Cross and dominant 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 29 April 2012 I am cross dominant. No, that does not mean that I am a cross …
Author: SteveP
I am married with one wife, three grown kids, one cat and no hair.
Hallelujah, Christ is risen.
Let's Celebrate Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield Easter Sunday, 1 April 2018 It was nearly spoilt for me before it started. A touch out of nowhere. I turned to see a smiling face in the row behind wanting to wish me happy Easter. But it was alarming, it was way into the service before I could …
Two break ins
Easter Sunday - 1 April 2018 Two break ins A poem This year: Sunday, at daybreak A child breaks into a chocolate egg And what she wants comes out A small packet of chocolate buttons. Years ago: Sunday, at daybreak God breaks in to a sealed tomb And what we need comes out A Saviour, …
What should you be doing in your church?
40 Blogs of Lent - Day 40 Church is for everyone What is church - Day 8 If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body”, that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I …
Lord, make me pure, but not yet
40 Blogs of Lent - Day 39 Church is Holy What is church - Day 7 I appeal to you therefore,brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your …
Hide your struggles and slap on a plastic smile
40 Blogs of Lent - Day 38 Church is Community What is church - Day 6 This is Maundy Thursday, when we commemorate Jesus sharing a last Passover meal, a last community meal, with his disciples, so it may seem odd that I am talking about Ananias and Sapphira (and Barnabas) on this day. Now the …
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Good news about church
40 Blogs of Lent - Day 37 Church is Good News What is church - Day 5 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God …
Searching for Jesus
40 Blogs of Lent - Day 36 Church is worship What is Church - Day 4 Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose,and …
Let’s eat
40 Blogs of Lent - Day 35 Let's Eat Holy Trinity Church, Hudderssfield - Sunday 25th March 2018 As I thought, the sermon series on the Exodus was leading up to the Passover. The reading was from Exodus 11:1 - 12:15. A long reading you can find for yourselves here: I am quoting part of …
Church is weird
40 Blogs of Lent - Day 34 Church is weird What is church - Day 3 Often the largest building in the area, pointing hundreds of feet into the sky yet only a single story building. Full of fantastic art in stained glass with ornaments covered in gold built to celebrate someone who had no …
Making an ass of myself 