Jesus is Lord! That is the basic confession of every genuine Christian. Yet though it only takes a moment to state, a lifetime is required in terms of working out its implications in everyday life. The burden of our Toolbox sessions each year is to help us explore the interface between the church and the world to enable us to live under the Lordship of Christ in every area of our lives.

This year the dates are Sunday 19th, 26th February and 4th March. Each evening starts as usual at 6:30pm. You then attend one of five or six different seminars. The full list of what's on is available in the Toolbox brochure but it includes the following:

The Lordship of Christ in the Workplace
Paul Batchelor is doing a series of three consecutive seminars on "Christians in the Workplace - giving our whole lives to Christ". Come to one or all three. Paul will explore issues relating to our attitudes, behaviour and ethics in the workplace. The series concludes by considering the issue of how we balance the demands of work, family life and other interests.

The Lordship of Christ and the World
How does our faith relate to what is happening in the world? In recent years atheists such as Richard Dawkins have attained greater prominence and so it is useful to spend time thinking about our response in order to show why their criticisms are so wide of the mark. There will also be a session interacting with our television culture enabling us to consider some of the trends and what they tell us about our society.

The Lordship of Christ and the Home
Christianity transforms our relationships with God but it should also affect all our other relationships. In separate Toolbox sessions we will be exploring the significance of marriage for our culture (you don't need to be married to attend) and the important issue of how we parent teenagers. Our faith needs to be worked out in the home and every day life and these seminars are designed to help us in those areas.

There are other sessions on offer but each in their own way seek to help the Lordship of Christ to become a greater reality in our everyday lives.

If you have never attended Toolbox before then please come along and give it a try. It seeks to be practical, relevant and engaging and many people at St Nicholas over the years have attested to the usefulness of these sessions.

Angus MacLeay