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Wow!

The Thought for the Day is from Psalm 147 v 4. Astronomers used Australia’s largest optical telescope to map 100,000 galaxies that surround our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The 3-dimensional map covers 5% of the sky and allows us to see 4 billion light-years deep into space. The number of stars included defies our imagination,…

Beautiful

Four years ago I was travelling back from Scotland. We reached Northumberland and the road we wanted to travel on was closed. We were diverted across the North Pennines, and came across a gem of a village, Blanchland. Whilst planning our summer holidaying June this year, we decided to make Blanchland our “stopover” on our…

Playing our part

In 1789, Benjamin Franklin, a significant figure in early American history, coined a phrase that is still quoted today. He said, ‘Nothing is certain except death and taxes’. Sunday 12th June is Tax Justice Sunday; an opportunity for churches simultaneously to address the two certainties that Benjamin Franklin spoke of. We have a gospel that…

If…

1 Corinthians 13 –  A paraphrase    IF      I have the language never so perfectly and speak like a pundit and have not the knack of              love that grips the heart, I am nothing.    IF      I have decorations and diplomas and am proficient in all up to date methods and have not             …

Singapore Part 3

On Sunday the 15th May Richard and I attended the morning service in Hakka Methodist Church. It is very close to his apartment. It was very hot and so the coolness inside the church was a huge relief. We were warmly greeted and shown where to sit. The first thing I noticed was the beautiful…

Revelation and Reason

Revelation and Reason : Wesleyan responses to eighteenth century rationalismBy Arthur Skevington Wood  The Wesley Fellowship, 1992   103 pages ISBN 0 951 633 228 “This book examines the reaction of John Wesley himself together with two of his associates –  John William Fletcher and Joseph Benson – to the challenges of reductionist rationalism in…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 12th June 2022

Trinity Sunday                                  Year C                                                 12th June 2022 Lectionary readings:  Proverbs 8 v1-4, 22-31;    Psalm 8;    Romans 5 v1-5;    John 16 v12-15. The source of Wisdom. “You made us a little lower than yourself. You let us rule everything your hands have made. And you put all of it under our power”.  (Psalm 8 v5,6).…