How not to pray 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. This blog is from 27 January 2013 Holy Trinity Huddersfield 27th January 2013 The reading in church this morning was …
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Radical Sayings of Jesus: Not peace, but a sword
Not peace, but a sword Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 29 July 2018 My wife and I arrived at church damp. The long hot dry spell of weather had come to an end and there was a bit of a downpour. To top that off the 15-minute walk to church was into the wind. After …
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Radical sayings of Jesus: Love your enemies
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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Transformed: Becoming like Jesus in anticipation
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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Transformed: becoming like Jesus in suffering
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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Fish butties
Banquet for 5000 Holy Trinity Church Huddersfield, Sunday 24 June 2018 After last weekends church weekend away things are back to normal. That is not meant as a bad thing, as we do a good normal. The sermon was a monologue by Curate Steve on Jesus feeding 5000 as seen through the eyes of Apostle …
A weekend in Derbyshire
Holy Trinity Church Huddersfield, Friday 15th to Sunday 17th June 2018 It is Fathers' Day, but I am tired out by having been on the Church Family Weekend. Around 100 of us made the trip down to the Midlands, to the Hayes Conference Centre in Swanwick, Derbyshire, for a time of learning, worship, fellowship and …
A Farewell
Toby's last service Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, 3 June 2018 Sometimes a blog is hard to write. This is one of them. It should have been easy. All I needed to do was say that this was Toby's final service with us, say what the service as about and wish him well in his new …
Shower jar
Shower jar Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 27 May 2018 Only one service at Church today. The 9 am and the 10.45 were both cancelled and there was one service at the compromise time of 10am. This meant an early start for me as I was playing percussion in the part of the service which …
Chilli, Full English and Jaffa Cakes
Chilli, Full English and Jaffa Cakes Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Friday 11th May to Sunday 13th May 2018 Three visits to our church building, each with its own food connection. Chilli Chilli was served on Friday evening, the musicians and technicians of the church, from both the traditional and the contemporary service, got together to …
Making an ass of myself 