Pause for Thought – 21 April 2021
Pause for Thought for 21 April 2021 is now available:
Pause for Thought for 21 April 2021 is now available:
When you the parable of the sower, I wonder what picture comes into your mind? I’ve always seen someone walking along with a basket of seeds, scattering handfuls of them. I wonder what the parable means to you? I’ve often heard this parable explained in a spiritual way, the idea being that the way people…
Matthew 13:1-9 When we read stories to children, they don’t have to be very old before they know that you have to wait for the end, and that it will be alright, or even more than alright. The owl babies’ mother does come back. The little bear who is scared of the dark does…
Matthew 13:24-30 Romans 8:12-25 Where was God in the trenches of the First World War? From Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy (Woodbine Willie) to Siegfried Sassoon, great minds have wrestled with what was effectively the first industrialised war in human history. But as we rapidly approach the centenary of the ‘war to end all wars’ we are…
Psalm 103:8-13 Matthew 18:21-33 Forgiveness is a funny thing; it warms the heart and cools the sting. In a week when we’re thinking about forgiveness, it would be impossible not to consider Shamima Begum. Certain sections of the press have clearly painted this in very simplistic terms. She was 15 when she was radicalised, online…
On 1 June 1944, just days before D-Day, Arland Scott, a 26 year old soldier with the Royal Canadian Artillery wrote to his young wife and to his young baby daughter whom he had only briefly seen once on leave following her birth in May. Arland was fatally wounded on the Normandy beaches and died…