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
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…
Matthew 9:9-17 Thirty years ago this week the last long national strike began, when Arthur Scargill led the miners out. A big part of English culture certainly used to be that the most respected and honoured manual worker was the miner. I suspect that if you lived in Surrey, the miners’ strike didn’t make a…
Luke 13:18-19 Genesis 2:8-9 & 15-17 Revelation 22:1-5 I’m told that Surrey has more trees per square mile than nay other county in England. You only have to walk or drive a mile or so outside most of our towns to see that. I’m sure, as soon as trees are mentioned, many of us will…
Our next Forest Church is at 3.30 pm on Sunday 13 December 2020, meet at the top of Farnham Park. full details in the photos.
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…
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…