June 14, 2011
The Transfiguration: Who Do You Say Jesus Is?
Listen to Kevin James Bywater, Director of Summit Oxford, as he preaches on 'The Transfiguration: Who Do You Say Jesus Is?'
Listen to Kevin James Bywater, Director of Summit Oxford, as he preaches on 'The Transfiguration: Who Do You Say Jesus Is?'
After a whole week of lovely sunshine and zephyrs, I woke to distant fog this morning. Since my final tutorial last week I have been a bit melancholy; today's weather is much more fitting for pondering than the recent glorious spring days.
Spending even a single day in Oxford, walking the streets and examining the buildings, one can scarcely avoid an almost overwhelming impression of its long history. Nearly every inch of the city is full of history, as well as reminders of the long line of great Christians that have lived here.
Today I walked down the sidewalks of Oxford and realized that it rather frustrates me that the British (and visitors to Oxford) don’t understand order. If you drive on the left side of the road, it should logically follow that you walk on the left side of the sidewalk. Ah, but no...
"You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts and civilisations—these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit—immortal horrors or everlasting splendours." ~C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory