The difference I’ve heard many a time is the difference between a parade ground soldier such as you may see standing outside Buckingham Palace and a soldier, for example, fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan. The parade soldier is standing guard ceremonially in the possible occasion that the ‘enemy’ may confront him, but can spend the … More Parade Ground Battle Ground
One of the folks from Pill has started blogging, Luanne Gibbons. Have a peak at her site and say hello. She is listed in the blog list to the right.
Sometimes you have to come to the end of a day and try and forget everything you’ve heard. So….lets think about something different. Here’s a challenge for you. Twas in the Times today. The Coin Trick. Three people check into a hotel. They pay £30 between them to the manager and go to their room. … More And now for something different…
So, last night I was in bed. I was sound asleep. All of a sudden I find myself awake, very awake. Was that the door bell? No, surely not. I close my eyes. There it goes again. This time we’re both awake, squinting at the clock. Its 2.45am and there is someone at the door. … More Ding Dong!
I was looking at some reports the other day on child poverty in Scotland and came across this picture. Immediately, I recognised myself. No, its not actually me, but all at once a whole flash flood of my childhood came rushing back at me. You know, it was only as I grew up I realised … More Flash Back
Here in Wick we’ve stopped closing our blinds when we go to bed. The simple reason for that is its still daylight so it just seems wrong! Here is the pic to prove it. This was taken at 11pm tonight. It hasn’t been doctored or changed in any way! Dispelling darkness must continue to be … More Stomping on Darkness
I have a growing conviction about the shape of the future Salvation Army. This conviction is one that began several months back and posted here (16th Jan 07)and is expressed in picture terms as I ‘saw’ it. It has since been fuelled by reading books such as ‘You See Bones I See an Army’ by … More Army Shape
Our visitor at the weekend mentioned a Catherine Booth quote that I hadn’t come across. He said the source of it was in Harold Begbie’s biography of William Booth and she is supposed to have said it on her death bed. Apparently, she said (to her daughter Kate) “Why can God not keep a thing … More Life and Death
We’ve had a Major Howard Webber visiting our corps from THQ this weekend. Howard is an ‘evangelism mission partner’ and works with various corps in the Territory. His visit had been arranged since the beginning of the year and he duly came. On a personal level, my interaction with him has shown me such a … More Wick’s Mission Weekend
I’ve been getting into Alan Hirsch’s weighty book ‘The Forgotten Ways.’ Fantastic book, but meaty. There he is talking about the similarity between the missional environment that the early church grew up in (before Constantine came along and invented Christendom) and the current day world which many are calling post-Christendom. Hirsch is maintaining (and I … More Back to the future
Andrew S M Clark 