musings on ministry
cww-2008-flyer-a5-web The National Gathering is on 3-4 May 2008 at the Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston near Edinburgh is in less than 3 weeks from now! The National Gathering will be one of the most encouraging, stimulating and memorable events for the whole church in Scotland in a generation or more. There will be huge celebrations Read More …
Church can be an odd place, full of odd people. What sometimes makes it odder is that these odd people think that other people are odd. Despite Jesus’ ‘great commandment’ to love each other as He loved us we shy away from strangers, we are fearful of difference and we gravitate towards people who are Read More …
Our theme at Together @ MCT was ‘after’. Easter tends to get us to the resurrection and then comes Low Sunday. Often in the church we kind of stop at Easter morning and we wanted to think about what happened next. We took three stories of Jesus appearing to the disciples after the resurrection and Read More …
Today has been a good day! We spent the morning at Drumchapel Essenside URC with the best kind of people. warm, friendly, generous and honest. It’s the kind of church I’d choose to go to! Ben and Jack had a great time at Sunday school and I’m sure all the chocolate eggs they were given Read More …
Easter Blessings to all. I’m off to Drumchapel to share in Easter worship and I’ve chosen Mark’s version of the story: ‘When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus’ body. Very early on the first day of the week, Read More …
This is a post from last year that seems to get lots of hits so I thought I’d remind people it’s there in time for Holy Week. It’s a sermon about Mary of Bethany and Judas. You can find it HERE.
This is today’s sermon, preached at Barrhead United Reformed Church: Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest. For the next few minutes I would like you all to hold the Palm cross you were given as you arrived this morning. Feel it Read More …