Faith and humility Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 18 November 2018 Faith and humility was the theme of yesterday's service and also the sermon title. I have ranted before on how using two abstract nouns conveys no meaning, I am not repeating that now. During the week, in a conversation about the recent sermons on …
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Remembrance - a personal perspective Christ the King, Battyeford, Sunday 11 November 2018 The centenary of the Armistice at the end of World War I. Today my wife were at my father's church where he was to lay the poppy wreath later in the service. We met with him inside the church, where he was …
Wisdom and Faith? James pt 4 Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 4 November 2018 The announced sermon title was "Wisdom and Faith." That is the sort of title I do not like, a combination of two abstract nouns. It is bad communication as abstract nouns, particularly words like faith, are often understood as different things …
Faith apart from works is dead Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 28 October 2018 I forgot my camera and my phone last Sunday evening. A shame, because we are lighting up the church tower every for a year leading up to the 200th anniversary of the church opening which will be in 2019. We are …
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Always searching Calahonda International Baptist Church, Sunday 7 October 2018 We got here, eventually. It should not have been that difficult. This was my third visit and Linda's fourth to the Costa del Sol. On the two previous visits we made together we worshipped at Calahonda International Baptist Church, styled as CIBC. The last time …
The church is not a self-preservation society Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 23 September 2018 How a cowbell and a spider can enhance Christian worship. Something distracted me during the sermon yesterday. Other than Curate Steve's pink clerical shirt, something else visible stood out during the sermon. From here I was sitting, the light from …
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Remembering Christ the King, Battyeford, Sunday 16 September 2018 Two years ago, on the 18th September 2016. I went late to Christ the King to deliver the sad news to my Father that my mother and his wife had passed away in the night. Today, on the nearest Sunday to that day, my wife Linda …
The feast St David's Methodist Church, Llandudno, 19 August 2018 We were over in Wales for a few days, but seeing it is Llandudno, it feels more like an enclave of England by the North Welsh coast. So as it was a holiday from Huddersfield it might as well be a holiday from Anglicanism as …
Continue reading The feast – and a visit to a Welsh Methodist Chapel
Making an ass of myself 