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What do you keep in your wardrobe?

Most people of a certain age can answer the question "Where were you on the day John F. Kennedy died?"

But where were you on the day C.S. Lewis died?

If you have the answer to question 1 then you also have the answer to Question 2, because both died on the same day, 22nd November 1963.

I was at Ross Memorial Church in Mountblow that day. Well actually the church hall, because it was a Friday - B.B. night.

C. S. Lewis, a 'Christian Apologist' and author of such works as "The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe is quoted as saying the following...

“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance, the only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” 

In the last post we asked the question 'How often do you talk about being a Christian?'

Leading on from that we now ask the question "How seriously do you take your Christian faith?"
Is it something that is just for Sunday or, even worse, for Church on a Sunday or, do you practise it 24/7?

Lewis is also quoted as saying “The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.”

When it comes to love it surely works better when it is shared on an equal basis. If God always loves us, then surely it is only right to always love God by doing what is right and just?

Have you become a new person recently?

Our second reading on Sunday from 2nd Corinthians 5 included v17.

"Anyone who is joined to Christ is a new being; the old is gone, the new has come."

Question: Do you talk about being a Christian / the church / religion:

a/ Daily?
b/ At least once a week?
c/ Only when you have to?
d/ Never?

Although church attendances are falling, there are still a good number of people who do make attending Church a regular part of their life. How many of us, however, actually mention the fact, without hesitation, in our conversations with others. I have personally found that it is only when you bring it up in conversations, at work or wherever, that you start to realise just how many other people were at church on Sunday. And it is only when that conversation gets going that you then actually find people admitting that it was time that they got back to church.
So if more people started to talk about it, just think of what might be the knock on effect.

Having said that, attending church is only a singular act in itself. How do you conduct yourself the rest of the week, or even when you actually attend church?
Are you simply an armchair critic of what is happening or do you really conduct yourself in a true Christian way, welcoming the stranger or the person who doesn't quite fit in with our own view. Or offering your help in whatever way you are able?

Having said all that it is funny that, as a member of "Friends Reunited", I have still to tick the box for 'Religion' as being one of my 'Interests'.

Why?
I don't know. 

Maybe it is time for me to go tick the box.

How about you?

 

If I Ruled the World...

...every day would be the first day of Spring.

Wonderful lyrics sung by many great singers over the years. 

But have you ever thought for one wee minute what you would do if YOU ruled the world?
Peace?
Equality?
Education for all?
Scotland to have been at the Euro 2012 football tournament?

Well, just what would you do if you did rule the world?

Send in your thoughts, serious or humourous, on just what you would do if you were given that power.

 

 

 

From High Olympus...

As the old Clydebank High School song goes..."From High Olympus flows to us the glory, on us the sacred fire descends".

It would have been good if the Olympic organisers could have done a better job and had the torch with us two weeks ago for Pentecost, however our loss would have been someone elses gain... so be it!

The picture shows the olympic flame being carried down Kilbowie Road from the Hardgate Roundabout just under an hour ago. Click on it for larger image.

New addition

Abbotsford gained a new addition to the family this morning - 6/6/12.
Matthew Thomas White was born at 8:26am, weighing in at 7lbs exactly.
Small but perfectly formed.

Matthew and his mum are doing well and with any luck Matthew should be visiting Abbotsford sometime fairly soon to book a place in the creche. Dad is bearing up under the great pressure and Gran & Papa are, well, lets just say, over the moon!

Diamond Jubilee Lunch

A new photo album has just been added with some pics taken at today's Diamond Jubilee Lunch. (See Albums below right.)

Again a great day to round off our first Sunday Service with our new minister. The Treasure Hunt which followed was enjoyed by all and well won by "Team Caldwell". Well done to Sandra & Lesley for all the hard work that went into clues.

Now what was the highest lock number at the Bowling Basin.....?

Lock 40

I'm not bitter!!!!!