First Sunday of Advent Year C 28th November 2021. Lectionary readings: Jeremiah 33 v14-16; Psalm 25 v1-10; 1 Thessalonians 3 v9-13; Luke 21 v25-36. Looking back and moving on. The lectionary readings this week are a curious mix. They seem to be inviting us to look back to our roots, to ponder our…
Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Fruit is the culmination of the reproduction of an organism. We are God’s creations and through the Spirit we are called to bear fruit, to pass on the genetic…
I am part of that ever-increasing gang of people that have to renew their driving licence every three years, not because of my age, but because of my health. I am at that point when I have had to send my perfectly good licence off to the DVLA and grant them permission to check my…
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Psalm 1 v 3.That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither, whatever they do prospers. Godly men and women are compared in Scripture to sturdy trees, planted by the rivers of water, laden with fruit, and full of leaves(Psalm 1 v 3, 104 v…
Psalm 24v1 The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it. During half-term I went with my daughter and four of my great grandchildren – two 3-year-olds and two 5-year-olds – to Colchester Zoo. The weather was beautiful and I was looking forward to being with the little ones but I had mixed feelings about being…
Preaching Plan for December 2021 to February 2022.
Elmsett Methodist Church have recently received a Silver Eco-Church award.
I was interested and concerned to hear of the difficulties caused to attention spans by a reduction in in-person human contact during COVID. The context was younger children and an example was that because ‘Granny is on screen’ and can be turned up or down, on or off, she becomes less ‘real’. This has brought…
“Through the night of doubt and sorrowOnward goes the pilgrim band:Singing songs of expectationMarching to the Promised Land.” It saddens me how this song has dropped out of use, I’ve always found it very helpful. I’ve some ideas: a. People have stopped reading beyond the first line; b. The word “Marching” has put people off,…