Many of us will have experienced some amount of flooding as a result of storm Babet. Where I live, apart from the inconvenience of not having easy access into town, there was not much damage. There was a slightly anxious moment when water was flowing from our pond (drainage ditch off the fields) across the…
31st Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A 5th November 2023 Lectionary Readings: Micah 3 v5-12; Psalm 43; 1 Thessalonians 2 v9-13; Matthew 23 v1-12. Hypocrisy. In today’s gospel reading Jesus is talking about religious leaders who pay lip service to their own teaching and preaching. Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples:…
I was given a Lego kit for Christmas a few years ago and had a delightful Boxing Day, building a truck, some industrial shelving and a forklift truck helped by my grandson who seemed to be a natural Lego expert and we had a great time, and the result was very satisfying. The last three…
The Ferris Wheel in Felixstowe is in the process of being dismantled. It’s quite interesting to see how each day a bit more of it is craned onto the back of a lorry. Some of the pieces are huge and obviously very strong. They would need to be strong as thousands of people have had…
One piece of homework I used to set my RE students in year 9 as part of a unit on prejudice and discrimination, was to re-write Jesus’ parable of The Good Samaritan in a modern day setting. So, I would receive versions such as The Good …….’Punk’ or ‘Liverpool Supporter’ or ‘Crack Addict’. If Jesus…
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A feature of church life, aside from worship, is often its fellowship forged over food. You can properly cite scriptural examples of fellowship involving meals, not least the Last Supper itself. It is sometimes said that we are what we eat; which makes many Christians appear as tea, biscuits, cakes, and other not especially healthy…
I once attended a course arranged by a national charity and it included this comment by one of the speakers. “There are two kinds of people in the world, those who talk and those who cannot wait for them to pause for breath so they can start!” Somewhat tongue in cheek I suspect, but there…
This week, our 10 minute service reflects on Isaiah 40:28-30.
This thought was first published on 12th October 2021 While reading my paper last weekend I came across the picture of a cute cat looking out from a cardboard box. Nothing unusual in that you might think, but the caption with it said: I don’t care how big the new garden is.I don’t care how…