An autistic person's guide to the fruit of the Spirit Part 1: Love But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. The whole Bible is a love story. From the creation of the universe in love to the protection …
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Jesus is for everyone... ...even you. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Saviour, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 1 Timothy 2:3-4 ESVUK The Lord is not slow to fulfil his promise as some count slowness, but is …
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 …
Summer of love: 2 Holy Trinity Church Huddersfield, Sunday 21st July 2019 A bittersweet Sunday. We said goodbye to Curate Steve and his family. After a training period of three years, he is off to a new position. Huddersfield's loss will be Loughborough's gain. We saw them off well. The family were brought up to …
Summer of love part 1 Holy Trinity Church Huddersfield, Sunday 14th July 2019 What does love look like? That was the question at the beginning of the sermon at the second service here at Holy Trinity. After a week off from playing percussion during the service because of the joint service in the park, I …
Can I be intimate with God? The answer is yes. After all, it is God who asks us to be intimate with him. Paul spoke of knowing Jesus and the power of his resurrection, But how can we be intimate? It is more than reading the Bible and attending church. There is more to intimacy …
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God's love is shown in redemption, which theologians have written long books about, but which can be summed up in just nine words: This is God's world, and he wants it back.
Matthew's Passion: The trial of the two Christs 40 blogs of Lent: 30 Matthew 27:15-23 I am visiting this passage a second time because last time the relationship I looked at was the crowd. This time I am looking at the relationship between Jesus and Barabbas. Barabbas was a notorious criminal, but he was more …
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It's all about love Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 7 April 2019 40 Blogs of Lent: 29 A different week at church today, the church APCM, that's Annual Parochial Church Meeting,which is the churches Meeting where the last year is reviewed, and plans for the future is announced. It has been a good year, congregations …
Matthew's Passion: Barabbas 40 Blogs of Lent: 27 Matthew 27:15-23 Matthew's Pasion is told through a series of encounters between people. Enter a new character, Barabbas. But the real encounter here is a stand off between Pilate, the Roman governor, and the plotters against Jesus, who are From the Sanhedrin, the religious and political local …
