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I’ve just finished recording a short video for Pentecost. Its something I’ve wanted to do for a while to make the link between Christmas and Pentecost using a symbol to link the Festivals. We have a Christmas Tree each year which we put in church. We actually  call it a Christmon Tree because we hang [...]

ARCHBISHOP TUTU AT THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY Certainly history was in the making yesterday morning as the little frail looking man dressed in purple appeared in the play pen. By the end of his address the general Assembly gave him a standing ovation. ” Turn the wilderness into a garden of wonderful flowers.” He thanked all [...]

TALKING THE WALK Here I am just returned from the Assembly having spent the evening at the Moderator’s Reception in the old Parliament Building  just behind St Giles Cathedral.  Its the hall where all the advocates stay on the move as they listen to briefings regarding up and coming court cases. The room tonight was [...]

Just back from the Assembly . I was at the Moderator’s reception this evening

I’m praying that we will all see and hear and even recognise Jesus when he comes to the Assembly this week. Roland Porchmouth, a famous Church of Scotland Minister once painted a picture of Jesus at the Assembly.

  THE NATIONAL GATHERING Lots of things are happening around the church this week. I guess we’re not any busier than normal but it seems that way. The staff of SANCTUS MEDIA are working flat out getting ready for the General Assembly. Rae has just managed to produce a DVD with over three and half hours [...]

Its amazing that 9 years on we have SANCTUS MEDIA working out of the church as a media production company as part of our congregation’s ministry.

It looks as though we might be considering a Scottish Cathedral’s Cycle Challenge again ten years on. So keep your ear to the ground. Mike Munro one of our elders has been researching the idea. It was actually a great event. It raised the seed money nine years ago to start the St Andrew’s Multimedia [...]

This is a post to encourage all the 40 Day Discipleship Challengers. Don’t beat yourself up if you’ve missed one or two of the text messages. Remember some of the suggestions will take time to put into practice. We’re all here to support and help each other not to lay guilt trips on one other. [...]

Today’s “Discipleship Challenge” is to give something away that is literally very valuable. I think there is amazing freedom to be had from exploring the gift of generosity. Jesus told us that the real joy in life is to give rather than receive. So often our worldly wealth just pulls us down turns us into [...]