“Is not this the fast that I choose: To loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free,
Author: SteveP
I am married with one wife, three grown kids, one cat and no hair.
Lightly salted
"You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet. "You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people …
Psalms
Intimacy in the Psalms. I once took part in an online discussion on worship styles, Some liked the older style and some more modern styles. On that discussion those who preferred the traditional style of music were in the majority, but that didn't put me off. It is not much use getting into these discussions, …
Blogging through Lent
For almost as long as I have been writing blogs I have given myself the discipline to write 40 blogs during the period before Easter. Usually I commit myself to writing 40 blogs, but this year I cannot make that commitment. I have been very tired lately after work, I don't know whether it is …
via — Faith on the Fringe
Art for Art’s sake.
Sunday 19th February 2017 I was watching the BBC's The Big Painting Challenge today. This sort of programme fascinates me. When younger I though of myself as a budding artist. My O level fail said otherwise. What William McGonagall was to poetry I am to painting. But unlike McGonagall I have never produced anything I …
WWDTD
What Would Donald Trump Do? I do not know, I really, really do not know. It is easy to judge a politician by his rhetoric, ever one who has only recently had to reluctantly admit that he is a politician. And many are doing. But I am waiting. I am waiting for President Donald Trump …
Valentine
It is that time of year again, as St Valentine's day approaches when the advertising media focuses on love. Sorry, not love, sentimentality. See what I mean? (And as a Yorkshireman I have to declare those roses are the wrong colour.) The main thing I dislike about St Valentine's day is the way that it excludes single …
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40% Or did he say 40? No I'm sure it was 40% Even if it was 40, out of 150 it is a significant number, over 26%. That is the number of Psalms which are laments. I can remember the other number, the number of lamenting songs out of the most popular 150 Christian songs …
Donald Trump’s Bible
In what is a prime example of the way I blog, a stream of consciousness where I start with an idea and see where it leads, i bogged in March last year about Donald Trump's Bible, ans the wall he said he was building. Here's the link. https://stevenhpape.blog/2016/03/04/donald-trumps-bible/ The same Bible I blogged about last …
Making an ass of myself 