Holy Trinity Church, HuddersfieldSunday 3rd January 2021 Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield from Trinity Street. It has been hard to know what day it was this week. New Year's Eve was a Thursday which felt like a Saturday and New Year's Day a Friday that felt like a Sunday. Then there was the real Saturday. On …
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Love
Holy Trinity Church, HuddersfieldSunday 20th December 2020 It was like watching a scene from the transporter room in Star Trek. At the end of the sermon retired vicar John became Vicar Mike, similar jumper and shirt colours added to the effect. It was the fade they used in editing, one merging fairly quickly into the …
Christingle
Holy Trinity Church, HuddersfieldSunday 13th December 2020 Another week in a pandemic world, and I wish I had something more upbeat to share, but imposter syndrome is beginning to set in. I am beginning to wonder if I am capable of doing things I know I have done. The news has been positive with the …
Peace is not the absence of war
Holy Trinity Church, HuddersfieldSunday 6th December, 2020 Holy Trinity Huddersfield, taken from Mountjoy Road. It has been a week of wind, cold, rain and even snow, which landed as slush round here. The most eventful thing for me was giving a blood sample for my diabetes as the results from three months ago had come …
Finding meaning in the waiting
Holy Trinity Church, HuddersfieldSunday 19th November, 2020 I usually have few problems with email. However the one which normally gave links to the services which arrives on a Sunday morning. Scrolling the window and refreshing did not help, it appears nothing had arrived since 9 PM last night. This did not stop me getting in …
Be part of Jesus’ purposes
Holy Trinity Church, HuddersfieldSunday 22nd November 2020 The lych gate of Holy Trinity HuddersfieldThe caption reads: AD 1884"Praise Ye the LORD. Praise God in his Sanctuary" I had a quieter week this week, the sermon on Sabbath last week must have done the trick. After last week I was all zoomed out, meeting on Zoom …
Stop, rest, delight and worship
Holy Trinity Church, HuddersfieldSunday 15th November, 2020 The east window at Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, lower panel, depicting, "For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, "I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, …
Forgiveness
Holy Trinity Church, HuddersfieldSunday 1st November 2020 "I was a stranger and you welcomed me." Detail from the east window of Holy Trinity, Huddersfield November, and the last day in October, is an odd time in Britain. We seem to do the dark side of things without the light. The darkness of Halloween without the …
Black history month and Harvest
Holy Trinity Church, HuddersfieldSunday 25th October, 2020 Detail from the Ruth Window at Holy Trinity Huddersfield, showing gleaning in the fields This last week was a very strange one for us. We were told on Tuesday that our Granddaughter had been sent home from school, coughing, we are in a bubble with her, our daughter …
Superhero
Holy Trinity Church Huddersfield, Sunday 4th October 2020 The week after the busy week I have just had is always a difficult one due to my disability. Plenty of pain and a lack of sleep are what I have until I get a chance to rest properly. Picking up my granddaughter from school three times …
Making an ass of myself 