Precept and Practice – JULY 31 – The Language of Friends
It isn’t your mind that is needed here, or what you know; it is your heart and what you feel.
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A vicar from Suffolk who writes things down to stop him endlessly talking about them
Precept and Practice – JULY 30 – Comradeship
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.
Precept and Practice – JULY 29 – A dear Balm
Friendship is the forest to which we flee from the city of toil.
Precept and Practice – JULY 28 – Tyranny
Tyranny is always weakness.
Barnstormin’ Believers – A Sermon
The parable of the Rich Fool, and in fact the whole of Luke Chapter 12, is not about money, nor about bread, nor even about barns. It is about being, ‘rich towards God’ and so proving the faithfulness and loving kindness of God by living generous lives of active service. And being ever-ready to do so….
Precept and Practice – JULY 27 – By their Fruits ye shall Know them
Our friendships are often clouded, especially in youth, by want of sympathy from our own people.
Precept and Practice – JULY 26 – Friendship
Happy is the house that shelters a friend.
Precept and Practice – JULY 25 – Enlarging our Borders
But to get this real profit from persons one must really meet them, not merely encounter – ‘meet’ them and not merely their outsides.
Precept and Practice – JULY 24 – Self-abnegation
Seek not your life – for that is death. But seek how you can best and most joyfully give your own life away
Precept and Practice – JULY 23 – Self-sacrifice
…sacrifice alone, bare and unrelieved, is ghastly, unnatural, and dead; but self-sacrifice, illuminated by love, is warmth and life; it is the death of Christ, the life of God, the blessedness, and only proper life of man.
Suffolk Vicar 