Pause for Thought – 9 December 2020
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Genesis 41:14-36 Revelation 7:9-10 Joseph wasn’t the only dreamer. There’s a story told of a family in the late 1930s. Like so many evenings mum and dad were at home and Jimmy was playing after dinner. Mum and dad were absorbed with jobs and didn’t notice the time. It was a full moon and some…
Ruth 1:16-18 Mark 12:41-44 ‘Commitment for Life’: three words that to many people simply mean the United Reformed Church’s world development programme. But if you met those words outside that context, most of us would probably run a mile. Who wants to be committed to something for life? No right thinking advertiser would think of…
Psalm 23 We probably all feel that we know Psalm 23 off by heart. It’s often read or sung at funerals, and used to be popular at weddings because the Queen chose it for her wedding. It’s a psalm that is an affirmation that God will provide for us during our life – it’s for…
Deuteronomy 7:7-12 Ephesians 4:1-16 Thank goodness the author of Deuteronomy said that, “it was not because you were more numerous than any other people that the Lord set his heart on you and chose you”. If size mattered, as it were, the United Reformed Church would be an abject failure, this church would have been…
Proverbs 25:6-7 Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16 Luke 14:7-14 Who should pay for the food provided at Farnham Foodbank? Or for the homeless shelters in Woking and Guildford? There’s a growing trend which says that people should only get what they pay for. Yet the Foodbank and the night shelters can only happen through the generosity of…