Restored and commissioned Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 3/5/20 I would not have been at church today. Like last year, the plan was to take a week off because the Tour de Yorkshire men's cycle race final stage was to be run between Halifax and Leeds, and I had planned to be there. One Sunday …
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No way out
No way out... ... except by God Holy Trinity Church Huddersfield, Sunday 11th August 2019 Another joint service at 10am for both the 9am and 10.45 congregations during the summer holiday period. This time it was simply led from the piano. Vicar Mike was back to lead the service, a quick stopover between being at …
Matthew’s Passion: How do you recover from denying Jesus?
Matthew's Passion: Denial 40 blogs of Lent: 24 Matthew 26:69-75 Denial is engraved in our society. Insurance companies will tell you not to accept responsibility in an accident, even if you know you were at fault. You may be in breach of your insurance conditions if you do. In extreme conditions they may ask you …
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Matthew’s Passion: Living by the sword
Matthew's Passion: Living by the sword 40 blog gas of Lent: 20 Matthew 26:47-56 Matthew's Gospel tells the story of Jesus' trial, crucifixion and ascension not as a complete narrative but as a series of encounters between people. What matters to Matthew are the relationships between people, especially between Jesus and the other people. It …
Matthew’s Passion: desertion and denial
Matthew's Passion: Peter and Jesus 40 Blogs of Lent: 18 Matthew 26:30-35 The party is over, the last hymn of the feast has been sung. Jesus and his disciples are on their way from the secret supper room to a lonely place outside Jerusalem's walls. If the earlier bombshells were not enough; about Jesus being …
Matthew’s Passion: The cross is freedom
Matthew's Passion: Faithfulness and betrayal 40 Blogs of Lent: 14 Matthew 26:17-25 Having set out the background for the story of Jesus' death and resurrection, the plot by the High Priest and Jesus being anointed, the story begins with a party. This is told through encounters with Jesus, and the relationships therein: The cross is …
Denial
"I am not he," - Peter 40 blogs of Lent, day 28 The second of the people who used "I am" in a negative way was Peter. Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. Since that disciple was known to the high priest, he entered with Jesus into the court of the high …
Betrayed
Two poems, one very old, from the Bible, and my response in verse: -o0o- For it is not an enemy who taunts me— then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me— then I could hide from him. But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my …
Making an ass of myself 