Today’s thought for the day is brought to us by Dr Frances Clemson, Christian Aid’s Faith Communications and Just Scripture Specialist www.christianaid.org.uk Something to read If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. – John 8:32-33. Something to think…
This weeks service reflects on Matthew 7:7-12.
The Story of 90 Years : Methodism in the Ipswich area 1909 – 1998by Elizabeth Watthews and Janet LumleyThe Methodist Church – Ipswich Circuit, 2001 £2.99 68 pages ISBN 0 953 583 031 This book was written by Elizabeth Watthews, a local history librarian, and by Janet Lumley who contributed the section on Youth and…
For several years I was privileged to enjoy fellowship with an older Christian at church and in a Homegroup. One of his qualities that I admired and appreciated was his defence of the “underdog” and linked to that, his dislike of generalisations. When we first moved to our current area and because we had two…
Pentecost Sunday Year B 19th May 2024. Lectionary Readings: Acts 2 v1-21; Psalm 104 v24-34, 35b; Romans 8 v22-27; John 15 v26-27; John 16 v4b-15. The Spirit is here to help us become the people of God. Jesus said “I will send you the Spirit who comes from the Father and shows what is…
I have recently returned from the East Anglian District Synod. In the afternoon we were led in a Bible Study on Philippians 1:1-9. We were then asked to discuss in groups a set of questions. In true group discussion, it doesn’t matter how long you are given, most of the time was spent discussing the…
I can still remember the day way back in March 1976 when I passed my driving test, the day was the fulfilment of my dream to be able to drive a car, I’d had my first lesson in my Dad’s three wheeler Reliant Regal Supervan iii which looking back was a bit of a grand…
On Tuesday I went to Ipswich, travelling by bus. We only have one bus per hour and it was 25 minutes late but the sun was shining so I didn’t mind waiting. It might have been a different story if it had been raining. There was a “Buddy Driver” on board and I assumed that…
May dew was thought to have special properties – girls who bathed in it were thought to have beautiful complexions; people would go out of their way to walk barefoot or roll in it; men who washed their hands in it were thought to become good at tying knots and making nets. Mothers would wrap…
Voyager 1 ascended into space in the year in which I was in the lower sixth form at school. Ever since then it has been travelling further and further from our planet and sending back images which have enhanced human understanding of things God knows and sees. By the time my son was the age…