How can a book of love become a book of hate? How did the Bible, a book of love get turned into an excuse for hatred? How did the book of Leviticus, a book of joy about how God wishes to to heal our grief and bring reconciliation between each other and between people …
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Pausing the vicar
My hope is in you alone Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 10th May 2020 We are still in semi-lockdown in the UK, church is still virtual, we're getting used to the fact that virtual meetings online are real. There are a couple of things I'll miss about these virtual meetings when church returns. One is …
Relationship with the Spirit — like drinking water
I'm waiting for that feeling to come* Having a relationship with the Holy Spirit is like drinking water. I have heard this said, and so here's a train of thought experiment. As I write this I have no idea where it is going, but last night and this morning I have prayed that the Holy …
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I would rather be somewhere else
Restored and commissioned Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 3/5/20 I would not have been at church today. Like last year, the plan was to take a week off because the Tour de Yorkshire men's cycle race final stage was to be run between Halifax and Leeds, and I had planned to be there. One Sunday …
Baptised and filled with the Spirit: Part 2 Filled
As they said in the 1960s, "Keep on keeping on." In the world but not of it It takes time to acclimatise to a foreign country. Not only time, but it is difficult too. There are immigrant communities in the UK and British ex-pat communities in other countries, ghettos where people try to continue living …
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How do people come to Jesus?
How do people come to Jesus? If people are to come to Jesus we need to see the reason that they come. If I wish to bring people just how should I do it? What do I say? The question arose from a sermon at Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield where Vicar Mike was preaching on the …
Jesus calling me by name.
The voice of Jesus Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 26th April 2020 This was not the Sunday we had planned. Instead of an extended weekend in Belfast around our wedding anniversary, we have isolation in Huddersfield. Instead of this being a report of a church we have never attended before, it is a report of …
Baptised and filled with the Spirit: Part 1 Baptism
Baptised with (or in) the Spirit Second blessing theology This blog post is the second of seven posts about the Holy Spirit leading up to Pentecost. These posts are also the last in an intermittent series on the Holy Spirit. -oOo- This last week, particularly Thursday 16th April, there has been the tag #MeAt20 trending …
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We learn by asking questions,
Thomas? I doubt it. Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 19th April 2020 Yet another week in lockdown. Yet another virtual service on YouTube. Yet more picture of the building we did not attend. Yet again a false start as streaming of the service did not happen after the first linked video if we went watched …
The Holy Spirit, past present and future
The Holy Spirit in three tenses A lot of teaching in Christianity comes in three tenses: Past, present and future. Take Salvation, we can say that we have been saved (either when we made a commitment to Jesus, when we were baptised or 2,000 years ago at the annunciation/crucifixion/ascension &mdash: choose your theology), we are …
Making an ass of myself 