Easter Services 2022

Genesis 41:14-36 Revelation 7:9-10 Joseph wasn’t the only dreamer. There’s a story told of a family in the late 1930s. Like so many evenings mum and dad were at home and Jimmy was playing after dinner. Mum and dad were absorbed with jobs and didn’t notice the time. It was a full moon and some…

John 13:31-35 I’m well aware that whenever I go away to any course or conference, there are some people in the church who are dread this, simply because they worry about what new ideas I’ll have come up with. I think that’s rather how the disciples were feeling in this week’s reading. We’re eavesdropping on…

Deuteronomy 26:12-13 James 1:26-27 Even by Monday evening, there was already an internet campaign for the re-broadcasting of the Oxo television adverts, the day Lynda Bellingham died. National treasure has been over-used to the point of becoming meaningless, but Lynda Bellingham was certainly a popular and much loved actress and television presenter. I think those…

Pause for Thought for 16 December is now available:

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…

Acts 3:12-19 Luke 24:36-48 A man walked into a corner shop with a shotgun and demanded all the cash from the till. After the cashier put the cash in a bag, the robber saw a bottle of scotch that he wanted behind the counter on the shelf. He told the cashier to put it in…