Brian [McLaren] makes such a good point about the importance of the subjective encounter with God that he tends, I think, to minimize the im...

One of the best things about having a term off college is having the time to read some of the books I have wanted to read for ages but which...

Our church has got a new website (at last!). Out goes www.perthbaptist.org.uk and in comes www.perthbaptistchurch.org.uk - much better I h...

It is an old cliche that geniuses are tortured eccentrics. In her book "Spike Milligan: An Intimate Memoir" his long-time manager ...

Young Norris was visited in Nursery by the hearing specialist yesterday, who made some very interesting observations. Firstly the nursery it...

Little Doris has started crawling. No longer can I leave her in one place with a few toys, safe in the knowledge that she will remain safely...

I spotted a reference to this book and followed it up thinking that it sounded entertaining. I wasn't dissapointed. The novel charts the...

Norris, Doris and myself have spent a happy afternoon watching a seal fishing in the Tay in the centre of Perth. The river was teeming with ...

Young Norris (3) has been seen at the hospital today, had various tests and proddings and pokings. He has been put on the waiting list for t...

Really Nothing To Say One of the more honest blogs I've read

I I am both ashamed and proud to announce that I have been awarded the red face of the week award. The wife and I were in a bit of hurry get...

So my little daughter has graduated from being a 'baby' and is now officially enjoying her first day as a 'little-girl'. Con...

Little Doris is 1 Today. Not crawling, never mind walking. Just smiling!

"This is when people get to see if I really believe all I've been preaching about all these years". The late Nigel Lee, the re...

2 Praise the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits 3 who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases In Psalm 103, David c...

Today Gordon Brown has defended John Prescott, under pressure because the press have reported that he has been unfaithful to his wife - cond...

R. H. Strachan commented, on the act of Jesus washing the disciples' feet in John 13:1-4. "...the great truth that this divine self...

I'm 2 chapters into this little book at the moment. I have had a couple of modules from the author at college, and as he is always so...

As someone involved in Bible teaching in the church, I resolve to do the following: Preach free grace until they accuse me of antinomianism ...

We've just arrived home from an Eight-hundred mile round trip to my brother-in-law's wedding, which was held at the remarkable Treow...

Today Boris has invented a new word, "mopelo". Where we live, transatlantic flights pass thousands of feet above us, leaving white...

Time spent at home with Boris, Noris and Doris is usually a fairly entertaining experience. Today however, I am trapped here as two of my th...

I'm currently reading "A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World" by Rana Mitter. My contacts with the ...

I spoke at church yesterday on the hypocrisy of the Palm Sunday crowd in Jerusalem, who proclaimed Jesus as Messiah on Sunday, but within a ...

Thanks to the loan of a camera from young Boris..

I Hate Soaps, by which I mean the nightly televisual feast upon which the nation gorges, not the bodily cleansing stuff, with which I am mor...

My camera has given up on me. Not slightly, not partially - but completely. New batteries failed to elicit any response from the wretched th...

A charity, whose aim is to further democratic participation in the UK, has set up a website called "Write to Them" . The idea is t...

Young Norris (3) has shown the first signs of improvement in his hearing since late November! In the last few days he has misheard less, and...

This weekend we said goodbye to some good friends who strangely want to swap THIS for THIS for at least a year. I think that our Skype sof...

Over the weekend I watched the film of Slaughterhouse 5 , having recently read the book. I was really dissapointed with the film, and not ju...

Last week I listened to Law in Action on BBC Radio 4, discussing the new "Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill" about to go thr...

This morning is dull - however you want to look at it

Today I went here , as two of my friends were having their little baby dedicated. The dedication service was really good - giving thanks for...

One thing about young children that really annoys me, is their frequent incapacity for gratitude. Everything done for them is 'expected...

Little 'Norris'' hearing continues to decline. Putting him to bed the other night, I said before turning the light out, "Go...

Snow still lying on the hills, although now only on higher ground. It's late March, but more snow is promised.

The neighbours suggested taking all our children for a walk in the snow up the Birks o' Aberfeldy . We had a great afternoon, the kids w...

丹地華人基督徒團契 On Friday night I spoke at the Chinese Christian Fellowship. It's a place that I really enjoy going to and catching up with fr...

World of the Strange I have just finished reading Kurt Vonnegut's classic novel "Slaughterhouse Five". After having it highly...

Little 'Norris', my three year old - was back at the audiology clinic today. His hearing has declined significantly since his last t...

Quality T.V. and the Guantanomisation of Justice I'm just back from the cinema, where my wife, myself and about ten other people, ...

Today I bought my 3rd-ever pair of walking boots. They were a present from the wife for my birthday, but being tight, I waited until the sal...

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...