Pause for Thought – 2 October 2020
This week’s Pause for Thought is now available:
This week’s Pause for Thought is now available:
Psalm 139 Matthew 11:28-30 The last film which Peter Sellers made was Being There in 1980, and I don’t suppose it’s the one for which he’ll be most remembered. He played an intellectually challenged gardener whose entire knowledge of life came from watching television. It’s not the content of the film that caught my attention,…
Joel 2:21-29 Luke 4:14-21 145 years ago our ancestors laid the foundation stone of this edifice. The fourth building we’ve occupied, and one designed and located to tell the world that we’re a true church with a permanent presence. There can be a tendency on a Church Anniversary to think quite specifically about our building,…
Luke 7:1-10 We were only eleven when the slave traders abducted us. Came and snatched us as we were playing in the fields, back home in Ethiopia. My twin brother and me, like two peas in a pod we were; even our parents sometimes got us muddled up. The slave traders were delighted with us;…
Philippians 4:4-9 Matthew 22:1-14 The biggest worry of most Ministers conducting weddings is whether one or other of the bride and groom won’t turn up. The second biggest worry is whether the bride will be sufficiently late to cause problems for the rest of the Minister’s schedule, or their pay and display ticket! Our reading…
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Galatians 2:1-14 A son asked his father the difference between love and marriage. His father replied that love is blind, but marriage is an eye-opener. If you’ve ever been married, you’ll know that after you get married to someone and set up a home together, you always discover things about your partner that you simply…