Recently at our Harvest Festival service Jo Jacobs used a passage from 1 Corinthians chapter 3 ‘What after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe – as the Lord has assigned to each his task. I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow’.…
We owe the Bible, both Old and New Testaments, to the Jews. All of it was written by Jews with the exception of the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts written by Luke if, as is generally accepted, Luke was a gentile, a non-Jew, born in Syria. The Bible, we believe, is a…
We have just been through a period of celebrating harvest. Despite the driest summer I can remember, and our lawn certainly seems to reflect that, we have had a harvest of figs, peaches, grapes, chilies, beans, potatoes and onions…oh and of course courgettes a plenty! One of the things I’ve noticed in the parched flower…
Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C 9th October 2022 Lectionary Readings: 2 Kings 5 v1-3, 7-15b; Psalm 111; 2 Timothy 2 v8-15; Luke 17 v11-19. Respect and obedience. “Respect and obey the Lord! This is the first step to wisdom and good sense.” (Psalm 111 v10). Try telling that to Naaman! In the…
Faith in the Wilderness : words of exhortation from the Chinese churchHannah Nation and Simon Liu editors Kirkdale Press, 2022 ISBN 978 1 683 596 042Also available digitally from Lexham Press A collection of nine sermons by different Chinese pastors in a book of about 150 pages is nothing extraordinary, you might say. Yet there…
Dear friends, Karen and I enjoy going to Church when we are away on holiday, mainly because we seldom have the opportunity to sit together in worship, and I believe that it is good for me to be able to receive and be fed instead of always being the one who is attempting to preach.…
How often have we said in recent weeks that we are experiencing once in a lifetime events, or being a part of the process of writing history? Just as we have witnessed the whole experience of the Queens platinum jubilee, something never seen in history before and the proclamation of a new king, this week…
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Orford Methodist Church – 12th November – 2pm
Russian peasant farmers enjoy telling the story of the day a commissar came to a farmer and enquired about the year’s potato crop. “Oh it was wonderful,” replied the farmer. “Good, good,” said the official. “Just how big was it?” “Oh, it was so big it reached up to the very foot of God.” The…