Pause for Thought – 22 July 2020

Many of us feel that we live in a world that is beyond our control, and life is in a constant flux of change.  The implication of that is that we have to decide whether we want to keep trying to control a storm that is not going to go away, or whether we are…

Matthew 2:1-12 There will be no camels, because we’re going on horseback, at least for some of the way. And we won’t arrive there a few hours after everyone else. It will be weeks, perhaps, or months. We aren’t in a hurry. That isn’t the way we work; we are not Europeans. We will discuss…

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Luke 15:1-10 Imagine that you were there when Jesus was telling today’s story. Imagine that you were in the crowd, listening to him. Imagine how you might have felt as you heard Jesus telling that story. Today I want to tell you the stories of two very different people who might have been there that…

Matthew 8:23-27 Ephesians 6:10-20 Save me means very different things at different times. I’m sure the people trapped in Grenfell Tower meant save me in the same way that the disciples on the boat asked Jesus to save them. Yet, the language of saving, being saved, salvation, has wider contexts in church, where we link…

Mark 5:21-end I am a Christian who lived in Rome between the years 60 and 70 after Christ. It was about that time that Mark wrote his gospel for us. In that gospel he tells these two intertwined stories about the ruler of the synagogue and the woman with an issue of blood. I’m trying…