Oct 6, 2022 | Get Stuck In, QPUpdate
If you want to walk on water… Junior Choice, the Saturday morning radio programme showcasing the latest poptastic pickings from the music charts was a regular feature of my childhood. One song, in particular, stands out. Bobby Gentry’s “what do you get when you fall...
Sep 29, 2022 | Get Stuck In, QPUpdate
Where has “Bannerman” gone? I have vague recollections of the Moscow Summer Olympics in 1980, but the first Olympics I have clear memories of were the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. These were the games in which the rivalry between Zola Bud and Mary Decker for...
Sep 22, 2022 | Get Stuck In, QPUpdate
Forget Peter on the day of Pentecost, or even the stadium tours of Billy Graham, the largest crowd gathered to hear a Christian message occurred this very week. Estimates suggest that 26 million people in the UK alone watched the funeral ceremony of Queen Elizabeth II...
Sep 15, 2022 | Get Stuck In, QPUpdate
I’d like in this week’s blog to look back so that we can then look forward. With the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II there has been much looking back, and lots of reflection. Whether in mainstream media, social media, the printed press, conversations in coffee...
Sep 8, 2022 | Get Stuck In, QPUpdate
The Word Sometime in the 15th century the great Russian painter Andrei Rublev created his masterpiece, The Trinity. Inspired by the story of the three angels visiting Abraham in Genesis 18, he portrayed the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit communing with each other...
Sep 1, 2022 | Get Stuck In, QPUpdate
So, how are you doing? I mean, how are you really doing? I had a conversation with someone recently where it was clear they were running on fumes. Life in general tends to throw things at us that are draining, and I think that for all of us navigating the past couple...
Aug 25, 2022 | Get Stuck In, QPUpdate
Whether it is post-it notes, to-do lists, notifications on our digital devices, or even the old-school knotted handkerchief, many of us have our ways to remind us of what is important, what we need to do and where our priorities lie. Someone once said that vision is...
Aug 18, 2022 | QPUpdate, Songs in the Night
Memory Lane This week most, if not all, of our young people started back at nursery and school. I have no memory of my first day of school apart from what my mum has told me in later life. In fact, memories of P1 – P4 at Budhill Primary School (the school no longer...
Aug 3, 2022 | QPUpdate, Songs in the Night
Click bait they call it, shiny, enticing online information that demands you and I check it out, now, right now! My phone pings insisting that I dump what I am doing and pay attention to some unmissable bargain or trivial fact. There is no doubt, our world is infected...
Jul 28, 2022 | QPUpdate, Songs in the Night
This week, 15 of us joined with about 700 other young people from across Scotland. We camped in a field, saw enough rain to re-enact the story of Noah and more importantly prayed, worshipped and heard the word of God together. On Sunday I will be sharing with you on...
