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)
We are now many weeks after Easter and all the Easter eggs are probably long gone. Did you know that chocolate was around over 1400 years ago? 600AD – Mayans drank a cold drink made from cacao beans 1325AD – Aztecs make a drink with honey and cocoa. They believed that eating cacao beans gave…
Amidst all the pomp and ceremony of the Jubilee weekend celebrations, the BBC managed to hit us with two and half minutes of pure genius and we saw maybe the best bit of television our nation saw in a long time, as the queen invited Paddington Bear to Buckingham Palace for high tea and in…
The Thought for the Day is from Psalm 147 v 4. Astronomers used Australia’s largest optical telescope to map 100,000 galaxies that surround our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The 3-dimensional map covers 5% of the sky and allows us to see 4 billion light-years deep into space. The number of stars included defies our imagination,…
Four years ago I was travelling back from Scotland. We reached Northumberland and the road we wanted to travel on was closed. We were diverted across the North Pennines, and came across a gem of a village, Blanchland. Whilst planning our summer holidaying June this year, we decided to make Blanchland our “stopover” on our…
In 1789, Benjamin Franklin, a significant figure in early American history, coined a phrase that is still quoted today. He said, ‘Nothing is certain except death and taxes’. Sunday 12th June is Tax Justice Sunday; an opportunity for churches simultaneously to address the two certainties that Benjamin Franklin spoke of. We have a gospel that…
1 Corinthians 13 – A paraphrase IF I have the language never so perfectly and speak like a pundit and have not the knack of love that grips the heart, I am nothing. IF I have decorations and diplomas and am proficient in all up to date methods and have not …
On Sunday the 15th May Richard and I attended the morning service in Hakka Methodist Church. It is very close to his apartment. It was very hot and so the coolness inside the church was a huge relief. We were warmly greeted and shown where to sit. The first thing I noticed was the beautiful…
Last week we thought about God being in heaven. This week, in our next phrase of the Lord’s Prayer, we think about heaven on earth. And we are very much part of this. We cannot be passive recipients, rather active participants. There is an urgency in this part of the prayer. We don’t want to…
Weather permitting, the people of Great Britain and around the British Commonwealth will be spilling out into the streets this weekend to celebrate seventy years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. You don’t have to be a staunch royalist to appreciate all that she has done over the last seventy years and still continues…
I have recently been sorting and clearing out some of my many books. My late husband was an incorrigible collector of books but he never got rid of any. Do any of you know someone like that?! During this process I have discovered some treasures and I hope to share some with you over the…