Pause for Thought – 13 January 2021
Pause for Thought for 13 January 2021 is now available:
Pause for Thought for 13 January 2021 is now available:
Matthew 16:13-20 2 Timothy 3:10-4:8 An article in a recent issue of Reform magazine asked “what will the church be like in 40 years?” They asked four people in various positions of leadership throughout the church to give their view, and these were published in the magazine. Firstly, they asked Susan Durber, the principal of…
Pause for Thought for 2 December 2020 is now available:
Romans 8:31-39 As a child, it was common practice that the names on war memorials were read out. In those days there were still some who remembered personally those named on the memorials, but as they died out, so did the practice of reading all the names. We never read all the names at school…
Psalm 103:8-13 Matthew 18:21-33 Forgiveness is a funny thing; it warms the heart and cools the sting. In a week when we’re thinking about forgiveness, it would be impossible not to consider Shamima Begum. Certain sections of the press have clearly painted this in very simplistic terms. She was 15 when she was radicalised, online…
1 Corinthians 11:17-22 What a good job Paul wasn’t writing to us! Who does he think he is? He actually wrote to a church telling them they’re worse, rather than better when they come together, their Communion is seriously deficient, people are excluded, and they are most definitely not to be commended. Fancy receiving…
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…