Pause for Thought – 15 July 2020
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John 8:31-36 Savonarola was a Dominican priest and reformer of the church shortly before Martin Luther’s time. He lived in Florence, where he was a very powerful man, but eventually he was tortured and burned at the stake for his efforts, when Martin Luther was still a teenager. Early in his ministry, Savonarola noticed an…
There’s an episode of Open All Hours, where Arkwright looks up to the sky, and remarks in a philosophical tone, “93 million miles from here to the sun”, and Granville, sweeping with a worn out brush, replies, “aye, and that’s about how many miles this brush has done”. I don’t know about you, but my…
Genesis 4:8-15 Micah 4:1-4 John 15:12-17 In the years after the First World War, war memorials were a contentious subject. Not whether there should be any, but where they should be sited, what form they should take, and whose names were to be included or excluded. But then, if you watch Downton Abbey you know…
John 15:9-17 Ephesians 3:14-19 Eric Lomax was born in 1919, and served as a signals officer in Singapore, when he was captured in 1942 and made a prisoner of war at Kanchanaburi camp in Thailand. He suffered horrendous torture at the hands of guards after they found a radio receiver and a map he had…
Mark 16:1-8 1 Corinthians 15:51-55 There are no Easter bonnets or bunnies in Mark’s story. How strange, and thin it is compared to the other three gospel accounts. There’s the empty tomb, the young man’s message that Jesus is risen, the command to tell the disciples that he’s gone ahead to Galilee, and the promise…
Mark 10:32-45 If ever there was a moment when the disciples didn’t get it, this is it. Jesus has just gone through yet another explanation about his death and all that that entails and he’s as graphic as he ever gets in describing his death. It’s as if all of that goes right over the…