Nov 14, 2024 | QPUpdate, Strengthening the Heart of the Fellowship
So, I missed you last weekend. To come clean, I was indulging in a personal obsession. I was enjoying a long-planned dad-and-daughter weekend in the west of France for the start of the 10th “Vendee Globe” single-handed, round-the-world yacht race. Our obsession with...
Nov 7, 2024 | QPUpdate, Strengthening the Heart of the Fellowship
My alarm goes off. It is Wednesday morning, and some strange alchemy has happened overnight. When I went to bed our duvet was made of cotton and a light fibre fill, but the temperature difference between under the duvet and outside the duvet has transformed the cotton...
Oct 31, 2024 | QPUpdate, Strengthening the Heart of the Fellowship
“Hinba” is Scotland’s very own spiritual Atlantis. Saint Columba, stressed out with the buzz and busyness that was monastic life on Iona would take himself off to the sacred isle of Hinba, there to commune with the Lord. Did I mention this often meant standing...
Oct 24, 2024 | QPUpdate, Strengthening the Heart of the Fellowship
Many of you will have, I’m sure, visited the town on Oban either to enjoy wandering around the town or to catch a ferry to an island. As you go around the town you might notice, as you look up at some of the older buildings, brown staining, weeping down the façade or...
Oct 17, 2024 | QPUpdate, Strengthening the Heart of the Fellowship
Ok. Are you ready? I’ve a confession to make. I’m an addict. There. It’s out there. No more hiding it away, it’s in the open. What, you might be asking, am I addicted to? Well, my addiction is this…I’m addicted to books. Always have been and always will be. Scouring...
Oct 10, 2024 | QPUpdate, Strengthening the Heart of the Fellowship
Are you a lender or a borrower? Amongst our community group in Dennistoun we have developed a culture of sharing that means we have, over time, shared books, plates, chairs, cutlery, paintbrushes, lifts, potatoes, allen keys, carpet cleaners, strimmers; bunches of...
Oct 3, 2024 | QPUpdate, Strengthening the Heart of the Fellowship
Obscurity Until very recently I had never heard of Peter Beskendorf, but his story is fascinating He was the barber and friend of the great Reformer, Martin Luther, indeed Luther referred to him as Peter the Master Barber. A Close Shave In the days before good mirrors...
Sep 26, 2024 | QPUpdate, Strengthening the Heart of the Fellowship
The week with have Al Cuthbert from Falkirk Baptist Church with us where he has been pastoring since July 2017. Before taking up his position in Falkirk Al was part of the pastoral staff teams at Stirling BC and then St Andrews BC. Al was also, once upon a time, part...
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...
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...
