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The Thought for the Day is from Hebrews 11 v 6. And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him An atheist said to a Quaker, “Have you ever seen God? Have you ever felt…
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This morning I felt the need for exercise and needed to go to our local Post Office. It was one of those beautiful sunny Suffolk days with blue sky and big white fluffy clouds. As I walked by the fields the various crops were looking almost ready for harvesting. In some of the fields the…
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Year C 31st July 2022 Lectionary readings: Ecclesiastes 1 v2, 12-14, 2 v18-23; Psalm 49 v1-12; Colossians 3 v1-11; Luke 12 v13-21. Rich in the sight of God. In today’s gospel reading, Jesus finishes his story of the rich fool by saying, “This is what happens to people who…
Dear Friends, The current trend in a lot of Circuits around the Connexion, indeed in a lot of Churches of all denominations is one of pessimism, with aging congregations, depleting numbers, and financially starved Churches, meaning that across the land Churches are fighting hard, simply to keep going, knowing that the writing is on the…
Hopefully as you sit with your cuppa taking time to read this, I will be in sunny Cornwall, not far from the coast three hundred and seventy miles away in Cornwall. Hopefully, I will be sitting out in the sun, but knowing my luck with holidays, it will be pouring with rain! I love holiday,…
One of the hymns which has been going through my mind recently has been Rock of Ages, cleft for me (StF 434) written by Augustus Toplady. I was surprised to find it is still in our recent hymn book and was quite prepared for it to have been left out. One saying is that Augustus…
I’m writing this on holiday in Brittany. There’s a perfumery called Beauty Success on a side street. How the French love some franglais! The shop sells a wide range of lovely face creams, perfumes and other toiletries. I enjoy wearing a little makeup and a good moisturiser, but I’m under no illusions. I’m never going…
By the time you read this we should be away on holiday, somewhere off the coast of Norway enjoying a trip we had planned, booked and paid for before Covid derailed everyone’s best intentions. I will believe it when we get there, such is the effect of the last two years of changed plans and…