I have been watching some of the Scottish season being run on BBC4. It has been interesting to see where the music and art trends developed from. But there was a programme called "The Scots - natural born sinners". It was a bit negative and somewhat gloomy let alone completely misrepresenting Calvinism and conflating Calvinism and Knox. Tthough a student of Calvin was no puppet and his ideas has his own twist. But there was a comment towards the end by Andrew Marr who looking back said (paraphrased) what would Calvin think of today we are materially more comfortable and spiritually more bankrupt - it was the only comment that I could fully agree with on the whole programme. Yes we, as a society and people have so much - even the poorest have more than most in other countries and yet there is a discordant note of dissatisfaction in people. There is a hunger and thirst for something that will satisfy, money isn't doing it, the nice house, car, job, family, sexual encounters, drink or drugs leave them emptier and more damaged than when they began. Now is the time for the Christians of the nation to get up and dare to be the next Knox, not judging and condemning form pulpits but in fearless proclamation of the gospel. Jesus is the one fix other things can't match. In this case there is no public purse to bail out the spiritual bank account of the nation, it is up to the faithful of Christ to deposit kingdom coin with those we met, work with, relax with, laugh and cry with - we need a new awakening in our land, people with a real heart for God. Are you one of them?