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
Exodus 2:1-10 Luke 2:33-35 One night a wife found her husband standing over the baby’s cot. Silently she watched him. As he stood looking down at the sleeping infant, she saw on his face a mixture of emotions: disbelief, doubt, delight, amazement, enchantment, scepticism. Touched by this unusual display and the deep emotions it aroused,…
This week’s Pause for Thought comes from the Revd Helen Everard, minister of Wonersh United Reformed Church, and is available here:https://youtu.be/YxUenOIEOV4
John 20:1-18 Interviewer: The recent rumours which have come out of Jerusalem have shocked the world and we on this programme have had our correspondents as close as possible to the action. We have been able to track down the one person who above all others is probably closest to Jesus the Nazarene, who was…
Philippians 4:4-9 Matthew 22:1-14 The biggest worry of most Ministers conducting weddings is whether one or other of the bride and groom won’t turn up. The second biggest worry is whether the bride will be sufficiently late to cause problems for the rest of the Minister’s schedule, or their pay and display ticket! Our reading…
Exodus 24:9-18 2 Peter 1:16-21 Psalm 99 Matthew 17:1-9 I expect some of you are wondering why you’re here! The Westminster Shorter Catechism is one of the historical statements of our faith. I’m sure you all know it well, but just to remind you, it begins by saying that, “man’s chief end is to glorify…
Isaiah 11:1-10 Matthew 3:1-6 “We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out,” said the Decca Recording Co. in 1962 as they rejected the Beatles. In 1943 the chairman of IBM announced that, “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” On the same theme, in 1981 Bill…