Pause for Thought – 10 March 2021
Pause for Thought for 10 March 2021 is now available:
Pause for Thought for 10 March 2021 is now available:
Ruth 1:16-18 Mark 12:41-44 ‘Commitment for Life’: three words that to many people simply mean the United Reformed Church’s world development programme. But if you met those words outside that context, most of us would probably run a mile. Who wants to be committed to something for life? No right thinking advertiser would think of…
Isaiah 11:1-10 Matthew 3:1-6 “We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out,” said the Decca Recording Co. in 1962 as they rejected the Beatles. In 1943 the chairman of IBM announced that, “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” On the same theme, in 1981 Bill…
Matthew 13:34-35 & 52 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 Jeremiah 6:16-21 I wonder if you’ve ever noticed how the distinction between old and new has become very strange these days? I think it’s become something which seems to trouble both the world we live in today, and the church. Sometimes we’re encouraged to buy something because it’s…
Luke 1:26-38 You are going to have a baby! Years ago young women heard those words from their doctor. Nowadays they usually find out for themselves in a toilet when the second line appears. However one finds out, the news of an impending birth is often a cue for joy, excitement, and intense satisfaction. Perhaps…
Luke 2:22-40 Galatians 4:4-7 Perhaps you’ve heard the story of the town where there was a flood. As the flood waters rose a boat came along and offered to rescue an old lady. The lady refused, assuring the skipper that God would save her. The waters rose higher and the lady went upstairs. A canoeist…
The Orkney poet George Mackay Brown cast the story of the road to Emmaus into verse, in a poem written in the voice of ‘A Landlady in Emmaus.’ Her lodgers are ordinary working people called Tom and Ed, and they’d taken up with a travelling preacher who was accused of being a terrorist and was…