Mind how you go!

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but he isn’t big enough to help in a crisis, and he
doesn’t take them anywhere in their lives.
Jesus didn’t believe in a scaled down God. He
believed in an all-powerful, all-loving God, who
makes all the difference in the world to our lives.
What kind of a God do we believe in?
Mind how you go!
BY THE REVD DR A. D. C.
DUMFRIESSHIRE
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From Desk to
Pulpit
The Junior Church
’Your God is too small’
BY THE REVD A. MALCOLM RAMSAY, BA, LLB,
DIPMIN,
NEWTON STEWART, WIGTOWNSHIRE
Visual Aids: letter ’J’ and toy
Rolls-Royce
Would you like to hear a secret? Not even my wife
knows it yet! Clue: letter J. Let me tell you. From
last Thursday all new cars have a new letter in their
number plate: letter J. So my secret is that I have
GREER,
Fiona is
a traffic warden. In her job she is used to
at the end of a busy bridge over the River
Nith in the town of Dumfries. As well as boys and
girls and grown-ups who want to cross the road, she
is used to directing all sorts of traffic - cars, lorries,
standing
buses, cycles
and
motor-cycles. By watchfulness and
busy signals traffic warden on ’point duty’ makes
travelling safer for us all.
Walking to and from work Fiona is used to seeing
the graceful white swans that are to be found in the
River Nith. At some times of the year they have their
cygnets swimming with them. But what a surprise to
see a pair of swans walking across the busy bridge!
They were on the pavement, but then one flew into
the road and a big lorry knocked it down. Most of
the traffic drove carefully past. However two kind
men, who seemed to know what they were doing,
led the other sad and puzzled swan back to the safety
a
of the river.
Isn’t that a sad story, boys and girls? Despite the
kindness of the two men, despite the watchfulness of
Fiona, one of the swans went out into the road
instead of staying safely where it ought to have
been.
God cares for us. Policemen, school-crossingpatrol people, traffic-wardens make roads safer. But
that doesn’t mean that we don’t have to be very
careful. Cross the road carefully when it’s safe to do
so. Stay on the pavement if you possibly can. Just
think how sad and lonely the other swan must be.
bought a new car.
The Christian Year
I wanted to buy the best. I asked my friends and
read the car magazines, and everyone said the best
FIFTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
kind of car is a Rolls-Royce. So that’s what I’ve
The Message of the Psalmists
bought. Don’t you believe me?
8. Bitterness in Babylon: Ps 137
I’m not joking. I went along to Woolworths and
BY THE REVD COLIN J. SEDGWICK, MA
for 79p bought a brand new Rolls-Royce. Here it is! ,
KENTON, LONDON
(Produce toy Rolls-Royce from pocket.)
Don’t laugh! This is a perfectly good Rolls-Royce.
This is one of those psalms that make the
Right colour, right shape, right design. Only two
reader feel rather uncomfortable. It moves,
Christian
it
with
it:
it’s
far
too
and
doesn’t
small;
things wrong
in the space of just nine short verses, from a sad,
go.
Sadly many people believe in a similar kind of haunting opening (vv. 1-3), through a fierce
God. They believe all the right things about him,
expression of national loyalty (vv. 4-6), to a bitter