The last thought on Jonah My last musings on Jonah, for now at least, following the conclusion of the sermon series at Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield last Sunday. There are some things that were not said, and to be honest are probably irrelevant to that series anyway. But my mind like irrelevancies so here goes: …
Tag: forgiveness
Second chances
Second chances Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 18th August 2019 Another early service for me. We are meeting for worship at 10 am rather than two services at 9 and 10.45 during August. This time it was contemporary worship, and I was drumming. It was mentioned in the sermon that God works despite us, but …
Matthew’s Passion: desertion and denial
Matthew's Passion: Peter and Jesus 40 Blogs of Lent: 18 Matthew 26:30-35 The party is over, the last hymn of the feast has been sung. Jesus and his disciples are on their way from the secret supper room to a lonely place outside Jerusalem's walls. If the earlier bombshells were not enough; about Jesus being …
Matthew’s Pasion: The cross is forgiveness
Matthew's Passion: Take and remember 40 Blogs of Lent: 15 Matthew 26: 26-30 Something strange Jesus has already spoiled what is supposed to be a party by talking about being betrayed. Now we move on to something even stranger. Four cups of wine are drunk at a Passover meal, which tie in with the Exodus. …
Names of God – part 46: The LORD our Judge
YWHW Shaphat Names of God - part 46: The LORD our Judge YHWH is God’s actual name which he revealed to Moses from the burning bush, it implies the personal nature of God. The second part of the name here is how God relates to us: Shapfat means Judge, but this name is not about …
You mess, you confess
A Haiku* based on my previous blog: You mess, you confess, And God will forgive your sin 'Cause God is like that. *Haiku, a poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five with no rhyming plan, originating in Japan.
Broken resolutions
It's that bonus time of year at gyms all over the country as people the length and breadth of Britain resolve to get fit in the new year and buy a year's membership and then visit the place three times. If they knew that gymnasium was derived from the Greek word for a place to exercise …
