Everywhere you turn today you see advertising. Billboards shout and T-shirts tout their messages. Radio spots, TV commercials and newspaper ads make urgent pitches. Of course, we know that the goods and services being advertised carry a price tag. We have to pay for what is being offered. No one expects to get something for nothing.…
Dear Siblings in Christ, Today’s service is available online. Scripture is Matthew 16:13-20. This is the fourth in the five-week series living outside the box. We try to box God in, but God is always breaking out of the box and shattering our understandings of life in God’s kingdom. Today we will ponder Jesus’ question,…
Matti Ensio Nykanen is considered by many to be the greatest male ski jumper of all time, winning five Winter Olympic medals, nine World Championship medals and twenty-two Finnish Championship medals, most notably he won three gold medals in the 1988 Winter Olympics, yet my guess is that only a few of you will know…
I have just finished reading a compelling and eye-opening book by Joanna Cannon, author of ‘The trouble with Goats and Sheep’ and ‘Three things about Elsie’ –( also fantastic reads), entitled ‘Breaking and Mending’, which is a junior doctor’s stories of compassion and burnout. I hope she won’t mind me borrowing her title for a…
Chantry Methodist and Woodbridge Methodist Churches have new websites.
Dear Friends I hope this letter finds you well. Hopefully we are all now moving forward as we slowly emerge from a time of lockdown. At present in the Felixstowe Mission Area we have on offer three acts of Worship per week. On Sundays, 11 am – 12 noon @ Trinity. Followed in the afternoon…
I was driving home from Hadleigh and came across a combine harvester coming towards me. It was obvious I would not be able to pass, and there was a van behind me. I therefore had to edge forward. Unfortunately I ended up with a wheel in a ditch, unable to get out. The combine passed,…
Over the last few months we have been posting the odd cartoon on the Methodistic Facebook page. Here is a slideshow of some of the pictures we have used to brighten your day .. Special thanks to Derek the cleric for keeping us amused.See more on Andy Robb’s website
21st Sunday in ordinary Time Year A 23rd August 2020 Lectionary Readings: Isaiah 51 v1-6 The Lord will bring comfort Romans 12 v1-8 Christ brings new life Matthew 16 v13-20 Who is Jesus? The Invisible Mentor The person of God not mentioned explicitly in today’s readings is the Holy Spirit. Jesus…
We were having lunch one Sunday after Church. Teenage daughters had apparently had a rough time that morning in the Youth Fellowship. There was a lad there who had been completely disruptive, butting in, making comments, questioning etc. In the end, one of the teenagers, in sheer exasperation said ” I don’t know why he…