Pause for Thought – 21 April 2021
Pause for Thought for 21 April 2021 is now available:
Pause for Thought for 21 April 2021 is now available:
Matthew 10:40-42 Exodus 22:21-23 Hebrews 13:1-2 There is a well-known story about two British sailors who, finding themselves at a loose end in Copenhagen on a Sunday morning, decide to go to church. Being unfamiliar with Lutheran services and speaking no Danish, they spot a young man sitting in front of them and they decide…
Genesis 1: 1–2:4a Matthew 6: 24-34 An educational psychologist got on the train home to Edinburgh, and began preparing notes for a seminar. An elderly lady sat next to him, and explained that she was returning home after two weeks visiting her six children, 18 grandchildren, and ten great-grandchildren. When she discovered she was sitting…
Matthew 15:21-28 She didn’t belong there. I knew it and the rest of us knew it. We were just sitting down to dinner when she barged in. The dogs woke up immediately, and from their place under the table they began to bark. One of the children started to cry as the woman frantically looked…
Matthew 14:13-21 It was a miniature golf course, on a brutally hot day, when I saw a father on his own with three children. “Who’s winning?” I asked cheerfully. “I am” said one child. “No, I am” said another. “No,” the father said “their mother is!” There comes a time, I think, when most people…
Genesis 9:8-17 Mark 2:9-15 Many years ago, the clown Roly Bain came to this church to perform his presentation of the Christian story using clowning. When he offered prayers, he used a small pot of bubble mixture, and as he blew the bubbles he invited us to look at the bubbles and drew our attention…
Luke 9:28-36 As we came down from the mountain, James, John, and me, we were still shaking. I was so confused and trembling so much that I kept stumbling, and John would reach out a hand to steady me. Jesus had told us not to say anything to anyone else about it, not to the…