Pause for Thought – 19 May 2021

Our service for Sunday 18 April 2021 is now available:

Exodus 17:1-7 Matthew 14:22-27 The Israelites had no shade, no shelter and no water.  They were exhausted and desperate.  All reasonable hope of survival must have gone.  Then, at God’s command, Moses struck the rock … whoosh!  Life and hope and joy bubbled up effortlessly with the water, and it changed everything.  What a vivid…

Ezekiel 1:1, 4-10, 22-28a Revelation 4:1:1-11 Tonight isn’t about literal truth, or about logic or proof, but about visions. Ezekiel said, “I was among the exiles by the River Chebar; the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God”. In Revelation we read, “after this I looked, and there in heaven a door stood…

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,…

Ezekiel 37:1-14 Acts 2:1-21 It’s very easy to make three serious mistakes about Pentecost. The first is to assume that it doesn’t really apply in churches like this. We’re a middle-of-the-road church, people say. We’re not extreme. We’re not what is derogatively referred to as happy-clappy. We don’t all have our hands in the air…

Genesis 2:15-17, 3:1-7 Matthew 4:1-11 Adam and Eve’s choice There days we can choose our GP and our Dentist, we can choose which consultant and which we’re referred to, we can try and choose our children’s schools, we can choose all manner of telephones (remember the days when you could have a black one a…