The day God changed was the day I discovered that John Calvin wasn't a TULIP. Calvin Gets lot of flack on the Christian fora I read and contribute to. It is said that he portrays a God that is cruel. But that is a misconception by people who can't see beyond the TULIP. Let me …
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The day God changed – part 2
When I became a Christian in 1974 I had a wonderful appetite for things to do with the faith. Church was not enough, you don't learn a lot from one ,or often two, sermons a week. Even a university Christian union once a week didn't satisfy my appetite, so it was first the Christian Union …
The day God changed
14th March 2006 was the day God changed. Or at least it was the day God changed for me. That was the day I had an accident. I blogged about it not long afterwards over on a now defunct site. That led to all kinds of questions as to what God was like. What kind …
Mary the subversive.
Last Sunday the sermon at Holy Trinity Huddersfield was on the subject of the story of Mary and Martha. I enjoyed it. Pam, who was preaching, said that we should not be as hard on Martha as some have been, after all it was Martha who opened her home to Jesus. The need not to be …
More on Snapshots from Twitter
About amonth ago I republished a few tweets by Fresh Expressions from the Edinburgh vision day. But what to do with this data? It is all very well saying, "To carry on as usual in a changing world is to carry on fading away." or, "Just doing what we have always done is a commitment …
Snapshots from Twitter.
I follow the Fresh Expressions Twitter Feed. Today they have been tweeting live from Edinburgh Vision Day, the first vision day since the Church of Scotland joined Fresh Expressions. I don't know much of what has been said, watching twitter from a distance (of over 200 miles), but these are the tweets: To carry on …
Another fine mess
Oh dear, Church of England, what have you done? Yesterday's news that the good ol' C of E were considering taking the mess they have got themselves into over the appointment of women as Bishops to arbitration cannot be good news. Not in the short term. That the CofE cannot sort out its internal wrangling …
Confidence
Confidence is something people admire, even subconsciously. there was an experiment which showed this on TV recently. A group of about 12 to 15 people were in a room with two doors. They were told that there would soon be a fire alarm and they had to leave by one door. What they were not …
It’s Good News Week.
We've made the news. We being Holy Trinity Church Huddersfield, and the news being th local paper. Here's the story. Not only that, we made the editorial column, A few words about respecting graves. The story says: The site had for years been a hangout for nuisance drinkers and drug addicts who peppered the site with …
Why do we do that?
Why join in? Yesterday I attended Choral Evensong at York Minster. Today it was back to the usual. And I enjoyed both. In York, the professionalism of the cathedral choir and organist combined with the acoustics of the minster itself was powerful. Though the lack of anything to join in with was missed. We sat, …
Making an ass of myself 