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So how do you keep your faith alive as a minister through the hard times? How do you keep writing ? How do you keep going when you see others falling away? How do you sustain the strength to keep going when people who once travelled with you turn aside? How do you survive the [...]

We were up early this morning to catch the tour bus to get a ride around the city. It was the red tour. The last tour bus I was on was in Glasgow. ( It turned put to be a bit of a disaster), anyway we got on the bus outside the famous St Georges’s [...]

Well I arrived in Cape Town yesterday with my fellow travellers the Mc and the Mac Phersons. We were wondering if our flat would be authentic as you read about a lot of people being duped over the Internet. Anyway Sharon was a real person and our flat is ideal for what we require. It’s [...]

Over the next few Sundays the themes of Sunday worship will centre around the stories of creation in the Bible. In the morning services we will seek to find a Christian response to the seemingly hopeless misuse of the earth’s resources. In the evening services we will start a new series centred around the importance [...]

Here is sanctuary Gulls are singing praise to God Stone and wood Touch earth and sky with grace The river laps the sand with ease Ancient sounds of monks are heard in the breeze Singing songs and chants of praise Holy Holy is the Lord Colm’s island speaks of God Hermit prayers can still be [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Sometimes in ministry, (by ministry I mean all those who are involved in some way or another in serving others in the name of Christ), you wake up in the morning knowing that there are things to be done and not enough time to do them. There are people to see, situations to pray about [...]

Don’t give up – there is always a way to fix things. If your in a bad place at the moment watch this little video clip it brought a tear to my eye. All of us at sometime in life get stuck in reverse. Instead of going forward everthing seems to be going backwards. We [...]

I’m really enjoying these beautiful Autumn come Winter scenes here in Bo’ness. Just look and see how vibriant the colours were today. I was walking back from the church in the late morning. I think Grange Terrace has such a prestigious look about it. The tall trees that line the road must have some wonderful [...]