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A lot of new material has been added to the now re-launched Church website. You can now find out a lot about the distinctives of the Church ...

C.S. Lewis once wrote a book  Reflections on the Psalms  but it is not very recommended reading because of his treatment of the doctrine of...

Some notes from a sermon by one of our ministers some time ago. John 20:1-8. There is much interest in the fact that John reached the grav...

One or two notes taken from a sermon by one of our ministers some years ago. This is a summary not a verbatim quote. Zechariah 3v9 "I...

A few sermon notes from one of the ministers. Psalm 43 v 3;4. "O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring m...

One or two notes taken from a sermon by one of our ministers some years ago. This is a summary not a verbatim quote. John 6 v5-6 "Whe...

One or two notes taken from a sermon by one of our ministers some years ago. This is a summary not a verbatim quote. Galatians 6v14. “But ...

One or two notes taken from a sermon by one of our ministers some years ago. This is a summary not a verbatim quote. John 6v53 Then Jes...

Luke 23v42, 43. "And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. 43And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say u...

One or two notes taken from a sermon by one of our ministers some years ago. This is a summary not a verbatim quote. John 3v29. "He...

One or two notes taken from a sermon by one of our ministers some years ago. This is a summary not a verbatim quote. Matthew 15v13: "...

One or two notes taken from a sermon by one of our ministers some years ago. This is a summary not a verbatim quote. Matthew 5v5: "Bl...

One or two notes taken from a sermon by one of our ministers some years ago. This is a summary not a verbatim quote. Psalms 51v7 "Pur...

Switzerland Reformation Tour . A tour to Geneva and other Swiss towns associated with the Reformation

As you may know 2014 marks the 500th centenary (as far as can be fairly assessed) of John Knox's birth.  On the right hand side of this ...

Mark Hausam's second post.  THE ESTABLISHMENT PRINCIPLE AND THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH At this point we can begin to see how the Estab...

Mark Hausam lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, where he is a n instructor in Philosophy at Utah Valley University in Orem, UT, and an instr...

...it's hard for me to think those words without hearing my son saying them as 7 syllables with emphasis. He seems to have picked up som...

A quick google shows me that this is not an original observation but here goes anyway. Jim Elliot had a great quote: He is no fool, wh...

One or two notes taken from a sermon by one of our ministers some years ago. This is a summary not a verbatim quote. Philippians 3 v 8-10,...

The following notes are fragments from a sermon preached by one of our ministers some years ago on the text "What think ye of Christ?...

Notoriously, Jeanette Winterson is no friend to the evangelicalism that she grew up with. But as she explained on  Start the Week  and here...

Dr R Dickie gave a very comprehensive paper on Martin Luther and some of his Writings. He reminded us that books by Luther were being impor...

Dr A. Ross gave a paper on The Response of the Churches to the Challenges of Evolution in the 19th Century. It focussed largely on Scotland ...

Two new guest posts on Mark Hausam's blog - http://freethoughtforchrist.blogspot.com Part 1 and Part 2 . These add to his 40 posts on...

At least twenty News journalists will face trial for phone hacking and/or corruption and could well face jail. While further focus centres u...

The FP theological conference in Glasgow was very profitable of a high standard and quite well attended although there was plenty of room fo...

Continuing from the previous post, we can demonstrate that the Westminster divines and a wide range of puritan authors held that 1 Cor 11:27...

As we noticed in a previous post, the Westminster Assembly were very clear in their interpretation of 1 Corinthians 11:27, 29 and 32, i.e. t...

Photo: Flickr James B. Brown Whilst leaving Dalmeny Station last week I noticed on a map that there was a street in Queensferry called C...

These words in 1 Cor 11:29 are very solemn, spoken as they are in connection with partaking of the Lord's Supper in an unworthy manner....