On the last day of the Holy Trinity Church weekend we were given a catch phrase, you know one of those short and supposed to be memorable. Like all other so called memorable phrases before I have forgotten it. So here is the long, boring, catch phrase free version. The church is suffering from amnesia. …
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Two greats
More from the Holy Trinity Huddersfield church weekend (and a picture from the Rydall Hall grounds, I liked the moss on this stone). The overall theme was that the church is suffering from amnesia. The church has forgotten what it is that it is supposed to be doing. We looked at two greats Jesus told …
What has God done for you?
What has God done for you in the last five years? This was a question asked at Holy Trinity church Huddersfield's church weekend in Cumbria, at Rydal Hall. Left is the view from our window. It was twinned wo a question about what is your testimony, which I have also put on this blog, in …
Looking Forward to Sunday
I can't explain what happened last Sunday. I really can't. Yes it was Pentecost, but the whole thing was so low key, there were no real belt-'em-out hymns chosen, it was like a 1970s or '80s retro worship service. The service introduction did not help. Were we invited to worship God or something we got …
Worry
Jesus said: “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap …
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 …
The visitor
We had a visitor in church yesterday. Catherine Lee. our mission partner with CMS is over from Taiwan, visiting the partner churches. Today was our turn. What we learned was... well we learned a lot, But after the service and after some food we learned how the church in Taiwan was started because of a …
Limping
Yesterday at Church we sang We are marching in the light of God. Happily for me, I'm a percussionist, the singing was good. The syncopation was good too, much better than it was a few years back. Looking around after the service I noticed the number of people in the church who use sticks and …
Space is big
Space is big. Very big. In fact the latest scientific understanding, if I understand it correctly, is that the universe is infinity large — and expanding. On top of that there may be an infinite number of parallel universes which gives the size of the multiverse as being an infinity of infinities. As I said, space …
One of the good guys.
James Varley Dearden 1922 -2014 Yesterday it was a privilege to attend the memorial service for Jim. vicar of Holt Trinity, Huddersfield from before I joined that congregation to 1987. Jim brought a failing church back from one with serious problems and in danger of being closed to one which was thriving. Jim's approach to …
Making an ass of myself 