Pause for Thought – 1 July 2020
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Pause for Thought is available here:
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Ruth 1:16-18 Mark 12:41-44 ‘Commitment for Life’: three words that to many people simply mean the United Reformed Church’s world development programme. But if you met those words outside that context, most of us would probably run a mile. Who wants to be committed to something for life? No right thinking advertiser would think of…
Luke 2:22-40 Is there anyone who hasn’t opened a birthday or Christmas present and hasn’t had a moment of disappointment when it wasn’t quite what you thought it would be? The story is told of the nine year old boy who one day saw what seemed like the perfect birthday present for his mother. He…
Psalm 29 Isaiah 43:1-7 Luke 3:15-22 I wonder if you’ve noticed that the distinction between old and new is something which now troubles both the world we live in today and the church? Have you ever noticed, for example, that products can be advertised in quite contradictory ways? Sometimes we’re encouraged to buy something because…
Acts 11:1-18 John 13:31-35 A young boy enters a barber shop and the barber whispers to his customer, “This is the stupidest child in the world. Watch while I prove it to you.” The barber puts a £5 note in one hand and a pound coin in the other, then calls the boy over and…
2 Thessalonians 2:13-17 On that crowded bus from the gate to the place, you have to stand firm and hold tight. Crowded onto that tube train rush hour, you have to stand firm and hold tight. On that narrow mountain path when it gets a bit windy, you have to stand firm and hold tight….
Luke 10:30-37 John 8:31-38 Galatians 5:1, 13-21 “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” And the same applies to the word ‘freedom’. Whenever we start talking about ‘freedom’ we very soon realise that we may…