This week, in our 10 minute service, we reflect on 1 John 4:10 and sing Here is love.
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This passage from The Friendship Book made me think about how blessed I am to have good friends. “The stones in the dry-stone dyke seemed to have been fitted together any old way until it got to the top-most row. The capping stones were all thin, upright and jammed together. At some point, something had…
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C 26th June 2022 Lectionary Readings: 1 Kings 19 v15-16, 19-21; Psalm 16; Galatians 5 v1, 13-25; Luke 9 v51-62 Guidelines for followers of Jesus. Luke relates how Jesus reacted when he and his followers encountered rejection by the inhabitants of a village in Samaria. They simply move…
I’m sure any of you who are reading this might be surprised at the words I have used in this phrase from the Lord’s Prayer. I had to listen several times to the video put out by the Church of England of the Lord’s Prayer to this phrase. The producers have made a deliberate attempt…
How should we then live ? By Dr Francis A Schaeffer dvd (2 discs) 1977 with Study Guide£31 from Amazon Can be seen on You Tube In 10 programmes Dr Schaeffer covers the rise and decline of western thought and culture, the movement and development of thought and ideas from Roman times to the present,…
Devastating news for some, the final episode of the Australian Soap Opera Neighbours was completed on Friday 10th June 2022 and will be aired in the UK on channel 5 on Monday 1st August 2022, not that I will be watching, but like it or loathe it, the programme has enjoyed a tea time slot…
I was teaching ten reception age children a week before half term. On the last afternoon, they had a scavenger hunt to do outside. So we went out armed with clipboard and sheets with pictures of the ten plants/ animals they needed to spot and pencils. It was a warm afternoon. When we finished they…
In church this morning, after the monthly midweek Communion Service at Woodbridge Methodist Church, I noticed on the back table a number of potted tomato plants. For a donation you could take one home to plant in the garden. Then when I walked down to the town there were loads of tomato plants for sale…
I have a weakness for overusing the exclamation mark in written exchanges, especially in those short replies that are a feature of social media ‘correspondence’. Punctuation is important, and to over use is to devalue the impact of something that should be more than a throw-away symbol. The same is true of the careless deployment…
Once upon a time two brothers who lived on adjoining farms fell into conflict. It was the first serious rift in 40 years of farming side by side, sharing machinery, and trading labourand goods as needed without a hitch. Then the long collaboration fell apart. It began with a small misunderstanding and it grew into…