Pause for Thought – 24 March 2021
Pause for Thought for 24 March 2021 is now available:
Pause for Thought for 24 March 2021 is now available:
A man was once eating fish and chips at the bus stop, and a lady with a small dog came along to wait for her bus. The dog clearly liked the smell of the fish and chips, and kept jumping up around the man’s legs to try and get at them. In the end the…
Psalm 145:8-15 Matthew 11:25-30 He spent his youth, like so many other young people, in the restless pursuit of pleasure. He studied at university, he went to plenty of wild and generous parties, he got drunk quite a lot quite often, and of course he chased women. He had a long-term mistress, and he was…
Acts 16:1-15 Philippians 1:1-11, 2:1-18, 4:2-9 My dear friend Paul, Here’s a letter from your old lady-friend Lydia, one of the bishops of the church in Philippi. We do miss you. We are, after all, the first church you founded west of the Hellespont. But we heard that you’d been arrested in Jerusalem, and were…
This week’s Pause for Thought comes from the Revd Helen Everard, minister of Wonersh United Reformed Church, and is available here:https://youtu.be/YxUenOIEOV4
Psalm 119:33-40 Matthew 7:24-17 1 Corinthians 3:10-11 In my first church at Twyford, the Church Hall was built in 1935. Money was tight in the 1930s, not least for Nonconformists in rural areas, so they built the hall as cheaply as they could. The foundations, if they merit that word, were on brick deep. The…
1 Samuel 8 Mark 3:20-35 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1 Questions of leadership seem to be very much in the air these days, not least this week. Sepp Blatter’s re-election seemed extraordinary to many of us, like a newly invented alloy that never wears out whatever is thrown at it or how bent it is. Indeed, it…