Matti Ensio Nykanen is considered by many to be the greatest male ski jumper of all time, winning five Winter Olympic medals, nine World Championship medals and twenty-two Finnish Championship medals, most notably he won three gold medals in the 1988 Winter Olympics, yet my guess is that only a few of you will know…
They say that absence makes the heart grow fonder, I am currently missing my regular fix of visits to the Yorkshire Dales. When my brother and I were little we spent many a happy hour at Bolton Abbey with our parents. In those days my dad drove a motorbike and sidecar and the journey from…
I received a message on Facebook on Saturday from a total stranger. The lady had taken the photograph on the right and asked if the book was mine. As you can see it was a Sunday School prize presented to me in 1964, I would have been five, almost six when this book first came…
Thought for the day – Sunday 2nd August 2020 One of the tasks we are keen to establish in the Ipswich Methodist Circuit is a virtual Church. One of the new skills that the Coronavirus experience has taught us is that the generation, often missing from our traditional Church services are engaging with us through…
Thought of the day – Sunday 26th July 2020 We had a lovely worshipful time together at Elmsett Methodist Church on Sunday 19th July, during which we shared communion, in a way that meant we were able to comply with all Covid guidance. Music was playing in the background as we worshiped and one of…
Let them both grow together
Thought of the day – Sunday 12th July 2020 A Sower went out to sow (Matthew 13) I am totally confused at just where we are in the year, I am used to the familiar milestones along my annual journey and this year, the majority of those milestones haven’t happened and I feel disorientated most…
Thought for the day – Sunday 5th July 2020 One of the precious gifts the Methodist Church gives to its Ministers is a Sabbatical every sevenyears, this gift is not a three months holiday, it is a time to stop, reflect, recharge the batteries andmove on with a fresh insight and enthusiasm. I am constantly…
Thought for the day – Sunday 28th June 2020 Today is Conference Sunday in the Methodist Church and I believe that as representatives from the church gather virtually this year, they represent a bygone age, steeped in our culture from the early days of the small group of Anglican Priests who met to create a…
Thought of the day – Sunday 21st June 2020 We often refer to Sunday as “the Lord’s Day” and even though it is fourteen weeks since Sunday looked like the kind of Sunday many of us have grown up with and it still feels very strange not attending Sunday worship. Today is Father’s Day and…