Precept and Practice – AUGUST 9 – Love – The Fountain in the Heart
Better to love than be beloved,
Though lonely all the day;
Better the fountain in the heart
Than the fountain by the way.
Category: Growing in God
Precept and Practice – AUGUST 7 – Love
Self is the only prison that ever binds the soul;
Love is the only angel who can bid the gates unroll:
Precept and Practice – AUGUST 6 – Jealousy
Jealousy is impossible to love, for ‘love seeketh not its own’; and jealousy is always selfishness.
Precept and Practice – AUGUST 4 – Old friends
Fellow Travellers.
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel.
Precept and Practice – AUGUST 5 – The Bane of Friendship
For truly, nothing does so freeze affection, as the breath of jealousy.
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
Suffolk Vicar 