Us versus them The world's 5 stories - part 1 There is a difference in the way God sees things and how the world sees things, five of which I am looking at in the first half of Advent this year. And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within …
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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 …
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 …
Prayer is effective Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 25 November 2016 It was nice to see a djembe being played at the service this morning. Our contemporary worship is getting some interesting instruments played these days. Today the accents played on the guitar were slightly ahead of the beat and percussion accents were laid back …
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Societies or Society Changes in theology in the 19th century A lot has changed since John Wesley said in the mid 18th Century that the only holiness was social holiness he was not saying what many think he was saying. Even the church that was founded in his name, the Methodists, talk of personal and …
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Faith and humility Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 18 November 2018 Faith and humility was the theme of yesterday's service and also the sermon title. I have ranted before on how using two abstract nouns conveys no meaning, I am not repeating that now. During the week, in a conversation about the recent sermons on …
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Remembrance - a personal perspective Christ the King, Battyeford, Sunday 11 November 2018 The centenary of the Armistice at the end of World War I. Today my wife were at my father's church where he was to lay the poppy wreath later in the service. We met with him inside the church, where he was …
Wisdom and Faith? James pt 4 Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 4 November 2018 The announced sermon title was "Wisdom and Faith." That is the sort of title I do not like, a combination of two abstract nouns. It is bad communication as abstract nouns, particularly words like faith, are often understood as different things …
Faith apart from works is dead Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 28 October 2018 I forgot my camera and my phone last Sunday evening. A shame, because we are lighting up the church tower every for a year leading up to the 200th anniversary of the church opening which will be in 2019. We are …
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Use your mirrors Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 21 October 2018 A confession in the sermon this morning. Vicar Mike mentioned as an illustration that the Bible is like a mirror to us, that he sometimes dribbles toothpaste onto his shirt. This brought to mind the service two weeks ago on the Costa del Sol …
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Making an ass of myself 