Thought for the Week – Antonio

About bad luck.   What do you do when things don’t go the way you planned?  Life  not working out how you though it would? Does it feel sometimes that everything is going wrong? Feeling dissapointed, let down, incovenienced, hurted or downright terrified? Should this happen to Christians? Some people think that when you become a Christian, everythink in your life will work out lovely and you’ll... [Read More..]

Thought for the week – Helen Caldwell

CH 4 – Hymn no 161 O God our help in ages past Our hope for years to come On a trip to Yorkshire earlier in the year, we were advised to pay a visit to Beverley Minster and we found it to be a most amazing place. The current building is the fourth one to be built on the site and is dedicated to St John the Evangelist. Work started about 1220 and was not completed for nearly 200 years. The history... [Read More..]

Thought for the week – Kirsty Brown

I’ve been thinking recently about the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything. As everyone who has read Douglas Adams’ book The Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy knows, this answer is 42. But what really is the meaning of life? The Westminster Shorter Catechism states that Man’s chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever. We frequently glorify God, but when... [Read More..]

Have you seen any Angels

If you have seen any angels: Send in your photographs to angels@stcolumbahelensburgh.org  Read More →

Thought for the Week – Trafalgar

What’s special about the battle of Trafalgar and Scotland ?  Trafalgar Day on 21st October celebrated the Battle of Trafalgar when Admiral Nelson was victorious in 1805. Last year, with this in mind, the Herald newspaper published a short letter on 23 0ctober 2008 from Bruce Lindsay Lt Cmndr RN (rtd). Here is an extract:  “It is of interest to note that Nelson’s triumph at Trafalgar, on his... [Read More..]

Thought for the week – Golden Weddings

Our wellbeing is very much influenced by the quality of love and friendship that surrounds us, and this is so evident at celebrations of weddings and their anniversaries, of birthdays, and of course at Christmas. This is particularly so at 21st, 50th and other “big O” birthdays and perhaps even more so at the “big” wedding anniversaries like silver, ruby and gold. Liz and I have had the pleasure... [Read More..]

Thought for the Week – This Thing Called Love ……

My niece has just asked me to read 1 Corinthian 13: 4 -7 at her wedding later this month.  I never tire of hearing its simple wisdom on love.  But, there are many signs of our complicated struggles with ‘love’. In Scotland each year nearly 13,000 couples divorce, affecting about 50,000 children.  That’s 35 everyday of the year.  Those of us who work with the often awful consequences of divorce... [Read More..]

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK – 23rd. August 2009 – Helen Caldwell Ecclesiastes Ch. 3 v1 “Everything that happens in this world happens at the time God chooses.” A few weeks ago I was watching “Songs of Praise” on the BBC and one of the guests was Chris de Burg, singing “There is a Season”. This song brought to mind the above noted verse from Ecclesiastes and also reminded me of the... [Read More..]

Thought for the Week – Welcome

One thing we enjoy about a holiday away is to go to another church !. Things are always done differently and there is usually something new to learn. In July we went to church in Edmonton, and enjoyed the service benefiting from what was said and the hymns that were sung, several of them new to us. After the service there was tea and coffee at the back of the church but no-one came up to speak to us.... [Read More..]

Thought for the week – Beauty surrounds us -Sheila Penny

I love my garden and often thank God for the beauty that surrounds us every day.   I guess if I have a favourite time it would be the spring time because of the expectation. The shoots coming through the ground and watching them grow little by little into the most beautiful plants and flowers.  The colours are amazing the texture and shape always a mystery to us.   In full summer the garden becomes... [Read More..]

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