Short formation 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 3 February 2013 Three times this week my train to work has been, in the words of the …
Radical sayings of Jesus: Become a servant
Radical sayings of Jesus: Become a servant Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 5 August 2018 This Sunday I left the church with an ear-worm. You know ear-worms, they are those snippets of tunes that get stuck in your head that you can't get rid of. The earworm I was stuck with was not one of …
Names of God – Part 18
YHWH El-Chai Names of God - Part 18 God, The living one YHWH is God's actual revealed name, and far from being remote shows that he is personal. This name is found in the Bible with and without God's name and also in plural forms Elohim Chai and Elohim Chayim. It is a name of …
Meta what? (a blog about repentance and its consequenses)
Repentance? Repentance is a word that occurs over and over again in the Bible, particularly in the writings of Luke (the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles) but to get to the bottom of it I am only going to look at five of them, The four mentions in Mark's Gospel and …
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How not to pray
How not to pray 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 27 January 2013 Holy Trinity Huddersfield 27th January 2013 The reading in church this morning was …
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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Names of God – part 17
YHWH El-Ashiyb Names of God - part 17 The LORD God my/our restorer YHWH is God's actual name which he revealed to Moses from the burning bush, it implies the personal nature of God and El the creator which is immeasurably beyond us. These two names are held in contrast here, a God who is …
Undivided, a review of the book by Vicky Beeching
A book review Undivided by Vicky Beeching. I don't normally do book reviews, and this is not much of a review, more of a response to the thoughts and feelings that reading a book has had on me. I downloaded this book, the title of which comes from Vicky's song, Undivided Heart, on June 14, …
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Le Tour de Yorkshire
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 17 January 2013 Le Tour de Yorkshire This is about the Tour de France Grand Départ in Leeds. The Tour …
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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Making an ass of myself 