Way back on Ash Wednesday I blogged that I was unlikely to blog 40 times during Lent due to the fatigue I was feeling at the time. Now I am more optimistic. With 7 days left and 7 blogs to go the target is in sight.
Tag: Lent
Change?
Change? “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfil them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Therefore whoever …
Lightly salted
"You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet. "You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people …
Blogging through Lent
For almost as long as I have been writing blogs I have given myself the discipline to write 40 blogs during the period before Easter. Usually I commit myself to writing 40 blogs, but this year I cannot make that commitment. I have been very tired lately after work, I don't know whether it is …
40 blogs in Lent.
Happy Ash Wednesday everyone. 40 blogs of Lent - day 1 As in previous years I am doing something extra in Lent, rather than giving something up (being diabetic means that the things people normally give up for Lent, such as chocolate or sweets are already on my cannot eat or occasional treat list). So …
40 more blogs for Lent
Most years since I've been blogging I have attempted not to give something up for Lent, but to take something up. This year I'm doing it again. 40 blogs of Lent. It will be a rough ride, because I have no idea where it is going, or what I am going to write, other than …
Atheism (again)
The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable. — Brennan Manning. This ties in very well with what our church, Holy Trinity Huddersfield, has been doing this Lent. The focus of the …
What’s so penitential about fish?
Thursday night, my wife, Linda, and I ate at the Loch Fyne fish restaurant in Leeds. I had potted mackerel followed by hake with tomato salsa. Linda had tempura soft shell crab followed by grilled bream. Well it is a fish restaurant. The food was as good as anything I've eaten. Which got me thinking …
Reconciliation
I didn't get to the Ash Wednesday service last week, delayed trains and all. but a chance remark in the sermon that day is being felt by some who were there. Wht was said is this: Lent is about reconciliation. Reconciling ourselves to ourselves. Reconciling ourselves to others Reconciling ourselves to God. With all the …
Lent again
Over the last three years I have posted 40 blogs of Lent, not always on the fast days, but disciplining myself to blog daily is a contrast to the giving up most people do. (Talking about giving up, this year I told my wife I was giving up alcohol for Lent - Today she put …
Making an ass of myself 