Something Incredibly New Has Happened Pentecost Sunday 2025 I'm autistic, and honestly, to blend in, I put on a mask and pretend to be someone I'm not. It gets super awkward when I’m around two people or different groups and have to act like different versions of myself. Trust me, juggling all these different worlds …
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Biblical Stations of the Resurrection Let us walk this pilgrimage of faith as daughters and sons of the light and as witnesses of the Risen Lord. Let us meditate upon the resurrection of Christ and discover the pathway of light that Christ blazes through our lives. Let us walk this pilgrimage of faith, as daughters …
The ascension of Jesus The ascension of Jesus - talk about a grand exit, right? I mean it could be thought of as anti cilmatic - celebrated on a weekday, kind of out of the way, and it feels like it's just a necessary pit stop between Jesus ascending and the Holy Spirit arriving at …
The practical awe of God When I was deciding on what to write during Lent I forgot about the panic of seeing an empty page. On 1st January this year, I said I wanted to get my awe of God back. Then thinking about Lent I wanted to build on the idea that God's gifts …
A blog post for ascension day The East Window at Holy Trinity Huddersfield, the top section depicting Jesus ascending into a cloud watched by the eleven apostles. 6 When they were together for the last time they asked, “Master, are you going to restore the kingdom to Israel now? Is this the time?”7-8 He told them, “You …
The meaning of the ascension It all changed here The ascension could be the forgotten feast of the Christian church, hidden as it is on a Thursday between the holidays of Easter and Pentecost. It also gets lost in theology. Evangelicals centre their beliefs on the cross, others on the incarnation and resurrection, Pentecostals and …
Going up A poem Going up! We saw him go, obscured by clouds, Back home to sit on heaven's throne Before he went he told us, "Wait, "I will not leave you here alone." Going up! So sit we here, with upward gaze and contemplating Heaven's glory. Ans what he did in three short years …
Going up 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 17 May 2012 Thoughts on the ascension of Jesus Christ. Today, in Western Christianity is ascension day, when …
What does the resurrection of Jesus mean to you? As evangelicals we are very keen on the crucifixion. Sometimes to the exclusion of everything else. The cross has said it all, we sing, but if so, what was the purpose of Jesus rising again if there was nothing left to accomplish? On this last day …
John's Gospel is different to the other three in a lot of ways, not the least in that it is more than the others a book about who Jesus is. Like the other Gospels, John's has a symbol of a winged creature. John's symbol is an eagle, to signify ascension, because of the way an …
Making an ass of myself 