Pause for Thought – 18 September 2020
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Meeting Jesus in Mark – from open heaven to open tomb Introduction I begin by asking if you know why we have four different gospels? It’s like four newspapers: imagine an account of one event as reported in The Sun, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, and The Spectator. All of them would report…
John 14:1-5, 18-19, 27 While we worship God in here this evening, we know many children are out and about in all manner of strange costumes, some of them with their parents or older brothers and sisters, playing trick or treat. We might not immediately think so, but there is a very close connection between…
Matthew 7:24-27 1 Corinthians 3:1-14 Most of us grew up making sand castles at one time or another. These days the buckets and spades are plastic, but children still make the sand castles of their childhood dreams. Sand castles, of course, are about much more than just children with a bucket and spade. At Brighton,…
John 15:9-17 Ephesians 3:14-19 Eric Lomax was born in 1919, and served as a signals officer in Singapore, when he was captured in 1942 and made a prisoner of war at Kanchanaburi camp in Thailand. He suffered horrendous torture at the hands of guards after they found a radio receiver and a map he had…
Mark 9:33-37 Mark 10:35-44 Philippians 2:1-11 If you want a sure fire way to wind up certain sections of the population, all you need do is refer to today as Mother’s Day, and a many of us start foaming at the mouth and turning purple as we insist that there’s no such thing and it…