A Missed opportunity Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 6th May 2018 Vicar Mike missed a trick in his sermon illustration this morning. The sermon illustration he did use was of a flight of geese, and how they can fly 71% further by flying in the V formation. It was all about teamwork, based on Moses's …
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Grumbling, cowboys and burdens
Grumbling, cowboys and burdens (and football) Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 15th April 2018 Our Vicar, Mike, is a fan of football, and more specifically supports Watford. Yesterday Watford FC were up here, and Mike and a number of the congregation had a box at the game. Huddersfield beat Watford 1 - 0. I knew …
Pray (again) for the persecuted church
Three brief things Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 8th April 2018 One: Helping autistic people A very minor niggle, but it is Autism Awareness Month, so I'm putting something in here. To those involved in leading a church service: Do not be afraid to wait until the people reading the lessons or leading intercessions have …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Healing
40 Blogs of Lent - Day 23 Healing Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield - Sunday 11 March 2018 Another sermon on the Exodus, and I have worked out where we are going, we are headed towards the Passover to coincide with us remembering Christ's passion which happened at the memorial of that event. This either shows …
The incomplete church
40 blogs of Lent - Day 22 The incomplete church Messages to the churches - Day 18 Sardis - Day 2 ‘I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight …
What’s in your hand?
40 blogs of Lent - Day 17 What's in your hand? Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 5th March, 2018 Church today, and after trudging through the remains of last week's unseasonably late snow, I grabbed an unusual for me before service coffee before entering the sanctuary. Other than the outside temperature, there was nothing unusual …
Making an ass of myself 