One beggar telling another where to find the Bread of Life
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntpitrIsOWY[/youtube]Last Easter I stood on the streets of Edinburgh and offered men and women the most powerful symbol of God's Love. The bread and the wine. Here is an every day household commodity that has become a symbol speaking of the broken body of Jesus. I was amazed at the number of people who stopped and took the bread and the wine and the others who turned away reverently reflecting to themselves about the ambiguity...
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Its the strangest feeling being in the study on a Saturday evening and not having to prepare a sermon after 30 years of preparing at least two sermons and sometimes three per week. I think I've got withdrawal symptoms. Anyway, I still had a busy but interesting week moving between meetings at 121 and also preparing for the lecture I gave this afternoon at the International Christian College in Glasgow . The theme was "Mission in the Contemporary West" I was especially...
Leonardo lives on in a Scottish painter Stuart Duffin. I think it is wonderful when talented contemporary artists take up the challenge of painting well known classical Biblical themes. I especially like when they put their own spin on the painting. Stuart Duffin has done such a thing. I believe this painting was just finished last week for a parish church in the South side of Glasgow. Check out Stuart's blog re the painting
The painting freezes the moment in...
I've been reflecting on three words today. "to pass on" The meaning of these words are tied up in the context and the way you say them. You can say "I"ll pass on the fish today" and you think of someone in a restaurant commenting on the menu. In the same restaurant a minute later you can say to the person next to you" be careful, don't come too close or I'll pass on the cold to you" Then we use the phrase to coney that someone has died.
Its all about understanding...
Here's italker on the extreme right,standing next to Peter Hall, with the site foreman on Peter's immediate right. Now on the extreme left is Willie McPherson the CEO of Vine Trust. Now the question is what is Willie thinking? And the question is whose hard hat and boiler suit is it that is laying over the petition?