I have been doing some admin on my blog, so now my poems are in one place. See the Poetry button at the top of the blog? The poems are there, organised by the year they were written. If you're having a bad day Calm yourself an easy way: Take a look at my fine …
Muslims come to Christ
Muslims come to Christ And face retribution Over the last year and a half I keep on coming across stories of Muslims turning to Jesus. As I started looking into this, the stories have changed from a trickle to a flood. Dreams and visions The first on its own, a North African man has seen …
Antisport
Antisport 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 12 May 2012 Last Thursday I watched the lighting of the Olympic torch on TV. How anti- sport can …
Steve Chalke, C S Lewis, Benedict XVI and the salvation of Muslims
Steve Chalke, C S Lewis, Benedict XVI and the salvation of Muslims Steve Chalke likes to be controversial. His latest shaking up of the Evangelical world is suggesting that there may be salvation to some people who are outside the Christian church. It reminded me of a bit towards the end of the children's novel …
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Grumbling, resting and someone new
Grumbling, resting and someone new Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield - Sunday 29th April 2018 I'll start with the new boy: We have a new Youth Minister. Wayne Cadman, joined us as last Tuesday and we met him, and his wife Ruth, at this morning's service. I was pleased to meet him as one of the …
From 1970s Chicago to 2018 Wheaton: A Timeline of Evangelical Backsliding | Sojourners
I found a link to this in Twitter today, it sums up my concerns about being an Evangelical Christian in the early 21st Century without being political in a partisan, party political way. The Article has an American slant, coming as it does from Sojourners, an organisation which I came across in the late 1970s, …
Names of God – Part 4
Names of God - Part 4 El Elyon It is only the fourth in the series on the names of God and already a pattern has started to appear. It is not just about what the name reveals about the nature of God, but God is to be worshipped for that also. A quick recap: …
Autism awareness and me
Autism awareness and me Aspie mind MCI v LIV April is Autism awareness month, so in many of this month's blogs I have mentioned directly how the issue I was talking about has affected or been affected by my Asperger's Syndrome. Not that the others, are not affected this way, Asperger's affects the way I …
37 and counting
37 and counting. Today the Lovely Linda and I have been married for 37 years. We are still very happy together. Tonight we will be spending the evening and night at a location deep in the Pennines with a meal and possibly an odd gin or two. Things never work out as you imagined. Having …
Cycle Shopping
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 …
Making an ass of myself 