This is a thought-provoking book and definitely worth a read.
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Thought for the day – Friday 17th July 2020 Bible reading : Psalm 119 verses 14 – 1“I will call with all my heart, answer me, O Lord, and I will obey your decrees. I call out to you: save me and I will keep your statutes. I rise before dawn and cry for help;…
Thought for the day – Thursday 16th July 2020 A couple of times recently people have told me how they have found the way they communicate with God has changed during lock-down. One person said that they were finding that they can now talk to Jesus ‘directly’ rather than feeling they had to go through…
Lectionary reflections for Sunday 19th July 2020
Thought for the day – Wednesday 15th July 2020 Krish Kandiah is President of The London School of Theology and Chair of the Theological Advisory Panel for Tearfund. Back in 2014 he wrote a very timely book on the Paradox of Christian Faith. The book was called Paradoxology and honestly acknowledged that Christians will not…
Thought for the Day – Tuesday 14th July 2020 Toward the close of World War II one Allied unit was assigned a crucial mission in Berlin. Each soldier had to memorise a map detailing all of Berlin’s important military sites—in a single night! In just a few hours, each soldier had committed the map to…
Thought for the day – Monday 13th July 2020 My friend Rev Rach Ward sent me this humorous cartoon depicting the aftermath of The Flood in the context of the present time. It reminded me of an interview I heard recently with Rev Stuart Bell, Senior Pastor for Alive Church in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, in…
Thought of the day – Sunday 12th July 2020 A Sower went out to sow (Matthew 13) I am totally confused at just where we are in the year, I am used to the familiar milestones along my annual journey and this year, the majority of those milestones haven’t happened and I feel disorientated most…
As you know, although churches can now open for worship, in our Circuit, we are taking things slowly. Each individual church is deciding when they will safely re-open. Museum Street will be re-opening for worship on Sunday 2nd August at 10.45 a.m.
Thought for the day – Saturday 11th July 2020 At Christmas and Birthdays I very often receive hand cream, shower gel, etc. The hand cream I am using now is called The Ritual of Sakura, strange name, I thought. On looking more closely it tells me: “In Japan the annual flowering of Sakura (cherry blossom)…