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...
Oct 9, 2025 | QPUpdate, The Spirit
Heard the story about the animal school? It goes like this. Once upon a time, the animals agreed to do something to solve the world’s problems. So, they began an education project. Their school would have a full curriculum of running, climbing, swimming and flying....
Oct 2, 2025 | QPUpdate, The Spirit
There was a vending machine in the monastery. Slot your cash in and out drops the answer to your physical needs: water, sparkling or still, chocolate and snacks. Having just walked over the Pyrenees from France to Spain for 26km it was an appealing vision to me. But...
