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)
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…
Several years ago, while undergoing radiotherapy, I was given what I once described as “information overload”. However, over a few days, I read everything in the various documents and became interested in one particular phrase. “If you feel tired, the best thing is to get up and do something.” This was the opposite of what…
We have recently had scaffolding up outside our house (again), as our chimneys needed repainting. When he climbed up the ladders to start the job, our decorator found a family of jackdaws nesting in one of the chimneys. Fortunately, this is a “redundant” chimney so there was no debris in our fireplace. The chimney was…
We have just spent a wonderful week in the North East on holiday with our eldest daughter and our grandson. I had two main objectives for the holiday: the first was putting the new mobility scooter through its paces and secondly, as my daughter puts it perfectly, making memories for our grandson. During the course…
My home town of Ballymena in Northern Ireland has been featuring on the main news over the last couple of days. Unfortunately, it is for all the wrong reasons. There has been rioting and destruction of property and quite a few policemen have been injured. It is being blamed on racial attacks. Many of the…
I recently found a Nigerian prayer which begins like this: “God in Heaven, You have helped my life to grow like a tree. Now something has happened. Satan, like a bird, has carried in one twig of his own choosing after another. Before I knew it, he had built a dwelling place and was living…
Read Ezekiel 36:22-28 God did good things for Israel, not because Israel deserved their treatment but because God was demonstrating his own grace so that through, and in some ways in spite of the chosen people, others would see his goodness and marvel. On holiday recently on Shetland (you may suffer more references in weeks…
Today’s thought for the day is brought to us by Stephen Trew www.christian aid.co.uk Begin afresh, afresh, afresh. Something to read On the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month,…