Not only that the invasion of Ukraine by Russia could escalate, but yes that scares me. What also scares me is my health. I do not need another disability. On 1st January 2022 I went cycling making the most of the low traffic on a morning when many are sleeping off the New Year hangover. …
Who is Jesus?
40 names of Jesus in 40 days of Lent Starting on Ash Wednesday in two day's time I shall attempt 40 posts on 40 names of Jesus given is scripture. Will I find any cantradictions? I sincerely hope so, because finding things that clash is what makes me think. Roll on Wednesday.
Let God turn your mess into something beautiful — Psalm 145
Psalms of David This is the last of the psalms attributed to David in the fifth book of Psalms and David's last psalm in the psalter as a whole. It has two poetic forms, an acrostic poem, each verse beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet and each of those verses is in …
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Gatekeepers — Matthew 21:23–27
The King’s judgements It is easy to take this passage on its own as a question of where the authority of Jesus comes from and use it to branch out into what Christians believe the authority of Jesus to be; there's nothing wrong with that and I will be doing it later. Bear in mind …
Autistic man locked in attic
MEDIA WATCH Autism is in the news again and it isn't good. It rarely is. Yesterday, 18th February 2022, a couple were jailed for 6 years each for keeping their son locked in a filthy attic. Matthew Langley, 22, who has learning difficulties and suffers from irritable bowel syndrome, double-incontinence and arthritis, was found severely …
What is man? — Psalm 144
Psalms of David "What is man?" asks David in Psalm 8. There he was looking at the magnificence of the night sky and wondering how humans could be important to God when we are so small in relation to the size of the universe and concluded that human greatness can only come from God. Here …
It wasn’t the fig tree’s fault — Matthew 21:18–22
The King’s judgements One thing to remember when reading through Matthew's Gospel is that things are not necessarily consecutive, Matthew was writing a gospel, not a history, but they are carefully placed so that the stories that run together affect each other. The previous passage had children praising Jesus because of his miracles but the …
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Teach me, Lead me — Psalm 143
Psalms of David There are different ways of learning. This psalm mentions two of them, Teach me and Lead me. These line up with the last two phrases in a saying by Benjamin Franklin. Only thousands of years earlier. The books of Psalms are roughly themed like this: Book 1: Psalms 1 - 41: God …
Out of the mouths of infants — Matthew 21:14–17
The King’s judgements The children got what Jesus was about before the adults. What have they got that adults have not? Some say that they have a simplicity that adults have lost. 14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and the scribes …
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My diagnosis story by Steve
In December 1963 my family moved the short distance from Kirkheaton to Mirfield. I started a new school in January of 1964. There was a teacher there who recommended that I, aged 10, see a psychologist, but as Asperger’s syndrome would not be known in Britain for another 20 years and autism was only known …
Making an ass of myself 