Short Story: The Man, The Shell and The Roads

A baby boy was born. While kept asleep, implants were surgically attached to his nerves. The bleeding baby was then put inside a time pod, a button was pressed, and in 3 seconds the boy became 30 years older. The echo of an infant scream lingered in the air for a moment, like the ghost of a childhood.

The basic-movement implants demonstrated that they were functioning when the man opened the door and stepped out of the pod, amd stood face to face with the Grower. The language implants were also set up correctly- the man presented his first question to the Grower, who stood firmly upright with his hands behind his back.

“What is my name?”

“Your assigned name is Doystin,” replied the Grower in a level, professional voice, “And you are a human man.”

The Character of God the Father - Part 2

The following is the second half of a talk I gave at the WYnet Passion conference 2010/11. (See my previous post for part 1). The theme for the week was Character, and I opened the event with this to say about God the Father, with the character of Jesus and the Holy Spirit being expanded on in later evenings.

In the first half, I have mentioned that our ideas of our Heavenly Father are not to be founded on our experiences of our earthly ones. I have also said that God Creates and Judges, and that judgment in the sense I used is the natural result after creation.

Loves

“God Loves you, He Loves me, He Loves everyone!” This side of God is probably so loudly proclaimed and tightly held onto by Christians recently that you can start to glaze over it, or forget that the Love of God is going to be more extreme than our own flimsy ideas about an emotion.

The Character of God the Father - Part 1

The following is the first half of a talk I gave at the WYnet Passion conference 2010/11. The theme for the week was Character, and I opened the event with this to say about God the Father, with the character of Jesus and the Holy Spirit being expanded on in later evenings.

When talking about God the Father, it is useful to warn of an obvious point. The following is not a quote from the Bible:

“In the beginning Dad created the dinner and the dessert.
Now the evening was empty, darkness was over the screen of the telly, and the lasagne dish was soaking in the waters.
And Dad said, "Let there be sex," and there was sex.
Dad saw that the sex was good, and nine months later, he really saw the light!
Dad called his child an embarrassing name, and the nurse a naughty one.
And there was evening, and there was morning- the first day without rest.”