Thought for the Week – Simon Mills

To be a Christian is to embrace ‘life and health and truth’. This sums up our hopes for the friendship and fellowship we enjoy as a Church. The ‘Dads and Lads’ football sessions on a Sunday afternoon are proving very popular and are building good bonds for those who attend. There is a lot of perspiration and certainly it helps our health ! We share aspects of our life with each other and the... [Read More..]

Thought for the Week – Shelia Penny

‘Your word is a lamp for my feet and a light for my path’ Psalm 119 v 105 Have you noticed how trees grow towards the light – they often take on funny shapes in their effort to catch the light and grow in that direction. It occurs to me that we have a lot to learn from nature – in that we need to lean more closely to the light holding out our hands so that they may be filled with good things.... [Read More..]

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 – John Stephen

I went in to a newsagent the other day. A lady in the shop was looking at the newspaper rack and she commented on the headlines in front of her. She smiled at me and said that it is all so depressing she might not bother buying a paper at all! She was joking with me, but there was truth in her comment. There is so much wrong in the world we can easily become quite depressed by it all. However, as Christians,... [Read More..]

Thought for the Week – Bobby Caldwell

St. Matthew Chapter 25 Verse 15 To one he gave five talents of money, to another two talents, and to another one talent, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey. (NIV) I was reminded of this passage while visiting the recent Festival of Mobiles Exhibition in the West Kirk, Helensburgh.  It was a wonderful display full of colour, imagination and the skill of many talented people,... [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..]

Thought for the week – Alastair Turnbull

Crisis?  What Crisis? We all, in our lives, have been through some personal crisis at some stage.  We know not where or when this may happen, but happen they do.  Even if you are not going through a personal time of stress at the moment, there are others who are.  They may be family members, colleagues at work or just friends and acquaintances.  As Christians we are in a special position to both... [Read More..]

Thought for the week – 21st March 2010

We have just experienced the coldest winter for nearly 50 years, yet the snowdrops and crocuses are again brightening our gardens, new growth is showing in the rose bushes,   lambs are in the fields, and bird song is beginning to greet us in the mornings.       Once again God has kept his promise in providing  the annual miracles of new life all around us; may we prove worthy of his concern ... [Read More..]

Thought for the week – 14th March

When I entered my third year at the secondary school I had to make a choice of subjects to study. It wasn’t difficult, it boiled down to a choice between languages or science. I chose science because I liked the certainty that science offered. It had laws while languages merely had rules. As I have grown older I discovered that the certainties of science were not so sure after all. Indeed... [Read More..]

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