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Surrender

Jan 19, 2023 | QPUpdate

Good evening! Or good morning – if that’s when you arrive here. I’m Josh Silver, the new lead for youth and young adults and I have been mightily touched by the warm welcome I have received so far. The QP family have opened their loving arms ever so graciously toward...

Spare

Jan 12, 2023 | QPUpdate

I don’t have to tell you which publication has just shattered the British record for the best-selling nonfiction book. “Spare” by Prince Harry has dominated the headlines and unleashed a flood of revelations about his life and relationships. Cultural commentator...

The Message in the Marketplace

Jan 5, 2023 | QPUpdate

Hello 2023! And welcome to a world changed by a global pandemic, economic recession and a war in Ukraine. Many of us are adjusting to personal worlds and work which have much changed. All of us are having to come to terms with the world as it is and not how it was....

Joy to the World

Dec 22, 2022 | Joy to the World, QPUpdate

‘Joy to the World’ is one of my favourite carols – yet it was written as a poem, not a song and not even for Christmas! Isaac Watts (1674-1748) the pastor hymn writer was tired of the church’s dullness in the sung worship of his day which consisted solely of Old...

Intertwined

Dec 15, 2022 | Joy to the World, QPUpdate

Last Sunday I used a painting of the meeting of Elizabeth and Mary as part of my sermon. While those of you in the building will have been able to see this image, those online could not, hence I’ve posted it here. I settled on using this image because the embrace, and...

Joy to the world

Dec 8, 2022 | Joy to the World, QPUpdate

Every so often I come across something that seems so counter-intuitive, so seemingly contrary to reality as it is presented to us, that I can hardly believe what I’m reading and need to take a double look. Take for example the statement that in the United States...

Prophetic Words 2022

Dec 1, 2022 | Get Stuck In, QPUpdate

We have recently been encouraged by a number of prophetic words that have come to us as a church both from members and visitors. A number were given to us in written form and so we are able to pass these on. So here is a selection. They are in chronological order...

Get busy and wait

Nov 24, 2022 | Get Stuck In, QPUpdate

In this instant, just-in-time world, delay is a modern sin. Waiting times and waiting lists have become a part of our daily conversation. If you happen to be one of the 142,000 people waiting to be admitted to hospital in Scotland, then waiting is much more than idle...

On the edge of our seats

Nov 17, 2022 | Get Stuck In, QPUpdate

As I write this (on Wednesday morning) it seems as if the whole world is sitting on the edge of its seat. How will Poland and NATO respond to the rockets that have landed in Przedwodów killing two people? Will world leaders meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh for COP27 and...

The denial of death?

Nov 10, 2022 | Get Stuck In, QPUpdate

Death is the great 21st-century taboo. We humans hate to admit that we are mortal. Not so Jesus. The second half of John’s gospel (chapters 14-17) is dedicated to Jesus’ “farewell discourse,” an intense conversation about his departure and return to the Father. Humans...