Psalms of David Psalms in Book 1 (Psalms 1 to 41) are mostly personal songs, so I will be looking at how they apply to us personally. Social and communal aspects of life and work do not come in until the later books of psalms. This is the first psalm to be attributed to David, …
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Paul’s prayers for the church
A new theme. A friend at church said he had been at a meeting where they looked at the apostle paul's prayers for the church. I thought that would be a good subject for a few blog posts. A few I thought, little did I know. I have found over 30 of them, no doubt …
The Reign of the Lord’s Anointed — Psalm 2
Psalms in Book 1 (Psalms 1 to 41) are mostly personal songs, so I will be looking at how they apply to us personally. Social and communal aspects of life and work do not come in until the later books of psalms. Psalm 2 has no attribution, the quote of this psalm in Acts 4:23-24 …
Matthew 22:41-46 4 questions 4) Whose son is the Christ?
The King’s defence This is it. The last of my blog posts on Matthew's Gospel. When I wrote a poem in January of 2015 based on the beatitudes in Matthew 5 I had no idea what I had let myself in for, I had no idea it would be a series of posts. When I …
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Personal integrity — Psalm 1
Psalms in Book 1 Psalms in Book 1 (Psalms 1 to 41) are mostly personal songs, so I will be looking at how they apply to us personally. Social and communal aspects of life and work do not come in until the later books of psalms. The first two psalms introduce themes that set the …
Matthew 22:34-40 4 questions 3) The great Commandment
The King’s defence When people believe in urban legends and conspiracy theories and someone confronts them with the truth they will not listen and change, they just personally attack. That is all over social media, you find it in the editorials of newspapers and in blogs. There is nothing new about that. The religious and …
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Psalms, an introduction
The Psalms After our church, Holy Trinity Huddersfield, celebrated its 200th Anniversary in 2019 and we were asked to read through the Bible in a year as a church, I decided the focus in 2020 would be about worship, so I started by blogging about the psalms of ascent, songs that are sung by pilgrims …
Matthew 22:23-33 4 questions 2) Sadducees and the resurrection
The King’s defence The religious and political leaders are trying to trip Jesus up. The first was the Pharisees and Herodians; now it is the Saddusee's turn. They hope they will stop Jesus, but they have no idea what Jesus' mission is and they are actually helping Jesus. Jesus came to be God's sacrifice for …
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Christianity is based on the church?
"Jewish religion is based on the home, Christianity is based on the church." The Sunday morning programme on BBC Radio Leeds is how I wake up before church. Then it's either get up immediately if I am a playing some instrument or other in the service or have a coffee and a lie in for …
Matthew 22:15-22 4 questions 1) Paying Taxes to Caesar
The King’s defence After three parables where Jesus said the chief priests had been shown up before the people for rejecting God Matthew's account moves on to three questions to attack Jesus, followed by a question to them by Jesus. I have mentioned a few times in this series how Matthew likes to group things …
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Making an ass of myself 