Becoming the hope that you are meant to be Holy Trinity Church Huddersfield, Sunday 21st June 2020 Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, floodlit in 2019 to celebrate 200 years as a church. Vicar Mike stood in an empty church building was the first image of this week's virtual service. By empty I mean really empty. No …
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Bring out the rawness — Psalm 121
All that I relied on is gone Everybody needs hope, when hope is gone things can look very bleak. In these early days of the coronavirus pandemic when science has not yet come up with a cure or vaccine, it can be hard to hope. Before we can start to hope in something else we …
Turning hype into hope
Holy communion is a thanksgiving for creation Holy Week and Creation: a comparison God's fifth love song for his creation 40 Blogs of Lent: Day 38 The first chapter of the Book of Genesis is theology, but not theology as we know it. It is not the theology of learned people using the academic language …
…to rule the night
...and it was night Holy Week and Creation: a comparison God's fourth love song for his creation 40 Blogs of Lent: Day 37 The first chapter of the Book of Genesis is theology, but not theology as we know it. It is not the theology of learned people using the academic language for academic people, …
True Love Ways
Summer of love 3: Holy Trinity Church Huddersfield, Sunday 28th July 2019 Another Sunday at Church, another day playing percussion. Friday's rehearsal was a little too warm for drumming, even in the relative cool of a 200-year-old stone building, I drank well over a pint of water just to keep going. The Sunday of the …
Everything is different
Everything is different Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 21 April 2019 Hallelujah, Christ is risen. It is said that there is no such thing as a free lunch. That may well be, but there is free breakfast. We had one in church today before the morning service. A beautiful sunny morning where we were able …
Matthew’s passion: A Borrowed Grave
Matthew's passion: A Borrowed Grave 40 Blogs of Lent: 38 Matthew 27:57-61 It is an odd way to celebrate a victory, by being buried. A group of women had been among those who had witnessed God incarnate, God in human form, win the final victory over evil, over sin and even over death. The chains …
Matthew’s Passion: desertion and denial
Matthew's Passion: Peter and Jesus 40 Blogs of Lent: 18 Matthew 26:30-35 The party is over, the last hymn of the feast has been sung. Jesus and his disciples are on their way from the secret supper room to a lonely place outside Jerusalem's walls. If the earlier bombshells were not enough; about Jesus being …
We’re all doomed: The world’s 5 stories – part 5
We're all doomed The world's 5 stories - part 5 There is a difference in the way God sees things and how the world sees things, five of which I am looking at in the first half of Advent this year. And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within …
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Preparation: The hope of the Patriarchs
The first Candle: Hope. The first candle of Advent is all about hope. Think about hope as you hear Lamentations 3: 21-24: “But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, God’s mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is …
Making an ass of myself 