With it being a slightly quieter time of year, I usually get a lot of time to read. I’ve been looking at ‘The Vision and the Vow’ by Pete Greig. Most of you who are in Christian circles will have heard of the ‘u c bones i c an army’ idea, well, that comes from … More The Vision and the Vow

We’re exploring a couple of new winter project at the moment. If I tell you that in Wick we are getting on average only 4 hours of daylight and maybe 3 hours of twilight, you’ll understand why there are many people who suffer from all sorts of depression, including SAD and the regular ‘winter blues.’ … More Light in the darkness

…or ‘Happy New Year Everyone’ Lets make it a good one for the Lord.

This week of the year is one I love, I have to say. Its time for me to take stock, review, and pray about the year coming, think about my personal warfare, resolve and set goals for the year to come and generally have an opportunity to stand at the beginning of a year and … More Forward 2008

I wrote a wee song to sing at our Christmas Holiness Meeting this morning. Its to the tune in the chorus section ‘Lord, make Calvary real to me’ (CS81) and its called ‘Lord, let Christmas be real to me’. I offer it for you to use if not this year but next if you want … More Lord, let Christmas be Real to Me

Had a good day of meetings. Busy holiness meeting this morning and a packed hall tonight for the carol service. Our new Kids Alive Choir put in a performance and it was good to see mums and dads and grannies etc etc there to support. We were a few kids down, but was great to … More Tis the season…

I begin this post with a note of praise and thanksgiving to the Lord. Long term readers of Army Renewal Blog will know that this time last year, due to a variety of circumstances, that I was off work because depression had set in. It used to happen now and again, throw back from a … More Praise Note, Prayer Note

After carolling today, and because our youth club has finished for Christmas, I had a longer spell of time to have with the kids before I went with the War Cry to the pub. We had a lovely drive to a beautiful place called Lairg on Loch Shin, in the southern part of Sutherland then … More Beautiful Scotland

Our wee band have been facing the Caithness weather with our Christmas carolling. Yesterday we were in Tesco, the largest store in our town and had a good time of sharing and witnessing with shoppers. The store manager was reportedly in tears, not because our playing was awful, but because it just touched her. Pray … More Carolling

So William Booth was on a train and he has a vision. He sees a black strorm rising up and a tragic ship wreck. People dying and sinking into the dark sea of misery, some of them sinking to rise no more. Suddenly, out of this dark storm rises a huge platform from which those … More Booth’s Vision