Pause for Thought – 2 December 2020
Pause for Thought for 2 December 2020 is now available:
Pause for Thought for 2 December 2020 is now available:
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 119:33-40 Matthew 7:24-17 1 Corinthians 3:10-11 In my first church at Twyford, the Church Hall was built in 1935. Money was tight in the 1930s, not least for Nonconformists in rural areas, so they built the hall as cheaply as they could. The foundations, if they merit that word, were on brick deep. The…
On Sunday 3 September 1939, the Elders at what was then St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Walton-on-Thames had a arranged for a wireless to be brought into the church, and at around 11.15 am the whole congregation was able to listen to that famous speech by Neville Chamberlain announcing the start of World War Two….
Matthew 5:13-16 2 Corinthians 4:1-6 Isaiah 58:6-12 Doctors are, quite rightly, regularly telling us of the dangers of too much, and many of add far less salt to our food, and use far less salt in cooking. However, no one can live without salt. Sodium and chloride ions are a vital component of a halthly…
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 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…