Every day we post a Thought for the day written by someone within the circuit. Some are very light hearted and some are very deep theologically with all bases between covered.
We hope these will encourage, uplift and make you reflect but most of all we hope you enjoy reading these small daily snippets and take some inspiration on your daily journey
“I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go” (Genesis 28:15)
As a child growning up in the sixties, I remember our family having a huge respect for food, which we don’t seem to have today. Dinner was plated up and put in front of you and you were expected to eat what mum had cooked and eat all of it, we weren’t allowed to be…
I have heard friends say that they have stopped listening to the news. It is always full of bad things and disasters that it just makes them feel worse so they give up. I have a good deal of sympathy for this view as I often find myself either shouting back at the TV or…
There is nothing quite like a dispute over inheritance to bring out the worst in families or amongst friends or other benefactors if there is perceived unfairness. The deceased may have thought hard about the reasons for the way the estate is to be apportioned, and may have seen the needs or behaviours of others…
Barnabas, which means ‘son of encouragement’, appears as one of the most attractive and interesting of the minor characters in the New Testament. He appears mostly in the book of Acts with a couple of incidental references to him in 1 Corinthians, Galatians, Colossians and 1 Timothy. The record in Scripture tells us that Barnabas…
Proverbs 4 v 25.Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you A gentleman had always heard that if a farmer keeps his eyes on a distant object while he’s ploughing, he’ll make a straight furrow. So, he tested the principle when he mowed his lawn. Sure enough, his first cut was a…
Over the last few months, I’ve had the honour to receive so many messages in all shapes and forms from people telling me they are praying for me. One or two came from people I didn’t even know but who had heard of my situation from mutual friends. The love and support which came through…
Did you know that Greenland was in fact named by the Norwegian-born Icelandic Viking Erik the Red who was exiled there for manslaughter? He named it Greenland in an effort to entice travellers to settle there. Far from being green, over 80% of Greenland is covered by a pure white ice sheet, and is the…
When we first saw our new home in Ipswich eight years ago, one of the big attractions to the property was the fields opposite. As a child, I grew up in a house which looked out over fields and I can remember many happy hours playing out in the fields. Almost as soon as we…
There are times when I can be remarkably practised in the art of selective amnesia. It is easy to remember things in the past that were happy or good times or when I did well at something; it is less easy to recall those times when I failed or made a fool of myself. There…
In July Drew, James, Richard and I enjoyed a few days holiday in Whitstable. We were blessed with excellent weather, a lovely house to stay in and far too much food to eat. We had lots of long walks and my sons tried paddle boarding for the first time. My excuse for not trying it…