Radical sayings of Jesus: Become a servant Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 5 August 2018 This Sunday I left the church with an ear-worm. You know ear-worms, they are those snippets of tunes that get stuck in your head that you can't get rid of. The earworm I was stuck with was not one of …
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Names of God – Part 18
YHWH El-Chai Names of God - Part 18 God, The living one YHWH is God's actual revealed name, and far from being remote shows that he is personal. This name is found in the Bible with and without God's name and also in plural forms Elohim Chai and Elohim Chayim. It is a name of …
Meta what? (a blog about repentance and its consequenses)
Repentance? Repentance is a word that occurs over and over again in the Bible, particularly in the writings of Luke (the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles) but to get to the bottom of it I am only going to look at five of them, The four mentions in Mark's Gospel and …
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How not to pray
How not to pray My old blog balaam.wibsite.com can no longer be accessed. Using the Wayback Machine I am trying to save whatever can be saved, There are no images available for these old blogs. This blog is from 27 January 2013 Holy Trinity Huddersfield 27th January 2013 The reading in church this morning was …
Names of God – part 17
YHWH El-Ashiyb Names of God - part 17 The LORD God my/our restorer YHWH is God's actual name which he revealed to Moses from the burning bush, it implies the personal nature of God and El the creator which is immeasurably beyond us. These two names are held in contrast here, a God who is …
Transformed: Becoming like Jesus in anticipation
Transformed: Becoming like Jesus in anticipation Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Saturday 14 July and Sunday 15 July 2018 A weekend at Church in two parts. The first, the Men's breakfast on Saturday, was followed by a time of maintenance on the church building. The breakfast part went well, we heard from Wayne, our Youth Pastor. …
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Dark Secrets Will Come To Light
Dark Secrets Will Come To Light My old blog balaam.wibsite.com can no longer be accessed. Using the Wayback Machine I am trying to save whatever can be saved, There are no images available for these old blogs. I have restored an image for this blog. This blog is from 5 January 2013 Thoughts on a …
Transformed: becoming like Jesus in suffering
Transformed: becoming like Jesus in suffering Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 8 July 2018 Back to my usual church after a week at my Dad's place, and the overall impression was that it was too warm. Even the thick stonework of a pre-Victorian traditional English church could not keep the heat out. It was cooler …
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Do not be afraid
Do not be afraid Christ the King, Battyeford, Sunday 1st July 2018 Not my usual church. This is my Dads church, although it was my church between 1974 to 1978 when I lived with my parents. I have even been on this church's PCC. I spent the day by taking the bus from Huddersfield, which …
Mind wandering and dreaming
Spiritual darkness I wonder is there is anything in this: I never remember my dreams, but I have had one that I can't forget, so I got up and wrote it down. Here. This is it. But first some background: During the sermon on Sunday 24 June my mind wandered, it often does. It must …
Making an ass of myself 