Bogle Band - Friday Night Sunday's Comin'

posted: 13 Mar 2010 comments: 0category:

[flv width="320" height="240"]http://video.standonline.org.uk/blogs/friday_night.flv[/flv] A few years ago I co-wrote this song with Iain Jamieson it was a reflection on a story I had heard about street children in Peru being sold for sex. It was at the same time we in the Vine Trust had sent our first medical ship to work on the Amazon. The Ship was sailing the Atlantic during 9/11 henece the pictures to link boat and 9/11 together. As for the title well I heard Tony...
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Too Busy To Experience Beauty and Joy ?

posted: 17 Jan 2010 comments: 0category:

I received this story in an email, I usually just delete stories like this however I'm glad I had a read at this one. I checked it out on Youtube and have put the video as one of my featured videos this week. "Washington, DC Metro Station on a cold January morning in 2007. The man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time approx. 2 thousand people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. After 3 minutes a middle...
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Looking for inspiration - U2 - 2009

posted: 18 Jul 2009 comments: 1category:

I've been working on the the sermons for Sunday. Struggling a wee bit with the theme for Sunday morning which is entitled "Facing the Single Life" i guess I'm becoming aware of the breadth and depth of the topic. People are so different, their approach and attitude may depend  on their age, their sex and whether they have chosen to be single .  I can imagine the feelings  will  be quite different for people  who are single, following on from a divorcee, or a...
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A Generous Orthodoxy

posted: 28 May 2009 comments: 1category:

assembly 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 those who stood with him in the struggle because of them  he said, " we are free today." SPEAKING AND FACING THE TRUTH Well that's me back...
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Get Read Get Set TEXT Bible 40 to 80806

posted: 3 May 2009 comments: 4category:

img_0714 Just back from Sanctuary First. the theme was all about moving from one space ro another . It was about helping us see that the way to  bring about change in the life of the church is to be prepared to make the appropriate sacrifice. Although it was a Bank Holiday weekend we were delighted to have a number of friends join with us in the worship.  We were pomoting the C40 programme. this is our made up Discipleship programme. So if you want to join the Challenge...
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