Becoming the hope that you are meant to be Holy Trinity Church Huddersfield, Sunday 21st June 2020 Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, floodlit in 2019 to celebrate 200 years as a church. Vicar Mike stood in an empty church building was the first image of this week's virtual service. By empty I mean really empty. No …
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Psalm 122 — Starting the road with praise
We are going to worship God — Woohoo! Children may be more interested in Jesus than you think. A blog by Deconstructing Church talks about children finding church and Sunday school boring yet in another context are asking questions. My experience is that many people without recent experience of the church believe that church is …
Bring out the rawness — Psalm 121
All that I relied on is gone Everybody needs hope, when hope is gone things can look very bleak. In these early days of the coronavirus pandemic when science has not yet come up with a cure or vaccine, it can be hard to hope. Before we can start to hope in something else we …
I’m disappointed #BlackLivesMatter
Whatever happened to the God who is against injustice? Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 7th June 2020 I love my church. My inner SJW (Social Justice Warrior) is disappointed. I think there was an opportunity missed this week. So I have waited for two hours between the end of the service to pray and let …
Getting your rant on — Psalm 120
Don't let them gaslight you At the beginning of the year, after reading through the Bible twice in two and a half years, I felt that this year was to be one of prayer and worshipping God. One of the things I decided back then to do, once the major festivals of the year were …
How to survive lockdown with your marriage intact?
Lockdown and stress on relationships Let me start with a warning. I am neither a psychologist, psychiatrist not anything else beginning psy. All I can say is how rhings have affected me and the relationship in our marriage. People are different, some parner up with people with a similar personality and similar interests. They tend …
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George Floyd is our brother, our father, our cousin, our friend – by Neil Charlton – Grace + Truth
I was finding it hard to say how disgusted I was with the killing of George Floyd, being a white British man. Instead, I am pointing you to this, written by a black man. To me, it gets to the heart of the matter. It made me cry. Thank you for writing this, Neil Charlton. …
He will remake…
...He always has and he always will. Wade Street Church, Lichfield, Sunday 31st May 2020 Blues and Jazz service He will remake ... He always has and he always will. It's true — Blessed be his name — Thank you, God. John Coltrane Not the usual service, but I attended more than one this weekend, …
A time for groaning?
The coming of the Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit has the power to change your life. It is the Holy Spirit's job to produce Christ-like character in you. This process of changing us to be more like Jesus is called sanctification. You can't reproduce the character of Jesus on your own or by your own …
Does God love in the same way that humans love?
Does God love in the same way that humans love? No. That's it, the end. Shortest blog yet. Only that question begs other questions ... ... Does God the Father love us in the same way as He loves Jesus the Son? If someone had asked me this question last week I would say no. …
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Making an ass of myself 