Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. Year C 9th November 2025 Lectionary Readings: Job 19 v23-27a; Psalm 17 v1-9; 2 Thessalonians 2 v1-5, 13-17; Luke 20 v27-38. Life in the Kingdom of God. The Sadducees did not believe that people would rise to life after death. So some of them came to Jesus and said…(Luke…
Saturday 15th November 7pm at Bramford Road Methodist Church
My friend Rev Rach Ward recently visited Bristol and posted some photos of Facebook. As I was seeking inspiration for TFTD I am very grateful to her for the images! John Wesley was the founder of the Methodist Church and his “New Rooms” are to be found in Bristol – replacing the “Old” ones that fell…
November 2025 Preaching Plan
Back in August, I picked my son up from Stansted Airport and we stopped to buy some food from the McDonalds store that adjoins the airport. This meant visiting a place called Southgate Park and if you do the same thing yourself, BEWARE! It was nearly midnight, we had never been there before and all…
I was reading over some of the previous messages I wrote and part of this one is from the 5th May 2020. “A farmer placed a weather vane inscribed with the words “God is Love” on top of his barn. One day a traveller stopped by the barn and watched the weather vane moving in…
You may be attending or organising a ‘Light Party ‘ in the next few days. Most religions have a festival of light at this time of year as nights become longer. I tried to research what light actually is. It’s complicated. No single answer to the question “What is light?” satisfies the many contexts in which light…
Read – Mattew 16:1-4 We arrived in Devon recently for a short break and upon arrival, we were greeted by a wonderful sunset over the sea. The ancient saying, quoted by Jesus in today’s reading implied pleasant weather and that was what followed for more several days. I have been thinking about signs in a…
I sometimes make use of my free bus pass and go by bus from my village into Ipswich. The behaviour of bus passengers varies from the straight ahead stare conveying a wish to remain silent and apart, to the smile, which starts things off, often at the bus stop, and progresses to conversation that may or may…
The following is an extract from a Facebook post a few days ago: “When Japan’s electronic toll collection system unexpectedly failed for 38 hours, toll gates were opened to allow free passage. In most countries, that might have meant a financial loss that no one would recover — but not in Japan. After the issue…