Jan 8, 2026 | News, QPUpdate, Rise Up
“New year, new me” must be the world’s shortest-lived commitment. For the majority of us, our best intentions to lose weight, get fitter, save more and spend less don’t see the light of February. And, as for humanity’s annual Christmas resolve to work for peace and...
Dec 17, 2025 | And on the earth peace, QPUpdate
This is a phrase we often use as an encouragement to mutual action or adventure. It certainly was that for the shepherds outside Bethlehem on that first Christmas night. (Luke 2:15-20) They had just had the incredible experience of hearing the angelic announcement of...
Dec 11, 2025 | And on the earth peace, Christmas, News, QPUpdate
You have probably heard the phrase before, ‘peace on earth and goodwill to all’. That phrase comes from the gospel of Luke, but it is not quite what the text itself says. Let’s read it together: 8 Now in that same region there were shepherds living in the fields,...
Dec 4, 2025 | And on the earth peace, News, QPUpdate
What on earth!!! Receiving any sad or happy news can be a shock. In my work as a midwife, it has been my privilege and pain to meet folks who have had events happen in their lives over which they had no control. Just last week a lady was given news she was having not...
Nov 27, 2025 | And on the earth peace, Christmas, QPUpdate
So here we are, again. Christmas swings round faster and faster every year. This Sunday, advent begins and the countdown to Christmas shifts into overdrive. For some of us Christmas is all sleigh bells ringing, chestnuts roasting and all things merry and bright,...
Nov 13, 2025 | News, The Spirit
This Sunday we will learn how to suffer, I hope. No, it’s not an extra long sermon nor an attempt to cut our bills by switching off the heating. Rather, we are closing out our series on the Holy Spirit by discovering how the Holy Spirit enables us to tackle the hard...
Nov 5, 2025 | News, QPUpdate, The Spirit
Pivotal Later this month the Scottish men’s football team face two pivotal games in their quest to qualify for the FIFA World Cup. Will Stevie Clark go for a 4-4-2 or a 4-5-1 is the big question. Clark’s counterpart in Scottish Rugby is, as I write, probably praying...
Oct 30, 2025 | News, QPUpdate, The Spirit
They say, there are only two sorts of people that are allergic to evangelism: Christians and non-Christians. Yet, the Holy Spirit within us pulsates with a passion to proclaim the good news of Jesus’ death and resurrection and to invite people to repent and believe....
Oct 23, 2025 | News, The Spirit
It was a strange concrete and steel ruin that caught my attention. When I climbed up to look closer, I found it to be the remains of a WW2 gun emplacement, guarding the entrance to the Forth estuary. It encircled a modern communications tower. What really grabbed my...
