Love yourself through Lent

Pause for Thought is available to watch here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vV6C3QS054

Matthew 4:1-11 I Corinthians 9:24-27 If you think our Church Meeting is ever just a little bit boring, we could always go back to how it used to be. In the seventeenth and eighteenth, and into the nineteenth, centuries, the main role of a Church Meeting was to exercise discipline over the members, with people…

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…

Deuteronomy 7:7-12 Ephesians 4:1-16 Thank goodness the author of Deuteronomy said that, “it was not because you were more numerous than any other people that the Lord set his heart on you and chose you”. If size mattered, as it were, the United Reformed Church would be an abject failure, this church would have been…

Genesis 15:1-11 Psalm 27 Philippians 3:17-4:1 Luke 13:31-35 “Oh dear, oh dear,” whispered Mrs Bonner loudly, “a very interesting sermon, but what a lot of talk about sin. I suppose it’s only to be expected at the beginning of Lent, but it’s all so miserable, don’t you think?”, so wrote Barbara Pym in Excellent Women….

Ephesians 2:11-22 The last time I watched a soccer match it was West Germany versus the USSR, so I’d be lying if I told you that I followed the World Cup. Indeed, having grown up in Rugby, and attended Rugby School, I really should say that I don’t accept the heretical breakaway version football that…