Pause for Thought – 1 July 2020
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Pause for Thought is available here:
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Who wants to a pull a cracker with the Minister? Christmas has so many traditions, some more related to the Christmas story than others. The Christmas cracker is a great British institution, whether they’re Lidl’s extra cheap ones, or Evitavonni’s ones more expensive than Harrods. We all know that you get three things in a…
A packed service saw the inauguration of The Spire Church on Sunday 2 September. The service, led by The Spire Church ministers, Revd. Michael Hopkins and Revd. Conrad Hicks. The church also welcomed Revd. Dr. Chris Blake, Superintendent Minister of the Hants-Surrey Border Methodist Circuit, Revd. John Hellyer, Chair of the South East Methodist District,…
Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14 Psalm 72 Revelation 1:4b-8 John 18:33-37 Borders can cause all sorts of problems. In many ways, many borders around the world are totally artificial, and that shows in the chaos which ensues. In 1787, the Treaty of Paris basically laid out which British territories would go to the freshly victorious American rebels,…
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…
Matthew 10:40-42 Exodus 22:21-23 Hebrews 13:1-2 There is a well-known story about two British sailors who, finding themselves at a loose end in Copenhagen on a Sunday morning, decide to go to church. Being unfamiliar with Lutheran services and speaking no Danish, they spot a young man sitting in front of them and they decide…
Matthew 2:1-12 Well, I suspect that for many of us feel Christmas is well and truly over now, even though there’s officially a few more days yet. Many people’s work, school, or college, begins again by tomorrow, if it ever even stopped. The final party was on New Year’s Eve, the next day was a…