My son recently returned from Australia for a holiday after 3 and a half years away. He and his girlfriend flew into Manchester airport, as they were visiting her parents initially. I did feel momentarily envious that they were going there first, but then realised they would have got over the jetlag by the time…
Who do you think you are ? God thinks you are amazing ! By Steve MawstonScripture Union, 1997 127 pages £1 ISBN 978 1 859 992 036 Specifically aimed at teenagers, this book not only deals with the many anxieties and worries of youngsters beginning to find their identity but successfully manages to relate identity…
We have a season ticket for Jimmy’s farm, just south of Ipswich where we live, and it is some of the best money I have ever spent, we get our money’s worth out of our ticket and visit the farm frequently. Over the last few years we have got to know some of the staff…
I was privileged on Easter Sunday to lead worship at Chantry Methodist Church. I decided to have an Easter Carol Service which led us through all the resurrection events detailed in the four Gospels with hymns, prayers, readings and meditations. We had a wonderful sing and really needed our coffee afterwards, but it was a…
With the sky clouded over and the evidence of heavy rainfall to be seen everywhere in the sky and on the roads, pavements and gutters, one hesitates to speak of ‘glory’. Glory bespeaks light, radiance, illumination, brightness and effulgence. It is the very antithesis of clouds and darkness, rain and puddles.The RSV Handy concordance begins…
A family member attended a funeral recently at which a hymn was sung that none of us had ever come across before. It has vanished from use and seems not to be in any of the resources I have access to, both printed hymn books or online. Thinking about old hymns reminded me of one…
My Mum always says I am the most stubborn of her four children. I can remember one dinnertime, when I was very little, my Dad saying that I couldn’t get down from the table until I had a clean plate. I don’t know what was on that plate, but it was something I refused to…
This week Rev. David Keeble reflects on 1 Peter 2:24 in our 10 minute ‘Bite Sized’ service.
The Thought for the Day is from Hebrews 10 v 25. not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. Josef Gabor grew up in Czechoslovakia when it was dominated by communism, and religion was despised as weakness. His father…
Over the last 2 years I have been meeting with friends from around the Ipswich Circuit and beyond for a time of Reflection & Prayer, led by Sue France. This has been done from the comfort of our own homes on a Monday morning, some of us eating our porridge, (and possibly some of us…