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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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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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 …
Continue reading Toothpaste stains and careful listening: James pt 2
Making an ass of myself 