More faith on the Street than in the Church!

posted: 8 Apr 2007 comments: 0category:

labrybth.JPG When we started out on this whole adventure of taking the message to the streets I never thought it would end up back here in Bo'ness. Yesterday was Good Friday, we took to the street with our Labyrinth and it was an amazing success just listen to how people in the streets of Bo'ness responded to the event. We were asking the question, 'Is Easter Fact or Fairytale?' 'Is Easter Fact or Fairytale?' This will be the topic that I plan to speak about tomorrow in church....
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The Passion

posted: 3 Apr 2007 comments: 0category:

christ.jpg We're planning to show the "Passion" on Good Friday afternoon in the church at 2.00pm. We decided to do this because we felt that some people might find it helpful to come and sit in the quiet of the church and reflect upon the reality of Calvary. However this film is not for the faint hearted. I can well understand why it has been described by some critics as ‘religious pornography'. To the uninitiated, it could appear to be yet another piece of...
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Do you not get it?

posted: 22 Mar 2007 comments: 1category:

communion1.jpg Well we started filming in Edinburgh this afternoon. We had quite an interesting reception. Put the table out with the bread and wine. Guess what? People stopped and read the notice. I overhead one young guy say to his pal, "that's all about Jesus, he's sound". Another young woman came up to me and asked what we were doing? I told her we were taking the bread and the wine outside the church for the people on the street. She thought I meant homeless people. "No", I said,...
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Friday Night.

posted: 13 Mar 2007 comments: 0category:

iquitos It's true what they say songs take on a life of their own. If you are a songwriter you always have to be prepared to give it away. In reality it never belongs to you in the first place. Many people contribute to the ideas that make up a song. A few years ago I wrote this song after hearing a story Willie MacPherson told me. He was describing the above shanty town known as Port of Belen built on a sewer that serves the city of Iquitos deep in the Amazonian Jungle. I was...
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Living in Oblivion

posted: 13 Mar 2007 comments: 0category:

Most people just live their lives oblivious to the reality of the world that is all around them. We drive past so many things of beauty and worth. My wife Martha is continually encouraging me to get out of the car and start walking. She's right. When you take to the streets you see things that you've never noticed before. It's the same with our spiritual journey. When we start walking through our lives at a slower pace we find ourselves being confronted with ideas that...
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