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)
Losing control is the worst of all possible experiences for any human being. Before the onset of the pandemic, you could move about freely, you could travel, you could do more or less as you pleased. The start of the pandemic changed all that. You weren’t able to move about freely or travel and you…
Based on 1 Corinthians 12:12-26Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even so the body is…
I thought with all the news around us now you all might like a bit of a smile and, although you have probably read this before, it still brings a smile to my face. I don’t know where it originated from, but it has done the rounds in many a Church magazine and beyond. “Everything…
Thou, whose almighty wordchaos and darkness heard,and took their flight. This hymn is one of the two hymns I had chosen for our Trinity Facebook page last Sunday. I have spent my career in science and engineering and, whilst gaining a Ph.D. in mathematics, studying astronomy and cosmology as a hobby throughout my life. chaos…
When he was only 13 years old, the violinist Yehudi Menuhin was invited to perform with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. With distinguished musicians in the audience listening to him, the youthful genius played some of the most difficult compositions by Beethoven, Bach and Brahms. The response was so enthusiastic that the management called in the police…
I recently made contact with a nearby village Church (not a Methodist one) to double check on their plans for worship; I was notionally due to lead there in a week or two’s time. Like many Churches and Chapels the good people of the congregation in question have decided not to open for the time…
Several of our neighbours in this part of Ipswich have left the Christmas lights outside their homes, not only attached to the building, but switched on during the evenings. Under normal circumstances I would have been moaning about this practice as it is tradition to remove all Christmas decorations by twelfth night, (three day ago…
You can’t go far in reading the Bible without coming across encouragement or a command to show gratitude to God – being thankful. As early as Chronicles (16 : 34), for example, we read – ‘Oh, give thanks to the Lord for he is good…’ Do you tell God in your prayers that he is good…
Recalling undertakers I have known, there was one who went appropriately by the name of Mr Death, but who pronounced his name rather less ominously as Mr De’ath. But more significantly, I remember one saying in my hearing: “I wish these ministers didn’t keep harping on about the resurrection at the funeral service. The mourners…
Our fast-moving world demands immediate service—instant car-phone communication, 20 minute pizza delivery service, fast broadband and so the list goes on. Waiting is grating. As a result we don’t have time for breakdowns, recuperation or repairs. If something goes wrong, we want a quick fix so we can be on our way. If stores can’t give…