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 have been going through some old Methodist Recorders to refresh in my mind some of the things I had read and then to throw them out. I came across an article written by our President (and ex-Chair of our District), Rev Graham Thompson headed “Expect to be Surprised”. He says “as we stand on…
One of the things I enjoy doing each week is attending my local Leisure Centre “Body Balance” fitness class. I go with a friend, and we call it “Body Wobble” class, as there is often more wobbling than balancing! In our faith, do we wobble or are we evenly balanced? Throughout the Bible, there are…
Picture from Ipswich Star 7th December 2022 We have a very colourful Anglican Church just down the road from where we live, colourful because of their splendid posters and banners. The Church makes a lovely nativity tableau each year during Advent, which I always enjoy looking at as I queue to get across a nearby…
In my kitchen I always have a tube of hand cream sitting. My hands can get very dry, especially in the wintertime and I don’t always look after them as I should. I don’t wish to promote any particular brand but the one from a country where the first letter is N is my favourite. I…
My third child, I’ll call him George, was the only one of my four to be born on his due date. Even then, he couldn’t wait! Once he went on a school trip and bought me a jar of sweets as a present. When he got off the coach, he proudly offered me the empty…
The idea of being part of something vast is encouraging; the writer to the Hebrews talks about the cloud of witnesses all around giving encouragement to believers to throw off the weight of sin and its entanglements to run the race to Christ. Being entirely unathletic I have never found the ‘race’ an appealing image…
With the world cup well underway, it is impossible to ignore the messed-up priorities of our world, in which the media’s obsession with popularism allows the game of football to take centre stage over human survival. World leaders at COP27 took an extra day to reach any meaningful conclusion. We can applaud the signing of…
Many years ago, I heard a Christian stating that “Video recorders were invented for the benefit of Christians who didn’t believe you should watch TV on a Sunday!” Presumably, this would enable the Christian to watch a Sunday programme on another day without any sense of guilt. I find the record facility helpful for a…
Do you remember going to the cinema and watching the B movie, or perhaps buying a 4rpm record with a B side song? Sometimes there was a hidden gem amongst these B movies or songs. They were a vehicle for up and coming actors and singers. You got two for the price of one –…
As a little lad growing up in a village in West Yorkshire, you could roughly divide religious people into four categories, Church folk, chapel folk, Roman Catholics and “not religious at all” The vast majority of people would class themselves as “CofE” if they had to align themselves with a denomination of any kind when…