40 blogs of Lent - Day 5 Sunday 18th February 2018, Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield and other places. I am tired, very tired. Sunday was a very busy day. I can remember the days when I would have been able to do a day like that with ease, but now, having retired early through fatigue, …
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Keep on keepin’ on
40 blogs of Lent - Day 4 Keep on keepin' on Messages to the churches - Day 3 Ephesus - Day 2 “‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to …
Lamps and Stars
Jesus is depicted in glory and might, and he is on our side. Be comforted, Jesus is with us.
Seven churches
40 blogs of Lent - Day 2 Seven Asian Churches Messages to the churches - Day 1 The book of Revelation was written from Patmos to seven churches in Asia. From the map above you can see it would have landed at Ephesus and then gone on to, in order, Smyrna (now Ismir), Pergamum, Thyatira …
Blogging through Lent
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 …
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 …
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 