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)
I will never stop being amazed at how God works! I had no idea what to write about this week and it’s got to middle morning on Wednesday – usually by now I’d got it sorted. I made myself a coffee and went out to feed the birds. As I did so, Pachelbel’s Canon in…
Read: Acts 2:14-21 We have become used to having a mobile phone within reach for much of the time. When I was growing up it was decided that ‘we children’ needed to learn to use the telephone, in case of an emergency. Making a call involved going to a different room, dialling a number and…
For many years Karen and I went to St Andrews Methodist Church in Undercliffe Bradford and one of the features of life in that Church was Scarborough Weekend. Every year during November a large group of us would take over Green Gables hotel (pictured above) and in its heyday we would number a hundred plus…
This phrase, part of a question that Satan asked Eve, Genesis 3:1, is something I find frequently coming to mind. I am not sure if this is something that comes with increasing age or a personal challenge. We live in a world of instant media information, and to hear of the ill-treatment of Christians in…
By the time this TFTD is published I shall hopefully be on a train home from Newcastle, having completed a 3 day cycle ride along Hadrian’s Wall – actually on roads following the route along Hadrian’s Wall, from Silloth to Tynemouth Hadrian’s Wall was the north-west frontier of the Roman Empire for nearly 300 years…
What difference does your faith make to you? A strange question to start perhaps, but I think it is important we ask this question not only of others but ourselves. Why do we need to ask this question? Because people of no faith must think we are strange because we believe as Christians in someone…
The tragedy in Gujarat, when so many people were killed when the plane crashed, has been very much in my mind and in my heart. When I lived in Belfast the church I attended had a big connection with Gujarat. One of the church members was the great great grandson of the first Presbyterian Missionary,…
There is a song sung by worship group ‘Casting Crowns’ that explores what might happen if God’s church really prayed. One verse says: ‘What if the church, for Heaven’s sakeFinally stepped up to the plateTook a stand upon God’s promiseAnd stormed Hell’s rusted gates?’ God promises to listen always. God’s promises are there to be…
Read: Revelation 4:1-11 Church buildings often tell stories of the life a community both now and in the past. For a visitor, a few moments spent in a church may make immediate connections with the life of a place, more than a museum ever will. The first question on approaching a place of worship may…
Today’s thought for the day is brought to us by Cynan Llwyd www.christianaid.org.uk As God delights in the natural world, so should we. Something to read O Lord, how manifold are your works! Psalm 104:24 from full reading Psalm 104:24-35. Something to think about There are 300,000 species of beetles in the world. There are…