I need to find some time to pause and reflect and prayerfully discern what and where my energies need to go. This blog has become something I never guessed it would be, and it is a little fractured. It is split between posts about autism and posts about Christianity. The image above shows something that …
Category: Huddersfield
I am who you say I am
Finding your identity in God Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 8th March 2020 40 Blogs of Lent: Day 11 "I am who you say I am," are words from the first song we sang this morning. It set the theme nicely for what was going to be preached later in the service. I am starting …
Names of God – Part 62: Love
God's love is shown in redemption, which theologians have written long books about, but which can be summed up in just nine words: This is God's world, and he wants it back.
Stained Class #HT200
Stained class The windows of Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield is in its bicentennial year, having opened in 1819. I thought that now was a good time to publish a blog about one of the most striking features of the church, our wonderful stained glass. Most striking is the East Window, being …
Four goodbyes and a hello
Four goodbyes and a hello Holy Trinity Church Huddersfield, Sunday 19 May 2019 I went to both morning services this morning. You know how it is when you are involved in a service, you spend time thinking about what you are doing next, and not on the service itself. Just me? Never mind. I was …
A long day at church
A (long) day in the life of a church musician Holy Trinity Church Huddersfield, Sunday 27 September 2019 I love my church. A long day that started straight after the News from my radio alarm. Up, shaved dressed and breakfasted on a bowl of rice crispies in order to get to church at 9am in …
Radical Sayings of Jesus: Not peace, but a sword
Not peace, but a sword Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 29 July 2018 My wife and I arrived at church damp. The long hot dry spell of weather had come to an end and there was a bit of a downpour. To top that off the 15-minute walk to church was into the wind. After …
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Radical sayings of Jesus: Love your enemies
Love your enemies Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, 22 July 2018 A return, for the six weeks of the school holidays, to having one service a week, with a service at 10am replacing the 9am and 10:45 ones. As I was playing percussion during the service I had already worked up a nice sweat in …
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Richard Oastler and the Luddites
In 2012 I blogged about the Luddites on the 200th anniversary of their rebellion and how to keep rebellion down 10% of the population of Huddersfield was the garrison stationed there, and that when the country was involved in two wars. One to stop Napoleon Bonaparte invading and one trying to contain rebellious settlers in …
Two reformers
John Wesley and Henry Venn History of Huddersfield John Wesley I rode over the mountains to Huddersfield. A wilder people I never saw in England. The men, women and children filled the streets and seemed just ready to devour us. John Wesley's diary from June 1757 does not speak well of my hometown, thought the …
Making an ass of myself 