Pause for Thought – 29 July 2020
This week’s Pause for Thought is available now:
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This week’s Pause for Thought is available now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEGtpM0L1Ec
Pause for Thought for this week, 11 November, is now available:
Pause for Thought is now available:
Genesis 12:1-9 Hebrews 11:1-3 & 8-12 Psalm 91 Mark 1:16-20 This year is a leap year. 29 February is a special day which comes round only once every four years. 29 February is considered by some as a day to do something out of the usual, such as women proposing marriage to men. Radio 4’s…
Mark 1:21-28 Former US President Jimmy Carter was on a speaking tour of Japan. He told a little joke and, after the interpreter had finished translating, the room erupted in laughter. Carter was both surprised and pleased. After the speech an old friend of Carter’s who spoke Japanese told him why everyone had laughed so…
Psalm 30 John 21:1-19 If you’re in a boat, and look in towards Crosby beach, in Lancashire, you’ll see an Antony Gormley sculpture on the beach. If you at the beach at Aldeburgh, in Suffolk, you’ll see a memorial sculpture to Benjamin Britten. If you look at Brighton beach, well, you get everything you deserve!…
Job 38:1-11 Mark 4:35-41 There is a story about a monastery in Europe perched high on a cliff several hundred feet in the air. The only way to reach the monastery was to be suspended in a basket which was pulled to the top by several monks who pulled and tugged with all their strength….