Snake on a stick Who is Jesus? part 43 – John 3:12-21 When we had our children, we took a family holiday to Rhodes, Greece. We stayed in Lindos, in a converted fisherman's cottage with a view of the Acropolis. The nearby beach, Saint Paul's Bay, is named after the legend that Saint Paul landed …
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Born again or from above? Who is Jesus? part 41 - John 2:23 – 3:13 When I became a Christian in the mid-1970s, I was proud to identify myself as a born again believer in Jesus. Now I rarely use the term. Not because I no longer believe what I did, but because the meaning …
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Holy Trinity Church, HuddersfieldSunday 21st February 2021 40 blogs of Lent — day 5 The east window at Holy Trinity Huddersfield depicting, "when I was a stranger you welcomed me." Not much has happened in the Pape household this week, the high point is that I was able to speak with my father at the …
Making an ass of myself 