Symbols of the Holy Spirit 3: Mighty wind This blog has been published out of sequence because the landfall of Hurricane Dorian had occurred in the Bahamas previously that week Please pray for the people of the Bahamas and Florida and those in the hurricane’s path. You can donate to the appeal fund through the …
God never speaks words of condemnation
God never speaks words of condemnation Well... ...almost never There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:1 ESVUK There are many words of condemnation in the Bible. There is even a whole chapter in Matthew's Gospel (Chapter 23) where Jesus has a right go at the Scribes and …
Technological problems, but who noticed?
Compelling Spirit Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 8th September 2019 Guided by God: 2 This was a two bottle service. I was playing percussion in the worship band at the second contemporary service and the church was warm. It was bright and sunny and the heating was on. Two sports bottles of water are required …
Symbols of the Holy Spirit 4: Fire
Symbols of the Holy Spirit 4: Fire This blog has been published out of sequence because the planned blog, about the Holy Spirit as a mighty wind coincided with the landfall of Hurricane Dorian. Please pray for the people of the Bahamas and Florida and those in the hurricane's path. You can donate to the …
Invalidation: 9 ways of belittling people
Judgmental ways of communicating Ordering you to feel differently Get over it Don't be so sensitive Ordering you to "look" differently Don't look so serious Don't look so proud of yourself Denying your perception, Defending You've got it all wrong But of course I respect you Trying to make you feel guilty while invalidating …
Why Tom Clements’ Guardian feature on autism draws criticisms from the autistic community – Spectra Blog
I thought this was worth reading. It's longer than my usual blogs, but then it needs to be. Over to Spectra Blog... The recent UK newspaper article ‘What is autism? How the term became too broad to have meaning any more’, by Tom Clements, has drawn criticisms leans towards Aspie supremacy, e.g. wanting to distance …
176 reasons to praise God’s law
Commanding Scripture Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 1st September 2019 Guided by God:1 Holy Trinity is back to its usual service plan of an early traditional service at 9am and a contemporary service at 10:45. I attended the earlier one, not my usual choice, but I was having a day in Cheshire, visiting the Anderton …
Symbols of the Holy Spirit 2: Breath or a gentle breeze
Symbols of the Holy Spirit 2: Breath or a gentle breeze There's a little game I used to play with friends online. Take a song lyric and use Google Translate to translate it through different languages, say from English to French to German to Spanish and back to English. Here's one I did from English …
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Jonah and the equality of God’s love.
The last thought on Jonah My last musings on Jonah, for now at least, following the conclusion of the sermon series at Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield last Sunday. There are some things that were not said, and to be honest are probably irrelevant to that series anyway. But my mind like irrelevancies so here goes: …
4 things that made Jonah angry
4 things that made Jonah angry Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 25th August 2019 An earlier start for me again at Holy Trinity, I was playing percussion in the worship band so had to be there early for the final rehearsal. It was also the last joint service of the summer holiday period, Vicar Mike …
Making an ass of myself 