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Whole Life Worship

Sep 19, 2024 | QPUpdate, Strengthening the Heart of the Fellowship

How is your week going? I can’t believe that it is Thursday already. This Sunday we continue our Strengthening the Heart of The Fellowship series, as we look at the theme of Whole Life Worship. A Trichotomy? The theme of Whole Life Worship suggests three possible...

Does My Contribution Matter?

Sep 12, 2024 | QPUpdate, Strengthening the Heart of the Fellowship

When Iain invited me to speak on the theme of ‘Knowing and Contributing your gifts’ I was both intrigued and somewhat intimidated. A Big Topic It’s obviously such a big topic that could be handled in any number of ways but it is also one which I...

Deeper in Our Discipleship

Sep 5, 2024 | QPUpdate

Lenna and I occasionally send out a newsletter to keep friends up to date with what we are doing. The last one we sent out was the most successful – Mailchimp informed us that whereas on average 68% of recipients clicked on and opened the newsletter, this time 82% did...

Strengthening the Heart of the Fellowship

Aug 29, 2024 | QPUpdate, 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

Aug 22, 2024 | QPUpdate

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!

Aug 15, 2024 | QPUpdate

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

Aug 8, 2024 | QPUpdate

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

Aug 1, 2024 | QPUpdate

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

Jul 25, 2024 | QPUpdate

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

Jul 18, 2024 | QPUpdate, Unshakeable

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...