Pause for Thought – 3 February 2021
Pause for Thought for 3 February 2021 is now available:
Pause for Thought for 3 February 2021 is now available:
The service for Christmas Day is now available:
John 3:1-17 You may have heard of a book called The Shack by William P. Young. Published in 2007, there are now well over 10 million copies in print. At the time of publication it raised a lot of questions among Christians. The book covers the story of Mack, who having lost his daughter from…
Galatians 1:1-12 People can get angry about the smallest things. Of course it never ever happens to me – I never turn into Victor Meldew, and irascible is not my middle name, but I do see people get angry so often about such trivial things. Road rage is common, for instance, although you can understand…
John 3:1-8 Michael Faraday had just invented the dynamo – the first means of generating electricity – and showed it to a distinctly unimpressed Queen Victoria, who asked him what use it was. He’s reputed to have replied, ‘what use is a baby?. Today we see why that was so wrong, as we’ve been enraptured…
Exodus 16:1-8 & 13-15 Matthew 14: 13-21 If you’ve ever found yourself thinking that Christianity is about the spiritual, about some sort of private relationship with God, considering heavenly things, then you soon discover this doesn’t work when you ask God to give us our daily bread. This is nitty gritty. This is a daily…
The story of Jonah and the big fish 1 Samuel 3.1-10 Mark 1.14-20 It was December 1996, slightly more than half my lifetime ago, when I attended what the United Reformed Church calls a National Assessment Conference, a major part of the process of discerning a candidate’s call to the ministry. This was long before…