40 blogs of Lent - Day 33 Church is like Facebook What is church - Day 2 Social media. If you read some of the local papers you would think it consisted of all the evils in the world. All it is is a communications medium, and it reflects the personalities of the people who …
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Church history in ten minutes
Church history in ten minutes I found this little cartoon on True Tube. Hope you like it. https://www.truetube.co.uk/film/church-history-ten-minutes
Church is unwelcoming to Aspies
40 blogs of Lent - Day 32 Welcoming Autistic people to church What is church - Day 1 After wading through the messages to seven churches in Revelation, I am concluding my Lenten blogs with a look at the modern church. I will be looking at it from three negative aspects, then five positive ones. …
Is this supposed to be the good stuff?
40 blogs of Lent - Day 31 Is this supposed to be the good stuff? Messages to the churches - Day 24 Philadelphia - Day 3 A poem The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on …
A suffering church
40 blogs of Lent - Day 30 Open door Messages to the churches - Day 24 Philadelphia - Day 2 I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and …
We had a chorus of frogs in church
40 Blogs of Lent - Day 29 A chorus of frogs Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield - Sunday 18 March 2018 We had a chorus of frogs in church this morning. Not singing frogs, but each seat had a piece of paper on it containing a frog silhouette. The sermon was to be about the second …
Only Jesus
40 blogs of Lent - Day 28 Only Jesus Messages to the churches - Day 23 Philadelphia - Day 1 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens. Philadelphia …
Only come
40 blogs of Lent – Day 27 Only come Messages to the churches – Day 22 Laodicea – Day 3 A poem about Jesus - and a mash up of '60s and '70s pop lyrics The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I 'also conquered and sat down …
The self-reliant church
40 blogs of Lent – Day 26 The self-reliant church Messages to the churches – Day 21 Laodicea – Day 2 I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my …
Past, present and future
40 blogs of Lent – Day 25 Past, present and future Messages to the churches – Day 20 Laodicea – Day 1 “And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ‘The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation. Laodicea is the seventh of the churces mentioned in Revelation. The …