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...
Feb 25, 2021 | Life to the Max, QPLive
Mr Chippy Mr Chippy, two words that sparked a vision in my soul. More than a vision: a smell, a taste, and a hunger satisfied. It was my dad’s tested technique for tired teenage legs staggering our way back from a hill walk. He would describe the joy set before us...
Feb 17, 2021 | Life to the Max, QPLive
Hey Church, I’ve been thinking and reflecting lately about The Point and the success we had over Christmas with our hampers for schools and emergency accommodation. I was talking with our missions sector leaders and saying how incredible it was that our plan for 80...
Feb 11, 2021 | Life to the Max, QPLive
Snow, we all seem to have had lots of it. For the home schoolers, physics has suddenly become a popular subject as youngsters and their parents venture outside, sledge in hand to measure the force of gravity and kinetic energy as they slide down the nearest hill. No...
Feb 4, 2021 | Life to the Max, QPLive
Yacht racing As some of you may have gathered, one of my lockdown pick-me-ups has been to follow the arduous, single-handed, round-the-world yacht race, the Vendee Globe 2020. It has provided 3 months plus of daily drama: Southern Ocean storms, mid-Atlantic doldrums,...
Jan 28, 2021 | Life to the Max, QPLive
Dear Friends, This week the UK passed a grim milestone, 100,000 deaths from COVID-19. The enormity of this tragedy is both shocking and unimaginable. Each loss is a person: a name, a face, a friend and family member, a person with a history and hopes for the future....
Jan 14, 2021 | Life to the Max, QPLive
Philippians 1:1-11 “Wee-man” It was an odd nickname: “Tiny”, “Wee-man”. Yet it stuck. The name was “Paul” which meant “small.” Every letter he wrote or crowd he addressed heard his humble stature. He had been “Saul”, of course, which meant “one who asked and inquired...
Dec 3, 2020 | A Journey Homewards, QPLive
Advent : Arrival Advent – It’s all about the waiting. Whilst we all scurry to sprinkle magic and sparkle, lights, and decorations around our homes it is all too easy to overlook the importance of the waiting. “Advent” simply means arrival, and Christians have...
