Friends Church Sermons

CS Lewis in his classic book The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe tells the story of the Gospel in a child’s novel. There is a moment in his first book when the children in the story are confronted with the reality of the kingship of Jesus – Aslan the Lion is the picture he uses for Jesus. “Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion"..."Safe?" said Mr Beaver ..."Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.” We want Jesus to be safe – in fact we want following Him to be safe and easy. We want heaven with little or no inconvenience to our lives. But this is a false view of religion and life. Faith that is meaningful is never easy and rarely safe. Two weeks ago we looked at the middle verses of chapter 10 and discovered the hard road that Jesus calls His disciples to walk. He gives them warnings of what life will look like – sheep among wolves etc. He t