Precept and Practice – JULY 20 – The Power of Understanding
Love as many persons and as many creatures as you possibly can. Love is the only power by which you can make yourself rich in a moral world.
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Precept and Practice – JULY 18 – Fellowship
It is the hardships and troubles and sorrows of life that draw us nearest to one another, offer a field for our sympathy, cement and sanctify our friendships, melt our hearts into kindly feeling for our neighbours,
The Empire Windrush and Ipswich – 2025
Windrush Celebration speech 2025 – Hamil Clarke It is a pleasure for me to be here and to speak about why it is important to recognise and celebrate what was started by those pioneers who came from the Caribbean. Before I go any further, I must congratulate the Suffolk Windrush Celebration Committee for organising today’s launch… Continue reading The Empire Windrush and Ipswich – 2025
Precept and Practice – JULY 5 – Unconscious Influence
Human beings are unceasingly exerting unconscious influence upon one another. Insensibly to themselves, they are moulding one another’s character, conduct and destiny.
Precept and Practice – JULY 4 – Personal Influence
You drop a pebble into a still pool, and you see it form a circle, which gradually extends till it fades from your vision, but from your vision only. It still goes on widening, though you no longer see it.
Precept and Practice – JULY 3 – Influence
No act or thought of ours stands by itself. It is always related to something else.
Precept and Practice – JULY 2 – Atmosphere
None of us can live to himself. For evil or good, for condemnation or blessing, we must exercise a necessary influence over others.
Precept and Practice – JULY 1 – Silence
Bees will not work except in darkness, thought will not work except in silence, neither will virtue work except in secrecy
Hill Climbing for Beginners – A Sermon
The road ahead is rough not smooth.
But that is not what we are promised. There lie many trials, tribulations and fears ahead of us.
As Julian of Norwich recorded the words of Jesus in her Shewings, ‘He said not “Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased”; but he said, “Thou shalt not be overcome.”’
Swine-Fever – A Sermon
…having had the demoniac run towards him Jesus now sends him away with a new mission. No longer is he to be the one of whom his friends and family are frightened and perhaps even ashamed, but instead he is to:
‘Return home and tell how much God has done for you’.
Suffolk Vicar 