Some of you who read my previous piece, Breaking and Mending 1, may be thinking that what I wrote was too simplistic and naive. After all, if someone is ill physically or mentally, or broken in some way, and medical support has not been of much benefit, then putting your faith or trust in someone…
22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A 30th August 2020. Lectionary readings Jeremiah 15 v15-21 Jeremiah complains and God replies. Romans 12 v9-21 Rules for Christian Living. Matthew 16 v21-28 Jesus speaks about his suffering and death. “Stop talking like a fool” and “Think like God” (or Straight and Crooked Thinking explained…
Dear Friends, Firstly, many thanks to all of you who have so kindly sponsored the run I will be doing to raise funds for the Felixstowe Mission Area on Bank Holiday Monday 31st August. Also, a reminder of the Open-Air Market taking place this Saturday 29th August between 11am and 4pm in the Manse Garden.…
The above is the title of this year’s Methodist Prayer Handbook 2020/2021. In the introduction Richard Teal, President of Conference and Carolyn Lawrence, Vice-Presidentprovide us with a challenging reflection on our Christian stewardship, in particular our call to care forpeople and planet. “ All of us are called to be good stewards of the Planet…
Facebook. You Tube. Zoom. I’ve not used any of these before Lockdown. Now it seems that I can’t do without them. Being 60, I can claim technophobia, and do when I press a wrong button and cut myself off ! I have found other buttons useful especially the mute button. It has kept me from…
The Children of Israel were out, free at last from the lash and harsh treatment of their captors.Free to leave, which is exactly what they did, walking on dry ground, heading towards ‘a land ofmilk and honey’…. but. There’s always a but, isn’t there? Moving from where we are, closer to where we want to…
Bible reading Luke 13: 6 – 9 Then he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree growing in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it but did not find any. So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, ‘For three years now I’ve been coming to look…
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…