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Vine Trust – Makes History Once Again

It’s just gone11.30pm and I’m in Lima. Thishas been quite an historic weekend. For the first time ever the Vine Trust and Union Biblica havecome together for a joint meeting to discuss visionand strategy. For the past two days I’vebeen down at Kawai where Union Biblica have a boys home and a holiday camp site. [...]

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After 410 posts Neil Mac at Sanctus media has decided italker needs a face lift, so if you wish to follow the next 410 posts make sure you use the italker URL and not standonline URL . The easy thing to do is to click here nad bookmark the URL www.italker.org.uk

WAKE UP CHURCH – We Need New Skins

For those of you who were looking forward to Sanctuary First on 10 January in Bo’ness I hope you’ll be able to attend the next one. Perhaps the poor weather will give us an opportunity to develop the theme and make it even more interesting. The theme that we’ve chosen for Sanctuary First is [...]

Getting Connected

Sunday coming is “Discipleship Sunday” just hope that the icy weather doesn’t prevent people from coming to church on Sunday morning. The Kirk Session are encouraging everyone in the congregation to “Get Connected” The idea is members of the congregation be encouraged to join a group that has a special interest for them. For example [...]

Soultouch Starts Out On A Great Adventure!

eet Jenn Ewing and Laura Taylor our latest Soultouch team. have a listen to Laura as she asks for your prayers and support. Laura It was great to see another two of our young people in their mid twenties moving out to take risks in the service of the gospel. [...]

Hoon and Hewitt Red Faces All Round

just felt there was a touch of arrogance in the actions of Hoon and Hewitt as they stepped out into the light of the media. Here were two MPs full of their own importance. They were going to be the saviours of the Labour Party. It was their plan to have a leadership contests [...]

Its Good to Say Thank You!

ot that I was actually on holiday all of the time over the festive season, but I sort of got back to work today. It was strange going back into the church this morning seeing the tree without decorations and the church looking a little bit bare. So many people have worked so hard over [...]

Today’s Tower of Babel

I felt a touch of history repeating itself today as I read in the news about the world’s tallest building being opened today. It stands at 828 metres and has cost 1.5 billion dollars to build. So what makes us wish to build higher and higher. I guess there is a human desire to stretch [...]

Engaging with the Life Changes.

When the snow falls even familiar things in the landscape look entirely different. I’ve taken to photographing a few objects at different times during the year, just to remind myself how different they can look. If a bench can change with the difference in climate surely a human being can find their perspective changing [...]

Hallelujah – Shear Joy and Hope in Words and Music

I just finished writing my sermon for tomorrow. I think there is nothing that can sum up what i want to say better than this rendering of the “Hallelujah Chorus” I’ve been touched greatly by the Christmas message of joy and hope this year. In the sermon tomorrow I’m going [...]