On Saturday 15th October my son Matthew married Lois Cameron. A good service, as they met through their church, The Ark, Huddersfield, and the service was at ours, Holy Trinity Huddersfield, there were a lot of people there who knew about how to sing in church, a good noise. And the reception was good too. The …
Author: SteveP
I am married with one wife, three grown kids, one cat and no hair.
Mum
Early on September 18th Mum passed away peacefully in her sleep. Friday 30th was the funeral. What can I say about this wonderful woman? Married to a fishmonger, with six children, and worked in factories and as a shop girl and a cleaner, not what you would think would be a great person ... ... …
Evangelicals ‘Я’ us?
Ev*ng*l*c*l? Is it a dirty word? I have been thinking about negative feelings that the term Evangelical has been getting in the press, the Guardian newspaper seems to have a down on us. The term seems to be synonymous with right wing political ideas coming from the USA, but this should not be so. But …
10 reasons God hates you
10 reasons God hates you Number 4 will blow your mind. Yes I'm talking commandments. The commands handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai during the exodus of the Jewish people from Egypt. This is not going to be a Buzzfeed type list, despite but a look at the commandments retrospectively from the perspective of …
Church percussion
This was the setup today at church: On the left from top to bottom. Mein HCS 8" splash. This is made of brass, the rest are bronze. Brass cymbals are cheap, but sound cheap. But trashy and cheap is exactly what you want from a splash cymbal, it is only used for accents. Meinl make …
Treasures and pearls
This was what was preached on at Holy Trinity this Sunday. The Parable of the Hidden Treasure The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. The Parable of the …
Made in God’s image
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Genesis 1:271 Let me get this out of the way first, we are all made in the image of God. All of us, the text clearly says that male and female are created …
More about forgiveness
Forgiveness This is the blog I promised on Sunday last. Forgiveness is easy in practice but very difficult to do practically. So how do we start? In the last post I pointed out that in the parable of the unforgiving servant that the forgiving the servant did not do was of a much, much smaller order …
Forgiveness again
In the last blog, finished early on Sunday morning, I said I would expand on what I said about God's forgiveness and our response. That was before the morning service at Holy Trinity, Huddersfield, when we had this reading: “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with …
Importance
Which is the most important part of the Lord's Prayer? A bit of a non question, it is all important. ... Isn't it? So why did Jesus only comment on one verse? And why was he so harsh? Here's the verse and its comment: and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our …
Making an ass of myself 