I often enjoy the time in-between Christmas and New Year – especially after the busyness of ministry in the lead up to Christmas. Yes, it’s a time to put the feet up a little, but it has always been a valuable refresh time for me – a time to look back and take stock. More … More Reflections on the Year-End: A Time for Renewal

Advent moves on a pace, with plenty of extra festive events popping up here and there. I can’t pretend it’s not a bit of an overwhelming time, when there is a little bit of an extra pressure ‘from somewhere’ to preform that bit better – maybe something to do with wanting to help make people’s … More Enhancing Your Prayer Life: Embracing Liturgical Prayer

My upcoming 3 day retreat coincides very neatly with the beginning of ‘Celtic Advent’ – this being a full 40 day period before Christmas, and dating back to the Celtic Christian’s affinity to Christian Orthodoxy. It begins on the evening of 15th November through to Christmas Eve. Back up a step – why would anyone … More Celtic Advent dawns…

I have discovered over the years that the monastic disciplines of silence; quiet spiritual reading; working away with my hands (thus the knitting); handwriting large chunks of scripture; elements of fasting from many things; and reducing my output and interaction with the world are incredibly spiritually nourishing, and I will not exchange those practices which … More The Rhythm of Stepping Away…

We’re in a spiritual battle. This is one of the predominant themes of the entirety of the scriptures, old and new. The battle may sometimes find human expression, but undergirding is the activity of the Satan and his rebellion which seeks to usurp God’s intention to have a people for himself and to restore Eden. … More The Spiritual Battle

Few modern scholars have impacted biblical studies like Dr. Michael S. Heiser. A linguist and theologian specialising in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near Eastern studies, Heiser devoted his career to helping readers see the Bible through the eyes of its original authors and audience. His core message was simple: the Bible is a supernatural book that … More The Unseen Realm of the Bible

There is a kind of thinking in our world today that says, well, if we can just get the Ten Commandments back in our class rooms, it will all be fine. On one hand, I disagree with the premise if it is founded upon the idea of a ‘Christian Nationalism’ which was not the kind … More Righteous Living?

This coming Friday, 17th October, marks 30 years since I became a follower of Jesus. I still remember the day like it was yesterday, but 30 years feels like a long time to a 45 year old! I am grateful for all the things those 30 years have taught me about life, but I am … More Thirty Years Following Christ

I’m back home from my few days away in Galloway and grateful for two particular things: the privilege of going away, and the joy of coming home! I love the Isle of Arran. One of my strongest passions that my sojourn to Galloway has deepened is just the desire to see a healthy gospel church … More A Healthy Gospel Church

It has been great to have spent a few days down in South Galloway, within a decent stones-throw from Whithorn, which is the late 4th century base of St Ninian’s mission to bring the gospel to the South Picts. Ninian’s mission was, without much doubt, the first main apostolic mission to what is now Scotland. … More The Elusive St Ninian