Waiting for God’s kingdom How long will it be before we can sing again?How long before we can share the peace?How long before we can share communion in both kinds? These are questions I have seen this week on social media. People are wanting things to get back to normal. They are asking for the …
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I am married with one wife, three grown kids, one cat and no hair.
A challenge to ABA therapists
1 Show me the numbers I am trying to get to the bottom of this controversy. You claim that the science shows that ABA works? Please show the evidence. Comments on this blog will be accepted, though abuse will be redacted. But I need decent science, which means a decent sample in the research. Autism …
Black history month and Harvest
Holy Trinity Church, HuddersfieldSunday 25th October, 2020 Detail from the Ruth Window at Holy Trinity Huddersfield, showing gleaning in the fields This last week was a very strange one for us. We were told on Tuesday that our Granddaughter had been sent home from school, coughing, we are in a bubble with her, our daughter …
Why the church?
I have recently come across a piece of paper, one of those out church uses in the house groups, as we called them back then, or Lent courses used these a lot. It is typewritten and Gestetner duplicated, apart from being electric driven our church was using Victorian technology right into the 1990s. A Victorian …
Riffs
It's a while since I wrote a blog post on music, so here goes A mosh pit. Photo by dr_zoidberg. Creative Commons license. Riffs (some believe the word is an abreviation of rhythmic figure,) are an important part of rock music, used as a counter melody for the vocal line, a repetitive theme for the …
Prayer is like sunbathing
Holy Trinity Church HuddersfieldSunday 18th October 2020 Copyright problems this week The picture above is one I took of the window next to the organ on the north side of Holy Trinity, the only full length window in the building. This week this blog had a big problem with a picture I had used back …
God repents
Does God change his mind? I want to start with two stories. 1. Hezekiah The first, found in the bible in 2 Kings 20, 2 Chronicles 32 and Isaiah 38, tells of King Hezekiah falling ill, and the prophet Isiah bringing news to get his house in order because he will die. So Hezekiah prays …
You’ll always find me in the kitchen at parties
Party etiquette Photo by Eugen Buzuk on Pexels.com Parties are difficult. You will always find me on the edge of things. First there's the introvert/extrovert question. The extroverts wanting to he the heart of the party, the introverts having a quiet chat in the corner. Which is fine until the extrovert abuse happens. When an …
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Living in the Kingdom of God
Holy Trinity Church Huddersfield, Sunday 11 October 2020 A week back, and probably there will be no days away from home for some time, The most notable thing for me is that I had a crying four year old to look after. She did not want Granddad to pick her up from school, and cried …
Tone it down a little please
World mental health day 2020 Saturday 10 October Let's end mental health discrimination. I dislike shopping, there is too much going on at once, and a lot of it is unnecessary. Do you really need to pipe music into toilets, how is the functionality of taking a pee enhanced by the tones if Michael Bublé or …
Making an ass of myself 