Pause for Thought – 24 February 2021
Pause for Thought for 24 February 2021 is now available:
Pause for Thought for 24 February 2021 is now available:
Malachi 3:1-5 Hebrews 2:10-18 Luke 2:22-40 When we heard the tragic news of thousands killed in Nigeria a couple of weeks ago, I know many people wondered how people could do something like that. At the same time we heard news of terrorist attacks in Paris, and of people born in Britain going to fight…
This is the text of the sermon preached at the inauguration of The Spire Church, Farnham, on Sunday 2 September 2018, by the Rt Revd Dr Christopher Herbert. I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and…
Acts 9:1-20 One of Shakespeare’s more famous speeches is given to Portia in The Merchant of Venice: The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. If you take those words and…
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John 1:1-14 The police have asked me to draw your attention to the Holy Days and Fasting Act of 1551 which clearly states that everyone must attend Church on foot on Christmas Day – so if you arrived here by horse or car and are arrested after midnight on the way home, or tomorrow morning,…
Ezekiel 37:1-14 Acts 2:1-21 It’s very easy to make three serious mistakes about Pentecost. The first is to assume that it doesn’t really apply in churches like this. We’re a middle-of-the-road church, people say. We’re not extreme. We’re not what is derogatively referred to as happy-clappy. We don’t all have our hands in the air…