Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B 21st July 2024. Lectionary Readings: Jeremiah 23 v1-6; Psalm 23; Ephesians 2 v11-22; Mark 6 v30-34, 53-56. Meeting the needs of the people. Mark says, “When Jesus got out of the boat, he saw the large crowd that was like sheep without a shepherd. He felt sorry for…
My husband and I recently had my son’s dog for the weekend whilst he and his wife attended a friend’s wedding. We are not dog owner’s and had to prepare for the visit by finding all the potential areas of escape. Fortunately, Bill, (the dog), is familiar with us and our home. Having blocked up…
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Leaving the supermarket the other day we saw a young couple with a little girl maybe about eighteen months to two years old. She was ever so cute and was carrying a little handbag, clearly to be like mum, she headed across to the wire shopping baskets and struggled to try to pick one up,…
Many years ago, in my previous church in Northern Ireland, we made up these little survival kits for people in the congregation. I found it recently when I was sorting out some paperwork. PAPER CLIP to help to hold it together in difficult times. PLASTER to help with life’s hurt feelings. CANDLE …
Are you lonely? Some people enjoy solitude, being alone doesn’t always mean feeling lonely. Loneliness is the distress, some have called it ‘social pain’, that comes from a perceived gap between desired social interaction and one’s experiences of it. It can lead on to other mental health issues : depression, anxiety, paranoia. Loneliness is often…
A week ago, we elected a new Government; but writing this over the weekend before the election I am at a disadvantage. I have a shrewd idea of the outcome but not its detail. Of one thing I am sure, however confident our new leadership may appear to us, there will be things they must…
This week, our 10 minute service reflects on Galatians 5:1.
Elmsett Methodist Church has now launched a “free little pantry”
Today’s thought for the day is brought to us by Rev Saul Tadzaushe Our world, yes, our world needs revival now! Our World today is a fascinating world yet a paradoxical situation. On one side of the coin, we seem to be in a post Christian era, churches closed, buildings sold numbers declining. It appears…