Tuesday before Sunday again!
Here I am still struggling with the context of Sunday evening's service. It's at this point that I wish I had never called the service "Blood on the street". Someone commented on the theme last night, "Oh that's an attractive title for a service", what they were really saying was , "that'll pack them in." And then Maggie (our minister in training), this morning, looked up from her desk and said, "Oh your doing 'Blood on the street' boss, this Sunday, I'm looking...
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I thought I better get back into telling the story of our visit to India in 2005 so that we can encourage those of you who have booked your flights for India this year. So where was I ? Oh yes we were preparing to have some time doing a bit of sight seeing round Chennai. We knew our sight seeing days wouldn't last long but we were looking forward to a day of adventure and challenge. This perhaps was the day that Crocodile Bo'ness would emerge! It would certainly be a...
What you think about gadgets?
I was wondering
what you make of the
gadgets we have today?
Are you a gadget person?
Do you approve of technology?
For instances,
mobile phones,
computers,
cars,
mp3s,
ipods,
and shuffles.
Some of the disciples
don't approve.
They say
we should sell them all?
Give them up,
give the money to the poor?
But then they still have
electricity
for their toasters
their shavers
their kettles.
So they confuse...
When I was a student at Glasgow, I remember walking down University Avenue, an old dossier approached me and asked me for some money. I insisted that I would take him for a roll and coffee. We duly tramped down to a wee cafe on Byers Road. Just round the corner from where the above picture was taken. I put my companion at a table and went to order. Well you should have heard the abuse I got from the cafe owner. I was told in no uncertain terms with a few sweary words...
Since I was a wee boy, Billy Graham has fascinated me. I got the privilege to go a few years ago with a group of church leaders from Scotland to visit the Billy Graham Centre in Charlotte. I made a video when I was there of the town itself. If I can dig it out I might put it up.
Anyway I was interested in an e-mail that arrived in my box, from a fellow minister, yesterday about Billy Graham and what could be his last preaching engagement. In truth I think Graham...