7th Sunday of Easter – (Sunday after Ascension Day) Year A 17th May 2026 Lectionary Readings: Acts 1 v6-14; Psalm 68 v1-10, 32-35; 1 Peter 4 v12-14; 5 v6-11. John 17 v1-11 Questions, questions. Luke has two versions of the Ascension. Why? At the end of his gospel, Luke says Jesus blessed his…
The Brawlers at Trinity Church – Sat 16th May 10am till 12.
(Photo by Zulfugar Karimov on Unsplash) (Photo by Zulfugar Karimov on Unsplash) In October 2025, the BBC reported that UK visitors to the online pornography website Pornhub had fallen by 77% in the three months since age checks were introduced. These came after the Online Safety Act placed a legal requirement on such sites to…
Today’s thought for the day is brought to us by Julie Smith www.ellel.uk “Blessed is the one … whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night. That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose…
On 13th January we met at ITFC for a ‘Together For Ipswich’ meeting at which representatives from Ipswich churches and Christian groups get together to look at ways of working together across our town in the future. It’s a time of change and challenge as key figures have moved on and there are different emphases…
We have a second movie to watch in June – Power Ballad, click here for details.
Read: Acts 13:26-33 Today’s passage is an extract from the account of Saint Paul’s first missionary journey. He was in Pisidian Antioch, where he was outlining to a gentile gathering how Jesus had been treated. Quoting Isaiah (53:1-4), he explained that people who had been promised a deliverer despised him when he came. The Sanhedrin…
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Our next Movie will be The Sheep Detectives on Thursday 4th June – Click here for info.
Do you think that food cooked outside tastes better? I have certainly enjoyed food cooked on barbecues on a number of occasions, though there have been one or two instances of my making discreet use of someone’s kitchen bin to dispose of a burnt offering! Barbecues have certainly become more popular in Britain recently despite…