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The Power of the Word …

The Power of the Word : the Bible is the most influential book of all time – and its story continues today…   compiled and edited by Luci Thomas and Patrick Wilson Wycliffe Bible Translators, 2000  61 pages  ISBN 0 938 978 187 A small book with 28 short, snappy stories about the impact of…

Wheatfields

Nichola and I have known this path for over 25 years. We used it as a highway for the buggy when the children were tiny, it was a training ground for carrying them in the backpack as they grew bigger and a Sunday walk later on again. Sometimes it is very wet and once last…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 27th June 2021

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time                                 Year B                             27th June 2021 Lectionary readings:  Lamentations 3 v22-33;        Psalm 30;       2 Corinthians 8 v7-15;        Mark 5 v21-43. The flow of God’s love. At the beginning of Jesus’ ministry in Galilee, Luke records Jesus quoting from the book of the prophet Isaiah. ‘The Lord’s Spirit has come…

Sing Heartily

We have experienced many different things and changes during this long period of lockdown.  Some of these changes will be with us for many years to come, long after we are allowed more freedom of movement.  For example, many people now work all or some of their worktime at home and this has some great…

The Jesus Man

Sadly Geoffrey Brindley died on Tuesday 26th August 2015, a name that will mean very little to most people, but mention “the Jesus man” and faces in west Yorkshire will light up.  I can remember being out in the playground at Calverley Parkside School in the 1960’s and the word would go around “the Jesus…

Jigsaw of life

Psalm 104 v 24“O Lord, what a variety of things you have made! In wisdom you have made them all.” I love doing jigsaws and I’ve done and redone quite a few during this last year. I particularly like land and seascapes. When I start a puzzle, I sort the pieces into the outside ones and…

God’s interpreter

God’s interpreter  by George and Helen Jesze  Kingsway, 1984  190 pages  £ 2 available secondhand    ISBN 978 0 860 652 861 Several things become immediately apparent when starting to read this fascinating book which is full of interest. Firstly, the author’s amazing command of the English language – the style is fluent and idiomatic, the…

Small Steps

We have been in lockdown now since 23rd March 2020, for many of us this means a complete change of circumstance, daily living, affording things and maintaining a health relationship with our families. There are so many people who cannot wait to be free, will run headlong into the wind, thinking that all of the…