I REMEMBER … The Message Spurgeon Received Each New Year
I remember reading that Charles Haddon Spurgeon used to receive a greeting from an Anglican bishop each New Year giving him a text to preach on at the beginning of […]
I Remember … A Silly Sign
DON’t get me wrong. I’m all in favour of signs outside churches aka ‘Wayside Pulpits’. After all I had one outside St Kilda Church for long enough. People would often […]
I Remember … When We All Lined Up For The Salk Polio Vaccine
When I was a child, polio was one of the scourges of childhood, and it was very personal for me. My mother had contracted it in 1919 when she was […]
I Remember When…Christians fared well at college
My only taste of secular tertiary education was in 1962-3 at Wagga Teachers College. It was a vastly different era to the present time. In 1962 there were eight Teachers […]
I Remember … A Royal Visit to The Church Of Scotland General Assembly
‘It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen announces the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. His Royal Highness passed […]
I Remember … When We Set Up PresAID
I was sitting as Guest of Honour in the Blantyre Synod of the Church of Central Africa, Presbyterian, in Malawi in 2005. On my right sat Rev Joseph Juma, General […]