Love yourself through Lent
We offer this resource to help you through Lent 2021, available as a PDF to download, and a picture below:
We offer this resource to help you through Lent 2021, available as a PDF to download, and a picture below:
Matthew 9:9-17 Thirty years ago this week the last long national strike began, when Arthur Scargill led the miners out. A big part of English culture certainly used to be that the most respected and honoured manual worker was the miner. I suspect that if you lived in Surrey, the miners’ strike didn’t make a…
Pause for Thought for 26 May 2021 is available now:
Ecclesiastes 3:1-12 Ephesians 5:15-20 An old man was standing on a crowded bus. A young man standing next to him asked, “What time is it?” The old man said nothing. As the young man walked away, the old man’s friend asked, “Why were you so rude to the young man?” The old man answered, “If…
The year is 1949. The congregation in the village of Barvas on the Isle of Lewis is in a poor state. Not a single young person attended church. Two old women, one of them 84, the other 82 and blind, were greatly concerned, and made this a matter of special prayer. A verse gripped them:…
Genesis 18:20-32 Luke 11:1-13 ‘Please, Grandma!’ begs Chloe. She wants an ice cream, and Grandma thinks it’s too close to tea time. The stage is set for some fierce bargaining. Chloe promises to eat all her tea if she can have an ice cream now, this minute. Grandma suggests that she can have the ice…
Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14 Psalm 72 Revelation 1:4b-8 John 18:33-37 Borders can cause all sorts of problems. In many ways, many borders around the world are totally artificial, and that shows in the chaos which ensues. In 1787, the Treaty of Paris basically laid out which British territories would go to the freshly victorious American rebels,…