The Book that Made your World : How the Bible created the Soul of Western Civilization. By Vishal Mangalwadi. Thomas Nelson, 2011 442 pages. £12 – ISBN 978 1 595 555 458 Christianity Today called the author ‘India’s foremost intellectual’. He studied philosophy at Indian universities and ashrams and spent 6 months with Dr Schaeffer’s Swiss…
The latest edition of Grapevine magazine can be read here.
Continuing reflection on the Prayer Card from the Christian organisation called Medical Missionary News (https://mmn.uk.com), Tuesday’s prayer is for COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE PROGRAMMES. “Many cannot afford to go to the hospital or clinic. Please pray for the mobile clinics, medical camps and home visits, as medical teams go out into the rural areas to give primary…
7th Sunday of Easter – (Sunday after Ascension Day) Year A 17th May 2026 Lectionary Readings: Acts 1 v6-14; Psalm 68 v1-10, 32-35; 1 Peter 4 v12-14; 5 v6-11. John 17 v1-11 Questions, questions. Luke has two versions of the Ascension. Why? At the end of his gospel, Luke says Jesus blessed his…
Following on from my last few TFTDs, I am concentrating on one body part that we all know well, is essential to life, and has never been successfully transplanted, (unless you believe the novels of Mary Shelley). This is of course the brain, and the next few TFTDs will look at different areas of the…
(Photo by Zulfugar Karimov on Unsplash) (Photo by Zulfugar Karimov on Unsplash) In October 2025, the BBC reported that UK visitors to the online pornography website Pornhub had fallen by 77% in the three months since age checks were introduced. These came after the Online Safety Act placed a legal requirement on such sites to…
Today’s thought for the day is brought to us by Julie Smith www.ellel.uk “Blessed is the one … whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night. That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose…
On 13th January we met at ITFC for a ‘Together For Ipswich’ meeting at which representatives from Ipswich churches and Christian groups get together to look at ways of working together across our town in the future. It’s a time of change and challenge as key figures have moved on and there are different emphases…
We have a second movie to watch in June – Power Ballad, click here for details.
Read: Acts 13:26-33 Today’s passage is an extract from the account of Saint Paul’s first missionary journey. He was in Pisidian Antioch, where he was outlining to a gentile gathering how Jesus had been treated. Quoting Isaiah (53:1-4), he explained that people who had been promised a deliverer despised him when he came. The Sanhedrin…