I was about to blog something of my own, but this was so positive, so uplifting, and so wonderful Ill give the space to Helen. Read on...
Author: SteveP
I am married with one wife, three grown kids, one cat and no hair.
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Persecution has been on the news over the last week or so. The 2000 year old Christian community on Mosul, northern Iraq, has gone. In the 1990s there were an estimated 2 million Christians in Iraq. By last year it was down to 200,000. In towns which have been overrun by ISIS there are virtually none. …
Why is it just the singers?
Television that is. The singer takes it all is the latest talent show on British television. It is more openly a karaoke show than other shows and a lot cheesier than other shows on offer. It is never going to have the ratings of the X Factor or The Voice, it is on a Friday …
Static cats
Cat owners, do you have a problem with static electricity. Does your cat shock you, literally. Well help is at hand, I have come across a web page dedicated to how to solve your problem. How to get rid of static electricity in a cat's fur. The internet is nothing if not comprehensive. The science …
Paul is at it again
...talking about imitation. Imitation, a theme I have never heard a sermon on is a theme in one of Paul's letters. Yesterday was the second week in a four week sermon series on the first letter to the Thessalonians that we are having at Holy Trinity Huddersfield. As last week I'm trying to find soething …
…and in the depth
Praise to the Holiest in the height, and in the depth be praise; In the last blog I spoke about imitation, the idea of imitating me in the same way that I imitate Christ. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the field of music in church. A few pointers. No instrument is easier to …
Imitation
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. - Charles Caleb Colton What would you think if the preacher stood up on a Sunday morning and said, "I want you to be like me." Who does this arrogant fool think he is? What makes him so special that he thinks we should copy him? Isn't humility supposed …
More on good countries
When we look at the economics of trading we have to appreciate that thimgs have changed over the last 30 to 40 years. 40 years ago if a bank in the USA sold mortgages to people who could not afford to pay them back it would only be a problem the the borrower and the …
God’s own county
When started mekkin' t'universe, it were a reet mess. And it were dark. And God's spirit were lurking ovver t'watters. God said, "Let there be leet." And as he said it there were leet, just like that God were chuffed wi' t'leet he'd med, so he separated t'leet he'd med from t'dark; he called t'leet …
Making an ass of myself 