Pause for Thought – 2 October 2020
This week’s Pause for Thought is now available:
This week’s Pause for Thought is now available:
Waverley Borough Council’s Western Area Planning Committee considered our plans on 9 July, and asked us to reconsider the architectural approach to the Victoria Road extension. Having considered the Committee’s feedback, we have developed new proposals, which retain the same general building form as previously proposed (double-gable pitched roof, reflecting the existing form) but in such…
Luke 13:22-30 I wonder if you remember Roald dahl’s Tales of the Unexpected, in which the story had an unexpected ending. I remember one, where an unscrupulous antiques dealer was trying so hard to persuade a farmer that the unique and almost priceless antique wasn’t really worth much, that while the antique dealer went to…
Family Tribute, by Brenda’s grandson Matthew. No animosity, genuinely loving everybody. They were the words of Ron Lehman in his speech about Brenda and Arthur at their golden wedding anniversary. A clever use of their sir name as an acronym, but also one that hit home to me as a seventeen year old; summing up…
Part 1 Luke 1:46-53 If you go up to London, you can see this world’s kingdom, power, and glory all set out before you in stone and glass: the Palace of Westminster, Buckingham Palace, the National Gallery, the Shard, and so on. As in the capital of any nation, the principalities and the powers are…
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,…
Sixteen of us gathered in Farnham Park (facilitated by an array of licences, risk assessments, insurances etc.) for our inaugural Forest Church on the afternoon of Sunday 18 October. We were a wide mixture of ages, but we found in common warmth, welcome, and encountering God outdoors. We gathered, in socially distanced household groups, to…