Pause for Thought – 6 January 2021
Pause for Thought for 6 January 2021 is now available:
Pause for Thought for 6 January 2021 is now available:
Isaiah 51:1-6 Romans 12:1-8 Matthew 16:13-20 August Bank Holiday, and a congregation almost6 stripped bare of families with school age children. Holiday Season. I wonder where you like going on holiday. I’ve been told, by several different people, Sidmouth is wonderful. So is Majorca. And Cornwall. And the Black Forest, although gateaux has nothing to…
Psalm 103:8-13 Matthew 18:21-33 Forgiveness is a funny thing; it warms the heart and cools the sting. In a week when we’re thinking about forgiveness, it would be impossible not to consider Shamima Begum. Certain sections of the press have clearly painted this in very simplistic terms. She was 15 when she was radicalised, online…
Sometimes, but much more so at Christmas, I feel as though I live in the inside of a kaleidoscope. You know the old-fashioned cardboard tubes you look through to see a coloured pattern at the end. Then you twist the tube and the pattern changes again and again. At this time of year, it seems…
There was once a grumpy old man, who said that: “There are some people to whom I couldn’t warm to even if I were cremated with them!” Before we go any further, I ought to make it clear that Christians are not called to like everyone. The goes “They Will Know We Are Christians By…
John 6:24-35 If Jesus was a loaf of bread today, what kind would he be? Mother’s pride? King’s Mill? Son blest? Best of both (human and divine)? I’d better not push that any further, or I shall be toast! The immediate question that Jesus’ declaration that he is the bread of life raises for me…
1 Corinthians 11:17-22 What a good job Paul wasn’t writing to us! Who does he think he is? He actually wrote to a church telling them they’re worse, rather than better when they come together, their Communion is seriously deficient, people are excluded, and they are most definitely not to be commended. Fancy receiving…