Many people were fascinated by Prof. Dawkins attack on faith in his recent TV series "The Root of All Evil" (Channel 4, 9th/16th J...

In the last four da ys I have driven to London and back, a nice little 1000mile trip. With 14 hours of driving, backache, and depressing dep...

On Monday, we went to the funeral for David Scott, who died the previous week. He was a warm hearted, gentle, sincere man of God, who had tr...

"For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." (Eph 2:...

Happy Birthday to Me! The day got off to a fine start, then Boris, Norris (and to an extent Doris, too) sang Happy Birthday to me, and gave ...

An amazing range of sermons is available for free download (you have to register - but there's no fee) from www.allsouls.org . You can ...

Next winter's wood has arrived. I've spent many happy hours splitting and staking it.

Feeling gloomy and dispondent last Thursday at Glasgow's Queen Street station, I prayed on the station platform; "Lord, I'm fee...

Last weeks drama came in the form of a pregnancy scare, which thankfully was only a scare. The thought that Boris, Norris & Doris were t...

There's a website about Tim Keller here: http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/bio/timkeller.html It's a good little page w...

..... Straw ................................. Headmaster The similarities between these malevolent manipulators are too uncanny to be mere...

There's never not a dull moment round here, is there?

The Webbs took, the Mrs & I, Boris, Norris and Doris up East Lomond hill this morning. A great walk it was too, and despite the dreary h...

"IN THE BEGINNING: THE KING JAMES BIBLE AND HOW IT CHANGED A LANGUAGE, A CULTURE AND A NATION" Just finished reading this Chrsitma...

Having recently been given some leadership responsibility in my local church, the following is a sobering thought. In 1Sam5 (1-8) the people...

We received the concerning news that young Norris is deaf. Well clinically he's actually right on the borderline of deafness. The timpan...

Christmas is a very strange time of year. Like many Christian families we find ourselves uneasily trying to celebrate with the usual round o...

We've just moved our third (read "last") child out of our bedroom. The cot has moved to Doris' own room and she is in it -...

A day marked out so far only by its unremarkableness.

Young Norris (aged 3) gave his mother the slip in a big electrical shop today, and she couldnt find him anywhere. Amazingly, he had marched ...

I realised again this weekend how frightening the Bible actually is in practice. I have the job of doing some of the preaching at church, an...

Beautiful cold winter's day. Just as it should be in December! But how can another week have gone past already? H...

For reasons as yet not fully understood even by those directly responsible, our three children shall henceforth be referred to as, "Bor...

An unremarkable week livened up only by my wife celebrating her birthday week by falling on the ice, hurting her back and then passing out. ...

The promised huge snowfall was a damp slushy squib. There's still a little on the hills, no snowballs, snowmen or sledging though! 28.11...

Glasgow Burger King Offspring #2 Fire Extinguisher Foam Oh dear, Oh dear, Oh dear, Oh dear....

One very large and extremely nosey bird has spent its morning staring in at us from the garden wall. we reckon it's an infamous grouse? ...

Yesterday we had offspring #2 and #3 dedicated at church, with a suitable gathering of the clans to mark the occasion - a special day in our...

Monday 21 Nov (am). Strange patches of orange indicate either clouds or aliens approaching.

Like good coffee, perfection should not be hurried

At college yesterday guest speaker at worship was Dominic Smart - who I haven't heard speak for many years. He spoke on Ecclesiastes 3:1...

Cold, windy, grey, dark. Hints of an ominous winter to come. 14 Nov 05. 10am

Does it get more boring than this? Event of the day, wife has made new curtains. I can't believe it's come to this The price to pa...

Compared to Shaw's previous book this is light reading, yet it packs a powerful and challenging punch! This is the story of Andrew Reed...

TV Star ------------------------------- Daughter The uncanny resemblance between my daughter and a very well-known TV star has been brought ...

Spoke last night at church on "If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothi...

07.11.05 10:30am Today feels like the first day of winter.