Pause for Thought – 12 August 2020
Pause for Thought this week is led by the Revd Ray Stanyon,
Development and Support Officer of the URC Wessex Synod,
and is available here:
https://youtu.be/OESYTFPLLeA
Pause for Thought this week is led by the Revd Ray Stanyon,
Development and Support Officer of the URC Wessex Synod,
and is available here:
https://youtu.be/OESYTFPLLeA
Galatians 2:1-14 A son asked his father the difference between love and marriage. His father replied that love is blind, but marriage is an eye-opener. If you’ve ever been married, you’ll know that after you get married to someone and set up a home together, you always discover things about your partner that you simply…
Matthew 4:1-11 “Time is Too slow for those who Wait, Too swift for those who Fear, Too long for those who Grieve, Too short for those who Rejoice, But for those who Love, Time is not.” Wrote Henry van Dyke. Matthew tells us that Jesus spent forty days and forty nights in the desert. Matthew…
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…
Jeremiah 29:1, 4-72 Timothy 2:8-15 I have a question to ask you: How are you feeling about the world and our country right now? Unhappy? Uncomfortable? Unclear what is happening? We’re less than three weeks from potentially leaving the EU. But will it happen on 31 October? Will it ever happen? And if it does,…
Luke 7:1-10 We were only eleven when the slave traders abducted us. Came and snatched us as we were playing in the fields, back home in Ethiopia. My twin brother and me, like two peas in a pod we were; even our parents sometimes got us muddled up. The slave traders were delighted with us;…
John 2:13-22 We find ourselves now in what I’m referring to as our temporary church – the furniture screwed to the floor has gone, in order to facilitate a variety of uses, so that a wide range of activities can happen in this space than previously. This is not the finished product – far from…