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)
Monday 12th April 2021 saw the lifting of further government restrictions as a part of the so called “roadmap to recovery” and along with half the population of Ipswich we visited the wonderful “Jimmy’s Farm” at our first opportunity. We have spent many happy hours visiting the farm in the past and it is better…
Words, like clothes, go in and out of fashion. The meaning of words change over time. Often, we can recognise a person’s age by the words they use. National and global events create new words and new usage of old words, and none more so than the global event of the Covid 19 pandemic. Since…
When you hear the words ‘investing’ or ‘capital’ your mind almost inevitably turns to thoughts of money and savings. Finance, whether personal, community or national, features constantly in the news. We are accustomed to associating ‘investing’ and ‘capital’ with money. It’s quite normal. In financial terms, you can invest more money thus increasing the capital…
God’s people have always been singing, so the hymn goes. Reflecting on the last year, it is interesting the differences there are between us over the place of singing in worship – it seems that we are not all reacting the same way. I have always loved hymns and the pleasure of singing in a…
Numbers 14:3 “Why is the Lord bringing us to this land only to let us fall by the sword? Our wives and children will be taken as plunder. Wouldn’t it be better for us to back to Egypt?” As the Israelites approached the land of Canaan, the Promised Land, Moses sent out twelve spies to…
“Light Perpetual” is the title of the new book by author Francis Spufford. The image of light as in St. John’s Gospel features throughout the book. The Background: In 1942, a V2 rocket attack on the New Cross Road branch of Woolworths killed 168 people, 15 were aged 11 or under. The novel is written…
During Antarctica’s nine-month winter, the continent is engulfed in darkness and the temperature sinks to -115 F (-82 C). Flights are halted from late February to November, leaving workers at scattered research stations isolated and virtually cut off from outside help. Yet in 2001, two daring rescue missions penetrated the polar winter and airlifted people…
The residents of Wendley Drive in Meanwood, Leeds have had a regular weekly slot on the BBC’s One Show for the last year. They started bringing their chairs outside one night a week and sitting by their gates and chatting with their neighbours, it was another of those occasions when viewers could listen to the…
Exodus 16:3 “In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt. There we sat round pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this…
The last twelve months has brought into focus the different ways we access news and the reliability of it. Years ago news spread by word of mouth with reliable and unreliable sources muddled up together, with the local gossips adding the necessary spin to sensationalise the otherwise dull. The previous President of the United States…