Most years since I've been blogging I have attempted not to give something up for Lent, but to take something up. This year I'm doing it again. 40 blogs of Lent. It will be a rough ride, because I have no idea where it is going, or what I am going to write, other than …
Tag: church
Pray for the persecuted
Today I led the intercessions at Holy Trinity Huddersfield. Instead of my usual scatter-gun approach (a little bit of this and a little bit of that) I concentrated on two areas, prayers for the persecuted church, and prayers for peace. This is what I prayed. The focus of a lot of my prayers today will …
Life after life?
I have just finished re-reading Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams, a really good comedic read. Chapter 7 ends with one of my favourite cliffhangers: "Gordon Way's astonishment at being shot dead was nothing to his astonishment at what happened next." What happens after death is a question that fascinates even atheist authors …
…and in the depth
Praise to the Holiest in the height, and in the depth be praise; In the last blog I spoke about imitation, the idea of imitating me in the same way that I imitate Christ. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the field of music in church. A few pointers. No instrument is easier to …
Church is irrelevant?
Church is irrelevant in today's society. So they tell me, and so it would seem, until a catastrophe happens. Yesterday in Leeds a school a teacher was murdered in the classroom. Today the school was still open, but there was a service at the Corpus Christi Catholic Church. But yesterday evening, according to a report …
Rev.
This week's episode. Series 3 episode 5 I watched it last night on i>player Wow. Christianity and situation comedy collide, but it nothing like The Vicar of Dibley. Tom Hollander's Rev, Adam Smallbone, is something darker. The church is a large building in East London in danger of closure. And it is real, too real …
The meal that unites
HOLY COMMUNION Just do it.It is Maundy Thursday. The day when we remember Jesus having a meal with his disciples, a Passover meal, a meal to remember the Israelites coming out of Egypt and to celebrate the freedom of Gods people. Remembering was the main theme of the meal, something that Jesus took and shortly before …
Off to church and a couple of old cyclists.
A busy weekend at least for the humans. Saturday: After lunch the humans popped down the church, two of their friends, were having a service renewing their wedding vows. Then off to Dewsbury, where there was a free outdoor show (the best sort) The story of the rivalry of two Italian cyclists in an overhead …
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The “Celebrate” rule of church music
A long time ago my eldest daughter said something profound* that stuck in my mind. I say a long time ago, it was sometime in the late '90s and we were in church after the service had finished. She was then in her early teens. What she said was about music: "I prefer new songs …
It’s Good News Week.
We've made the news. We being Holy Trinity Church Huddersfield, and the news being th local paper. Here's the story. Not only that, we made the editorial column, A few words about respecting graves. The story says: The site had for years been a hangout for nuisance drinkers and drug addicts who peppered the site with …
Making an ass of myself 