Pause for Thought – 11 November 2020
Pause for Thought for this week, 11 November, is now available:
Pause for Thought for this week, 11 November, is now available:
Exodus 6:1, 6-9 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally,” said Abraham Lincoln. Of course, we were pleased to celebrate the bicentenary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade a few years ago. Yet, we all know that slavery…
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…
John 16:12-15 2 Corinthians 13:11-13 Names come and go. A century ago my predecessors were baptising plenty of children called Ada, Esme, Edith, and Agnes; and Tom, Fred, Arthur, and Alfred. Thirty years ago, there were plenty of children called Gary, Jason, Kylie, and Tracey. Now it’s Tom and Jack, Olivia and Emily; not forgetting…
Pause for Thought for 10 February 2021 is now available:
Psalm 90 Malachi 4:1-2 Luke 21:5-19 A thousand ages in thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. Those time-honoured words of Isaac Watts are sung at most Remembrance Sunday services, because they put our fleeting mortality into the context of God’s eternity. Watts…
Psalm 116 Acts 2:37-41 1 Peter 1:17-23 Luke 24: 13 – 35 In his poem, ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’, W.B. Yeats pictures a man so consumed with longing for home that even in the middle of a busy street, all he hears is the sound of the lake, more real than the shadowy place…