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Moving on the river in a noisy tin bath of a boat makes me aware of the contrast between nature’s engineering and our man-made engineering. A fish swims silently and graceful in the water while our boat moves like an angry noisy monster, cumbersomely up river. You know, I’m thinking to myself what I would [...]

You know what before I knew it I was part of the Ben Hur races. There’s something about motor bikes that brings out the boy racer even among the most holy of us. My travelling companion Paul reveals to me that he just loves riding these ponies. Before long I’m standing on the. Bank of [...]

I’m up early this morning to see if I can tune into the service being streamed out live from St Andrew’s Bo’ness.The truth is I can’t sleep, the continual drone of motor bike engines become a lulla bye giving you false hope of sleep, only to find the backfire of a motor bike wakens you [...]

I had breakfast with Paul Clark the Director of Union Biblica. He is a commanding figure even at the age of seventy five. His white hair neatly combed in place he looks cool. I think he probably has always been cool. We started a conversation about multi tasking. Paul believes that woman can do this [...]

The first thing you notice when you get off the plane in Lima is the heat. It must have been at least 75 degrees. There was a smell of stale fish in the air and the traffic horns were noisy. This is a city of some eleven million people stretched out over a desert coastal [...]

Well in a few hours I’ll be off on the flight to Peru. thanks for your comment Gordon. I well remember your visit to AH1 that was a day and a half. You were overcome with sun stroke and  I felt so sorry for you. Your a big guy and you looked as white as [...]

We here I am once again getting ready to do the long haul across the Atlantic to South America.  I’ll be visiting Peru for the next nine days. Catching up with our partners SUPeru and meeting the new Chairman of their board. Meanwhile I’m just back from a Kirk Session meeting tonight.We talked about a [...]

We’ve been thinking about the call to be obedient in all of our housegroups this week. I think it is obedience in the small things that often leads to great things happening in our lives. A few years ago I met a New York pastor who told me this story. About two or three weeks [...]

Well the doughnuts seemed to go down well, as did the morning coffee before church. I do believe there is something in eating and drinking together that releases a feeling of friendship and acceptance. There was a great feeling in church this morning. Maybe it was all the worhippers getting their sugar rush. I do [...]

Tomorrow at church there will be doughnuts and coffee and tea as you come in through the front door. I’m trying to get us all to think about Lent in a different way this year. Now I’m not saying that fasting and depriving yourself of a luxury is a bad thing. I’m just saying perhaps [...]