artists and music industry people held a celebration in Central London.

The event included music from Martin Smith – formerly frontman of Delirious?, who themselves had five Top 20 hits in the UK singles chart – and the London Community Gospel Choir.

Singers David and Carrie Grant and managing director of the Official Charts Company Martin Talbot introduced a countdown of the debut chart.

The first No 1 in the Christian and Gospel Albums Chart was Zion by Australian artists Hillsong United.

Martin Smith, whose Live From New York album was at No 10, told The War Cry it was great to be in the first chart and that he hoped the The London Community weekly list of sales would ‘create Gospel Choir celebrates a good shop window for Christian the chart launch music’.

He said: ‘The reason we write music is for people to be encouraged by it. We want people outside because we want to see the music with the Official Charts Company the church to know that this stuff that these artists and songwriters ‘brought credibility’ to the chart exists. Maybe the chart will help perform and write get more pro- and said: ‘We believe in our music, file. A chart enables an artist to get we believe in our songs. It’s about people get to it more quickly.’

Jonathan Brown of Christian profile on a weekly basis, not just bringing hope and love and faith and encouragement. These are music label Integrity said: ‘We once every so often.’

He explained that the tie-up songs that will get championed a chart not because we wanted to profile people so that they can become celebrities, but SHOW FOCUSES ON DISCRIMINATION

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There is no set formula to becoming a Christian, but many people have found saying this prayer to be a helpful first step to a relationship with God.

Women’s struggles put in the picture VISITORS look at a photograph in a new exhibition that portrays the struggles of women in Pakistan and the ways in which The Salvation Army is helping them.

The photographs in the exhibition Disqualified were taken by Tom Godec when he travelled with his wife, Sam, to document the work of The Salvation Army in the country.

Through images and words, the exhibition shows how women face economic hardship, pressure to marry young and discrimination in the workplace, but are being helped towards a better future

Lord Jesus Christ, I am truly sorry for the things I have done wrong in my life. Please forgive me. I now turn from everything that I know is wrong.

Thank you that you died on the cross for me so that I could be forgiven and set free.

Thank you that you offer me forgiveness and the gift of your Holy Spirit.

Please come into my life by your Holy Spirit to be with me for ever.

Thank you, Lord Jesus.

COMMENT – p6 LIFESTYLE – Amen Extract from Why Jesus? by Nicky Gumbel published by Alpha International, 2011. Used by kind permission of Alpha International

people up in the morning and urge them to live a fulfilled life.’

The Official Christian and Gospel Albums Chart will be viewable at officialcharts.com every Monday.

by Salvation Army people and projects.

The exhibition runs at The Salvation Army’s International Headquarters at 101 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4 until 11 April.

p7 PUZZLES – p12 INNER LIFE – p13 FOOD FOR THOUGHT – p14 RECIPES – p15

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‘FEE fye foe fumm. Ask not whence the thunder comes.

Between heaven and earth is a perilous place, home to a fearsome giant race.’ That’s the ancient legend according to the village of Cloister anyway. And it comes to life in Jack the Giant Slayer, released in cinemas yesterday (Friday 22 March).

When farmhand Jack (Nicholas Hoult) exchanges the family horse for a bag of magic beans, his uncle is less than impressed. Believing the beans to be useless, he throws them away.

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Meanwhile, Princess Isabelle (Eleanor Tomlinson) is fed up with her boring life inside the castle walls. Desperate for an adventure, she runs away. She ends up on Jack’s doorstep, where she asks for shelter from the stormy night.

Just as Jack and Isabelle are becoming acquainted, a mighty beanstalk bursts through the floorboards and shoots through the roof. It grows so fiercely that it uproots the house from its foundations, propelling it high into the sky. Jack escapes. But Isabelle is trapped inside.

When King Brahmwell hears that his daughter is stuck up the beanstalk, he commands an army of men – along with Jack – to go and rescue her. But the men are fearful of what they might meet at the top. What if they encounter a giant?

It isn’t long before the group’s worst nightmares are realised. On reaching giant territory, they realise that there aren’t just one or two giants, but lots of them. And they are a bloodthirsty bunch.

Pushing his fears to one side, Jack searches for and finds Isabelle. He even manages to get her back down the beanstalk in one piece.

But the loss of the princess makes the giants angry. They want revenge. They want Cloister.

The giants climb down the beanstalk and head for the castle. They declare war on the kingdom. It’s not pretty.

As Jack and Isabelle run for their lives, they are captured by a giant. He grips Jack in one hand and Isabelle in the other. There’s no escape.

Could it be the end? The giants are bigger and stronger than Jack. They have more power. Jack is small and weak – the underdog.

In our own life story, we may know just how he feels. Perhaps we face a big problem of in our family and see no way at all to resolve Courtesy illness and feel powerless in our att attempt tempt Warner Bros it. Maybe we know a colleague who walks Pictures to fight it. all over us, leaving us feeling worthless.

When our difficulties feel too bigg It could be that we are suffering a terminal for us to handle, we could do with ithh some even bigger helpp to tackle them. Many people plee find Princess Isabelle (Eleanor Tomlinson) and that turning to God is a good Jack (Nicholas Hoult) face up to the giants place to start.

The Bible tells us that when ver to we hand our problems over ork in him, God’s ‘power at work us can do far more than we dare daree ns 3:20 ask or imagine’ (Ephesians sion).

Contemporary English Version).

It’s true. ives to When we entrust our lives at might God, there is no telling what utcomes happen. We may get the outcomes we want or expect. We may not. ur way, But, whatever comes our gh love, God provides us with enough verc ercom omee strength and guidance to overcome any adversity, guaranteeingg we are onto a winner.

That’s the long and shortt of it.

By CLAIRE BRINE

Jack climbs the beanstalk

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What’s going on

Sculptor’s contemplation comes to a head NIC FIDDIAN-GREEN tells Philip Halcrow about his sculpture of Christ

Above: Nic’s sculpture ‘Still Water’ at Marble Arch

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CULPTOR Nic Fiddian-Green has repeatedly steered his work towards one subject: the heads of horses. His horses for courses have been installed at Ascot and Goodwood. One of his monumental horse heads has been placed next to Marble Arch in Central London.

But in the run-up to Easter, regular worshippers and visitors who have stepped into Southwark Cathedral have seen a different work by him. At the high altar is a huge head of Christ.

Standing outside the cathedral a few

‘Christ Rests in Peace’ on display in Southwark Cathedral

PHILIP HALCROW

Christ Rests in Peace depicts Jesus when, still wearing a crown of thorns, he has been placed in a tomb after his crucifixion.

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days after his sculpture was installed, Nic tells me that he had been working on it for about 20 years.

‘It came about when my father was dying,’ he explains. ‘I was working on the subject anyway but, because it was right at the end of my father’s life, I had a moment in which to delve very deeply into a contemplation of the moment of death, of what happens when you die.

‘And I realised it was a wonderful thing, because the physical, mental and spiritual suffering that my father had gone through – which seemed so parallel to Christ’s – terminated in this moment that we are all going to experience. We will never know the moment when the curtain falls, but when it does there must be an extraordinary peace.

That is what I turned my attention to when I started work on this head. I just focused on the face of Christ.’

Nic describes the sculpture as a ‘fragment’, like the Elgin Marbles – fragments of the ancient Greek Parthenon – which he saw on a visit to the British Museum when he was an art student and which inspired his works based on horses.

‘On that day in the British Museum,’ he says, ‘I saw things that were

fragmentary but beautiful. I thought that it would be good to aspire to make beautiful things that could inspire and uplift the people who encountered them.’

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ic says he began to work on a human, rather than an equine, head when he visited the Mediterranean island of Gozo. Then he began to wonder what would happen if he put a crown of thorns on the head.

He asked himself whether he could express something of Christ in the clay, and what would make such a work the head of Christ as opposed to just the head of a man wearing a crown of thorns.

The sculpture is made from lead beaten over a fibreglass form, but Nic has added gold leaf to the crown of thorns. The gold

The moment at which he was in the tomb was not the end for him

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suggests that, although the sculpture depicts a dark time, ‘something is going to happen next’.

When he explains why he chose to focus on Christ, rather than any other man, in his meditation on death, Nic mentions that ‘something’.

‘When people die, we don’t know what happens. But we do know what happened with Christ: he rose again.

The moment at which he was in the tomb – which is the moment we will all share – was not the end for him. And maybe it’s not the end for us.

‘The mystery is too great to comprehend. To believe it is one thing, but to understand it is far too difficult.

‘I can understand what it is to suffer.

I had leukaemia. Life has thrown painful experiences at me. We all encounter physical, mental and spiritual pain. We wrestle with it every day.

‘If I’m honest, my faith ebbs and flows. There are moments when it is strong. I wish it was stronger.

‘But the main thing is to keep one’s eyes focused on Christ.’

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Comment

WIDDECOMBE considers why QforANN Christianity provides such ripe material comedians in BBC One’s Are You Having a Laugh? – Comedy and Christianity next Wednesday (27 March 11.05 pm).

During the programme, she looks at how TV comedies have portrayed faith and wonders if there has been a shift to more offensive forms of comedy. She also asks if Christianity is subject to harsher criticism than other faiths.

The programme features an interview with Life of Brian director Terry Jones, as well as the insights of comedian Marcus Brigstocke (pictured with Ann), the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, and Christian comic and Mirandasitcom writer, Anil Gupta.

World-shaper

Credibility Since hearing the story, a number of websites have hosted discussions on ‘was Jesus a shape-shifter?’

This Egyptian document is another in a long line of apocryphal stories about Jesus that lacked the credibility or historicity to be accepted by the Early Church as authentic. If it occurs anywhere other than in science fiction or fantasy literature, the ability to change shape at a moment’s notice is a deception.

Jesus, however, was always straightforward. He accepted no substitute. He willingly submitted to God’s plan for his life. He willingly laid down his life so that a sinful humankind could be reconciled to its holy Creator.

Jesus was no shape-shifter. But those who follow him know he has the power to change their world.

BBC/JOSEPH BRADLEY

THE build-up to Easter often signals a silly season in the media of stories about Jesus.

This year is no exception. Excited tabloids report images of Jesus appearing as condensation on a car windscreen and on the floor of a waxing parlour.

A recently released book also offers a different view on Jesus. Roelof van den Broek of Utrecht University has translated an ancient Egyptian text that is said to explain why Judas Iscariot kissed Jesus to identify him to the soldiers who were sent to arrest him.

Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem on the Life and the Passion of Christ is a translation of a 1,200-year-old text used by a group of Coptic monks which ceased to exist in the 10th century. It is said to show that this is their account of the events of Easter.

According to this community, on the night before he was crucified, Jesus had dinner with the Roman Governor Pontius Pilate, when Pilate offered his own son to be crucified in Jesus’ place.

Judas, the monks believed, had to kiss Jesus as a way of identifying him because Jesus had the ability to change shape. Had Judas just described Jesus to the soldiers, so the argument goes, he could have changed shape and avoided capture.

Media

Stranded motorists rescued ‘A GROUP of Christians got through to help stranded drivers hours before the emergency teams arrived,’ reported the Daily Mail, after severe weather

conditions held traffic at a standstill on the A23.

According to the paper, the Plymouth Brethren group arrived in a fleet of trucks and four-wheel drive vehicles ‘to tow cars to safety, care for shivering casualties and ROBERT MILTON of the Churches Conservation dispense that most quintessenTrust told Radio 5 Live that the trust is tially English of comforts – hot campaigning to get more churches in England tea and Bakewell tarts’. opened up to the public and is looking for ‘They were absolutely volunteers to make it happen. brilliant,’ one driver said. ‘They Speaking on the Breakfast programme, were angels and everyone was Robert said: ‘The Churches Conservation Trust really grateful to see them.’ looks after more than 340 churches throughout the ACTRESS Penelope length and breadth of England.

Keith reads the Gospel Although our churches remain aaccounts ac cc of the Good Friday consecrated, they are no longer story s st t in Radio 2’s At the places of worship. A lot of Foot of the Cross (Friday F them we utilise for things like 29 March 8 pm). The exhibitions and concerts … and programme, presented by they work very well.’

Ken Bruce, also features

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music from Handel’s Messiah, performed by the Bach Choir and the BBC B Concert Orchestra.

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PEOPLE following The Salvation Q Army’s New Testament Bible Challenge are reading the whole New Testament, five chapters a week, over the course of a year. For each day’s reading plan and discussion notes visit salvationarmy.org.uk/biblechallenge

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Lifestyle

The horsemeat alert has affected consumers’ eating habits

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Consumer confidence

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Which? says the Government should…

Co-ordinate better surveillance: Now that food fraud surveillance work is being cut in the UK, more speculative surveillance is needed where there’s a potential for cheaper ingredients to be substituted. The Government should consider setting out how the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs will improve co-ordination with the Food Standards Agency and local authorities.

Enforce tougher penalties: There needs to be clear disincentives for illegal practices, including tough

DISCOVERIES of horsemeat in processed beef products have persuaded six in ten consumers to change their shopping habits, research from Which? has revealed.

According to the consumer group, trust in the food industry has dropped by 24 per cent, resulting in 30 per cent of people buying less processed meat and a quarter buying fewer ready meals or opting for vegetarian choices.

Two thirds of people don’t think the Government has paid enough attention to enforcing labelling laws. Fifty per penalties for those prosecuted. The cent are not confident that ingredient Government should consider scrapping information is accurate, 44 per cent of proposals to decriminalise failure to people say they now look at ingredient comply with food labelling legislation. labelling on more food containing meat and 83 per cent agree that the country Tighten legislation: of origin should be required on meat The food industry needs to improve products. traceability and regularly test its Confidence in food safety has also products. The Government should extend the Food Standards Agency’s taken a hit. Seven out of ten people power to require testing when feel confident when buying foods in the necessary, publish testing results and supermarket, compared with nine out allow its officers access to premises for of ten before the horsemeat headlines the purpose of investigations. began.

Richard Lloyd, Which? executive Improve food labelling: director, says: ‘The horsemeat scandal Consumers should know what’s in exposed the need for urgent changes to their food and where it comes from. the way food fraud is detected. These The Government should push for the serious failings must be put right if EU-wide country of origin labelling to cover processed meat used in meat consumers are once more to feel fully products such as ready meals. It should confident in the food they are buying. also reconsider plans to drop national ‘Food industries and local authorities rules requiring clear ingredient labels must ensure that they are crystal-clear for meat sold loose in places such as about their responsibility to protect delicatessens. consumers and are properly equipped to do so.’

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Interview

Examining the evi dence

Regarded by many as the UK’s foremost Christian philosopher, RICHARD SWINBURNE is the Emeritus Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion at the University of Oxford. He talks to Nigel Bovey about the evidence for the existence of God

Professor, what fascinated you about philosophy that made you want to make it your life’s work?

I am interested in big questions, such as: What is the world made of? What is the relation of mind and body? Do we have free will? Are there moral certainties?

Among the questions are those of whether there is a God and whether he is interacting with us.

I have always been a religious person and therefore have been only too pleased to apply my philosophical expertise to those questions about God. In his book The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins gives your argument for the existence of God something of a mauling. How did you react to that?

Richard Dawkins is very concerned with truth, and I share that. But I think that Dawkins’ arguments are not cogent, and I disagree with his conclusions.

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Professor Richard Dawkins

Dawkins argues that the question of God’s existence should be treated and tested as a scientific hypothesis. Do you agree?

If a scientific hypothesis is to be well justified, it has to have observable consequences – either before the formulation of the hypothesis or after it. I think there are some very obvious observable consequences of the hypothesis that God exists.

First, this is an extraordinarily orderly NIGEL BOVEY

Universe. The world is a law-governed world. Every particle of matter behaves in the same way as every other particle.

Every atom, every bit out of which the atoms are made, attracts every other atom in the Universe with – as Isaac Newton said – a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of their distance apart.

The same applies to the other three forces – electromagnetism, strong nuclear force and weak nuclear force – that they govern every particle in the Universe. Every single object behaves in exactly the same way.

Secondly, the regularities of nature were exactly the right kind to lead to the evolution of human beings, who are a particularly good kind of thing.

We need a regular Universe because otherwise we wouldn’t be able to make any difference to anything. It is because the Universe is regular that there are possibilities of benefiting or harming people, because I know what I have to do in order to make a difference.

If the world wasn’t regular, I couldn’t make any difference to anything.

Therefore my free will, if I still had it, would be of no use.

In some of the great detective stories, we know all the evidence at the start but what establishes the theory is that somebody suddenly thinks of a reason why all these things should be so. It is like that with theism.

Dawkins concludes that the probability of the existence of God is very low. Why do you think he is wrong?

The probability of a hypothesis depends on how well it satisfies certain criteria. The first criterion for any big scientific hypothesis is that it must lead us to expect observable conclusions with significant probability. And secondly, the hypothesis itself must be simple.

For example, let’s take a detective story. Some money has been stolen and John’s fingerprints are on the

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If there is a God, the existence of an ordered world is to be expected From page 9 shop’s safe. At the time the crime was committed, John was observed near the scene. Police have found cash equal to the stolen amount in John’s bedroom.

The police put forward an hypothesis that explains these data – John did the crime.

But when the case gets to court, John’s barrister puts forward another hypothesis. John simply had a sudden urge to walk past the shop. Some of John’s enemies planted his fingerprints on the safe. It is pure coincidence that John had exactly the same amount of money in his bedroom.

In both cases, if the hypothesis is true, we would expect the data to be as observed. But we rule out the second hypothesis because it is complicated. It postulates a number of different people acting in different, uncoordinated ways, which coincidentally produce this result.

The first hypothesis, however, postulates only one person.

This is how it is with the God hypothesis. God is postulated as a single entity with three properties of infinite degree. He is omnipotent – he can do everything. He is omniscient – he knows everything. He is perfectly free from exterior, causal influences – nothing makes God do anything other than God himself.

(It is easier to understand the idea of God without limit, rather than to suppose he is limited to very big things, say of magnitude 10100, but not anything bigger.)

By contrast, the person who says there is no God has to say that it is the laws of nature that are ultimate.

But what does it mean to say, for example, that the law of gravity is ultimate?

Given that laws are not independent

from the things they govern, in the case of gravity it means that every particle in the Universe behaves in exactly the same way – attracting every other particle in accordance with the formula that Newton produced.

Now, an atheist has to explain this in terms of an enormous coincidence in the behaviour of objects – and that is a very complicated hypothesis.

But, unless there is an explanation, it would be very strange for there to be such a coincidence. It is no good saying, as some atheists do, that science will get an explanation one day – maybe in the form of the theory of everything – because a scientific explanation consists in having a scientific law, and that will simply postulate that a lot of things behave in

God produces good things

exactly the same way. It is the theist who has the explanation – there is a God who explains the most obvious of data, the world is governed by simple regularities and they are such as to lead to the evolution of human beings.

Given that he is omniscient, God knows what is good and what is bad.

Given that he is perfectly free, he is not subject to irrational influences. If you recognise that something is good and if you are not subject to a desire to do anything else, you will naturally pursue the good. God always pursues the good.

So, inevitably, God is perfectly good.

God produces good things.

Humankind is a good thing. Uniquely in the Universe, we have a choice between good and evil. Not only is it a free choice but it is also a responsible choice. By our actions, we can make a difference to ourselves and to other people. This is a great blessing for us, and God our Creator wants to share, to a limited extent, that blessing with us.

Because God always pursues the

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smaller – would have meant that the Earth and humankind would not have emerged.

It also includes the idea that if there were a big bang, it must have been of a particular magnitude – too big and everything would have flown apart; too small and everything would have collapsed together, once again resulting in no humans.

go and it is a good thing for us to good, have a limited choice between good and hav evil, it is expected that God will bring evi abo about the existence of beings who have tha that sort of choice.

If there is a God, then the existence of an ordered world and a regularity suf sufficient to produce humankind – tho those observed phenomena – are to be expected. If there is no God, they are exp no not to be expected. Contrary to what Da Dawkins concludes, this makes it very probable that the hypothesis of God is pro tru true.

Yo describe God in terms of infinite You att attributes. Dawkins defines God as ‘a supernatural creator that is “appropriate for us to worship”’. Do “a yo you agree with that definition?

Yes, I do. But there is rather more to God than that. There are reasons why it Go is appropriate a for him to be worshipped – because b he is our Creator and we owe everything to him. He is the ultimate. eve Is it the case that the question about whether or not God exists will always wh be only a matter of personal opinion?

No, not if my arguments are right. I am appealing to criteria that are used in all other areas where we are interested in explaining things – science, history, criminal detection. But, of course, cri

though the arguments may be good objectively, people may not see that. I mean, not everybody agrees with some very well-established scientific theories, but that doesn’t mean the theories are simply matters of opinion.

One of the classic arguments for the existence of God is that of design – the world looks as if it is designed, therefore suggesting a designer. Is that a sound argument?

Yes, the argument I’ve presented is an argument to design. The data we can observe are best explained, most simply explained, by supposing that God is responsible for them. God is responsible not merely for the beginning of the Universe but for sustaining it in existence.

Some scientists use the idea of the Universe being finely tuned to explain how life is possible on Earth. Some see this fine-tuning as an indication of a fine-tuner. Where does ‘fine-tuning’ come in your thinking?

The fine-tuning of the Universe is a matter of the laws of nature having particular numbers in them which if they had been slightly different – bigger or

God is responsible for sustaining the Universe

Some scientists are talking about our Universe as being one of many. If there are a number of universes – a multiverse – does that counter the argument of fine-tuning?

The multiverse idea is recognised by physicists as a speculative scientific theory. The idea is that other big bangs are producing particles that behave in slightly different ways from those in our Universe. These form a number of other universes, each with slightly different initial conditions and each of them with slightly different laws of nature from each other.

If that were true, the argument goes, then there is nothing surprising in a Universe like ours being capable of producing humans, because there are all these other sorts of universes and one of them might well do that.

Even if multiverse theory were true, it wouldn’t make a great difference to my argument, because our only grounds for supposing that such a theory were true would be that the simplest theory of our Universe is such that it will throw up universes in different ways.

The simplest theory is that a multiverse would have, like our Universe, very regular laws which govern the particular evolution of laws in different places. So, there would be the same phenomenon of regularity in every other universe as is observed in our own.

The question then becomes not just why is our Universe so finely tuned, but why is the multiverse finely tuned?

To what extent is multiverse being used as a substitute for accepting that the Universe has a divine fine-tuner?

The multiverse idea has the same disadvantages of being a substitute for God as that which people use when looking at our Universe. The ‘laws of nature’ are just descriptions of the powers of individual atoms. If there is a multiverse, then there are even more of these things which behave in exactly the same way. Therefore it seems irrational to say that the multiverse is the ultimate explanation.

The simple explanation is that there is a God, who is good and who is prolific.

O Next week: Evidence for the Resurrection

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WORDSEARCH Look up, down, forwards, backwards and diagonally on the grid to find these words which can be preceded by ‘out’ Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9 Solution on page 15

BACK BID BOARD BRAVE BREAK BUILDING BURST CAST

CLASS COME CRY DATED DOORS FIELD FIGHT FIT

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DOWN 1. Killed (4) 2. Pit (4) 3.

Butler, Scarlett O’Hara’s beloved (5) 4. Emblem (5) 5. Deride (4) 6. Break (4) 7. Offensive language (9) 8. Alexander Graham Bell’s invention (9) 11. Long-legged bird (5) 12. Nasal fluid (5) 13. H2O (5) 14. Alias (3) 16. Stray (3) 21. Board game (5) 22. Result (5) 23. Abrupt (4) 24. Go out (4) 25. Kennington (4) 26. Rim (4)

1. Rebellion at sea 2. Wheel cover 3. Abdominal organ 4. Used to secure something 5. Permission document 6. Dreary

QUICK QUIZ 1. Which of Jane Austen’s novels was the first to be published?

2. The Monument in London commemorates which event of 1666?

3. Which Scottish city is known as ‘The Athens of the North?’

4. ‘Ruby’ was a No 1 hit for which group in 2007?

5. After how many years of marriage do couples celebrate their emerald wedding anniversary?

6. Which film features the song ‘Over the Rainbow’?

QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Sham. 3 Rib. 5 Mass. 7 Interdict.

9 Wane. 10 Kelp. 11 Strew. 14 Adept. 15 Arête.

17 Overt. 18 Astor. 19 Ether. 20 Khmer. 23 Cove.

25 Once. 27 Exclusive. 28 Taut. 29 Awe. 30 Lope.

DOWN: 1 Slew. 2 Mine. 3 Rhett. 4 Badge.

5 Mock. 6 Snap. 7 Invective. 8 Telephone.

11 Stork. 12 Rheum. 13 Water. 14 Aka. 16 Err. 21 Halma. 22 Ensue. 23 Curt. 24 Exit. 25 Oval.

26 Edge.

QUICK QUIZ 1 Sense and Sensibility. 2 The Great Fire of London. 3 Edinburgh. 4 Kaiser Chiefs. 5 55. 6 The Wizard of Oz. HONEYCOMB 1 Mutiny. 2 Hubcap. 3 Spleen. 4 Batten.

5 Permit. 6 Dismal.

Inner life

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CENTRAL London, September 2012. Thousands of cheering crowds, waving flags. The occasion: the celebration parade for the British Olympians and Paralympians. Mode of transport: flat-bed lorries.

CROSS ROADS

Jerusalem, circa AD33. Large cheering crowds, waving branches from palm trees. The occasion: Jesus, a carpenter from Nazareth who called himself the Son of God, riding into Jerusalem. Mode of transport: a borrowed donkey.

In London, people were celebrating what had already been accomplished. They were acknowledging inspirational feats of physical achievement through selfsacrifice, discipline and dedication.

In Jerusalem, people were unaware that they were watching would give way to an angry mob, God’s long-awaited Messiah riding demanding his death by crucifixion. towards his cross. Many visiting His greatest test – and his greatest the city for the traditional Passover achievement – was yet to come. festival celebrations were just But today was a celebration. following the crowd. Others had Savouring the moment, the disciples come hoping to see Jesus perform began to shout: ‘Blessed is the another miracle. The latest rumour King who comes in the name of the on the streets was that he had even Lord! Peace in Heaven and glory raised a dead man back to life. in the highest!’ (Luke 19:38 New ‘Palm Sunday’ was an important International Version). crossroads moment in the life of There is no better time than now Jesus. This was the point of no to read the Gospel accounts of Holy return. He was approaching his Week. Read what happened after destiny: to fulfil God’s redemptive Palm Sunday. Read about the arrest, plan for humankind through his trial and crucifixion on Good Friday, death and resurrection. Within and the triumphant resurrection of a week, the cheering crowds

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Jesus on Easter Day. In matters of faith, it’s all too easy to be part of the crowd and go along with the majority. It allows us to put off making a decision about where we stand with God. But when the final reckoning comes, will we be cheering?

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Food for thought

What a wonderful world!

HAVE you ever had an experience which caused you to say ‘Wow!’ or took your breath away?

I find creation has that effect on me.

The Th he La Laysan Lays ysan an albatross alb lbat atro ross ss can can fly fly up to to 6,000 6,000 miles across an ocean in search of food. That’s amazing!

Think of the design, geometry and architecture of a beehive. It is a marvel in engineering.

The way humans are created is also wonderful o two two wonderful. No fingerprints are the same. The hairs on our skin stand on end, keeping us warm when it’s cold. Our hearts pump blood round our bodies 24 hours a day.

But do we sometimes lose our sense of wonder, simply through familiarity?

I heard of a woman who came across a group of tourists on their visit to Niagara Falls. After watching the way they were getting excited, she remarked: ‘There ain’t nothing to it. I see it every day.’

So is it possible to remain excited about what seems ordinary? I think so. A group of my friends

by CLIFF KENT were talking on this subject and one person said: ‘There are nine people at this table and we all have ten toes, two thumbs and eight fingers. Isn’t it remarkable that we are the around us, there are wonders to behold same in that way?’ in the extraordinary and the ordinary, In the Bible, one writer reminds us of the the unfamiliar and the familiar. We don’t awesomeness that can be found need to climb a mountain, go in the commonplace. Millions scuba-diving or see a Laysan of women become albatross to witness what is pregnant or give truly spectacular. birth every day – The wonders of the but these things, world are already he writes, remain surrounding us. special. He attributes Thank God. them to God: ‘You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful’ (Psalm 139:13, 14 New International Version).

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LISTEN, do you want to know a secret? Yesterday (Friday 22 March), it was half a century since the release of the Beatles’ first album, Please Please Me. They recorded it in just 12 hours at Abbey Road Studios.

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John, Paul, George and Ringo could not have known they were about to change the history of musicmaking. But Please Please Me put the Beatles on the map and 50 years later still inspires many.

In February this year, in the same studio, current artists paid tribute to that day in 1963 by recording the songs from the album in the same time frame.

The experience was broadcast on Radio 2 and filmed for BBC Four

programme The Beatles’ ‘Please Please Me’: Remaking a Classic.

Among the artists were the Stereophonics, who recorded ‘I Saw Her Standing There’, Beverley Knight, who took on the upbeat ‘Twist and Shout’ and Simply Red singer Mick Hucknall, who performed ‘Anna’.

‘I bought my first Beatles album when I was 11,’ Mick told the BBC. ‘Who would have believed that I’d now be paying tribute to the Beatles in Abbey Road?’

Surely for Mick and the other artists, re-recording Please Please Me was too good an opportunity to miss. There are times when we all have the opportunity to do something great. We may be offered a place at a good school or university. We may get offered our dream job or house. We may have the chance to make a positive difference to someone’s life. But there are also times when we miss opportunities and it leaves us feeling defeated. Sometimes we even doubt we can achieve anything great. But maybe we should try to adopt the Bible writer Paul’s attitude. He said: ‘I can do all things through Christ

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who strengthens me’ (Philippians 4:13 New King James Version).

When we put aside our shortcomings and invite Jesus into our lives, he will forgive us our past mistakes. He will help us with any opportunity that comes our way and give us the strength to cope with those we have lost. Now that’s something to twist and shout about.

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