Pause for Thought – 29 July 2020
This week’s Pause for Thought is available now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEGtpM0L1Ec
This week’s Pause for Thought is available now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEGtpM0L1Ec
Exodus 16:1-8 & 13-15 Matthew 14: 13-21 If you’ve ever found yourself thinking that Christianity is about the spiritual, about some sort of private relationship with God, considering heavenly things, then you soon discover this doesn’t work when you ask God to give us our daily bread. This is nitty gritty. This is a daily…
Pause for Thought is available to watch here:https://youtu.be/lEw3nPFzepk
Matthew 23:1-9 Galatians 4:4-7 It has been said that the Lord’s Prayer begins controversially, because some are offended by addressing God as “Father”. We’ll come back to that in a moment, because I want to suggest that there’s far more offence caused by “our”. In the Lord’s Prayer we’re taught to pray, not as individuals,…
John 3:1-8 Michael Faraday had just invented the dynamo – the first means of generating electricity – and showed it to a distinctly unimpressed Queen Victoria, who asked him what use it was. He’s reputed to have replied, ‘what use is a baby?. Today we see why that was so wrong, as we’ve been enraptured…
Galatians 1:1-12 People can get angry about the smallest things. Of course it never ever happens to me – I never turn into Victor Meldew, and irascible is not my middle name, but I do see people get angry so often about such trivial things. Road rage is common, for instance, although you can understand…
Malachi 3:1-5 Hebrews 2:10-18 Luke 2:22-40 When we heard the tragic news of thousands killed in Nigeria a couple of weeks ago, I know many people wondered how people could do something like that. At the same time we heard news of terrorist attacks in Paris, and of people born in Britain going to fight…