Pause for Thought – 19 August 2020
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
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
In social media there is a trend for moaning about trivial things. In the last few years, in recognition of our triviality in the west in comparison with the problems of the developing world, it has now become a new trend: when people post about a trivial irk of theirs they follow it up with…
Exodus 16:2-4, 9-15 Ephesians 4:1-16 John 6:24-35 Nine year old Joe was asked by his mother what he had learned in Sunday school. “Well, Mum, our teacher told us how God sent Moses behind enemy lines on a rescue mission to lead the Israelites out of Egypt. When he got to the Red Sea, he…
The year is 1949. The congregation in the village of Barvas on the Isle of Lewis is in a poor state. Not a single young person attended church. Two old women, one of them 84, the other 82 and blind, were greatly concerned, and made this a matter of special prayer. A verse gripped them:…
John 2:13-22 Exodus 20:1-17 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 There’s a picture of Jesus throwing the traders and money changers out of the Temple, and cracking his whip, and someone has added a caption: “when anyone asks you what would Jesus do, remind them that getting angry, throwing the furniture, and attacking people is a possibility.” This…
Pause for Thought is available to watch here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vV6C3QS054
Exodus 3:1-15 Matthew 16:21-28 During the ongoing war in Gaza, much has been made of the small area, and how many Palestinians live there. It is 139 square miles, a bit smaller than the Isle of Wight, and 1.8 million people live there. Now, of course, about half of Gaza is uninhabitable, so 1.8 million…