Pause for Thought – 8 July 2020
This week’s Pause for Thought is available here:
https://youtu.be/rK57qbWCXbU
This week’s Pause for Thought is available here:
https://youtu.be/rK57qbWCXbU
Deuteronomy 7:7-12 Ephesians 4:1-16 Thank goodness the author of Deuteronomy said that, “it was not because you were more numerous than any other people that the Lord set his heart on you and chose you”. If size mattered, as it were, the United Reformed Church would be an abject failure, this church would have been…
Romans 8:18-25 I wonder how many of you can readily recall where the last pitched battle on the British mainland was? It wasn’t one of the Civil War battlefields, nor the Duke of Monmouth being put in his place at Sedgemoor. It was Culloden, in the Highlands of Scotland, where the Jacobite rebellion against the…
Ephesians 2:11-22 In the north of England, two great rivers rise. One begins high in north Pennines on Alston Moor, flowing through Haltwhistle and Haydon Bridge to Hexham. The other rises on the Scottish border, and flows through Kielder Forest and Bellingham to Hexham, where the two rivers join. The first river is called the…
Acts 1:1-11 Luke 24:44-53 Is the ascension a fictional story of something that couldn’t have happened, written by people in an age when they still thought the earth was flat, of no relevance to us today? Or is it – although impossible to explain in modern rational and scientific terms – a literal truth? The…
Philippians 3:4b-14 Matthew 4:18-22 Don’t be afraid to change your mind. Often the message of preachers is that we need to be firm in our faith, strong in our belief, and sure of where we stand what we believe. Popular culture, also, is against changing your mind. You may think today’s newspapers are bad, but…
Luke 23:32-38 When the European missionaries came to Alberta, Canada, they were savagely opposed by many of the indigenous peoples. Among them was a young chief of the Cree named Maskepetoon. Eventually he responded to the missionary’s work, and became a Christian. Shortly afterwards, a member of the Blackfoot tribe killed his father. Maskepetoon rode…