by Culloden Balloch Baptist Church | Oct 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
Kenny strongly suggested in Part One of this series that we often view prayer as ‘presenting our needs to God’ and I’m not sure there is much to argue against that point. So far in this prayer we haven’t actually had a chance to ask God for anything! Rather we have...
by Culloden Balloch Baptist Church | Oct 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
King James Bible …hallowed be thy name. New International Version …hallowed be your name. New Living Translation …may your name be kept holy. Contemporary English Version …help us to honor your name. When I was a Primary 3 in Ms M’s class we...
by Culloden Balloch Baptist Church | Oct 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
Where do we start when it comes to speaking with our God? Well, in a startling divergence from what had been done before, Jesus teaches His disciples to begin prayerful conversation with God by addressing Him as ‘Our Father’ and in that, He used the...
by Culloden Balloch Baptist Church | Oct 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
In Matthew chapter five and verse eight Jesus says: ‘Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.’ Tosh has asked that I write this blog post as an introduction to a series of posts written by various people on ‘The Lord’s Prayer.’ Matthew 5: 8 is the verse...
by Culloden Balloch Baptist Church | Sep 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Apostle Paul wrote this statement in his letter to the church in Colossae: “Keep your roots deep in Jesus, build your life on him” (2:7) This was a key verse in my coming to faith in my early 20s and is one I have tried to live by. Exactly what this means...
by Culloden Balloch Baptist Church | Sep 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
If you’re a Christian you know by experience that God is merciful. Moses when he asked to see God’s glory revealed, the LORD revealed Himself not in power (which Moses had seen) but He revealed Himself with a declaration. He is a God rich in mercy,...
by Culloden Balloch Baptist Church | Sep 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
James Weldon Johnson is probably not a name that you are familiar with. He was a civil rights activist in the United States. One of the spiritual songs he wrote with his brother is based on Ezekiel 37 1-14. I know the earworm is starting up and...
by Culloden Balloch Baptist Church | Sep 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
In such times as we have been experiencing, the world as we have known it has been transformed. All life was affected when suddenly, along with most of the rest of the world, we had to change our ways radically to protect and save ourselves and others from a...
by Culloden Balloch Baptist Church | Aug 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
We live through an age where there is more self-help advice available than you can throw a thousand sticks at. I don’t think there can be many topics concerning lived life for which advice regarding how to make it better is not available. The basic premise is if you...
by Culloden Balloch Baptist Church | Aug 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
I don’t know about you, but for me the pandemic has been quite an unusual experience. My job is well suited to working from home, and things have been really quite busy – work carried on at full steam (a bit more than normal actually as other colleagues had to drop...
