By the time this TFTD is published I shall hopefully be on a train home from Newcastle, having completed a 3 day cycle ride along Hadrian’s Wall – actually on roads following the route along Hadrian’s Wall, from Silloth to Tynemouth Hadrian’s Wall was the north-west frontier of the Roman Empire for nearly 300 years…
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C 29th June 2025 Lectionary Readings: 1 Kings 19 v15-16, 19-21; Psalm 16; Galatians 5 v1, 13-25; Luke 9 v51-62 Guidelines for followers of Jesus. Luke relates how Jesus reacted when he and his followers encountered rejection by the inhabitants of a village in Samaria. They simply move…
What difference does your faith make to you? A strange question to start perhaps, but I think it is important we ask this question not only of others but ourselves. Why do we need to ask this question? Because people of no faith must think we are strange because we believe as Christians in someone…
The tragedy in Gujarat, when so many people were killed when the plane crashed, has been very much in my mind and in my heart. When I lived in Belfast the church I attended had a big connection with Gujarat. One of the church members was the great great grandson of the first Presbyterian Missionary,…
There is a song sung by worship group ‘Casting Crowns’ that explores what might happen if God’s church really prayed. One verse says: ‘What if the church, for Heaven’s sakeFinally stepped up to the plateTook a stand upon God’s promiseAnd stormed Hell’s rusted gates?’ God promises to listen always. God’s promises are there to be…
Read: Revelation 4:1-11 Church buildings often tell stories of the life a community both now and in the past. For a visitor, a few moments spent in a church may make immediate connections with the life of a place, more than a museum ever will. The first question on approaching a place of worship may…
Today’s thought for the day is brought to us by Cynan Llwyd www.christianaid.org.uk As God delights in the natural world, so should we. Something to read O Lord, how manifold are your works! Psalm 104:24 from full reading Psalm 104:24-35. Something to think about There are 300,000 species of beetles in the world. There are…
This week, our 10 minute service reflects on Isaiah 55:1.
Several years ago, while undergoing radiotherapy, I was given what I once described as “information overload”. However, over a few days, I read everything in the various documents and became interested in one particular phrase. “If you feel tired, the best thing is to get up and do something.” This was the opposite of what…
We have recently had scaffolding up outside our house (again), as our chimneys needed repainting. When he climbed up the ladders to start the job, our decorator found a family of jackdaws nesting in one of the chimneys. Fortunately, this is a “redundant” chimney so there was no debris in our fireplace. The chimney was…