Trinity Free Church Huntingdon

Seedtime and Harvest
‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’ - so September and autumn come round once again. A previous career in teaching still makes me think in terms of September as the start of the ‘New Year’ - just as Jewish people all over the world have recently celebrated their New Year.
The return from holiday [...]

The feasts we have been looking at have all been annual celebrations but the one most frequently observed is, of course, the Sabbath, which merely means Rest. Associated with God’s resting on the seventh day of Creation it was given by God as a rest day for His people, and observing the fourth Commandment is [...]

This is one of the less well known feasts to those outside the Jewish community but it is one with which Jesus would have been familiar. It features the story told in the Old Testament book of Esther and is a thanksgiving for deliverance from a threat of extermination in a fifth century BC [...]

This was also a more recent introduction, dating from only 164BC when the Temple was rededicated after it had been polluted by a Greek named Antiochus Epiphanes. He was a descendant of one of Alexander the Great’s generals who shared out his empire after he died and he ruled Syria and Palestine. An ambitious man [...]