musings on leadership in ministry
If you run, you are a runner. It doesn’t matter how fast or how far. It doesn’t matter if today is your first day or if you’ve been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run. – John Bingham Bingham was Read More …
Roddy Hamilton has moved church to Bearsden: New Kilpatrick recently so his invaluable Chocolate Teapots and bits and pieces of inspired words for worship, Mucky Paws, are now housed at Listening to the Stones. Always worth a visit.
OneKirk conference What are the issues facing the church today? What kind of church are we? What kind of church do we seek to build? OneKirk is hosting a conference that offers a space for open and honest discussion about these questions for everyone in the church. What kind of church? Speaker: Rev Peter Read More …
“We tried that once. It didn’t work” Imagine a golfer saying that. “Yeah, I picked up a club once when I was 7 and had a swing but the ball only went 10 feet off to the right so I never bothered trying again.” What nonsense. To get something right takes practice. Apparently 10,000 hours Read More …
There is a truism in the world of fitness… ‘fit for what?’ The question is simple but hugely important. Fitness is completely subjective. Being fit to run a marathon doesn’t make you fit to play rugby. Fitness is built on repetition of specific exercises to build up your capability to do these more efficiently. So, Read More …
“What kind of a man is a man who does not try to make the world a better place?” Balian in Kingdom of Heaven This week the lectionary takes us to the feeding of the 5,000 (plus women and children). I’ve been wondering about the story all week, particularly verse 16. Jesus Feeds the Five Read More …
It’s just 10 weeks until I run my first half marathon for 10 years. Training for the 13.1 mile (21km) race has been something close to an obsession. Making time for 5 runs a week, some of them up to 90 minutes, has been a challenge but I’ve managed them all most weeks. Most days Read More …