Everything is different Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 21 April 2019 Hallelujah, Christ is risen. It is said that there is no such thing as a free lunch. That may well be, but there is free breakfast. We had one in church today before the morning service. A beautiful sunny morning where we were able …
Tag: Resurrection
Matthew’s Passion: Women’s work
Matthew's Passion: Women's work Easter: 1 Matthew 28:1-10 There is a meme going around Facebook and Twitter. It says, "In the interests of Biblical accuracy, all the preaching about the resurrection on Easter Sunday will be done by women." It has a point. All the disciples have fled and a few women watched from a …
Matthew’s Passion: Sleeping in Gethsemane
Matthew's Passion: Sleeping in Gethsemane 40 Blogs of Lent: 19 Matthew 26:36-46 From a private place to a private garden. Gethsemane was a place where there was a wine press, so was probably attached to a vineyard. Jesus separates himself from first the eleven disciples, Judas had already gone elsewhere, and then from the inner …
Raised for a reason
What does the resurrection of Jesus mean to you? As evangelicals we are very keen on the crucifixion. Sometimes to the exclusion of everything else. The cross has said it all, we sing, but if so, what was the purpose of Jesus rising again if there was nothing left to accomplish? On this last day …
Two break ins
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, …
No second death
40 blogs of Lent - Day 10 No second death Messages to the churches - Day 8 Smyrna - Day 3 A poem He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death. No second death We believe in resurrection, …
Resurrection and transformation
Easter in the real world Happy Easter. Hallelujah, Christ is risen! God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it. Acts 2:24 God raised him on the third day Acts 10:40 Jesus was raised from the dead. Only a couple of days earlier …
Death and taxes
I am the resurrection. 40 blogs of Lent, day 15 "‘Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but Death and Taxes,” - Christopher Bullock, Usually attributed to Benjamin Franklin Jesus did mention taxes, but not in the I am statemrnts in John's Gospel so today I am talking about death. Death is the context here. Jesus' …
Question Mark
Mark is different to Matthew and Luke in that there is little of Jesus' teaching outside of parables. Jesus is less of a philosopher, more of an action man. The symbol, a winged lion, depicts the resurrection. The focus is on Jesus power in healing the sick, and in ultimately being resurrected from the dead. The …
Despair
A reflection for Holy Saturday in the form of a multi-verse haiku. They saw you hanging. Taken down, taken away. Laid on a cold slab. They had hoped you'd win. Return God's land to his own: Remove the Roman. And you did nothing. In giving them no reply You let them kill you. The hope …
Making an ass of myself 