Sermon Series'

To mark the high significance of our main mode of gathering returning to our building we will explore the following: Returning brings joy and sorrow, Ezra 3:1-13 and Revelation 21:1-8 (Aug 23) Being steady in disruption, Genesis 1:1-27 and Genesis 6:5-22 (Aug 30) Living firm law or flexible grace?, Romans 14:1–15:9 (Sept 6). Martin Luther’s […]

paradox /ˈparədɒks/ noun: paradox; plural noun: paradoxes a seemingly absurd or contradictory statement or proposition which when investigated may prove to be well founded or true. There are multiple parts of the bible and Christian thought that people have found to be puzzling paradoxes. The point of this series is to explore some of them. […]

The experience of prayer is a struggle; and a mystery; and a joy… Prayer is simply (and profoundly) understood as the conversation of friends (but also much more!). What is your understanding (your paradigm) of prayer? These last months have been good for us to consider that question… and Richard Dawkins has kindly helped us […]

As a foreigner in an overseas country I was given an identity card officially called an “Alien Card”! I didn’t get to the country by UFO, and though I love that country, I just didn’t belong. 1 Peter is written to such people, Christians, who don’t ‘belong’ to this world. Our citizenship is ultimately in […]

To be over simplified (to make a point), there is just two ways to read the Bible: 1) it’s about you; or 2) it’s about Jesus. The former will present you lots of problems–particularly when you are reading the Old Testament! Jesus however saw, from Moses, the Prophets, the Psalms, Scriptures concerning himself. On the […]

As we start a new year, holidays are over, Christmas decorations are over and our thoughts turn to “what’s happening this year?” and then I quickly wonder–how different will the year be to last year? Sure it will be different in the sense that I’m older, technology will be different, the Crows will make the […]

Christmas… it’s getting close, and the period of advent is a count down of (only) four Sundays till December the 25th. Advent is often associated with four traditional themes–which so often are not associated with our lived experience of the Christmas festival… How can we then have…: Joy, Luke 2:1-20 (Dec 1) Love, John 3:1-21 […]

Does light act as particles or waves? This question has confused those in the physics field for some time: the answer is both! In Christianity there are also issues in which the existence of two biblical truths seem a paradox. The purpose of this series is to look at some of them because these are […]

What is success? How does our culture define success and how has that then impacted the church Christians as individuals? And what does it mean for pastors? At the end of 2019, I’ll have been at Largs for six years, and in this time the issue of success has been vexing for me. This series […]