Love your enemies Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, 22 July 2018 A return, for the six weeks of the school holidays, to having one service a week, with a service at 10am replacing the 9am and 10:45 ones. As I was playing percussion during the service I had already worked up a nice sweat in …
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YHWH El Achba Names of God - Part 16 God who hides In part 6 of this series on the names of God I looked at El Olam, God has hidden it. That name meaning that God reveals things that are hidden gradually, as we have a need to know it. It would seem that …
Transformed: Becoming like Jesus in anticipation Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Saturday 14 July and Sunday 15 July 2018 A weekend at Church in two parts. The first, the Men's breakfast on Saturday, was followed by a time of maintenance on the church building. The breakfast part went well, we heard from Wayne, our Youth Pastor. …
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YWHW Elohim Names of God - part 15 LORD God The YWHW name of God, Gods actual name, usually written Yahweh or Jehovah, has a number of forms, some of them, which I am tackling in the next few months, also combine with the El form, which is the word for God. YHWH Elohim is …
Dark Secrets Will Come To Light 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. I have restored an image for this blog. This blog is from 5 January 2013 Thoughts on a …
Transformed: becoming like Jesus in suffering Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 8 July 2018 Back to my usual church after a week at my Dad's place, and the overall impression was that it was too warm. Even the thick stonework of a pre-Victorian traditional English church could not keep the heat out. It was cooler …
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Names of God - Part 14 YAH Yah or Jah is a short form of YHWH, Yahweh or Jehovah. It first appears in Exodus 15:2: The LORD [YAH] is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; Over 50 times the word is used this way in the psalms and other poetic parts of the …
Sitation vacant. I saw this in the online Church Times. Priest in Charge London and Home Counties St Edward’s is a large parish in the Diocese of Southwark, situated on a greenfield site to the south east of Croydon. Much of the housing in the southern part of New Addington is owner occupied, whereas the …
Do not be afraid Christ the King, Battyeford, Sunday 1st July 2018 Not my usual church. This is my Dads church, although it was my church between 1974 to 1978 when I lived with my parents. I have even been on this church's PCC. I spent the day by taking the bus from Huddersfield, which …
Spiritual darkness I wonder is there is anything in this: I never remember my dreams, but I have had one that I can't forget, so I got up and wrote it down. Here. This is it. But first some background: During the sermon on Sunday 24 June my mind wandered, it often does. It must …
Making an ass of myself 