by contemporarychristianity_admin | Feb 18, 2025 | P.S.
I dislike being disliked. In past months, I found myself caught up in a difficult professional situation. In circumstances where I knew it was impossible to please all parties, I quickly came to realise how much value I placed on external validation. We live in a...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Jan 29, 2022 | P.S.
After retiring in 2017 from ministry in Presbyterian churches in the Republic, we moved north and engaged in a bit of “church tasting”. Although there was a friendly welcome everywhere and faithful biblical preaching, I was dissatisfied with the prayers for others,...
by admin | Dec 3, 2020 | P.S.
Like a good evangelical Christian, every morning my day starts with quiet time. The Lord’s prayer, then other prayers, setting my day up, giving it over to God. And from prayer I go to Scripture, helped in that discipline by Bible Reading notes. A verse or a question...
by admin | Mar 26, 2019 | P.S.
On Sunday a couple of hundred people walked the hill to Stormont and then spent a short time in prayer. Alain Emerson from 24/7 Prayer Ireland and Peter Lynas from Evangelical Alliance (NI) led the short act of worship with a reading of PSALM 85 and then...
by admin | Mar 12, 2012 | P.S.
The church’s services as chaplain to this democracy are no longer required. You’ve been given your P45; your severance pay is in the mail. This is roughly what Walter Brueggemann said to a Presbyterian audience in America.* It is perhaps how the church in...
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