God loves so much, he gave

God loves so much, he gave

On Sunday morning we will continue our series Good News for a Hurting Planet. God Gave. We will, again, be looking at our hurting, broken planet through the lens of John 3:16. Having thought a little last week about God so loving the world this week the phrase...
God’s Love Takes Human Form.

God’s Love Takes Human Form.

Last week lain kicked off our current series where we are looking at perhaps the most famous verse in the bible, John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”...
Good News for a Hurting Planet

Good News for a Hurting Planet

A Wonderful World You don’t have to travel far to get freaked out with anxiety over the state of the planet. It’s become pretty clear that human beings have been poor tenants of God’s good earth. These days, however, we are slowly waking up to the need to change our...
So here’s a plan…

So here’s a plan…

Jaw dropping An old Jewish proverb says, “if you want to make God laugh, show him your plans”. Perhaps an alternative version of that might read, “if you want to make a human jaw drop, show them God’s work!”It doesn’t get more jaw-dropping than God’s way of conquering...
What does church look like in a post-Covid world?

What does church look like in a post-Covid world?

Hope How lovely to be able to share today after the good news this week of easing restrictions earlier than had originally been suggested. The prospect of travelling across council boundaries within Scotland and of meeting more people from a greater number of...
re | frame: Listening to God for a new season.

re | frame: Listening to God for a new season.

re | frame Our Sunday teaching, over the next few weeks will be  a mini-series “re | frame: listening to God for a new season” As a growing number of the population are vaccinated, and thankfully hospitalisation and deaths due to COVID decrease, the expectation...
Hope in a time of fear

Hope in a time of fear

A dear friend? Fear is an uncomfortable companion. He keeps you up at night, calls when it’s inconvenient, and hangs around longer than is strictly necessary. Fear whispers incessant worries into our ears and nibbles away at our supplies of confidence. I guess...
Sharing God’s Resources

Sharing God’s Resources

Sharing Sharing is one of those early lessons our parents drum into us. However, sharing is more than polite manners and social graces. Sharing is powerful. Sharing resources builds friendships and creates unity, it makes things happen that we could never do alone and...
Bearers of Hope

Bearers of Hope

Amplification and acceleration are two words I had not thought much about previously, but over this last year as a growing number of thinkers and commentators have observed that global pandemics don’t actually, in and of themselves, change culture or technology, but...
Practising gratitude, learning contentment

Practising gratitude, learning contentment

This Sunday we will be continuing with our series looking at Paul’s letter to the Philippians. We will be looking at chapter 4 verses 8 – 13. These verses are very personal to me. They are embedded in me because if my mum had a favourite bible verse it was...