The beautiful sight of daffodils at this time of the year reminds me of the first of two separate Easter Day sermons I heard many years ago. Possibly a reader of this contribution may have heard the same stories, from the same speakers, as they are well worth repeating. The first speaker related how he…
Under the same sky : from starvation in North Korea to salvation in America by Joseph Kim with Stephen Talty Mariner Books, 2016 273 pages £12ISBN 978 0 544 705 272 The particular interest of this story about North Korea is that it is written by an insider, an eyewitness in a very secretive society.…
This weeks Bite Sized Service reflects on John 1:29.
April 2023 Preaching Plan
In Eddie Askew’s book he tells us of a friend who had a really refreshing holiday on a narrow boat on a canal. They watched the life all around them and noticed that the butterflies were flying faster than they were going. Years ago I went on a week’s holiday on a narrow boat holiday,…
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Palm Sunday Year A 2nd April 2023 Lectionary readings: Isaiah 50 v4-9a; Psalm 31 v9-16; Philippians 2 v5-11; Matthew 27 v11-54. Majestic humility. The (second) prophet Isaiah was preaching during the time of exile in Babylonia. The OT reading, appears to be related to an individual, possibly the prophet himself. It could also relate…
My husband was recently complaining how it was really hard to push the plunger down on our cafetière – only posh coffee in our house! So I set to, with a pair of pliers to dismantle it, only to discover layers of coffee sludge and calcium carbonate blocking the filters. After a good scrub, and…
Based on Luke 19: 1-10 I love reading biographies and auto biographies and have quite an extensive collection of books, audio books and digital books. Perhaps I’m just nosy, but I want to know what drives people, how they become successful, how they overcome hurdles and even survive against all the odds. I particularly like…
I have decided to start my Spring cleaning. I was looking through a pile of old CD’s and I found one by Rita MacNeil which was released in 1990. I remember buying it because I really liked her song “Working Man” but the words of some of the other songs are really thoughtful. One in particular…