A few weeks back I spent a few days in North Yorkshire. We walked from the village we were staying in, along the edge of the North York Moors to Lastingham. The church at Lastingham has a Norman Crypt that dates back nearly 1000 years. In 563 AD Columba set out from Ireland to found…
Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C. 30th October 2022 Lectionary Readings: Isaiah1 v10-18; Psalm 32 v1-7; 2 Thessalonians 1 v1-4, 11-12; Luke 19 v1-10. Hypocrisy and Honesty. Isaiah speaks for God in challenging the hypocrisy of the Temple worshippers of his day. God says, “No matter how much you pray, I won’t listen. You…
Way back in the latter part of the nineteenth century a wealthy Halifax businessman Sir Henry Edwards had a long-standing feud with neighbouring landowner John Edward Wainhouse. To prove his superiority, Edwards built a large house standing in its own land and boasted that he had the most private estate in Halifax, and nobody could…
The Thought for the Day is from Psalm 34 v 11.Come, my children, listen to me, I will teach you the fear of the Lord We will not get far in our relationship with God unless we understand that He is to be feared. In the Chronicles of Narnia, an allegory by C.S.Lewis, two girls, Susan and Lucy,…
The Thought for the Day is from Luke 6 v 37.Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven A man was having difficulty communicating with his wife and concluded that she was becoming hard of hearing. So, he decided to…
One day three year old Brandon sees his father eating chocolate chip cookies and says to himself, ”Daddy loves chocolate chip cookies with milk. So I’m going to give Daddy a glass of milk.” With that he goes into the dining room and drags a dining room chair into the kitchen, leaving a trail of…
Matthew 14:34-6 – When they had crossed over, they landed at Gennesaret. And when the men of that place recognised Jesus, they sent word to all the surrounding country. People brought all who were ill to him and begged him to let those who were ill just touch the edge of his cloak, and all…
Friday 25th November at Capel St Mary Methodist Church.
Some photos from Harvest Messy Play.
At the Christian conference centre I visited a while ago, in the ladies’ toilets there were ‘inspirational messages’ on the backs of the cubicle doors which certainly made me pause for thought. The first was this one: “It is during the worst storm in your life that you get to see the true colors of…