No I haven’t got the year wrong, I meant to give this a ten-year-old title! Why? Because Easter weekend 10 years ago marked the start of a new era in my Christian journey. Easter 2002 was the first weekend that I no long attended Rutherglen Salvation Army, but Bellshill corps instead. I’d been attending evening [...]
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Easter 2002!
Posted: April 8, 2012 in Bellshill, church, dementia, depression, Easter, family, friendship, Health, heart, holiday, life, love, music, pray, prayer, religion, Rutherglen, Salvation ArmyTags: Belgium, Bellshill, Christ, Christmas, cross, Easter, God, Jesus, Salvation Army
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All of Me
Posted: November 8, 2011 in Bellshill, church, friendship, life, love, music, pray, prayer, religion, Salvation ArmyTags: Christianity, Churches of God, Denominations, God, Local Churches, Religion & Spirituality, sunday, The Three Sopranos
I mentioned in yesterday’s blog post, Whatever, that I’m always amazed by how God directs us through sending us the same messages several times in different forms. At our service on Sunday night not only was I reminded that God wants us to come to Him just as we are (as I talked about in [...]
Whatever
Posted: November 7, 2011 in Bellshill, church, friendship, life, love, music, religion, Salvation ArmyTags: bible, Christ, Christianity, crystal lewis, God, God the Father, Jesus, Old Testament, Religion & Spirituality
It never ceases to amaze me how often God directs us to the same songs/bible passages/messages from various different angles and directions, but all so that we get His message loud and clear. And so that’s exactly what I’ve experience again in these last few days… One of the things I’ve been looking at in [...]
Home Is…
Posted: September 26, 2011 in Bellshill, Bellshill, church, family, friendship, life, love, music, religion, Rutherglen, Salvation ArmyTags: band, Bellshill, Bellshill Salvation Army, Christian, comfort, family, God, home, nichole nordeman, Rutherglen, Salvation Army, singing company, Soldier in The Salvation Army, songsters
I’m sure you will have heard this phrase many times: Home is where the heart is But what does that actually mean? Well here’s a great definition I came across a few days ago: When I walk into my home I feel peace. I feel I am in the most safe environment that I could [...]
For God
Posted: September 23, 2011 in Bellshill, family, friendship, Harvest, life, music, religion, Salvation ArmyTags: Bellshill, brian doerksen, Christian, creation, exodus, food, God, Harvest festival, New International Version, NIV, Salvation Army
This week, in various blog posts, I’ve referred to us celebrating harvest last weekend at Bellshill Salvation Army, but do you actually know what that means? Here’s one definition I found: Harvest Festival is a celebration of the food grown on the land. Harvest Festivals remind Christians of all the good things God gives them. [...]
Grow
Posted: September 22, 2011 in Bellshill, friendship, Harvest, life, love, music, nature, prayer, religion, Salvation ArmyTags: Christianity, forget, Fruit, Garden, God, Jesus, New International Version, plant, Religion and Spirituality, steve green, vine, witness
John 15:1-2 (NIV) I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. Following on from our Harvest weekend I’ve spoken in the last few days [...]
Fruit
Posted: September 20, 2011 in Bellshill, Harvest, life, love, music, pray, prayer, religion, Salvation ArmyTags: Christ, Christianity, Delirious, Epistle to the Galatians, faithful, Fruit of the Holy Spirit, Galatians, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, John, love, New International Version, NIV, peace, Salvation Army
As I think I mentioned in yesterday’s blog post What Are You…? I mentioned that this last weekend was our Harvest weekend at Bellshill Salvation Army. For the weekend we had visitors from DHQ, Carole and Elwyn Harries, leading our meetings. I must admit that having been at many harvest weekends over the years, I [...]
What Are You…?
Posted: September 19, 2011 in Bellshill, friendship, Harvest, life, love, music, pray, religion, Salvation ArmyTags: Bellshill, Christianity, Denominations, God, harvest, international staff songsters, iss, Jesus, McDonalds, officer, police, prison, Religion & Spirituality, Salvation Army, witness
“…a prison officer?” That was the question I was asked on Saturday night. You’re probably wondering why I was asked this. Well on my way home from our Harvest festival at Bellshill Salvation Army, I went to the drive-thru at McDonalds with my Salvation Army uniform on! I placed my order and drove round to [...]
Stripped Away
Posted: September 12, 2011 in Bellshill, blogging, friendship, life, love, music, religion, Salvation Army, TwitterTags: band, BSAB, calvary, Christian, Christianity, God, Jesus, Lord, matt redman, praise, Religion & Spirituality, Salvation Army, Twitter, worship
It’s funny how things happen sometimes isn’t it? In the last few weeks, you may be aware if you’re on Twitter, that there has been people, one in particular who has been doing all they can to turn people from the Salvation Army in the UK. While they are free to express their own opinions, [...]
Childless = Excluded
Posted: July 11, 2011 in Bellshill, blogging, children, church, family, Father's Day, friendship, life, love, Mother's Day, music, religion, Rutherglen, Salvation Army, Scotland, sportTags: alone, band, child, Childless, Children Youth and Family, Divorce, exclude, family, God, home, Kathryn Scott, parent, songsters
…sadly, this is often how it can feel when you have no children and all those you spend time with, have kids. Before I go any further with this blog post I just want to clarify a couple of things following my blog post Childless = Alone from Friday night: I really do love children, I’m [...]
