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Heaven and Hell
Categories: cycling, god, holy-trinity-huddersfield
Tags: Cycling, Christ, Bible, Sport
Date: 07 April 2013 14:55:05
Doubting Thomas and the Paris Roubaix cycle race
Heaven.
Sunday morning, and Church.
The sermon started with nicknames: Who is known as Wiggo? Easy, Bradley Wiggins. Who is known as Doubting? Another east one, we'd only just had the reading from John chapter 20, Doubting Thomas.
Sad really when Thomas's reply on meeting Jesus, "My Lord and my God," is one of the best statements of belief in the Bible, up there with those of Martha and Peter. It's as if there's two Thomas's, the doubter and the man of faith.
The mention of Wiggo earlier brings me on to...
Hell.
Today was the day of the Hell of the North, the Paris - Roubaix cycle race. Over 200km of racing through northern France, many of them over cobbled tracks. Not Hell for me though, I spent the afternoon in front of the television. The question of whether Fabian Cancellara could win for a third time was answered with a yes. He now has a third cobblestone to add to his collection, this must be the heaviest trophy in sport.
But in perspective, even winning such a gruelling event as Paris -Roubaix. is only a trophy won for one man, or one team for one year. the victory of Jesus is for all people for all time.