Toby's last service Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, 3 June 2018 Sometimes a blog is hard to write. This is one of them. It should have been easy. All I needed to do was say that this was Toby's final service with us, say what the service as about and wish him well in his new …
Category: God
Names of God – Part 9
Names of God - Part 9 Elohim Avraham Yitzak Yacov The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to translate into English. Up to now I have been looking at the compound names of God in the Bible starting with El, God. This and the next few names use the plural word, Elohim, Gods, but as …
Shower jar
Shower jar Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 27 May 2018 Only one service at Church today. The 9 am and the 10.45 were both cancelled and there was one service at the compromise time of 10am. This meant an early start for me as I was playing percussion in the part of the service which …
Tri-unity
Tri-unity a poem for Trinity Sunday 2018 It's all in the relationship, the too and fro swirling from eternity to eternity together. A fountain of fullness of love: Inviting us in. to join in the dance of creation, restoration and inspiration, our hearts, minds and imagination following the lead of the one who leads not …
Names of God – Part 8
Names of God - Part 8 El Gibbor The Mighty, Mighty God. The word El means God, but also mighty, and Gibbor also means mighty, so we have El Gbbor, the Mighty, Mighty God. The name, in Isaiah 9:6 is part of a much longer compound name, Pele-joez-el-gibbor-abi-ad-sar-shalom, translated as Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Our …
The Holy Spirit – Part 2
The Holy Spirit Part 2 - Fellowship The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Note: I have read through this, and I am not sure about the logic I have used in bringing it together. I wish I could …
The Holy Spirit – Part 1
The Holy Spirit Part 1 - Power In some of the Psalms in my Bible there is a word SELAH, it denotes that here is a space to think on the words, to meditate on them. In this blog I am asking the readers to go through what is being said slowly, and to pause …
Dynamic or Formal?
Dynamic or Formal? Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 20th May 2018. I learned something new in church today. The feast of Pentecost (Shavout in Hebrew, meaning weeks, the day is a week of weeks, seven weeks, after Passover) is not only the first of the two Jewish harvest festivals, but also the celebration of Moses …
Fire
Fire a poem for pentecost Fire falls, the promised power; its harbinger the sound of a hurricane. God's Holy Spirit has come upon the Church. Flames come to rest and frightened men are filled with confidence. God's Holy Spirit repairing shattered lives . The sound of the wind and the sound of many voices in …
Names of God – Part 7
Names of God - Part 7 El Shadai All sufficient mighty one. El Shaddai, the stress on pronoucing the name should be on the last sylable, dai. There are three parts to the name here. El, the Hebrew word for God that is derived from mighty, and Shaddai, which is derived from two Hebrew words,words, …
Making an ass of myself 