musings on ministry
The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland has decided to: Saturday 23 May 10.30pm The General Assembly has voted to refuse the dissent and complaint of Aitken and others against the Presbytery of Aberdeen. The following motion is agreed by the Assembly: a) refuse the dissent and complaint of Aitken and others and sustain Read More …
This morning the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland heard the report of the Church and Society Committee. First up was the ‘Growing Up in Scotland‘ report. I was on the group which wrote the report so I was glad to see some good deliverences (motions) coming from the report. I’ll pick out the Read More …
The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland began this morning and a couple of things have jumped out at me already. The first is the presence of ‘The Queen’. She’s not there in person this year but when she can’t make it she sends someone in her place, a Lord High Commissioner. The Queen Read More …
Last week’s sermon focused on John 15: 9-17 and used some material from the excellent OneKirk worship material and from the equally excellent Lawrence Moore’s blog, Disclosing New Worlds. As always, youth thoughts and comments are wel,comed.
Tomorrow afternoon I’ve been invited to be part of a panel at International Christian College to discuss what the Emerging Church is, what can be learned from it (by the evangelical church I guess) and what the downsides of emerging church are. Along with me there will be people on the panel who know actual Read More …
You’ve got me thinking, you and your comments and blog posts and yesterday’s lectionary readings about vines and pruning! Over at Abbotsford Roddy has, as usual, been mixing insightfull questions with fabulous liturgy. All of this led to a sermon yesterday that was a bit of a half formed thought. So I’m going to ty Read More …
Do you ever get those days where you just don’t know where to begin? I’m having one of those days. I’m sitting with a blank piece of paper and a pen. Well a number of pens actually. Coloured sharpies. But that’s not important. What is important is the topic I’m trying to think of some Read More …