40 blogs of Lent - Day 11 Do not offer service to God Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield - 25th February 2018 The story of Moses Here at Holy Trinity we are having a sermon series in Lent on the Exodus. We continued with the story of Moses. Moses, is now grown up, and sees an …
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A Busy Day
40 blogs of Lent - Day 5 Sunday 18th February 2018, Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield and other places. I am tired, very tired. Sunday was a very busy day. I can remember the days when I would have been able to do a day like that with ease, but now, having retired early through fatigue, …
A very messy Christmas
The last straw Today was our Messy Christmas Crib Service at Holy Trinity Huddersfield. It started off with activities for the children, making cardboard crowns, camels out of food, pipe-cleaner stars for the Christmas tree, that sort of thing. Then the service started. between Christmas carols the Christmas story was acted out by children dressed …
I don’t want your freedom
God the Son: The Cross and Death Ever heard one of those sermons that gets you thinking, and after weeks you are still thinking bout it, but it is weeks before the penny drops? No? Just me then. You see over at Holy Trinity Huddersfield we have been having a sermon series, we have plenty …
What will Jesus do next?
Palm Sunday Sunday 9th April, 2007, Holy Trinity, Huddersfield. As usual when talking about a service these are my impressions after the event. I have taken no notes or anything to fall back on. This was a family service, so there was a talk to the children and a drama rather than a reading. There …
Above and Beyond
Above and beyond what? Holy Trinity Huddersfield, Sunday 2 April 2017 I don't know how to blog this, as it was a very internal thing. What follows is more or less my first draft. I was aiming for it to be more upbeat. It was delivered in a worship service and worship was what it …
Power failure
power failure Journey to the cross (part 2) Holy Trinity Church. Huddersfield, 19th March 2017 It goes like this: We at Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield have been doing a series of sermons in Lent, this was the third. What follows are my impressions, based on my feelings without taking notes, and several hours later. In …
Awe and wonder
Awe and wonder wander Journey to the cross (part 2) Holy Trinity Huddersfield, 12th March 2017 An observation from memory Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such …
Reputation
Reputation Journey to the cross (part 1) Holy Trinity Huddersfield, 5th March 2017 An observation from memory. Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. He said …
More about forgiveness
Forgiveness This is the blog I promised on Sunday last. Forgiveness is easy in practice but very difficult to do practically. So how do we start? In the last post I pointed out that in the parable of the unforgiving servant that the forgiving the servant did not do was of a much, much smaller order …
Making an ass of myself 