Cycle Shopping My old blog balaam.wibsite.com can no longer be accessed. Using the Wayback machine I am trying to save whatever can be saved, There are no images available for these old blogs. This blog is from 5 May 2012 Diary of an accident victim Part 57 Last week I went shopping. Today I collected …
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When They Break the Rules
This is so much like I was, and not like I was at that age. I always found eye contact the hardest thing, over the left shoulder was always more interesting. If you want to talk with me, alongside me is always better than opposite me. Now on with the reblog.
The names of God – Part 1
The names of God - Part 1 El During the lent blogs I looked at the titles of Jesus used in the letters to the churches part of the book of revelation. I thought it would be good to look at how God is named in the rest of the Bible, both Old Testament and …
Two break ins
Easter Sunday - 1 April 2018 Two break ins A poem This year: Sunday, at daybreak A child breaks into a chocolate egg And what she wants comes out A small packet of chocolate buttons. Years ago: Sunday, at daybreak God breaks in to a sealed tomb And what we need comes out A Saviour, …
Good news about church
40 Blogs of Lent - Day 37 Church is Good News What is church - Day 5 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God …
Church history in ten minutes
Church history in ten minutes I found this little cartoon on True Tube. Hope you like it. https://www.truetube.co.uk/film/church-history-ten-minutes
What’s in your hand?
40 blogs of Lent - Day 17 What's in your hand? Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 5th March, 2018 Church today, and after trudging through the remains of last week's unseasonably late snow, I grabbed an unusual for me before service coffee before entering the sanctuary. Other than the outside temperature, there was nothing unusual …
Five types
5 types of diabetes? The morning news bulletins are saying that Scandinavian scientists are saying there are not two types of diabetes, as previously thought,but at least five, and could be more. The research, from Sweden and Finland, shows that there may be sub types with different causes. These are broken down into clusters: …
Two edged Sword
40 blogs of Lent - Day 12 Two edged Sword Messages to the churches - Day 9 Pergamum - Day 1 And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: ‘The words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword. Pergamum is located on the plains and foothills along the Caicus River in Western Turkey. …
Billy and John
In respect to Billy Graham, who died yesterday aged 99, I am reblogging this that I wrote three years ago.
That’s Billy Graham and John Stott, two Evangelical leaders from two different countries that both supported each others work and also disagreed on seriou s points.
1974, the year I became a Christian all over again, was the year of the fall out. Graham wanted the evangelical church to focus on Evangelism, Stott wanted to focus on social action as well, saying it was necessary as part of the Great Commission. Stott won.
Then there were the ripples after Stott had come out as an Anihilationist in 1988. Billy Graham was not.
Yet despite differences in their theology at a fundamental level, at Stott’s death in 2011 Graham was able to say, “The evangelical world has lost one of its greatest spokesmen, and I have lost one of my close personal friends and advisors. I look forward to seeing him again when I go to Heaven.”
Sadly not all Christian leaders…
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