Faith, Films and Fishing
Malcolm Round is our Senior Leader. Malcolm has led St Mungo’s for 24 years but still never ceases to amaze, amuse and challenge us. His blogs are certain to do likewise.
Bethel church, Redding, California – an infectious centre of spiritual health!
To go along with our new Sunday morning series on ‘centres of spiritual health in the new testament’ I’m going to do a series of blog-articles about churches I know which are, or have been, centres of spiritual health for me. READ MORE »
Posted on 11 May 2013
Bay City Rollers and multicoloured mugs
Not many people know that one of Scotland’s most ‘famous’ or ‘infamous’ 70’s pop bands, the Bay City Rollers (BCR), was based just a couple of miles outside St Mungo’s parish, in their manager Tam Paton’s house at Kellerstain, not far from the new headquarters of our most famous, or is that ‘infamous’ bank, The Royal Bank of Scotland !! READ MORE »
Posted on 6 May 2013
Beyond Fellowship!
“For the early Christians Koinonia was not the frilly “ fellowship” of church sponsored bi-weekly outings . It was not tea, biscuits and sophisticated small talk in the ‘fellowship hall’ after the sermon. It was an unconditional sharing of their lives with the other members of Christ’s body”.
Ronald J Sider
‘ It was an unconditional sharing of their lives with the other members of Christ’s body’. That is a pretty good definition of the word fellowship. Having spoken in the last of our sermon series on the ‘Colours of Spiritual Health’ about the ‘Yellow of Fellowship,’ I am aware how important the benefit of the “body life” that we get, some being with other believers in the local church, can have upon our spiritual lives. (If you missed it watch it here – http://www.stmungos.org/?page_id=43&sermon_id=441 ) But real fellowship for Christians is even much bigger than that idea . READ MORE »
Posted on 24 April 2013
Dead dogs and a problem prayer life.
There is a famous saying ‘that the fastest way to embarrass a church minister is to ask them about their prayer life!’ And that is absolutely true! Please don’t ask me about my personal prayer life, as I will either have to prevaricate, avoid, or tell you a fib! My prayer life has never been one of my strongest spiritual strength.
Posted on 17 April 2013
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Silver Surfer or Silver Server!!Last Sunday in our latest in our sermon series on the ‘colours of spiritual health’ we chose the colour Silver to represent Service! READ MORE » Posted on 10 April 2013 |
Eggxaggeration
I’m not exaggerating when I say I think this was one of my best Easters ever. READ MORE »
Posted on 4 April 2013
Reading the Bible or ‘Why Brown is the new Black’!
We weren’t very bright last Sunday at St Mungos! At least not colour wise! Many people have continued to dress to match our current sermon series – the colours of spiritual health! READ MORE »
Posted on 26 March 2013
Blue for Wisdom – how wise are you?
I am not very wise. I make a lot of unwise decisions. For instance, look at the picture above. Embarrassing? READ MORE »
Posted on 20 March 2013
Why house groups are colourful and effective and healthy!
As a church we have a new vision – “to be an infectious centre of spiritual health”, and we are in the middle of a sermon series looking at the “colours of personal spiritual health”. READ MORE »
Posted on 12 March 2013
Green of relationship.
I love our house group meetings! Last night we had a great meeting- it started with some great conversation over superb cakes and baking (thank you LT!) READ MORE »
Posted on 6 March 2013
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