Oasis Church Birmingham: Talks

A poem by Rich Bowpitt, performed at the Oasis Church Christmas Eve Communion Service in 2019. ----- Into the night, light. A universe stirred by a word heard across the ages. Home’s life outgoing to overflowing, galaxies growing and showing the love they’ve been knowing. Big bang bursting into brilliant brightness and birthing billions of beings. Into the night, light. Creator crafts from cosmic chaos, home honed from formless to flawless, from empty to plenty, from mess to finesse; an extravagant excess to confess the kindness of this kind of God. Into the night, light. From the triune comes a garden in bloom, bride and groom with room to roam and rest and reign; just refrain from tasting that tree. Slippery serpent softly suggests the word that conferred had been misheard. Man concurred, lines blurred, fruit preferred. Judgement incurred. Home deferred. Out of the light, night. Home deferred, but God undeterred. A word heard across the ages echoes again: He’s coming. He’s coming. Look for sig