Pause for Thought – 12 August 2020
Pause for Thought this week is led by the Revd Ray Stanyon,
Development and Support Officer of the URC Wessex Synod,
and is available here:
https://youtu.be/OESYTFPLLeA
Pause for Thought this week is led by the Revd Ray Stanyon,
Development and Support Officer of the URC Wessex Synod,
and is available here:
https://youtu.be/OESYTFPLLeA
Luke 8:22-25 Deuteronomy 31:1-8 Colossians 1:9-14 One hundred years ago today news arrived in London of the death of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his fellow Antarctic explorers. Scott and his fellow explorers had set out in a race to discover the South Pole. They arrived there in January 1912, only to discover that the…
Genesis 1:1-2:3 Romans 8:18-25 Matthew 6:25-34 A man was very surprised when a good-looking young lady greeted him, as he couldn’t remember ever having seen her before. She realized that she’d made a mistake, and apologized, saying, “I ‘m so sorry. When I first saw you I thought you were the father of two of…
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Ezekiel 17:22-24 Mark 4:26-34 The re-introduction of Red Kites around the United Kingdom has been one of the mazing phenomena of nature in the latter years of the twentieth century. One thing we’ve always missed in moving to Farnham was the Red Kites that flew over Twyford, where we used to live, seemingly all…
Deuteronomy 30:15-20 Psalm 1 Philemon 1-21 Luke 14:25-33 Prime Minister Herbert Asquith once spent a weekend at the Waddesdon estate of the Rothschild family. One day, as Asquith was being waited on at teatime by the butler, the following conversation ensued: “Tea, coffee, or a peach from off the wall, sir?” “Tea, please,” answered Asquith….
Matthew 5:38-42 Isaiah 2:2-5 Ephesians 2:13-22 As a boy I remembered a bench being installed in our town, with an inscription “in thanksgiving for forty years of peace in Europe” – I think it must be been featured in the local newspaper, benches not being so very memorable, except for that one that was…