Normally, parking a car next to a wall should not be risky once the parking manoeuvre itself is complete. That was not the case recently in Framlingham when part of the churchyard wall collapsed of its own accord and damaged a parked vehicle. Fortunately, no one was hurt. Walking past the scene a few days…

You’ll realise by now I’ve become interested in older hymns recently.  The messages of hope and comfort, challenge and quiet revolution they include can be inspirational.  Methodist tradition has it that our hymn books should also be our prayer books.  I can go along with that. One of my favourite prayer/hymns is “For the Healing…

Luke 2:20. The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told. In a delightful sermon titled, “When the Angels Were Gone,” G.L.Chappell emphasizes that when the angels announced the good news to the shepherds the men took action. They went to…

Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Joy is a feeling of happiness, but it is more than just feeling cheerful. It has a very visible exuberance about it, an external expression that everyone can see…