Pause for Thought – 8 July 2020
This week’s Pause for Thought is available here:
https://youtu.be/rK57qbWCXbU
This week’s Pause for Thought is available here:
https://youtu.be/rK57qbWCXbU
Luke 24:36b-48 Acts 3:12-19 Imagine what it was like in that upstairs room. The disciples were startled, frightened, terrified even, and Jesus appears there, with a word of peace. He has to tell them twice that he really is the person standing in front of them. He shows them his hands and his feet, invites…
Psalm 23 1 John 3:16-end John 10:11-18 Well it’s hotting up. The General Election is round the corner, and most of us are feeling a mixture of battered and bewildered by the barrage of promises, the endless stream of claim and counter claim. Those of us who aren’t economists really have little idea what pledges…
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,…
Acts 9:1-20 One of Shakespeare’s more famous speeches is given to Portia in The Merchant of Venice: The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. If you take those words and…
Matthew 2:1-12 There will be no camels, because we’re going on horseback, at least for some of the way. And we won’t arrive there a few hours after everyone else. It will be weeks, perhaps, or months. We aren’t in a hurry. That isn’t the way we work; we are not Europeans. We will discuss…
Matthew 13:34-35 & 52 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 Jeremiah 6:16-21 I wonder if you’ve ever noticed how the distinction between old and new has become very strange these days? I think it’s become something which seems to trouble both the world we live in today, and the church. Sometimes we’re encouraged to buy something because it’s…