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 Bible. Bethlehem was buzzing. The town was full of people come for the census. All was …
Author: SteveP
I am married with one wife, three grown kids, one cat and no hair.
Bath time
Breathe deep. Take a deep breath through your nose, hold your breath and savour the aroma. Now breathe out. That is the scent of a blogger who is freshly bathed in Radox. That's not just any bubble bath, that is Radox MEN muscle therapy bath soak. That is right, MEN, uppercase MEN. this is a …
Christmas card
My son has sent me a home made card. No picture, just this hand written message. Backgroung information is that he is dyslexic and 6 weeks ago I was diagnosed as diabetic. Here's what he wrote: Matt Papes guide for Christmas A Sugar Free* Christmas *Because dyslexic people can't spell diagrams diagnosis diazepam diabolical diameters diabetic …
Party Animal
Party Animal Party animal is not a phrase you think of when you think about Jesus. But you may have to think again. If you are of a puritanical disposition now is the time to stop reading. The thing is that Jesus likes a party, from the wedding party where the people drank so much …
Hope for a better world.
We all hope for a better world. This is what the season of Advent is about for me. Hope. Hope that the world will be better place. Advent looks forward in three ways. To the coming of Jesus Christ 2000 years ago, to the coming of God into our lives and Jesus returning at the …
As we forgive those…
...who trespass against us. We tend to think of the word trespass as something to do with being on private property without permission. There are a number of No Trespassing signs, which include the one above, and one which adds "Violators will be shot, survivors will be shot again." It is offered for sale, so …
Redemption Song
U2 got it right: Over the last 4 weeks my Twitter and Facebook feeds have included something shared by well meaning Christian friends that at the Paris Bataclan concert where on 13th November terrorists killed 89 and injured 99 others. They shared that the band playing at the venue, the Eagles Of Death Metal, were playing the …
What a Guy
Dear ISIS. Please note the masks on those Anonymous people who have been taking your sites down. Do you know who that is? Guy Fawkes, a member of a gang who attempted to blow up parliament in 1605. Were they successful? The Palace of Westminster, also known the Houses of Parliament, is still there, that's …
Bye bye St. Pixels
I was reading in IDEA, the magazine of the Evangelical Alliance, that some millennials (in their article people now aged 18 to 37) have been badly hurt by church. My experience with internet church St Pixels is that an earlier generation also left for that reason. Last Sunday, 22 November, St Pixels, the Internet church, held …
Civil?
Civil war. Why do they call it civil war? It us not that there is anything civil about any war, especially a civil war. I can imagine something like this: "Excuse me, old chap, but I'm afraid I have to shoot you." "No problem old boy, unless I get you first. "Well it's back to …
Making an ass of myself 