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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 heard
Saints and sinners voices cry
Amidst [...]

It was encouraging to everyone involved with the streaming out of the worship service today to have the appoval of one of Apple’s Senior Directors. In an email to me last week he wrote about our plan to stream out the weekly service to iphones ipads and ipods Mark Rogers writes “A [...]

My colleague Neil MacLennan who heads up Sanctus Media the production company that has grown out of the ministry here in St Andrew’s Bo’ness has worked his magic yet again and has figured out a way to allow our weekly streamed service to now be streamed on an iphone or an ipad. How cool [...]

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 [...]

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 or [...]

If your reading this blog and live near Bo’ness why not make a date and come and worship with us on Sunday 2 May at 6.30pm and share in our next Sanctuary First Service. If you live on the other side of the planet why not log in and share with us here [...]

Just read about a twenty five year old naked man in Los Angelos trying to commit suicide from an old rusty cross on top of a church building. He was eventually brought down and led away. The story of Christ’s humiliation always challenges me to reflect on the areas of my life where I [...]

Mary always knew
there was more to Him than met the eye.
And now, she was looking into his eyes.
in a way that only a mother can.
She wasn’t going to make a scene
She detested violence
The voices were raised
The crowd was jostling
This was not about her.
She knew that.
This was always bigger than her.
Bigger than she could ever be
She [...]

.
Father’s thought.
Carried on His Breath
became
a Word
formed in flesh
The Word was
ubiquitous.
Too powerful
to live
in time.
Too gracious
to refuse
to touch the ground.
Yet the Word was
eternal,
as the thought
as the breath,
that formed life
from the ground.
On the ground,
life
muffled,
misunderstood,
graffitied,
strangled,
the breath.
Deconstructed
The Word.
Flesh
crucified
flesh.
Wiped out
removed
crossed out
The Word.
But the Word
could never be
forgotten
reconfigured
re-thought
Because it is
Eternal
As God Himself

Your Mouse is Fast
We all know that we are living in a fast moving world. If we knew just how fast perhaps it would scare us all to death. I guess the greatest impact of speed on all of our lives over the past twenty years has been the meteoric rise of the internet. [...]