Rest : Wor Yem : Day 7

Rob Wylie2022, Advent, Sunday@thePub, Wor Yem Leave a Comment

Matthew 11:28-30 One of the lessons I hoped to learn as we emerged from the pandemic, was the ability not to rush around so much, well it didn’t last long! Good intentions are all well and good! But maybe we are consumed by this need to be busy, it’s what society is built on, it’s been instilled in us from …

Reflect : Wor Yem : Day 6

David Wynd2022, Advent, Sunday@thePub, Wor Yem 1 Comment

Proverbs 27:9 Do you ever stop to reflect on who you are? Why you do what you do? Or the reason you are passionate about certain things? Many of us don’t take the time to stop and think about these things.  It is often because we are so busy doing. Trying to complete our to do list or finding a …

Ache : Wor Yem : Day 5

Rob Wylie2022, Advent, Sunday@thePub, Wor Yem Leave a Comment

Isaiah 9:2, 6-7 Our passage today opens us to the reality of darkness, it’s there in the first part of verse two, I wonder how you reflect on darkness? I think about being on a ship in the middle of the ocean in the middle of the night, bleak, yet beautiful. We hear a lot these days about mental health …

Stranger : Wor Yem : Day 4

John Cooper2022, Advent, Sunday@thePub, Wor Yem Leave a Comment

Matthew 25:37-40 Orson Scott Card’s second book in the Ender’s Game series, Speaker for the Dead, is seen as a sci-fi classic. In Ender’s Game a young boy has been tricked into annihilating an entire alien species. Wracked with guilt he travels into the universe with his sister. His sister writes under the pseudonym – Demosthenes – trying to help …

Breathe : Wor Yem : Day 3

David Wynd2022, Advent, Sunday@thePub, Wor Yem 1 Comment

Genesis 2:7 Breathe in. Breathe out. Every single breathe we take fills us with life. With each one we take in the essential oxygen that keeps us alive.  Breathing is so vital to our existence that we would die if we went a few minutes without the inhalation and exhalation of fresh air.  In this verse from Genesis, that comes …

Drudge : Wor Yem : Day 2

Rob Wylie2022, Advent, Sunday@thePub, Wor Yem 2 Comments

Luke 2:1-5 Those who know me, know that I love the light nights and particularly the warmer weather, as the clocks go back and we have less light my mood shifts and life can feel like a bit of a drudge. I suspect most of us can relate to aspects of drudgery that we all face, whether it be the …

Wait : Wor Yem : Day 1

David Wynd2022, Advent, Sunday@thePub, Waiting, Wor Yem 1 Comment

Luke 2:25-40 How good are you at waiting? Can you patiently sit, riding your time for the moment to arrive? Or are you a pacer, walking back and forth, counting the seconds till you can tear the wrapper off the gifts under the tree? The two elderly people Mary and Joseph meet in the temple when they brought Jesus there …

Movie time!

Rob Wylie2022, Film, Sunday@thePub Leave a Comment

Hi folks, I hope you are doing ok? This week we will head back to Platform 2 on Tynemouth Station, meeting at 7.30. We are having a break from the Beatitudes with something slightly different. We were going to see a movie at the cinema, but it’s not currently on at Jam Jar and the other option was going to …