Jul 7, 2021 | Church - We're All In This Together, News, QPLive
Build Up I recently watched a documentary on Ernest Hemingway and a segment in the programme made me think about New Testament descriptions of church. The segment was about Hemingway’s friend, the French artist and father of impressionism, Paul Cézanne. The...
Jul 1, 2021 | Church - We're All In This Together, QPLive
Spirit bestowing gifts The first churches upturned the social apple cart in so many ways. Not least in completely restructuring who could lead, serve and get involved. Instead of an elite holding all the power and privilege because they belonged to the right family,...
Jun 24, 2021 | Church - We're All In This Together, QPLive
Adelphoi So, here’s your Thursday pop quiz. What is the most common picture of the church in the New Testament? Body? Building? Bride? None of the above. The most common image used to describe the communities that arose as people responded to the good news of Jesus...
Jun 17, 2021 | Church - We're All In This Together, QPLive
I love maps and I’m intrigued by place names. Often names tell you something. For example, it is not for nothing that the MacIntosh tearoom on Sauchiehall Street is called the Willow Tea Room given Sauchiehall means field or meadow of willow trees. Gleneagles For...
Jun 10, 2021 | Church - We're All In This Together, QPLive
Who needs the church? These last 15 months have been a time of huge turbulence and upheaval for the church. Not just QPBC but the global family of God. The pandemic has prevented us from meeting in familiar ways. Injustices towards the black population in the USA have...
Jun 3, 2021 | God So Loved The World, QPLive
What are you looking forward to? No, I don’t mean the prospect of foreign holidays or post covid hugs. I mean, really looking forward to? A promise Jesus promises everlasting life beginning now and blooming in eternity to all who place their faith in him. But there is...
May 26, 2021 | God So Loved The World, QPLive
Everlasting Life This is a phrase that for many of us conjures up images of what happens after we die, but could it possibly have anything to do with what we experience here and now? Did God simply send his son to die for our after life or does his death and...
May 20, 2021 | God So Loved The World, QPLive
On Sunday morning we will have a special guest with us, Fiona Stewart, both online at QPLive and live at our in-person gathering in our Camphill building. Some of you will know Fiona from when she worked with SU (Scripture Union). Others will know her as the founder...
May 13, 2021 | God So Loved The World, QPLive
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...
May 6, 2021 | God So Loved The World, QPLive
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.”...
