40 Blogs of Lent - Day 36 Church is worship What is Church - Day 4 Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose,and …
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Church is weird
40 Blogs of Lent - Day 34 Church is weird What is church - Day 3 Often the largest building in the area, pointing hundreds of feet into the sky yet only a single story building. Full of fantastic art in stained glass with ornaments covered in gold built to celebrate someone who had no …
Church is like Instagram
40 blogs of Lent - Day 33 Church is like Facebook What is church - Day 2 Social media. If you read some of the local papers you would think it consisted of all the evils in the world. All it is is a communications medium, and it reflects the personalities of the people who …
Church is unwelcoming to Aspies
40 blogs of Lent - Day 32 Welcoming Autistic people to church What is church - Day 1 After wading through the messages to seven churches in Revelation, I am concluding my Lenten blogs with a look at the modern church. I will be looking at it from three negative aspects, then five positive ones. …
Is this supposed to be the good stuff?
40 blogs of Lent - Day 31 Is this supposed to be the good stuff? Messages to the churches - Day 24 Philadelphia - Day 3 A poem The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on …
A suffering church
40 blogs of Lent - Day 30 Open door Messages to the churches - Day 24 Philadelphia - Day 2 I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and …
We had a chorus of frogs in church
40 Blogs of Lent - Day 29 A chorus of frogs Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield - Sunday 18 March 2018 We had a chorus of frogs in church this morning. Not singing frogs, but each seat had a piece of paper on it containing a frog silhouette. The sermon was to be about the second …
Only Jesus
40 blogs of Lent - Day 28 Only Jesus Messages to the churches - Day 23 Philadelphia - Day 1 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens. Philadelphia …
Only come
40 blogs of Lent – Day 27 Only come Messages to the churches – Day 22 Laodicea – Day 3 A poem about Jesus - and a mash up of '60s and '70s pop lyrics The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I 'also conquered and sat down …
The self-reliant church
40 blogs of Lent – Day 26 The self-reliant church Messages to the churches – Day 21 Laodicea – Day 2 I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my …
Making an ass of myself 