Remembrance Sunday Service

Pause for Thought for 13 January 2021 is now available:

Pause for Thought for 2 December 2020 is now available:

There’s an episode of Open All Hours, where Arkwright looks up to the sky, and remarks in a philosophical tone, “93 million miles from here to the sun”, and Granville, sweeping with a worn out brush, replies, “aye, and that’s about how many miles this brush has done”. I don’t know about you, but my…

Mark 16:1-8 Some years ago someone received a letter from the then DHSS, informing him that his benefit would be stopped at the end of March 1986 because he had died. The letter then went onto say, “you may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.” Someone once wrote into the problem page…

Luke 14:25-35 Imagine a politician standing on a soap-box addressing a crowd. ‘If you’re going to vote for me,’ he says, ‘you’re voting to lose your homes and families; you’re asking for higher taxes and lower wages; you’re deciding in favour of losing all you love best! So come on – who’s on my side?’…

John 14:1-5, 18-19, 27 While we worship God in here this evening, we know many children are out and about in all manner of strange costumes, some of them with their parents or older brothers and sisters, playing trick or treat. We might not immediately think so, but there is a very close connection between…