Texting During Worship
We broke some new ground yesterday during the worship service at St Andrew's Bo'ness. We incorporated the use of text messaging as part of the prayers of interecession and I also encouraged people to text during the sermon if they felt they wanted to comment on something that struck a chord with them. I think on the whole people felt it was a good experience.
A big thank you to Tommy for putting the flag up. This is in preparation for Sunday coming when we as a...
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I'm trying to kept a promise I made to someone in India when I was there a few weeks ago. So I'm in Edinburgh this afternoon on church business meeting people at the central church offices. Its a busy place, even more so just at the end of the Festival. Its a cold damp lunchtime. I walk along George Street and suddenly I realise I've just walked past a beggar who was sitting on the street outside a restaurant. I was past him before it registered. Then you have this...
We have a few foxes roaming about Bo'ness. Last month I discovered a couple of the church staff out on Grahamsdyke Avenue trying to feed one of them. I just think there is something sinister about these foxes skulking around Bo'ness. I even have two or three of them checking out my garden. So you can imagine the surprise the BBs got tonight when the silver fox arrived to be part of the team.
This particular fox has been known to a few generations of St Andrew's BBs....
Its amazing what you see on the road when your out and about around Bo'ness. I'm staggered at the weight of things that get transported on our roads. Here's a steam engine being pulled by a lorry. The lorry is having a rest in a lay-by outside Bo'ness.
Got me thinking about the shear weight of troubles and worries that we all transport around in our lives. We literally carry rubbish in our heads and feelings in our hearts that should have been dumped years...