From Bo'ness to Chennai
Here I am at the end of a Sunday evening, and I'm just getting myself ready to join the crowds that push into the airports and rail stations in india. God is good. I believe I must have the best job in the world. It is such a privilege to be part of the family at Bo'ness St Andrew's. We are such a mixed group of people, but I think that is what i like about our church. Well In a few hours I'll be flying back to india again, just for a week to catch up with our friends...
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Glad to see that my old pal Jimmy Sommerville has been having a look at the blog. Actually his comments are quite true, he hasn't changed all that much, now that's more than can be said for me. I popped into the office this afternoon although I'm still on holiday. Johnny, our techy support person, told me he had been reading the blog. He said he liked the Living Stones then he said, "is that your picture on the blog? " You've really changed! Well that's true Johnny we...
Well here's a wee bit of Christian rock'n roll history for you. I spent most of today clearing out my study. I came across a poster for the very first Greenbelt Festival in August 1974. Guess what, I played it ! And Just to prove it I've loaded up the poster. Today of course Greenbelt is one of the most important music and arts festivals in the Christian calander. I'm told around 20,000 people attend each year.
I was the lead singer with a band known as the...
Lord today was glorious
And I just loved the view
The soft sunlight has
given us all a rich warm glow.
Your world is quite spectacular.
The colour scheme is breath - taking
When the sun shines,
it seems to bring out the best in everyone
People actually talk to each other
The TV gets turned off
And people go for walks.
Lord I just love this view looking over our town.
It calls from within me a prayer
I heard from a friend recently,
so simple yet so...
Here we are with track 4 from the bookshop gig. Its called "Light of the World" Light of the World. It was truly one of the worst gigs of our career, but you know what, the sound engineer wasn't a christian, and he said he really enjoyed the banter and the music. Who knows what seeds were planted that night.
I was at Alpha tonight and I was talking about how we can be sure about our faith. One of the points in the talk is that we can trust Jesus because when he makes...