Strengthening the Heart of the Fellowship
Did you know that January is the worst possible time to make a New Year’s Resolution, at least this is true, according to psychologists, for those of us who live in the northern hemisphere of planet Earth. The reasons January is a bad time to try and make significant...
Guest Preacher
Many moons ago… Many moons ago, probably during my first year or so of accepting the call to be the pastor of Pitlochry Baptist, I had a great guy in our church preaching every now and then. He was a member of PBC, working as an academic at that point, but had...
Looking in The Wrong Direction!
All I saw was a blank sky, the information I had was wrong and I saw nothing. On Monday there were multiple reports on TV and the internet that the Perseid meteor shower that night would not only be visible but spectacular. This meteor shower passes the earth every...
All In
This week education in various forms will be at the forefront of the minds of many in our church family. Tuesday was SQA results day with the various levels of joy and disappointment that can bring and next week sees the start of a new school year, which may also be...
How to throw things at God
There are times when it comes to writing the weekly blog that there seem to be no words which are adequate to express all that is happening in our world. Close to Home. The horrific knife attack in Southport, in which three young girls were killed, has left families...
Looking forward yet mindful of the present
It is good to have something nice or exciting to look forward to. Perhaps you have not yet had your summer holiday and you are looking forward to that? Looking forward at QPBC. There are a couple of exciting things to look forward to at QPBC in the Autumn....
Followers and Leaders
An assassin’s bullet grazes the ear of the Republican presidential nominee, the English football team coach resigns despite, (in my humble opinion) a successful 8 years at the helm. And, as I write, the King’s speech, launches a new government’s agenda upon the...
Pay attention.
I could easily have missed it if I hadn’t stopped. I guess most of the people around me had just walked by or snapped a quick photo to note a waypoint on a journey to somewhere else. Again and again, I was struck on my Camino Frances pilgrimage by the fact we can be...