Pause for Thought – 27 January 2021
Pause for Thought for 27 January 2021 is available now:
Pause for Thought for 27 January 2021 is available now:
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…
Mark 16:1-8 Some years ago someone received a letter from the then DHSS, informing him that his benefit would be stopped at the end of March 1986 because he had died. The letter then went onto say, “you may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.” Someone once wrote into the problem page…
Ezekiel 17:22-24 Mark 4:26-34 The re-introduction of Red Kites around the United Kingdom has been one of the mazing phenomena of nature in the latter years of the twentieth century. One thing we’ve always missed in moving to Farnham was the Red Kites that flew over Twyford, where we used to live, seemingly all…
Those of you on Facebook will know that Michael Hopkins, our minister, was visiting the Vatican on Friday for a fact finding visit on behalf of the Assembly Arrangements Committee for ideas to improve the URC’s General Assembly, and finalising details for Pope Francis’s visit to the Assembly this year. He was, of course, on…
Our service for Palm Sunday 2021 is now available:
Sermon – part 1 What we’re doing this morning is more of a Bible Study then a sermon, in some respects. We’ve had a number of readings from the letter to the Ephesians, and people have asked me to say a bit more about it. Ephesians is one of a number of letters which were…