Newsletter Vol. 2 No. 8

Welcome!

Welcome to the September Newsletter of Freedom Matters Today. The heart of the Christian message is freedom. It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. (Galatians 5:1).

We have freedom from:
• Guilt and shame
• Sin and death
• Fear and despair
• Past and prejudice
• Fascism and tyranny
• War and conflict.

Communities of Light

My goal at Freedom Matters Today is to challenge the narratives over faith, life, flag, and futures by applying the identity, words, and actions of Jesus to our busy, post-modern lives, struggles and problems. What does it mean to follow Jesus today in our busy, post-modern life? This is the question for us today and this is the focus for Freedom Matters Today.

It is easy to wallow in the mud, it is easy to focus on the problems and it is easy to tear down. People do it all the time. We need to focus less on the problems we face in life and move more to the solutions, more to the light and less looking into darkness.

We need to look away from the problems that face us to the solutions that God presents us, away from the swamp, the mud, and the filth to the light, the path, and the way forward. It is time to look at freedom afresh, it is time to walk out of in faith, it is time to offer a brand-new narrative to our mad world shaped by the identity, the words, and the actions of Jesus.

Where have we come from?

Freedom Matters Today began in September 2021 to be a light shining on the freedom we have in Jesus Christ. The lockdowns, the mandates and the passports provided the backdrop to the urgency of our message to be free from fascism and tyranny and free from despair and fear. These challenges remain and will continue well into the future.

In 2022 and 2023, I broadcast a podcast that sought to bring encouragement and hope to people living in darkness in places that they expected light to shine. This podcast continues to be a great way to communicate truth, provoke discussion and debate, and promote the aims and goals of Freedom Matters Today. This podcast will continue with an aim to focus on faith and life, and what it means to follow Jesus in a mad world. We will try to make sense of politics, the economy, society and culture in a meaningful and practical way.