When the glorious day came when my wife was due to come home after being in hospital for just over nine and a half weeks, we were told that a care package would be put in place and we would have carers visiting our house four times a day. My heart sank, my last experience…
Remember last week I wrote about attending a match at Portman Road? Well, that week was a bit of a football based week. As I said, I hadn’t even been to the ground, let alone watched a math there, for 64 years. But I found myself there again in the Premier lounge for a meeting…
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In the last few months I have shared a few of these ‘thoughts’ based on the protracted experience of my retirement and that of two other colleagues. The latest one was really very funny provided I laugh at myself. On the occasion of the aforementioned ‘do’ I was at an all-day conference that ended with…
Continuing my thoughts about experiences of fathers, and the Fatherhood of God, – I have often spent time with Kate, a friend, for whom the whole subject of her father brings back very painful memories. When she was 10 her father left the family to start a new relationship, moving 250 miles away to make…
This week, our 10 minute service reflects on Galatians 6:14.
Watching one of the many hospital-based programmes on TV, I was interested in one of the patients in the Accident and Emergency department. The patient’s wife shared a little of how the two had met, and in the early days of their friendship, as a Christian, she invited the young man to church, expecting him…
If you have read any of my TFTDs in the past you will know Bill the boxer. Today I want to introduce you to Cheddar the miniature labradoodle. She is my son in Australia’s dog, and we met her for the first time on this trip. She became affectionately known as “Cheddy bear,” as she…
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A 1st February 2026. Lectionary Readings: Micah 6 v1-8; psalm 15; 1 Corinthians 1 v18-31; Matthew 5 v1-12. The sermon on the mount. As we have seen before, Matthew echoes the life of Moses in the way he portrays Jesus. Jesus goes up a mountain and brings God’s…
In Luke 10:25–37, an expert in Law asks Jesus, “Who is my neighbour?” Jesus answers with the story of the Good Samaritan. Jesus then turns the question around. It is not only, “Who is my neighbour?” but also, “How can you be a neighbour?” Jesus says, “Go and do likewise.” (Luke 10:37) Two weeks back,…