leadership in ministry
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 …
Some of the bloggers I read have been posting their thoughts on the petition to the Church of Scotland’s General Assembly regarding the ordination of ‘practicing’ homosexuals. I wrote about it in my posts ‘Not In My Name‘ and ‘How Would Jesus Behave?‘ but there are some other interesting thoughs: John Orr has posted some Read More …
My previous post on the petition launched ahead of the Church of Scotland’s General Assembly in support of the overture (motion) from the Presbytery of Lochcarron & Skye was my most viewed post ever. I didn’t set out to say anything controversial and hoped to appeal to people to be calm, reasonable and gracious. The Read More …
You may have heard on the BBC Scotland news this evening that Queen’s Cross Church of Scotland’s right to call an openly gay man to be their minister, a decision endorsed by a majority vote of the Presbytery of Aberdeen, has been the subject of a complaint and the case will be heard by the Read More …
My intrepid / crazy Brother-in-Law Scott completed the Maggies Monster Bike and Hike in the eary hours of this morning. Scott and his collegues, who formed the prophetically named ‘Sair Knees’, completed the 30 mile cycle and 42 mile hike along the Great Glen in aid of Maggies cancer centres. A BIG congratulations and I Read More …
This is just AMAZING!!! HT to Andy Weir
I feel sorry for Thomas. He gets some bad press, mostly so John can make a point to his readers I think. I’m not even sure Thomas had doubts. I think he had questions, so that’s where this week’s sermon focuses… on questions. I was at Lanark Greyfriars and the readings were John 20: 19-31, Read More …