Blackburn Presbyterian Church

Please click here for the LEAFLET for the service , please find the notes for Young at Heart here.

Here is the full sermon

Please click here for the LEAFLET for the service , please find the notes for Young at Heart here.

Here is the full sermon

Please click here for the LEAFLET for the service , please find the notes for Young at Heart here.

Here is the full sermon

This Sunday Graham starts a new sermon series that he has called:

Blueprint for the Eternal City

As a young man Leonard Cohen wrote a song called ‘Last Year’s Man’. It’s a song about Jesus. One verse says: ‘the corners of the blueprint are ruined since they rolled/far past the stems of thumbtacks that still throw shadows on the wood’.

There is no doubt that the Bible’s message can seem opaque, and is an enigma and puzzle to many people. But was the blueprint ruined?

I have picked up Cohen’s term ‘blueprint’ for a series of reflections designed to explore the overall message of the Bible. We will discover it is indeed a blueprint revealing God’s purpose for humanity. In the early fifth century Saint Augustine wrote about it in his great work ‘The City of God’.

The Hebrew Bible (our Old Testament) is written as a unified but unfinished story. The gospels of Matthew Mark, Luke and John, plus the apostle Paul (in his letter to the Romans) present the climax to that same story. They write for different readers, but each is clearly focussed on Jesus.

This series aims will help us understand the unifying theme of the Bible. Our selection of key texts (bound to exclude some favourites), will guide us through major infrastructure developments as the blueprint unfolds. The scope of the blueprint is glorious; it opens up to us the most liveable of cities!