I love it when a plan comes together 40 blogs of Lent, day 30 Holy Trinity, Huddersfield, 13 March 2016 This morning's service was interesting, but I would say that, as I was involved. I gave a testimony about how God had been working in my life in the ten years since I had a …
I believe in healing 40 blogs of Lent, day 29 I believe in healing. I'm just not a very good example of it. I believe that God heals because I have been there when people have been healed. I believe God heals because in the past I have been prayed for and I was healed. I …
Fairtrade and youth 40 blogs of Lent Holy Trinity Huddersfield, 28 February 2016 What have fairtrade and youth got to do with each other? Nothing except that if we buy fairtrade we will leave the youth with a better world. Actually scrub that. I have made some tenuous connections in my blogs over the time, …
Holy Trinity Huddersfield, Sunday 21 February 1016 40 blogs of Lent, day 11 Last week I blogged about the service and concentrated on the visit of missionary Ruth Donaldson. I neglected to mention the sensitive way vicar Mike had treated the sad news of the passing, after years of cancer treatment, of a dear friend, …
Love can be seen. 40 blogs of Lent, day 5 Yesterday (Sunday 14 February) was one of the good services at Holy Trinity Huddersfield. I say one of the good services, they are all good services, even the ones you don't realise are good at the time. We started of with praying for two of …
They want to close our A&E department. Which will leave emergency care in Halifax the closest emergency department. Note for people outside the UK, A&E stands for Accident and Emergency, otherwise known as Casualty or in other places Emergency Room or ER. The two sites are only a few miles apart, but there is a …
I'm jealous of Pete. (He's the one in the first picture with his back turned.) In the pub this week he was the only man who still had his hair. The force may not be strong with us, but male patent baldness certainly is. The people were all people who went to Calvary Coffee Bar, a …
James Varley Dearden 1922 -2014 Yesterday it was a privilege to attend the memorial service for Jim. vicar of Holt Trinity, Huddersfield from before I joined that congregation to 1987. Jim brought a failing church back from one with serious problems and in danger of being closed to one which was thriving. Jim's approach to …
All over the country children are about to go back to school. But not at my old school. School is not only out for summer, school is out for ever. No one will come back at all. The old village school where I went until almost 10 years old is no more, gone, demolished, razed …
Today was the day of the big timetable change. As a commuter I rely on the trains, today was the day that has been looked for. From October they were reassuring us as we crammed into overcrowded carriages like sardines that new trains were to be bought in the new year. New year arrived, nothing …
Making an ass of myself 