A History of Huddersfield Castle Hill Dominating the town of Huddersfield is the Victoria Tower, built to commemorate the diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897 on top of a hill near Almondbury and intended to be 1,000 feet above sea level at the top of the tower. From many places including parts of the …
Author: SteveP
I am married with one wife, three grown kids, one cat and no hair.
St Pixels is go (2006)
St Pixels is go. 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 21 June 2012 and is itself a reblog of an earlier blog from 14 June 2006 …
Shower jar
Shower jar Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 27 May 2018 Only one service at Church today. The 9 am and the 10.45 were both cancelled and there was one service at the compromise time of 10am. This meant an early start for me as I was playing percussion in the part of the service which …
Tri-unity
Tri-unity a poem for Trinity Sunday 2018 It's all in the relationship, the too and fro swirling from eternity to eternity together. A fountain of fullness of love: Inviting us in. to join in the dance of creation, restoration and inspiration, our hearts, minds and imagination following the lead of the one who leads not …
Names of God – Part 8
Names of God - Part 8 El Gibbor The Mighty, Mighty God. The word El means God, but also mighty, and Gibbor also means mighty, so we have El Gbbor, the Mighty, Mighty God. The name, in Isaiah 9:6 is part of a much longer compound name, Pele-joez-el-gibbor-abi-ad-sar-shalom, translated as Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Our …
The Holy Spirit – Part 2
The Holy Spirit Part 2 - Fellowship The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Note: I have read through this, and I am not sure about the logic I have used in bringing it together. I wish I could …
Luddites
Luddites 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 June 2017 In our back garden are five posts . These short posts are older than our hose, …
The Holy Spirit – Part 1
The Holy Spirit Part 1 - Power In some of the Psalms in my Bible there is a word SELAH, it denotes that here is a space to think on the words, to meditate on them. In this blog I am asking the readers to go through what is being said slowly, and to pause …
Dynamic or Formal?
Dynamic or Formal? Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 20th May 2018. I learned something new in church today. The feast of Pentecost (Shavout in Hebrew, meaning weeks, the day is a week of weeks, seven weeks, after Passover) is not only the first of the two Jewish harvest festivals, but also the celebration of Moses …
Fire
Fire a poem for pentecost Fire falls, the promised power; its harbinger the sound of a hurricane. God's Holy Spirit has come upon the Church. Flames come to rest and frightened men are filled with confidence. God's Holy Spirit repairing shattered lives . The sound of the wind and the sound of many voices in …
Making an ass of myself 