Church Weekend 2-4 October

Our church weekend at home will take place 2-4 October. It's a terrific opportunity to spend more time together as a church family and also to hear great teaching. Our speaker for the weekend is Martin Downes, he's the minister of Christchurch, Deeside and a prolific blogger at Against Heresies. He's also had his first book published by CFP called Risking the Truth - handling error in the church. Martin is married to Debbie and they have 2 daughters.

Please do make this weekend a priority and plan to come along. Pick up a form on Sunday or email Froukje for info.

Nothing in my hand I bring

Over the last year probably the best 2 books I've read are 'You can change' by Tim Chester and 'Nothing in my hand I bring - understanding the differences between Roman Catholic and Protestant beliefs' by Ray Galea, I've asked Nicky Rae to review it....

I was asked to review this book as, like the Author, I am of Maltese descent and grew up in a practicing Roman Catholic home. I faced similar challenges to Ray Galea, as I came to true salvation through trust in Christ alone at the age of 27 and felt no option but to leave the culture and religion I had grown up in. I face continuing challenges as I seek to share the gospel with my family steeped in the traditions of the Roman Catholic faith and who have not understood true grace in Christ.

Ray has a passion for the person and the work of Christ whom he has come to love, honour and serve, and this has led him to conclude, painfully, that he could not serve Christ and the Roman Catholic church even though it meant rejecting his family and culture.

“Nothing in my hand I bring” is a sensitively and biblically written account of his painful but honest journey to discover the differences between Catholicism and the Protestant faith by taking each aspect of the Roman Catholic faith (i.e. the Mass, Mary, grace, sacraments , e.t.c.) and showing how it fails to acknowledge the gospel - that salvation comes through Christ alone and that it, in fact, undermines the work and sufficiency of Christ.

I would recommend this book to both Roman Catholics to help them to understand their religion more and to understand the differences; and to evangelicals and unbelievers who ask the question “Is there any significant difference and why was the reformation necessary.” The book is a quick and easy read so I would encourage all to take a copy and read it!

This Sunday morning

This Sunday morning Alistair Wilson who is the Principal Dumisani Theological Institute, King Williamstown, South Africa will be preaching. Dumisani does a fantastic job teacher preachers and teachers mainly for the Eastern Cape in South Africa and is worthy of our support. Alistair has been there since 2005, prior to this he was at Highland Theological College near Inverness. It was obviously a terribly difficult move from Inverness to South Africa!!!!

Alistair is married to Jenny and they have 2 teenage daughters and a son.

Club 16 - open night

This Thursday sees the end of Club 16 for this academic year. All are invited to come along and see what they've been learning about

Working without Wilting - the video

A terrible video of the author trying to sell you working without wilting

Working without Wilting

I'm back for a little while until I pass this on to somebody.

This is a practical helpful book which deals with the nitty gritty of work life. It's particularly good at looking at pressures we face in the workplace. Highly Recommended.

Usually £9 but we're selling it for £7.50

Much to the disapointment of the online community and the many readers of this blog, I am going to retire from blogging. Partly because I haven't got the time and forget about it mostly and partly because I'm not very good at it. The blog is read by people who visit the website and quite a few newer folk to the church read it. So I'm looking for someone to take my place and put on here things that are coming up in the church - Any takers?