As some of you will know, I spent some time in hospital recently. It’s amazing what you think of in that situation, and one of the pictures which kept coming into my head was of an icon I was shown during a Quiet Day at Otley Hall. Icons are images used in the Orthodox Church…
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Bible Reading 1 Peter 3:8Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble The story is told about a plainly dressed man who entered a church in the Netherlands and took a seat near the front. A few minutes later a woman walked down the aisle, saw the stranger in the place…
You may not be prepared to pay for the view from my desk but it never ceases to interest me. In these ordinary trees I see the changing seasons and although sometimes I have a surprise when something like a woodpecker comes to call, some of my best entertainment is provided by the wood pigeons.…
Visit Kirton Methodist every Tuesday from 22nd June for Tea and Cake in the garden !
Dear Friends We celebrate Father’s Day on 20th June and I wish all fathers a happy day and best wishes to you from the Church family. We think also of our own Father in Heaven. Attached is the plan for July for the Felixstowe Mission Area Churches. Please note these dates and the churches at…
Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B 20th June 2021 Lectionary Readings: Job 38 v1-11; Psalm 107 v1-3, 23-32; 2 Corinthians 6 v1-13; Mark 4 v35-41. Teacher, Lord, Master. Was the ‘Storm on the Lake’ incident a miracle or a teaching point, or both? The miracles recorded in the gospels seem to me to…
A wilderness of mirrors : trusting again in a cynical world by Mark Meynell Zondervan, 2015223 pages £14.00 ISBN 978 0 310 515 265 This is a book about cynicism in the first place and a Christian antidote to cynicism is then proposed by the author. At its heart, cynicism follows lack of trust in…
A lady who experienced a total solar eclipse described the incredible sensation of being engulfed by the rushing shadow of darkness, then being awed by the rapidly approaching dawn. Some observers saw it as merely a coincidence that the moon was in the exact position to shut out the sun’s light from reaching the earth…
One of my first purchases after I started working was a Kodak pocket camera. I had seen films as a teenager where a spy would slip his hand into his pocket and take out a tiny camera so that he could photograph some top secret documents which had been carelessly left strewn on the desk…