A reflection for Holy Saturday in the form of a multi-verse haiku. They saw you hanging. Taken down, taken away. Laid on a cold slab. They had hoped you'd win. Return God's land to his own: Remove the Roman. And you did nothing. In giving them no reply You let them kill you. The hope …
Author: SteveP
I am married with one wife, three grown kids, one cat and no hair.
Betrayed
Two poems, one very old, from the Bible, and my response in verse: -o0o- For it is not an enemy who taunts me— then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me— then I could hide from him. But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my …
Let’s talk EU
There is one political party in the UK whose existence is all about Britain's relationship with the EU, The UK Independence Party, or UKIP. This week they unveiled their election poster: Are they debating the economics of Britain's membership of the EU? It does not look like it. As in the European elections the UKIP …
Putting it all together
Back to Hebrews. I have looked at the book out of order and in a number of ways but from chapter 12 on the writer starts to bring the various threads together, and I will too. Let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance …
I don’t want to be chosen.
I'm watching The Ark on BBC for two reasons, firstly I'm always interested in how modern storytellers adapt stories from the Bible. And secondly to get an idea of what Morocco, where the programme was filmed and where we will be on holiday this year, is like. The blog title is a quote from Noah's …
Provocation, Jesus style.
My donkey toy, the one pictured at the top of this page, was paraded around church yesterday. Yesterday was Palm Sunday, and a Family Service at Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield. The children walked round the church with palm branches (actually green paper approximations of palm branches,) ans a toy donkey at the start of the …
Copies and the real deal.
The writer of the Book of Hebrews often quoted from the poetic parts of the Old Testament, but did not write poetry himself. If he had Chapters 8 to 10 could have been summarized like this: The law is not the real deal It's just a copy A shadow of the real thing. Temple sacrifices …
WWJRD
I'm having a bit of fun with this blog, just following a train of thought, with no idea where the argument is going: What would Jesus really do? Silly idea, but this most overused phrase (WWJD, or what would Jesus do) is not what some would think. If Jesus were around today, what would he …
I fought the law…
...and the law lost. When I was at school the headmaster tried to keep the number of rules to a minimum. Rules were for a reason, so with 700 students and several teachers changing classrooms at the same time there was a rule, you walk down corridors on the left, It made changing lessons so …
Making an ass of myself 