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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…
Luke 2:22-40 Marc Chagall was described as “the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century”. He was born in Russia in 1887, and lived through difficult times, having fled Russia to Paris he then had to flee again during the Second World War. As an early modernist artist he drew on the Jewish insights of…
Matthew 13:44-48 The last time I saw pearls in any significant quantity was at the recent civic service. Pearls, being discreet, tasteful, and expensive, were much in evidence on the many ladies whose outfits had probably been among the top end of those at Royal Ascot Ladies Day. Seriously, pearls are wonderful, and many ladies…
1 Kings 19:1-15a Galatians 3:23-29 Luke 8:26-39 If you ask a United Reformed Church Minister why they do, or why they don’t, wear a clerical collar, you’ll receive a wide variety of answers from every conceivable point of view, but what you can be sure of is that they’ll have a good answer. For those…
Pause for Thought for 10 March 2021 is now available:
This service is published by https://devotions.urc.org.uk/. Today’s worship is led by by the Rev’d Gethin Rees, policy officer for Cytûn in Cardiff. Download the Order of Service Leaflet here . Print the document double-sided, flipping on the short edge, to create the booklet.