Pause for Thought – 18 September 2020
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John 1:1-14 It was a big day for Farnham when Poundland opened. No more do we have to slip over to Aldershot and use their pound shop, just after we’ve been snobby about how much nicer Farnham is. How wonderful, though, Poundland have the smartest most expensively built shop front in the whole of Farnham….
Isaiah 40:12-17 Matthew 28:16-20 2 Corinthians 13:11-14 If you’ve looked closely at a rope, you’ll have noticed that it’d made of three cords, which are wound together, and it’s the three cords wound together that has been found to the strongest way of making a rope, much stronger than the cords on their own, or…
Alleluia! Christ is risen! An Easter message from Revd Michael Hopkins We’re living in times that are unprecedented and events that none of us have had any experience of before. Many of us feel ill equipped to be teachers in the home; to be carers for relatives that we can no longer visit; to be…
Genesis 2:15-17, 3:1-7 Matthew 4:1-11 Adam and Eve’s choice There days we can choose our GP and our Dentist, we can choose which consultant and which we’re referred to, we can try and choose our children’s schools, we can choose all manner of telephones (remember the days when you could have a black one a…
John 8:31-36 The current television show using the tried and tested formula is Would I lie to you, in which contestants tell incredible stories, allegedly about themselves, and the other team has to guess whether they’re telling the truth or not. Sometimes the really incredible is, in fact, true, and sometimes the really incredible…
Luke 9:1-6 1 Kings 8:22-24 & 27 Colossians 1:19-20 It’s hard to believe now, but the potato was once a highly unpopular food. When first introduced into England towards the end of the 1580s, the early printing presses were used to condemn the potato, ministers preached sermons against it, and the general public wouldn’t touch…