Today’s thought for the day is brought to us by is Dr Frances Clemson, Faith Communications and Just Scripture Specialist at Christian Aid. Something to read Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy. Those who go out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with…
March 2025 Preaching Plan
The Badly Behaved Bible : thinking again about the story of Scripture by Nick PageHodder & Stoughton, 2020 £10 260 pagesISBN 978 1 473 686 212 Also available on Kindle Nick Page is a well known author with over 80 books to his credit. He has been called ‘God’s most dangerous writer’. The quotation from…
Messy Church at Elmsett Methodist Church .
In June last year, my wife and I spent four days based at a hotel near Chester and on our first day we visited that lovely City. We had two unsuccessful attempts to use the Hop-on & Hop-off facility despite using the printed map and checking the timetable at one of the stops. After some…
My son recently sent one of those messages, (we’ve probably all had them), “mum, what are you doing in May?” How would you respond to this? Excited? “Why what are you suggesting we do?” Cynical? “Why, what do you want?” Needless to say it was the latter. “How would you like to look after Bill…
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Year C 16th February 2025 Lectionary Readings: Jeremiah 17 v5-10; Psalm 1; 1 Corinthians 15 v12-20; Luke 6 v17-26. Finding the right way. The Psalmist suggests that the way to happiness is towards God and the way to ruin is away from God. (Psalm 1 v1,6). In today’s Old…
I don’t know whether you have noticed, but there seems to be a poll each month showing the decline in Church attendance, less people having any religious belief, and more Churches closing yearly. It becomes a most depressing picture, which seems to me makes us retreat into our separate denominations. We spend more time on…
At the recent Folk Cafe in FMC at Trinity one of the musicians said he was going to play the Harmonica. He held up the tiniest one I think any of us had ever seen. Before he started to play he told us a bit about it. In December 1965 the two astronauts, who were…
February – the shortest month – some years doesn’t even contain a full moon, depending on how the dates fall. It was named after the Latin term ‘februum’ meaning purification since the Christian festival of Candlemas recognises Mary’s purification after the birth of Jesus occurs on the 2nd February. It’s a season of change as…