Trinity Free Church Huntingdon

This feast, known in Hebrew as Succoth or the Feast of Ingathering, was also a harvest festival. Whereas Pentecost celebrating the wheat harvest came in early summer, Tabernacles, giving thanks for summer fruits and later crops, coincided roughly with the end of our September or early October. It was a very happy occasion when people [...]

The Jewish calendar starts on the 1st of the month Abib, approximately April, but there is also another celebration called the Head of the Year on the 1st of Tishri, approximately late September/early October, and, while the April feast celebrates the beginning of the Jewish nation the later one celebrates its spiritual renewal by cleansing [...]

This was another of the feasts when the Israelites were commanded to appear before God in the Temple in Jerusalem. It was known by this Greek word for fiftieth day because it was held 50 days after Passover. It is also called the Feast of Weeks because the interval between the two, 49 days, is [...]

‘Fearfully and wonderfully made’
‘I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made’. This is the testimony of the psalmist (139), who in the previous verse also acknowledges: ‘…you knit me together in my mother’s womb’.
As I write this, I have been a grandfather for less than two weeks and am reflecting on our [...]