Pause for Thought – 22 July 2020
This week’s Pause for Thought is available here:
https://youtu.be/pUjx7m6OMBc
This week’s Pause for Thought is available here:
https://youtu.be/pUjx7m6OMBc
1 Samuel 3:1-10 Psalm 139 Galatians 2:15-21 The search for identity and purpose is all around us. You only have to look at the situation in Italy, as those with vastly different visions of what it means to be Italian compete to run the country. You only have to look at the Russian billionaire Roman…
Genesis 11:1-9 Acts 2:1-21 In the spring of 1963 the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, had to ask the publishers for a copy of a book, because the demand was such that no other copy was available. The author was John Robinson, the bishop of Woolwich, and the book was called Honest to God. A couple…
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…
2 Thessalonians 2:13-17 On that crowded bus from the gate to the place, you have to stand firm and hold tight. Crowded onto that tube train rush hour, you have to stand firm and hold tight. On that narrow mountain path when it gets a bit windy, you have to stand firm and hold tight….
Luke 11 “Teach us to pray!” Jesus’ disciples asked him. Sadly, teaching anyone to pray isn’t like teaching someone how to change a wheel, or to bake a cake, or even how to do a fractional of liquid air. Being a Christian is not primarily learning a set of beliefs, belong to a volunteer organisation,…
Jonah 3:1-5 &10 Hebrews 9:24-28 Mark 1:14-20 Possibly not since the 7th century dispute between the Celtic and Roman Churches over the date of Easter, and certainly since the 17th century dispute between Puritans and Churchmen over Good Friday (a dispute that led those who closed their shops on Good Friday to be prosecuted during…