Feb 29, 2024 | QPUpdate, Questions of Life
Taylor Swift, Donald Trump, and even Vladimir Putin command the headlines in 2024. Yet, I am convinced, their celebrity and status will wane. Few names survive the test of time. Yet the influence of Jesus of Nazareth is increasing globally after 2000 years. Arguably...
Feb 22, 2024 | Global Focus, QPUpdate
Worldwide, one in seven believers in Jesus face persecution. That’s 365 million people according to mission agency Open Doors, who compile an annual “world watch” list. Top of the list of persecutors are N Korea, Somalia and Libya. However, Nigeria is 6th and Pakistan...
Feb 15, 2024 | QPUpdate, Vital breath - living in the Lord’s prayer
It struck me the other day that I am no longer asked a question I remember frequently being asked as a teenager and young adult. The ubiquity of mobile phones means that I cannot remember the last time someone asked me “do you have the time?”, a very Glaswegian way of...
Feb 8, 2024 | QPUpdate, Vital breath - living in the Lord’s prayer
“Revenge is a dish best served cold”. And the colder, the more calculating and hurtful it is, the more appealing it is to my enraged soul. This vicious spiral of harm-generating-harm makes the world spin from injury to injustice and from grievance and bitterness to...
Feb 1, 2024 | QPUpdate, Vital breath - living in the Lord’s prayer
After the joy and excitement of the baptism last Sunday, the week, we return to the joy and excitement of the Lord’s Prayer as our sermon topic. While part of the purpose of the blog is to look ahead to Sunday, it is worth noting a couple of things (a fraction of QPBC...
