Pause for Thought – 14 April 2021

John 21:15-19 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 Today is Passion Sunday – nothing to do with sex as the council officials in Oxford mistakenly thought a few years ago when attempting to licence as passion play – but the point in Lent when we turn from the more general themes, to thinking more directly about the cross….

Genesis 4:8-15 Micah 4:1-4 John 15:12-17 In the years after the First World War, war memorials were a contentious subject. Not whether there should be any, but where they should be sited, what form they should take, and whose names were to be included or excluded. But then, if you watch Downton Abbey you know…

Isaiah 7:10-16 Matthew 1:18-25 A television interviewer was walking streets of Tokyo, where Christmas shopping is as big as it is here. The interviewer stopped one young woman, and asked, “What is the meaning of Christmas?” Laughing, she responded, “I don’t know. Is that the day that Jesus died?” The way she answered, I felt…

Matthew 2:1-12 Well, I suspect that for many of us feel Christmas is well and truly over now, even though there’s officially a few more days yet. Many people’s work, school, or college, begins again by tomorrow, if it ever even stopped. The final party was on New Year’s Eve, the next day was a…