Dalziel St Andrew’s Parish Church

“Life is not hurrying on to a receding future, nor hankering after
 an imagined past. It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle
 of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you.”  R. S. Thomas, a Welsh poet and Anglican [...]

No doubt, pedants of the world will unite in wagging an accusatory finger at me, whilst pointing out my reckless use of the letter “Z” at the end of the title on this BLOG entry.  Hey-ho, no one can PLZ everyone (oh, sorry, wandered into text speak for a moment!).  I know that DREAMBOYZ sounds [...]

“I cannot defend the mistakes I have made, but I choose not to be defined by them.”  That is a message the LORD has been sowing deep in my heart of late, and it’s probably one you also need to hear.  It is too easy to be weighed down by guilt at the many ways [...]

“Many are cauld, but few are frozen,” is the old parody of a well-known phrase.  Folk tend to make fun of what they don’t understand!  And, certainly, when it comes to the claims of God speaking personally to an individual, it is often thought to be peculiar.  If my own experience is anything to go [...]

I confess that I hadn’t come across the term, “Epic Fail,” until I read it for the first time on someone’s Facebook page.  Obviously, I’m not quite as “down with the kids” as I thought! According to the number one definition on www.urbandictionary.com, it means, “Complete and total failure when success should have been reasonably [...]