Easter Sunday - 1 April 2018 Two break ins A poem This year: Sunday, at daybreak A child breaks into a chocolate egg And what she wants comes out A small packet of chocolate buttons. Years ago: Sunday, at daybreak God breaks in to a sealed tomb And what we need comes out A Saviour, …
Tag: Jesus
What should you be doing in your church?
40 Blogs of Lent - Day 40 Church is for everyone What is church - Day 8 If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body”, that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I …
Lord, make me pure, but not yet
40 Blogs of Lent - Day 39 Church is Holy What is church - Day 7 I appeal to you therefore,brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your …
Hide your struggles and slap on a plastic smile
40 Blogs of Lent - Day 38 Church is Community What is church - Day 6 This is Maundy Thursday, when we commemorate Jesus sharing a last Passover meal, a last community meal, with his disciples, so it may seem odd that I am talking about Ananias and Sapphira (and Barnabas) on this day. Now the …
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Good news about church
40 Blogs of Lent - Day 37 Church is Good News What is church - Day 5 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God …
Searching for Jesus
40 Blogs of Lent - Day 36 Church is worship What is Church - Day 4 Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose,and …
Let’s eat
40 Blogs of Lent - Day 35 Let's Eat Holy Trinity Church, Hudderssfield - Sunday 25th March 2018 As I thought, the sermon series on the Exodus was leading up to the Passover. The reading was from Exodus 11:1 - 12:15. A long reading you can find for yourselves here: I am quoting part of …
Church is weird
40 Blogs of Lent - Day 34 Church is weird What is church - Day 3 Often the largest building in the area, pointing hundreds of feet into the sky yet only a single story building. Full of fantastic art in stained glass with ornaments covered in gold built to celebrate someone who had no …
Church is like Instagram
40 blogs of Lent - Day 33 Church is like Facebook What is church - Day 2 Social media. If you read some of the local papers you would think it consisted of all the evils in the world. All it is is a communications medium, and it reflects the personalities of the people who …
Is this supposed to be the good stuff?
40 blogs of Lent - Day 31 Is this supposed to be the good stuff? Messages to the churches - Day 24 Philadelphia - Day 3 A poem The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on …
