For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it …
Author: SteveP
I am married with one wife, three grown kids, one cat and no hair.
Kidnapped
I've been kidnapped. The humans who look after me were not vigilant enough and their youngest foal and her husband kidnapped me and took me shopping. (Don't they know I'm a real ale donkey, not a white cider donkey. The cat was friendly though. (Hi TC, are you reading this?)
The day God changed (Part 4)
Through the Sundays in Advent I've been blogging about the ways in which God has changed for me, or rather of how my understanding of God has changed. It wasn't about changes in God but changes in me. But for those who are thinking God has never changed, you are wrong. God's nature has changed, …
The day God changed (part 3)
The day God changed was the day I discovered that John Calvin wasn't a TULIP. Calvin Gets lot of flack on the Christian fora I read and contribute to. It is said that he portrays a God that is cruel. But that is a misconception by people who can't see beyond the TULIP. Let me …
Streetivity
It's on the streets. It's a nativity. It's Streetivity. Young people from Holy Trinity Anglican and Gledholt Methodist churches, Huddersfield, took the Christmas story to the streets, and they had a donkey. A rather short eared donkey. A pdonkey. OK it was a pony playing the donkey. Through the streets we went, with traffic stopped …
The day God changed – part 2
When I became a Christian in 1974 I had a wonderful appetite for things to do with the faith. Church was not enough, you don't learn a lot from one ,or often two, sermons a week. Even a university Christian union once a week didn't satisfy my appetite, so it was first the Christian Union …
The day God changed
14th March 2006 was the day God changed. Or at least it was the day God changed for me. That was the day I had an accident. I blogged about it not long afterwards over on a now defunct site. That led to all kinds of questions as to what God was like. What kind …
Cutting room floor
Last June I wrote about how the humans went out on an evening in June, leaving me in the Whitby holiday apartment. And how they stumbled upon Ross Noble filming for the series Freewheeling. Well the day of the broadcast came last night. Ross went into Whitby, great anticipation in the house as they looked …
Mary the subversive.
Last Sunday the sermon at Holy Trinity Huddersfield was on the subject of the story of Mary and Martha. I enjoyed it. Pam, who was preaching, said that we should not be as hard on Martha as some have been, after all it was Martha who opened her home to Jesus. The need not to be …
More on Snapshots from Twitter
About amonth ago I republished a few tweets by Fresh Expressions from the Edinburgh vision day. But what to do with this data? It is all very well saying, "To carry on as usual in a changing world is to carry on fading away." or, "Just doing what we have always done is a commitment …
