Today was my last day reading the intercessions in church. At least the last for now. All our rotas come to an end in two weeks time. We are moving on to having two Sunday morning services, one more traditional with organ music at 9am and one less traditional with a worship band (guitars, drums …
The Sound of Silence
Sometimes it takes someone from a Jewish background to interpret things in the Old testament we miss as Christians miss or take for granted. In this regard, my favourite Jewish theologian is the singer and songwriter Paul Simon. On of the first songs Simon wrote and released with Art Garfunkel was the Sound of Silence. …
What are right-wing people? – a guide for under 10-year-olds
RIGHT-WING PEOPLE This is Toby. Toby thinks he is great. Toby likes to tell other people how they can be great too. Toby is what we call a ‘right-wing’ person. But what are ‘right… Source: What are right-wing people? - a guide for under 10-year-olds
Resurrection and transformation
Easter in the real world Happy Easter. Hallelujah, Christ is risen! God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it. Acts 2:24 God raised him on the third day Acts 10:40 Jesus was raised from the dead. Only a couple of days earlier …
Trust
Trust 40 blogs of Lent 7 words from the cross Father, into your hands I commit my spirit It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour, while the sun's light failed. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Then Jesus, calling out with …
Victory
Victory 40 blogs of Lent, day 39 7 words from the cross It is finished After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfil the Scripture), “I thirst.” A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held …
Humanity
Humanity 40 blogs of Lent, day 38 7 words from the cross I thirst After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfil the Scripture), “I thirst.”A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his …
Substitution
Substitution 40 blogs of Lent, day 37 7 words from the cross Why have you forsaken me Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why …
King
The King, and doing stuff 40 blogs of Lent, day 36 Holy Trinity Huddersfield, 10.30 service, 20 March 2016 I'll get the sermon out of the way first. No disrespect to Dick Swindell, the preacher, but sometimes it is the news of what is happening that speaks louder than the preachers words. As I have …
Donkey
Palm Sunday 40 blogs of Lent, day 35 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. Zechariah 9:9 How many people entered Jerusalem on …
Making an ass of myself 