Category Archives: Mark’s

Things specifically from Mark

Trouble with this site

Hi – we apologise for some difficulties we had over the past month. Someone hacked into our site and planted malicious code here. Nothing too dangerous, but annoying nevertheless. We had to take the site down for a few days … Continue reading

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A Message To The Grumbling Christian

Helen found this at: samuelatgilgal.wordpress.com. It made me laugh, because it is so poignant! The message is very clear: An eminent and well-known English preacher was approached by a congregation member who complained about some aspect of church life. It … Continue reading

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The Marriage Course

So we’re blogging our news and thoughts again, after a bit of a break. With Facebook, Twitter etc., it seemed that we were letting the whole world know what we are up to already, but it seems that people want … Continue reading

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They come … they go

You might already know that we have five, yes five kids; well, kids might not be the right word to use, seeing as the youngest is 19 years old. This week we’re losing our youngest, Beth, to Uni in London, … Continue reading

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Sorry, but we haven’t been ignoring you!

You might notice that all our posts are rather old. There are two reasons for that – we haven’t been posting much, but we also lost all the recent posts we had actually made because of a server problem which … Continue reading

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New Wineskins for New Wine

There are three accounts in three of the four gospels, where this message from Jesus is recorded. We can assume that when most of the gospel writers cover something, it’s not just important (all of Jesus’ teaching is important), it’s … Continue reading

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This Church has got it!

We’ve just got back from a superb four days with Dan and Hanna in Stockholm, Sweden. The weather was awesome – really sunny and warm too. So different from how it’s been over there all winter. While we were there, … Continue reading

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Our wee nephew, Alex

Last Sunday, Mothers Day, we had a fantastic time with Helen’s brother Ramsay, partner, Catherine and their 17 month boy, Alex. He’s rather cute and at that stage of life where everything is ready to be discovered! Here’s a link … Continue reading

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Live life “full on” … or … Do what you do to the very best of your ability

Ecclesiastes 9: 7-10 7 Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for it is now that God favours what you do. 8 Always be clothed in white, and always anoint your head with … Continue reading

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You’re bigger than you think you are!

Mark talks about the way in which we usually run ourselves down and therby miss out on the opportunityto rise to God’s calling.

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