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...
Jul 21, 2022 | QPUpdate, Songs in the Night
This week there has been a lot of talk about what is normal and what is abnormal, or exceptional. This week Scotland experienced both its hottest night and its hottest day. The weather is not normal and is a reminder – if ever we needed one – that the climate crisis...
