God’s interpreter by George and Helen Jesze Kingsway, 1984 190 pages £ 2 available secondhand ISBN 978 0 860 652 861 Several things become immediately apparent when starting to read this fascinating book which is full of interest. Firstly, the author’s amazing command of the English language – the style is fluent and idiomatic, the…
We have been in lockdown now since 23rd March 2020, for many of us this means a complete change of circumstance, daily living, affording things and maintaining a health relationship with our families. There are so many people who cannot wait to be free, will run headlong into the wind, thinking that all of the…
As some of you will know, I spent some time in hospital recently. It’s amazing what you think of in that situation, and one of the pictures which kept coming into my head was of an icon I was shown during a Quiet Day at Otley Hall. Icons are images used in the Orthodox Church…
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Bible Reading 1 Peter 3:8Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble The story is told about a plainly dressed man who entered a church in the Netherlands and took a seat near the front. A few minutes later a woman walked down the aisle, saw the stranger in the place…
You may not be prepared to pay for the view from my desk but it never ceases to interest me. In these ordinary trees I see the changing seasons and although sometimes I have a surprise when something like a woodpecker comes to call, some of my best entertainment is provided by the wood pigeons.…
Visit Kirton Methodist every Tuesday from 22nd June for Tea and Cake in the garden !
Dear Friends We celebrate Father’s Day on 20th June and I wish all fathers a happy day and best wishes to you from the Church family. We think also of our own Father in Heaven. Attached is the plan for July for the Felixstowe Mission Area Churches. Please note these dates and the churches at…
Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B 20th June 2021 Lectionary Readings: Job 38 v1-11; Psalm 107 v1-3, 23-32; 2 Corinthians 6 v1-13; Mark 4 v35-41. Teacher, Lord, Master. Was the ‘Storm on the Lake’ incident a miracle or a teaching point, or both? The miracles recorded in the gospels seem to me to…
A wilderness of mirrors : trusting again in a cynical world by Mark Meynell Zondervan, 2015223 pages £14.00 ISBN 978 0 310 515 265 This is a book about cynicism in the first place and a Christian antidote to cynicism is then proposed by the author. At its heart, cynicism follows lack of trust in…