Turn your eyes upon Jesus

Turn your eyes upon Jesus

Turn your eyes upon Jesus. That’s the message of Holy Week. The crucifixion and resurrection are the focal points of our faith in Jesus and the foundation of our whole belief structure. However, if we are honest, turning our gaze towards the brutal execution of a...
Crux probat omnia!

Crux probat omnia!

I have on dozens of occasions crossed over the Atlantic Ocean without either flying or sailing! Some of you may have taken the same route over the Atlantic as me, as you leave mainland Scotland and cycle, walk, or drive across the humpback Clachan bridge onto the...
Earth Hour

Earth Hour

This week we have a guest blog from Sue Munro. It seems appropriate to share this blog this week as on Saturday it is Earth Hour and this week, while the mainstream news cycles have been distracted by frivolities, the IPCC released its sobering Synthesis Report on the...
Crux probat omnia!

Happy New Year?

Yes, you have read the title of this blog right and yes, the question mark is playing a very important role in this title! This Monday, 21st March, is نوروز , Nowruz, the Persian new year, when our brothers and sisters from Iran traditionally say goodbye to winter and...
Crux probat omnia!

Grace or grudge – you choose.

Payback culture, it’s the way the world works. You scratch my back and I scratch yours. You hurt me and I expect compensation. You let me down and I demand you make it up to me. It’s the law of Karma where our misdemeanours must be atoned for by our good deeds lest we...
Crux probat omnia!

Faithful

Is God faithful? A few weeks back, via some glitch with our song presentation software we found ourselves singing, “Is God faithful?”   The answer is, of course, a resounding “yes, God is faithful” as a multitude of songs proclaim. Yet the question mark chimes with...
Crux probat omnia!

On the frontlines

On 24th February 2022 Russian tanks crossed the Northern Ukrainian border signalling the “special military operation” which planned to take Kyiv and decapitate the government of Volodymyr Zelenskyy within hours. That did not happen. Instead, a protracted and brutal...
Crux probat omnia!

Good news

When it comes to bad news, we must be near saturation point. So, in a world of relentless and unmitigated tragedy let me tell a good news story. Hatay, Turkey lies close to biblical Antioch from where Paul and Barnabas were commissioned to go and preach the gospel....
Syria & Turkey

Syria & Turkey

While this blog is posted on a Thursday, it is (obviously) written earlier in the week. So, I am writing (trying to write) on Tuesday morning with my head full of images of collapsed buildings, death, and loss from the Syria / Turkey earthquake, the scale of which is...
The Fullness of Christ

The Fullness of Christ

Ephesians 4: 11 – 13 is, I suspect, a rather well-known passage of scripture,. Yet, tucked away in the middle of Ephesians chapter 4, at the end of this familiar section, is a most curious phrase: the fullness of Christ. Always New I wonder if you, like me, have read...