Dear Carphone Warehouse, Thankyou for your concern in trying to contact me, one of your customers. However if you check your records you will find that I did speak to you, on December 2nd. Back then I told you I was not interested in your offer, but the calls have continued, up to four times …
Author: SteveP
I am married with one wife, three grown kids, one cat and no hair.
Too many tenors
One of the delights of pop music is it is easy to sing along to. And catch: Many are the earworms I have been unable to shake from my head. The problem is that for years I have been unable to sing along. My singing voice is in too low a register. Too many tenors …
Tradition isn’t what it used to be
Sunday 7th December 2014 Two ways of looking at the same thing. Wayne Clarke on BBC Radio Leeds was talking about a story in the papers that Schools are less likely to do traditional Christmas plays. They were reporting this as if it was a bad thing. Clarke, a Baptist minister, disagreed. He said that …
Space is big
Space is big. Very big. In fact the latest scientific understanding, if I understand it correctly, is that the universe is infinity large — and expanding. On top of that there may be an infinite number of parallel universes which gives the size of the multiverse as being an infinity of infinities. As I said, space …
The Role that Prayer Plays in Spiritual Growth
We are about to enter Advent, a time of preparation for Christmas. What better way to prepare than to pray. Anyone care join me in doing this> Here's the plan I'll be following...
Masterpiece
We are 'playing chopsticks' And God is inter-weaving a musical masterpiece around that
Let’s talk about sex
There's a funny thing about sex. No I'n not saying the old joke that a woman naked except for her stockings is erotic, but a man naked except for his socks is ridiculous. But I an talking about what is erotic. It isn;t as simple as a lack of clothes, On holiday this tear there …
Remembrance again.
There is a reason to remember. It informs us of who we are. Not just who we were but who we are. Things that have happened in out past and how we reacted to them make a difference to who we are in the present. Which is why it is important to remember. Remembering is …
Re:member.
Remembrance Sunday, 9th November 2014 Sunday was a trip to a different Church, Christ the King, Battyeford, The day was Remembrance Sunday, and my father was laying the wreath. Here he is after the service. But what do we remember? Is it the glorious dead? I can see nothing glorious in war, most of the …
One of the good guys.
James Varley Dearden 1922 -2014 Yesterday it was a privilege to attend the memorial service for Jim. vicar of Holt Trinity, Huddersfield from before I joined that congregation to 1987. Jim brought a failing church back from one with serious problems and in danger of being closed to one which was thriving. Jim's approach to …
Making an ass of myself 