Two services Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 16 December 2018 We attended two services today. The first at 10:30 am was our usual contemporary worship service and in the evening a service of carols by candlelight, which would be followed by mulled wine and mince pies. Morning service: The church was cold, the heating had …
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Advent conspiracy 2: Give more
What can I give? Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 9 December 2018 We arrived later than usual, just as the service was starting. The only available seats were along the north side and light through the windows in the south aisle was in my eyes. My eyesight being what it is we went to the …
What I’m blogging about in Advent
Advent blogs. In Advent, I will be blogging every day except Sundays. well, that's the plan anyway. I will be starting on a few blogs about the difference between God's values of the world, then, as Christmas gets closer, looking at the Christmas story as given in Matthew's Gospel. My thoughts on what happened in …
Come Lord Jesus: everlasting God come down
Advent Conspiracy Part 1 Spend less money Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 2nd December 2018 Come, Lord Jesus, Come, Lord Jesus, Come, Lord Jesus, Everlasting God come down The last words of the last hymn at the first service were the first thing to come to my attention at church. I had not turned up …
Advent haiku
Advent haiku Jesus will return. Stay awake, you do not know just when he will come
God is with us
My old blog balaam.wibsite.com can no longer be accessed. Using the Wayback Machine I am trying to save whatever can be saved, There are no images available for these old blogs. This blog is from 24 December 2012 Blogging through Advent 19 God is with us Holy Trinity Huddersfield, 23 December 2012 Today we had …
Preparation: Too busy
Christmas, a time of stress. All the preparations to make for Christmas, buying the perfect present, wrapping, sending, writing all the cards, sending. Then there's the house to clean and decorate, and a tree to put up indoors. Then there's all the festive food to buy and cook. All whilst holding down a full time …
