I'm watching The Ark on BBC for two reasons, firstly I'm always interested in how modern storytellers adapt stories from the Bible. And secondly to get an idea of what Morocco, where the programme was filmed and where we will be on holiday this year, is like. The blog title is a quote from Noah's …
Category: God blogs
Provocation, Jesus style.
My donkey toy, the one pictured at the top of this page, was paraded around church yesterday. Yesterday was Palm Sunday, and a Family Service at Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield. The children walked round the church with palm branches (actually green paper approximations of palm branches,) ans a toy donkey at the start of the …
Copies and the real deal.
The writer of the Book of Hebrews often quoted from the poetic parts of the Old Testament, but did not write poetry himself. If he had Chapters 8 to 10 could have been summarized like this: The law is not the real deal It's just a copy A shadow of the real thing. Temple sacrifices …
WWJRD
I'm having a bit of fun with this blog, just following a train of thought, with no idea where the argument is going: What would Jesus really do? Silly idea, but this most overused phrase (WWJD, or what would Jesus do) is not what some would think. If Jesus were around today, what would he …
I fought the law…
...and the law lost. When I was at school the headmaster tried to keep the number of rules to a minimum. Rules were for a reason, so with 700 students and several teachers changing classrooms at the same time there was a rule, you walk down corridors on the left, It made changing lessons so …
Psalm 2, a sonnet
The nations rage and peoples vainly plot, And kings of earth will take all of the day, They talk against God and his Son. They say: Let's burst or chains and escape from this lot. The Lord who sits in in heaven laughs at will, He holds them in derision. We shall see. Him terrify …
Mel, Abe and the priests
The next bit of Hebrews is difficult to understand. For those who are unfamiliar with the Old Testament it is almost impossible. It all hinges around two obscure obscure parts of the Old Testament, one about Abraham meeting Melchizedek. And a brief mention in the Psalms. There is more about the encounter here in Hebrews …
Judging and flights of fancy.
Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday, 22 March 2015 Today's sermon, the last in the sermon series on the Sermon on the mount, was on judging, or rather not on judging but on not judging. I think you understand what I mean by that. Now what you are not getting here is a breakdown of Mike's …
Simplicity
How to live simply. If you Google it you find that it means having less stuff. Or a smaller car. Generally downsizing seems to be the way forward. Except I can't understand how having a smaller car helps. You still have all the worries about a car. Not only that but the whole downsizing equals …
Let’s talk about sex.
Eroticism in the Bible Web surfing a couple of days ago I came across the Answering Christian site. Particularly a blog from 2011 on why sexual language in the Bible means the Bible cannot be the word of God. Why? There are Christians who have the same problem. To them there is the spiritual and …
Making an ass of myself 