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This week sees the opening of the Edinburgh 2010 Missionary Conference in Pollock Halls. It was one hundred years ago that the same conference was held in the General Assembly Hall on The Mound. Its remit then was to think strategically with other from around the world about sharing the Gospel and fulfill the great [...]

This has been quite a busy week between being in the Parish and occasionally attending the General Assembly. On Wednesday evening I attended a presentaion in Crubber’s Close to launch ‘Bible Fresh”. The whole aim of the evening was to encourage church leaders to become actively involved in promoting the heritage and legacy of the [...]

Written as a contribution to the Lausanne Conversation on Preaching Part 3 Does preaching still have a role to play in the emerging church? In fact does preaching still have a role to play in all of our churches.? While our communication revolution invites us to continue to reflect upon the way we participate and [...]

Re-imagining Preaching as a Process Part 2 This article forms part of the Lausanne Global Conversation check it out All of us are living through what can only be described as the greatest communication revolution in the history of the human race. Technology allows us to communicate in ways that were only before dreamt of [...]

This has been a pretty busy week for all of us in and around St Andrew’s. A lot of busy people trying to catch up with themselves. I noticed the staff of Sanctus Media have been working really hard to get the DVD ready for the 25th Anniversary Dinner of the Vine Trust which was [...]

Well here’s the question how long will it take for “Nick to get Flegg Up”. How long will it take before we see headlines like “Nasty Nick does the Tories Dirty Work?” And how long will it take before people are wishing they had a “Sweet Chocolate Brownie in No 10″. Oh I’ve got another [...]

This article was originally written for the Global Conversation in preparation for the Lausanne Congress in Cape Town 2010 http://conversation.lausanne.org/conversations/detail/10245 Reading Krish Kandiah thoughtful article relating to effective preaching under the title “Reimagining Biblical Preaching” got me thinking that perhaps effective preaching needs to be “re-imagined” in our minds as less of an event at [...]

After all the years I’ve spent in ministry I’ve never been invited to a 100th birthday party. However all that will change today as I hope to attend the birthay of Mary Keel who is our oldest member of the congregation. Mary is a wonderful Christian lady. When she left school she went to work [...]