Love yourself through Lent
We offer this resource to help you through Lent 2021, available as a PDF to download, and a picture below:
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We offer this resource to help you through Lent 2021, available as a PDF to download, and a picture below:
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…
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…
Pause for Thought is available to watch here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vV6C3QS054
I Kings 17:17-end Psalm 30 Galatians 1:11-end Luke 7:11-17 In 1886, Karl Benz drove his first car through the streets of Munich. He named his car the Mercedes Benz, after his daughter, Mercedes. The machine angered the citizens, because it was noisy and scared the children and horses. Pressured by the citizens, the local officials…
John 8:31-36 Savonarola was a Dominican priest and reformer of the church shortly before Martin Luther’s time. He lived in Florence, where he was a very powerful man, but eventually he was tortured and burned at the stake for his efforts, when Martin Luther was still a teenager. Early in his ministry, Savonarola noticed an…
Galatians 2:15-21 Luke 7:36-8:3 ’ere mate, you can’t you do that! It’s against ’elf n safety, innit! The killjoys of our age are definitely Health and Safety, we love to demonise it. It seems almost an obsession in this country to ban all manner of common sense things in the name of health and safety,…