In the last blog, finished early on Sunday morning, I said I would expand on what I said about God's forgiveness and our response. That was before the morning service at Holy Trinity, Huddersfield, when we had this reading: “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with …
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Walls
Holy Trinity Huddersfield 29 May 2016 A few notes on the sermon, based on the reading from Ephesians 2:11-22, This is not going to be the sermon as preached, or a review of it point by point, I did not take notes, but my impression from it. So apologies to Mike Wilkins in advance for …
Are you sure?
Holy Trinity Huddersfield, 17 April 2016 We learnt from vicar Mike Wilkins at the Church Annual Meeting today that the congregation had grown. Some have come from other churches, but a few are new to church or have not attended for some time. He said that filling in the numbers for the powers that be …
Last prayers
Today was my last day reading the intercessions in church. At least the last for now. All our rotas come to an end in two weeks time. We are moving on to having two Sunday morning services, one more traditional with organ music at 9am and one less traditional with a worship band (guitars, drums …
King
The King, and doing stuff 40 blogs of Lent, day 36 Holy Trinity Huddersfield, 10.30 service, 20 March 2016 I'll get the sermon out of the way first. No disrespect to Dick Swindell, the preacher, but sometimes it is the news of what is happening that speaks louder than the preachers words. As I have …
I love it when a plan comes together
I love it when a plan comes together 40 blogs of Lent, day 30 Holy Trinity, Huddersfield, 13 March 2016 This morning's service was interesting, but I would say that, as I was involved. I gave a testimony about how God had been working in my life in the ten years since I had a …
The joy of giving
Giving day 40 blogs of Lent, day 23 Holy Trinity Huddersfield, Sunday 6 March 2016 Today was another service of two parts. Firstly, as the 4th Sunday in Lent it was Mother's Day, an that took up a good part of the service, but it was also our giving day. Giving is not just about …
A blog of two halves
Fairtrade and youth 40 blogs of Lent Holy Trinity Huddersfield, 28 February 2016 What have fairtrade and youth got to do with each other? Nothing except that if we buy fairtrade we will leave the youth with a better world. Actually scrub that. I have made some tenuous connections in my blogs over the time, …
Fire
Holy Trinity Huddersfield, Sunday 21 February 1016 40 blogs of Lent, day 11 Last week I blogged about the service and concentrated on the visit of missionary Ruth Donaldson. I neglected to mention the sensitive way vicar Mike had treated the sad news of the passing, after years of cancer treatment, of a dear friend, …
Love can be seen
Love can be seen. 40 blogs of Lent, day 5 Yesterday (Sunday 14 February) was one of the good services at Holy Trinity Huddersfield. I say one of the good services, they are all good services, even the ones you don't realise are good at the time. We started of with praying for two of …
Making an ass of myself 