40 Blogs of Lent - Day 37 Church is Good News What is church - Day 5 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God …
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Searching for Jesus
40 Blogs of Lent - Day 36 Church is worship What is Church - Day 4 Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose,and …
Let’s eat
40 Blogs of Lent - Day 35 Let's Eat Holy Trinity Church, Hudderssfield - Sunday 25th March 2018 As I thought, the sermon series on the Exodus was leading up to the Passover. The reading was from Exodus 11:1 - 12:15. A long reading you can find for yourselves here: I am quoting part of …
Church is weird
40 Blogs of Lent - Day 34 Church is weird What is church - Day 3 Often the largest building in the area, pointing hundreds of feet into the sky yet only a single story building. Full of fantastic art in stained glass with ornaments covered in gold built to celebrate someone who had no …
Is this supposed to be the good stuff?
40 blogs of Lent - Day 31 Is this supposed to be the good stuff? Messages to the churches - Day 24 Philadelphia - Day 3 A poem The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on …
A suffering church
40 blogs of Lent - Day 30 Open door Messages to the churches - Day 24 Philadelphia - Day 2 I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and …
We had a chorus of frogs in church
40 Blogs of Lent - Day 29 A chorus of frogs Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield - Sunday 18 March 2018 We had a chorus of frogs in church this morning. Not singing frogs, but each seat had a piece of paper on it containing a frog silhouette. The sermon was to be about the second …
Only come
40 blogs of Lent – Day 27 Only come Messages to the churches – Day 22 Laodicea – Day 3 A poem about Jesus - and a mash up of '60s and '70s pop lyrics The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I 'also conquered and sat down …
The self-reliant church
40 blogs of Lent – Day 26 The self-reliant church Messages to the churches – Day 21 Laodicea – Day 2 I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my …
I will give him the morning star
40 blogs of Lent - Day 20 I will give him the morning star Messages to the churches - Day 16 Thyatira - Day 4 A poem - A train of thought experiment in blank verse. The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations, and he will rule …