You know how sometimes you try to avoid something only to find that God won’t let it go and basically, He throws it in Your face so often that You have to give in albeit ever so reluctantly? Well, that’s how it’s been with me recently and mud. Yes, God just keeps throwing it at…
One murky morning recently when I was out as the sun got up, as warmth developed so the mist thickened into fog as it sometimes does when conditions are right. Walking round the corner of a hedgerow I caught sight of the silhouette of a small herd of deer. I can see seven in the…
This week, our 10 minute service reflects on Psalm 17:7-8.
Today’s thought for the day is brought to us by Rev Claire Jones www.christianaid.org.uk Something to read Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them up a high mountain, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his…
My wife and I were enjoying a Skype call with our daughter in the USA when suddenly her young son came into view, holding a piece of paper in his hand. He asked his Mum if he could put it in the shredder and she replied that he could, but did he realise that once…
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C 23rd February 2025 Lectionary Readings: Genesis 43 v3-11,15; Psalm 37 v1-11, 39-40; 1 Corinthians 15 v35-38, 42-50; Luke 6 v27-38 Heavenly bodies. In this week’s passage from his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul is doing his best to answer the questions put to him about…
How often do you hear or say the Lord’s Prayer? How often do we really reflect on its meaning? The Lord’s Prayer was given by Jesus to his disciples as an illustration of how they and we should pray. It includes all the elements of prayer- praise, confession, prays for the world and for our…
Thessalonians 5 v 11 says, “So encourage each other and build each other up, just as you are already doing.” I first started writing a Thought for the Day in March 2020 just as we were going into Lockdown. It was meant to be a word of encouragement to a few close friends as we…
Wherever I have been this week, shop windows have been covered in hearts – mostly red but one phone shop particularly had blue ones. Love is in the air. I was reminded of my Dad singing the good old hymn, ’Jesus loves me, this I know’. He wasn’t a church goer in his later years…
Recently, we paid a visit to Rochester Cathedral. It is one of those places we had not visited before so we learned another few lines of our country’s rich history. Something else was surprising. We have become used to war memorials being adorned with wreathes all the year round. However, at Rochester, inside the visitors’…