Operation Christmas has been a busy one this year but just stopping by here to give a little report. We had a good crowd of around 50 in for the dedication of little Teara and for our Advent celebration which really helped get Operation Christmas off to a good start. All were given invitations to … More Operation Christmas update.
Yes, its that time again. Last year, with only having been in appointment here at Torry a few months, Christmas came too fast, and before we knew it, Christmas arrived. This year we’ve had a longer run at it. We’re still a relatively small Salvo community here, but we’re going good guns. I just wanted … More Operation Christmas!
Eight Myths of Primitive Salvationism – Major Stephen Court (from armybarmy blog) Though it is the oldest of Salvo traditions, the recent re-emergence of Primitive Salvationism and its relative grassroots press has given rise to some misconceptions of the movement. I thought I’d try to dispel eight of the myths of PS. MYTH 1. PS is … More Eight Myths of Primitive Salvationism
You may or may not have heard that the Army are planning a new Salvation Army songbook. I’m sick at the moment, so had time to respond to Stephen Courts request for suggested songs for deletion from the current songbook. I came up with around 250 songs that we probably wouldn’t miss from the current … More Songbook
As soldiers we cut a pretty big covenant (read it here). Covenant is becoming pretty big these days in the wider church…there are neo-monastic missional orders springing up all over the place. For example, the Order of the Mustard Seed originally began by the great Moravian prayer warrior, Count Zinzendorff and more recently revived through … More Articles of War
“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.” – Martin Luther King Jnr Make peace, not war.
This week I’ve been re-reading ‘The Provocative Church’ by Graham Tomlin. I read this some years ago, but on this second reading its really come alive to me particularly with reference to much of the thinking I’ve been doing about the Kingdom of God and how our understanding and grasp of the Kingdom affects our … More Kingdom
I’m immensely grateful that God isn’t finished me yet. I’m immensely grateful that people who knew me 15 years ago, 10 years ago, 5 years ago and maybe only a couple of months ago would hopefully see a work in progress, but making progress, all glory to God. I can testify as to how he … More I testify to His glory
Had a wonderful moment today that I just had to share. I was in HMP Aberdeen for our chaplaincy team meeting (I’m just about to be on the staff there as a part time chaplain although I’ve been a volunteer chaplain there for about a year). We were talking about the fact that due to … More ‘Go to them’
