Pause for Thought – 27 May 2020
Pause for Thought is available to watch here:
https://youtu.be/lEw3nPFzepk
Pause for Thought is available to watch here:
https://youtu.be/lEw3nPFzepk
Many of us feel that we live in a world that is beyond our control, and life is in a constant flux of change. The implication of that is that we have to decide whether we want to keep trying to control a storm that is not going to go away, or whether we are…
Many thanks and congratulations are due to Rachel Melling for walking the Yorkshire 3 Peaks on August 26th to raise funds for the Pilgrims Project. Rachel raised over £1,000 for the project – £1,200 when allowing for Gift Aid. This 25 mile hike covers Ingleborough, Pen-y-ghent and Whernside. It took over 14 hours in the end,…
Deuteronomy 7:7-12 Ephesians 4:1-16 Thank goodness the author of Deuteronomy said that, “it was not because you were more numerous than any other people that the Lord set his heart on you and chose you”. If size mattered, as it were, the United Reformed Church would be an abject failure, this church would have been…
You may remember that Mr Mackay explained the rules of Slade Prison to a new prisoner in an episode of Porridge: “There are only two rules in this prison: 1 – do not write on the walls. 2 – You obey all the rules.” Fletcher explained the rules of Slade Prison rather differently: One: Bide…
Pause for Thought is available to watch here:https://youtu.be/dBf3RfK0igk The text is also available: Perhaps you saw the toppling of the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol? I’m one of those people who instinctively finds actions like that very difficult. Here’s a short video what happened. My first reaction is to question who gets to decide…
Exodus 6:1, 6-9 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally,” said Abraham Lincoln. Of course, we were pleased to celebrate the bicentenary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade a few years ago. Yet, we all know that slavery…