I found a link to this in Twitter today, it sums up my concerns about being an Evangelical Christian in the early 21st Century without being political in a partisan, party political way. The Article has an American slant, coming as it does from Sojourners, an organisation which I came across in the late 1970s, …
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Names of God – Part 4
Names of God - Part 4 El Elyon It is only the fourth in the series on the names of God and already a pattern has started to appear. It is not just about what the name reveals about the nature of God, but God is to be worshipped for that also. A quick recap: …
Autism awareness and me
Autism awareness and me Aspie mind MCI v LIV April is Autism awareness month, so in many of this month's blogs I have mentioned directly how the issue I was talking about has affected or been affected by my Asperger's Syndrome. Not that the others, are not affected this way, Asperger's affects the way I …
37 and counting
37 and counting. Today the Lovely Linda and I have been married for 37 years. We are still very happy together. Tonight we will be spending the evening and night at a location deep in the Pennines with a meal and possibly an odd gin or two. Things never work out as you imagined. Having …
Cycle Shopping
Cycle Shopping 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 5 May 2012 Diary of an accident victim Part 57 Last week I went shopping. Today I collected …
Free breakfast
Free breakfast Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 22 April 2018 Today we only had one of our morning services, the earlier traditional one. The second service, the contemporary music one, made way for the APCM, the Annual Parochial Church Meeting. I attended both. I will not be commenting on the content of the meeting other …
Saying Goodbye
Aunty Phyl Aunty Phyl, who died aged 101 on Christmas Day 2017, Had her ashes scattered on a path near Hartshead Hall Farm, where her grandfather and my great-grandfather had a dairy herd back in the day. The farm is now a shire horse stud. We first had lunch at Whiteley's Garden centre, a place …
The Names of God – Part 3
The Names of God - Part 3 Elohim The first name for God in the Bible is Elohim. "In the beginning, God (Elohim) created the heavens and the earth." This is the creator God. The God who made the Universe. But the word is unique in the ancient Semitic languages in that the ending is plural …
Autism on show
Autism on show (and oblong) The Kirklees Autism Show was yesterday. It is good to see the local council taking such a positive stand. I went, I got there at 11am and left at 12 noon. 20 minutes of that time was for coffee and to look through the paperwork. 10 minutes to take time …
A Rotten Councillor
A Rotten Councillor 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 3 May 2012 Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. On Christmas Day 1977, the Sex Pistols played their last …
Making an ass of myself 