I'm 21 years old again. Actually this weekend I turned 63, but that's like being 21 three times isn't it? When I was born in the UK 21 was the age you officially became an adult. The first 21 That took me from birth through primary school (two different infant schools and then two junior …
Author: SteveP
I am married with one wife, three grown kids, one cat and no hair.
Know pain, know gain
Warning: This blog contains some strong language, some honest language. If you cannot stand this I suggest you read no further — or grow up. Tuesday morning 4am I should be asleep. My brain says sleep, my eyes water with the effort of staying open and I have work to do tomorrow. That's arthritis for …
Wise men?
They were right to do what hey did, these wise men, To go to see Herod in Jerusalem. That is where kings lived, so if you wanted to find the child born King of the Jews you would be wise if the first place you went was to the palace of the capital of Judea, where the King of the Jews lived. Even if the King of the Jews was someone like Herod.
New year revolutions
As Christians we have more in common with those with Abrahamic faith - Judaism , Islam - than we do with people of our own country and own race but who are agnostic or atheist. We should stand together and celebrate what we have in common.
The year of the negative
The year the music died Goodbye 2016 This last year has been dominated by negative news. There was the endless procession of the deaths of celebrities who died this year, for me, a strong follower of progressive rock, or prog, was the deaths of both Keith Emerson and Greg Lake of Emerson Lake and Palmer …
Refugees – MAKING AN ASS OF MYSELF
A blog for Holy Innocents Day, December 28 All is calm, all is bright. Maybe it is in the sanitised version of Christmas, with a smiling ox and ass and clean straw, but not in the story in the Bibl… Source: Refugees – MAKING AN ASS OF MYSELF
Christmas songs
It is OK, I am not talking about those pop songs which have been playing on repeat in supermarkets and boutiques since October. Shop workers, you have my sympathy. Nor am I going to pull the lyrics apart because they do not represent Palestine as it was then. I want to look at what is …
The Power and the Glory
It all comes full circle. The Lord's Prayer — Part 18 The Lord's prayer finishes the way it started, with praise to the Father God. Actually, it doesn't, as neither Matthew or Luke finish their version of the prayer Jesus gave with these words. But that does not make it wrong to use it. The …
Contradictions?
Lead us not into temptation (again) ... The Lord's Prayer - Part 17 Wait a minute, doesn't that contradict the rest of the Bible? In giving the Lord's Prayer, Jesus asked us to ask the Father in Heaven not to lead us into temptation. But why would God do this? Does the Bible say God …
Deliver
Deliver us from evil The Lord's Prayer - Part 16 The Lord's Prayer is finished. Or at least it is with Luke's Gospel, which ends with Lead us not into temptation. Matthew's version goes on to say deliver us from evil, or from the evil one. This is not surprising. Matthew was writing for a …
Making an ass of myself 