I am assuming those of you reading this will know the well-known children’s story of Goldilocks and the three bears. A family of three bears, mother, father and baby bear live in a house in the woods. They eat porridge for breakfast, and on this particular day the porridge was a little too hot to…
How do you feel when you see on the news pictures of wildfires, hurricanes or floods? More often than not, the most extreme conditions happen in far off lands and whist we might sympathize with people, this is happening in a different country, even different continents and we might well disregard events like this as…
Psalm 55 v22.Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken Every now and again my phone sends me a message to say that I’ve used up nearly all my storage and that I should do something about it. Panic can set in and then I…
Some of you know I like doing jigsaws, as probably many of you do. I usually do Gibson’s jigsaws (there are other manufacturers!!) 4×500 pieces. In fact, Ray usually gives me one for my birthday and another at Christmas. The cupboard is getting full as I don’t like parting with them. When I’ve completed them,…
As part of our circuit climate action initiative, Rev. Joan Pell will be leading a book study of the book A Christian Guide to Environmental Issues.
You may be aware of the saying ‘people in glass houses should not throw stones’; it is a warning against hypocrisy. When your name is Glasse, it becomes quite personal, particularly if, like me, you went through your school years being called by your last name. Hypocrisy is a trap easily fallen into, something that…
John 19 v 30.When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit Outside Madrid stands an ancient monastery where the kings of Spain have been buried. The architect designed an elongated arch so flat that the reigning monarch insisted it could not hold the…
Spend 10 minutes with us as we reflect on Psalm 42 with a song, prayer, reading and short talk.
John Wesley preached a series of sermons on the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7). In one of them, sermon 22 in the book of 44 sermons (1944), based on Matthew 6 v16-18, the larger part of the message is an exposition of the Lord’s Prayer. Helpful and useful though that is, the more interesting…
Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B 5th September 2021 Lectionary Readings: Isaiah 35 v4-7a; Psalm 146; James 2 v1-17; Mark 7 v24-37. Compassion and Faith. In the passage from Mark’s gospel we read that Jesus had travelled from Galilee towards the Mediterranean Sea and was staying near the town of Tyre in Phoenicia,…