Do you know ‘Mr Rogers’? Or should I say ‘who he was’ as he passed in 2003, aged 75. I just watched ‘A wonderful day in the neighbourhood’, starring Tom Hanks, on Netflix. Previously, my wife cringed every time she heard Mister Rogers speak or mentioned, such was his strange, high-pitched American whiney voice and […]
In a festive family quiz we had a dispute over whether the 12th day of Christmas is the 5th or 6th of January. IE. Do the 12 days start on 25th or 26th December? The quiz said 6th January is the 12th day. Whichever, are you continuing […]
Another year of Grace gobbled by ‘Tock Tic’ has me looking in the mirror and wondering who this glaikit guy staring back at me is. Reflecting on 2021 I’m immensely […]
Want to make God laugh? Tell him your plans. But be careful not to laugh at God’s plans for you! Zak & Elizabeth were well on in years with a pensioner bus pass, when angel Gibby told Zak that he and Mrs Zak, unable to have […]
“Just can’t wait for Christmas!” Well you’ll just have to, but ‘how you wait’ is important. Advent is a season of patient waiting and hopeful expectation. But, all too easily we slot into a familiar route and rut to, and through, Christmas running on autopilot. We can […]
More madness, mayhem & meaning coming your way my friends! It’s that time of year when Fr Wullie & I get singing, dancing and rope y’all into the Fun, Laughter, Advent Adventures and Christmas Message of Hope.
In response to 20 months of pandemic pressure this year’s Shoes […]
It was the last thing I wanted. I was busy and feeling constrained by time. This Retreat would bump my weekly day-off to Monday, ‘again’. And I had the perfect excuse to dodge our church leadership’s retreat to West Kilbride Parish Church’s lower hall. It would’ve been […]
Not another variant!?! Our hearts sink as another variant raises its ugly head in the battle to crush Covid 19 and banish it to the history books. And from where do all these variant names come?
“Good! Fine! Okay. Not Bad. Rank Rotten!” How honestly do you answer the routine question, “How’re you doing / going?” How well do you mask how harassed & harangued you are? My trite polite answers to this passing question 
Starting out at Fullarton, I remember mature ministers talk about their embarrassment at their earlier sermons. Smug and Self-righteous in my evangelical zeal, I thought that would never be me. How wrong I was! I think I’m even more passionate in my preaching, but the more I