Pause for Thought – 30 October 2020
Pause for Thought for this week is now available:
Pause for Thought for this week is now available:
Matthew 5:1-12 Isaiah 49:14-16 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 A gas engineer walked into a bar and ordered a pint. “Certainly”, said the barman, “I’ll serve you sometime between 8 am and 1 pm”. We all know the rules. A bag of crisps walked into a bar and ordered a pint. “Sorry”, said the barman, “we don’t…
Luke 14:25-33 It’s always embarrassing when people talk about money, least of all in church. We will be talking about money in a moment, because the church has bills to pay, like everyone else. What I wanted to do was to set it in the wider context of God giving us all that we have,…
Romans 8:12-25 As some of you know, my mother-in-law was a doctor. I think it’s fair to say that she more than enough paper and pens in her house supplied by drug companies to see out most of. And mugs. And sponges and brushes. Once drug companies started giving doctors long golfing holidays in sunny…
Matthew 2:1-12 Deep beneath the Bodleian Library in Oxford, there are many rooms of movable book stacks. Hardly any of the Bodleian’s collection is on open shelves, and most have to be ordered. You used to fill in a little slip, and an hour or so later your book would be ready for you. However,…
Galatians 2:15-21 Luke 7:36-8:3 ’ere mate, you can’t you do that! It’s against ’elf n safety, innit! The killjoys of our age are definitely Health and Safety, we love to demonise it. It seems almost an obsession in this country to ban all manner of common sense things in the name of health and safety,…
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!…