I read this yesterday and recommend it to you. -oOo- Those Angry Birds get a bad rap, I suspect you’d be angry too if a Piggy stole your eggs! Be less angry. Calm down. Take a chill pill. Don’t deal with this from a place of anger. People… Source: Listening and Anger – Deconstructing Church
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Courage, three times over
"Somebody has to preach God in this Hell" Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 14th June 2020 The east window at Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, lower panel. Unexpected news this week. We are used to hearing about churches closing, but, thanks to my cousin John posting on Facebook I learned that in Mirfield, where I grew …
“I can’t breathe” and the Fires of Pentecost | The Millennial Pastor
I saw this and I am reblogging it as this is a good Christian response to what has become a worldwide protest “I can’t breathe” If you have been paying attention to the news at all this week, you will know that this is a quote from George Floyd. George Floyd was killed by a …
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Jesus and Anger – Deconstructing Church
I am reblogging this as it shows what can happen when a few words said in passing turn into a short conversation and are used by God and also because I love the t-shirt. I’ve never been one for selfies but this one was too good to miss! Yesterday I had a conversation with …
Relationship with the Holy Spirit – like a promise
Glimpses of the Holy Spirit The promise of the Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit is the power of God. That is something to remember when there seems to be an emphasis on the gentleness of the Holy Spirit. That's fine. The Holy Spirit respects our God-given free will. In last Friday's blog post I spoke …
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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 …
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 …
The point of healing
With a word Matthew 8:14–17 The authority of Jesus And when Jesus entered Peter's house, he saw his mother-in-law lying sick with a fever. He touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she rose and began to serve him. That evening they brought to him many who were oppressed by demons, and he …
You’ll never walk alone
Guided by God: Council of Saints Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, 15th September 2019 A dry morning's walk to church, despite the weather app on my smartphone predicting otherwise. I was playing percussion in the later service, I arrived during the sermon of the first service in order to be ready for the second. The sermon …
Symbols of the Holy Spirit 4: Fire
Symbols of the Holy Spirit 4: Fire This blog has been published out of sequence because the planned blog, about the Holy Spirit as a mighty wind coincided with the landfall of Hurricane Dorian. Please pray for the people of the Bahamas and Florida and those in the hurricane's path. You can donate to the …
Making an ass of myself 