by Culloden Balloch Baptist Church | Jan 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
Happy New Year! The first post of this year is in the form of a guided reflection considering one of the metaphors applied to Jesus in the bible: Jesus: Sure Foundation, Cornerstone. As you read you will be guided through the process of reflection the heart of which...
by Culloden Balloch Baptist Church | Dec 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
Jesus was an infant by the time of the Wise Men’s visitation, and they gave Him a gift of frankincense. I’m not sure that sounds like a wise gift, at least at first. Yes a bath toy or a cuddly bear, but frankincense? When Hannah was a toddler, I saw a pig toy that...
by Culloden Balloch Baptist Church | Dec 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
The giving of gifts is firmly associated with Christmas and many of us are familiar with the joy of giving and receiving presents at this time of the year. Of course this does not always go smoothly: too short, too long, too bold, too bland, too ‘last year’, too...
by Culloden Balloch Baptist Church | Nov 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
Forgiving others is easier the less connected to us personally, I find it easy to forgive people in general but it’s harder the more it impacts me. It was much easier forgiving people before I got married, I find it much harder now I have two daughters. I am naturally...
by Culloden Balloch Baptist Church | Nov 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
I’ve realised with the march of time that ‘as the wind gets a little colder and we’re all getting older’[1] that temptation changes with each passing year and is different for every single one of us. I’ve been overweight for most of my adult life and I’ve never had a...
