How not to pray My old blog balaam.wibsite.com can no longer be accessed. Using the Wayback Machine I am trying to save whatever can be saved, There are no images available for these old blogs. This blog is from 27 January 2013 Holy Trinity Huddersfield 27th January 2013 The reading in church this morning was …
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Radical Sayings of Jesus: Not peace, but a sword
Not peace, but a sword Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 29 July 2018 My wife and I arrived at church damp. The long hot dry spell of weather had come to an end and there was a bit of a downpour. To top that off the 15-minute walk to church was into the wind. After …
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Names of God – part 17
YHWH El-Ashiyb Names of God - part 17 The LORD God my/our restorer YHWH is God's actual name which he revealed to Moses from the burning bush, it implies the personal nature of God and El the creator which is immeasurably beyond us. These two names are held in contrast here, a God who is …
Undivided, a review of the book by Vicky Beeching
A book review Undivided by Vicky Beeching. I don't normally do book reviews, and this is not much of a review, more of a response to the thoughts and feelings that reading a book has had on me. I downloaded this book, the title of which comes from Vicky's song, Undivided Heart, on June 14, …
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Le Tour de Yorkshire
My old blog balaam.wibsite.com can no longer be accessed. Using the Wayback Machine I am trying to save whatever can be saved, There are no images available for these old blogs. This blog is from 17 January 2013 Le Tour de Yorkshire This is about the Tour de France Grand Départ in Leeds. The Tour …
Radical sayings of Jesus: Love your enemies
Love your enemies Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, 22 July 2018 A return, for the six weeks of the school holidays, to having one service a week, with a service at 10am replacing the 9am and 10:45 ones. As I was playing percussion during the service I had already worked up a nice sweat in …
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Names of God – Part 16
YHWH El Achba Names of God - Part 16 God who hides In part 6 of this series on the names of God I looked at El Olam, God has hidden it. That name meaning that God reveals things that are hidden gradually, as we have a need to know it. It would seem that …
Richard Oastler and the Luddites
In 2012 I blogged about the Luddites on the 200th anniversary of their rebellion and how to keep rebellion down 10% of the population of Huddersfield was the garrison stationed there, and that when the country was involved in two wars. One to stop Napoleon Bonaparte invading and one trying to contain rebellious settlers in …
Two for the world?
My old blog balaam.wibsite.com can no longer be accessed. Using the Wayback Machine I am trying to save whatever can be saved, There are no images available for these old blogs Apologies at all as the British Cyclo-Cross Championships Bradford, 13th January 2013 Who would stand out in a frozen field for …
Transformed: Becoming like Jesus in anticipation
Transformed: Becoming like Jesus in anticipation Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Saturday 14 July and Sunday 15 July 2018 A weekend at Church in two parts. The first, the Men's breakfast on Saturday, was followed by a time of maintenance on the church building. The breakfast part went well, we heard from Wayne, our Youth Pastor. …
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