I thought this was worth reading. It's longer than my usual blogs, but then it needs to be. Over to Spectra Blog... The recent UK newspaper article ‘What is autism? How the term became too broad to have meaning any more’, by Tom Clements, has drawn criticisms leans towards Aspie supremacy, e.g. wanting to distance …
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I am married with one wife, three grown kids, one cat and no hair.
176 reasons to praise God’s law
Commanding Scripture Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 1st September 2019 Guided by God:1 Holy Trinity is back to its usual service plan of an early traditional service at 9am and a contemporary service at 10:45. I attended the earlier one, not my usual choice, but I was having a day in Cheshire, visiting the Anderton …
Symbols of the Holy Spirit 2: Breath or a gentle breeze
Symbols of the Holy Spirit 2: Breath or a gentle breeze There's a little game I used to play with friends online. Take a song lyric and use Google Translate to translate it through different languages, say from English to French to German to Spanish and back to English. Here's one I did from English …
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Jonah and the equality of God’s love.
The last thought on Jonah My last musings on Jonah, for now at least, following the conclusion of the sermon series at Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield last Sunday. There are some things that were not said, and to be honest are probably irrelevant to that series anyway. But my mind like irrelevancies so here goes: …
4 things that made Jonah angry
4 things that made Jonah angry Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 25th August 2019 An earlier start for me again at Holy Trinity, I was playing percussion in the worship band so had to be there early for the final rehearsal. It was also the last joint service of the summer holiday period, Vicar Mike …
Symbols of the Holy Spirit 1: Dove
Symbols of the Holy Spirit 1: Dove And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. – Mark 1:10 ESV The Holy Spirit is vital in the life of a Christian. The problem is how do you talk …
No longer measles free
The UK is no longer measles free. That was the news earlier this week. After we were declared measles free in 2016 by the World Health Organisation—no measles cases originated in the UK—measles has been on the rise since last year. It seems that children have been missing their second MMR jab (Measels, mumps and …
