Last month I wrote an article about resilience, quoting extensively Chris Dunkerley and I wonder now how important that message was, given where we find ourselves in the world today. The key highlights of resilience were: Manage priorities—Sabbath rest—Take exercise—Process Your Feeling– Don’t ruminate—Seek stillness—Enjoy company. Perhaps the last one,...
It’s a while since I penned a Pastoral Letter, and as we’ve moved into 2020 I have looked back and considered the busyness of the past couple of years as I have bedded down at GMC. There has been some great mission work in the church, times of sadness and...
Despondent life or Abundant life There has been much in the papers and media in Dunfermline recently about mental health. Dunfermline Press stated that POLICE officers in Fife are having to deal with suicides on an almost daily basis1,and there have been a number of articles under the heading ‘We...
Pastor Mike’s latest blog includes an audio recorded at Sunday worship on 9th June 2019 as he considered the importance of relationship building both within and without the church, and the necessity to share our own story in order to strengthen relationships. This was then followed by the powerful testimony...
BREXIT. Ok so I’ve mentioned perhaps the unmentionable word that wasn’t even a word prior to the 23rd June 2016. But amongst all the angst and division, the uncertainty and fear, the anger and the boredom of the whole process—what as Christians should we be thinking about this whole sorry...
I spent a few days away at a monastery in Perth for a conference with the theme, ‘Ascending to the Higher Places’ at the end of January. Outside my bedroom window, over the wall of the car park, I could see a small private graveyard, within the grounds. During some...
A few issues arose over posting up the blog from our minister in the New Year. This issues are now fixed, so here is Mike’s musings from January HAPPY NEW YEAR! We closed off our worship in 2018 hearing from some of the congregation, listening to their high points and...
Have you watched Toy Story or any of the sequels perhaps with your children or grandchildren? I am so excited that the final instalment of the film series ‘Toy Story 4’ is due for release in summer 2019. It will give me reason to watch the previous three films and...
Truth What is truth? Today in society it might be a little difficult to pin down what is true and what is not, because it seems to be a pretty slippery thing. What was true yesterday may no be so today. Often as history is examined under the lens of...
Did any of you see the program ‘Meet the Drug Lords: Inside the Real Narcos’ presented by the ex-SAS serviceman Jason Fox that was on Channel 4 recently? In it ‘Foxy’ visited the areas of production and trafficking of drugs, mainly cocaine, and saw the cartels and the police in...