I have a couple of quotes from Rick Warren, the American pastor who wrote the book "The Purpose Driven Life," and a few other books with Purpose Driven in the title. First is this. What's in your hand? A lot of the time what is in my hand is a walking stick or a crutch. …
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Church shaped hole?
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus. These words words, spoken by Blaise Pascal 350 years ago, are becoming truer in my experience as time goes on What I always find true …
How God became king – a sprint through the Bible
OK. Let's get this straight, God does not change. But the way God has reveaed himself over time has changed. This is a quick run through, starting with the earliest book of the Bible, Job. Not Genesis. Genesis belongs with the books of Moses, it deals with things before the Exodus, but it is a …
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Charleston and forgiveness
I weep for the people of Charleston, South Carolina, and I weep with the people of Charleston, South Carolina. The news this last week was shocking. On Wednesday a young white man attended the Bible study at iconic black church, Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, after being there for an hour he pulled out a gun …
9 years
Happy ninth birthday to walking with a stick. Happy ninth birthday to having pain all day, everyday. Happy ninth birthday to waking in pain (sometimes earlier than I wish), and going to sleep in pain (often later than I wish). But life is good. There are a lot of people in a far worse condition …
40 more blogs for Lent
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 …
Temples of Mammon
Two weeks ago I was treated to a visit to London. We stayed at Canary Wharf, in the East End. From the room we could see the flashing light at the top of the obelisk shaped One Canada Square towering above us. All this built for the financial sector. For much of it's history the skyline …
Masterpiece
We are 'playing chopsticks' And God is inter-weaving a musical masterpiece around that
Something dramatic happened
Something indescribably dramatic happened on the day of Pentecost. What it was I don't know. Here's how the Bible tries, and fails, to describe it. On the day of Pentecost all the Lord’s followers were together in one place. Suddenly there was a noise from heaven like the sound of a mighty wind! It filled the house …
Prosperity?
This evening in the Lent Group at Holy Trinity Huddersfield we looked at a passage which contained what is sometimes referred to as the most abused verse in the Bible: Jeremiah 29:11. For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a …
Making an ass of myself 