Today’s thought for the day is brought to us by Rev Claire Jones www.christianaid.org.uk/resources/pray/daily-reading-7-february For it is the God who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness’, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this…
This week, our Bite Sized service reflects on John 1:4.
In the late 1960s, I was privileged to attend a 12-week evening course at the London Bible College, now known as the London School of Theology. The lecturer, who read Greek, was asked by another student, “Why do you only teach from the Authorised Version and not modern translations?” His response was, “In translating the…
Sunday before Lent Year B 11th February 2024 Lectionary readings: 2 Kings 2 v1-12, Psalm 50 v1-6, 2 Corinthians 4 v3-6, Mark 9 v2-9. Putting doubts to bed. In the gospel reading, Jesus appears to have arranged a tutorial for his closest disciples, Peter, James and John. Jesus takes them to…
The parable of the Good Samaritan has been covered recently in our TFTD. It is a well-known story and one you might remember hearing as a child in school assemblies or Sunday School. We are using this story in our next Messy Church when we think about love. Jesus had told this story in reply…
We have taken a few days off during the week and on Thursday we were in Gret Yarmouth, which was a red-letter day for the town. After years of lobbying, agreement to create a new river crossing was granted in 2018, legal work took longer than expected and work eventually started in January 2020. During…
On Tuesday our Open The Book Team visited Colneis and Fairfield schools to participate in their Assemblies. Our story this visit was Noah and the Flood. We have never used as many props and we had help from 7 children in each school as well as 7 team members. About 2 dozen wild animals (soft…
You may remember a few weeks ago I explained how Granddaughter senior would be attending a gymnastics trial. She loved it. The coaches were all very young (a sign of my age!) and very patient. She moved from activity to activity under their watch and gentle guidance. When we collected her for her second session,…
Many years ago, one night I found myself staying in a remote hotel in Lincolnshire, surrounded by reed beds. It was wintertime and the place was quite eerie; the only sound outside was the music of wind in the reeds and lapping water. Reading through today’s gospel reading (Luke 7:24:30) I was reminded of that…