10 reasons God hates you Number 4 will blow your mind. Yes I'm talking commandments. The commands handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai during the exodus of the Jewish people from Egypt. This is not going to be a Buzzfeed type list, despite but a look at the commandments retrospectively from the perspective of …
Category: God blogs
Treasures and pearls
This was what was preached on at Holy Trinity this Sunday. The Parable of the Hidden Treasure The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. The Parable of the …
Made in God’s image
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Genesis 1:271 Let me get this out of the way first, we are all made in the image of God. All of us, the text clearly says that male and female are created …
More about forgiveness
Forgiveness This is the blog I promised on Sunday last. Forgiveness is easy in practice but very difficult to do practically. So how do we start? In the last post I pointed out that in the parable of the unforgiving servant that the forgiving the servant did not do was of a much, much smaller order …
Forgiveness again
In the last blog, finished early on Sunday morning, I said I would expand on what I said about God's forgiveness and our response. That was before the morning service at Holy Trinity, Huddersfield, when we had this reading: “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with …
Importance
Which is the most important part of the Lord's Prayer? A bit of a non question, it is all important. ... Isn't it? So why did Jesus only comment on one verse? And why was he so harsh? Here's the verse and its comment: and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our …
Targetting
The Parable Of The Sower To be efficient in our evangelism churches would do well to target those most likely to respond, Right? Actually no. While it may sound like good business practice the church is not, or at least should not be, a business. Last Sunday, in the first of a series of Sermons …
Singing
... or how to grow a congregation. Like it or not, music is important in the life of a local church. It is one of the things that helps congregations to grow, and also one of the things that divides. Getting the negative bit out of the way, forcing a congregation into a style of music …
Truth
Nice sermon, Vicar. Said often enough in churches, yet when asked what they dislike about Church one of the biggies that always comes up is boring sermons. Yet those who preach seem to be unaware that maybe they are among those who add to Sunday morning tedium. It's all down to dishonesty Which is sad, …
Defriending Christians
Anti-social media Following the brexit vote, I friend of mine made this announcement on Facebook: Seems a lot of Christians on here, when it comes to politics, have temporarily forgotten what "love your neighbour as yourself" means... So I have had to temporarily unfollow some folks due to that... A sad indictment. Some of the …
Making an ass of myself 