Lent 2 Jesus serving with gladness Based on Luke 4: 16-19 One of the great pleasures I still get out of life is meeting strangers who don’t know what I do for a living, one of my greatest desires is to be normal and be accepted in the way most other people are, rather than…
Today my husband and I are attending a wedding in Surrey. We are very excited about it and have been looking forward to it for ages. The bride is the daughter of good friends who live in Northern Ireland. It is rather a poignant occasion as she was extremely ill when she was in her teens…
From the dusty depths we looked at last week, today we are raising our gaze to the mountains. In the Old Testament, Mountains symbolise fidelity for example in Psalm 125 we read of towering mountains that cannot be shaken. Other cultures and ancient mythologies have traditions that holy mounts were sites of divine creativity and…
Thinking members of my family all told me that I should not read it, but never wanting to do as I am told and not wanting to criticise a book I had not read, I have just finished Prince Harry’s ghost-written memoir ‘Spare’. It is a sad story about a person beset by personal hurt…
I guess that most people reading this have had some sleepless nights; worried about health, work, paying the bills or reliving a negative experience in a relationship. We spend time working out how we are going to find a solution for ourselves, or working through different scenarios as to what might happen – ‘what if?’. …
This week, our 10 minute service reflects on Micah 6:8.
With my Norfolk pen pal, I stayed at a local Christian Guest House where we met a lovely Irish couple. They were engaged but took the phrase, “Owe no man anything” from Romans 13 verse 8 literally as they didn’t believe in having a mortgage so were saving to buy their first home before getting…
Second Sunday in Lent Year A 5th March 2023 Lectionary readings: Genesis 12 v1-4a; Psalm 121; Romans 4 v1-5, 13-17; John 3 v1-17. Abraham’s example. Long ago and far away, (about 4000 years ago, in Southern Iraq), God spoke to man named Abram (later Abraham). Abram put his faith in God’s plans for…
Last week I was clearing brambles, of which there are many, from our garden. I managed to get a thorn in my finger. However I didn’t notice it until a few days later when my finger became rather sore, particularly when putting pressure on it. I looked at my finger which was becoming rather red…
We are at the start of our journey through Lent, and we are using “Holy Habits: Following Jesus” written by Andrew Roberts for our Lent reflections in the Ipswich Methodist Circuit this year. I have decided to pick up the themes for our Sunday Thought for the Day’s Lent 1 Based on Luke 4: 1-13…