Blogging through Lent. This year I will again be trying to do a blog a day through Lent. The main theme of my Blogs this year will be on the letters to the churches in Revelation chapters 2 and 3, although letters is not a good name for them: As far as I am aware …
Valentine’s Day poem
Poem for Valentine’s Day Let not our winters be of discontent Let frost stretch forth its icy fingers, Bind our lives together, how much have they meant Two hearts living as one, our lives entwined. For thirty seven years I’ve lived with you It feels so short a time I’ve loved you so The sweet …
Hualien Earthquake, Taiwan’s East Coast
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For Everyone
The church is for everyone. I'll start this blog with the Anglicised form of Haiku. Who is the church for? The church is for everyone: Even those you hate. Who is the church for? Orphans, widows, foreigners the poor and the destitute. What should the church do? Become good news to the poor. Become the …
Remnant
The remnant Remnant sales are common with sellers of fabric and carpets. anything short of a full roll is considered a remnant, When we moved into our present house our living room was carpeted with a room sized remnant. In the Bible God makes it clear that a remnant is all that he requires to …
Full English
FULL ENGLISH Full English Breakfast. 'My body is a temple' We pray over plates Of bacon, sausage and fat. A heart attack on a plate. I am using the Japanese form of Tanka, However I am using the English definition of syllable, counting a diphthong as one syllable rather than two in Japanese and nor …
This is not a drill
"BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL" This was the text message many received last week. 38 minutes of panic later, the message went out that it was, in fact, a false alarm. Have you ever wondered how much panic you could do in 38 minutes? The Christian life, unlike …
Landmark
This is my 500th blog since I started on WordPress. It is a landmark for me. The best known landmark for this area is the Victoria Tower on Castle Hill. A Victorian folly atop a neolithic site of a hill fort.
Filthy
Filthy rags Isaiah was a strange guy by today's standards. Walking around naked for three years is not something you do these days. I wasn't something generally seen then either. But God told him that he had to go around naked and barefoot for that time, as a sign that the Assyrians would lead the …
Tasteful or otherwise
Thanks Bob. In your Christmas letter you said you enjoyed my computer stuff, tasteful or otherwise. Well its tome for some otherwise. It is not about taste My blogs may not always be tasteful, but then the Bible is not always tasteful either. So I am looking for the most tastless disgusting verse of the …
Making an ass of myself 