Bible Study on Thurday – What a blessing
Preaching to an audience of one, there were more there on Thursday night!
Written by Uilleam Mac Gafraidh
For those of you who know us, we had a Bible study in our home on Thursday night; it was such a blessing to read from the book of James. I must thank all of you for coming and if you didn’t make it, feel free to contact me and I will give you directions. The next one is next Thursday at 7pm. God willing of course. Everyone is welcome!
It is written that when two or three are gathered in my name, there I will be also. That is as true as when the ink was wet on the page, God was certainly there and we were certainly blessed. Not by the fool who was teaching, by any means!
The humbling thing about hosting a Bible study is that God does all the work and strangely enough I get some of the credit! Admittedly I do the studying to fully answer and understand the text and teach it in its entirety and in context, but I am as much ministered to by it than anyone. That is the true blessing!
If you haven’t already studied the book of James (or it has been a while) I would commend you to do so, if you need a Bible, contact me and I will send you one free of charge. The reason I say this is that James is an amazing challenging book about Christian living, it always convicts my heart and starts me on a to-do list of where I need to be in my strive for holiness!
Now, hard as it may be for you to believe, I am not perfect (waits for guffaws) but in the age of self help books, quasi Christianity and generic feel good churches, it is a refreshment to myself and my soul to see so many people willing to come and be refreshed by the Word of God.
Now the book of James will be challenging should you decide to come, you may uncover things that you would rather not see about yourself, but like anything else, once you uncover the problem, you are a step closer to fixing it!
In many cases you can fix it yourselves, but I always enlist spiritual help and pray about what I need to fix.
In other news, this week has been a fun one, Last Saturday we went to the zoo as a family, videos to follow later! Tabi need to go see a specialist, but we can’t get an appointment til October, so please pray for us. And also I was without internet for a week, (Was Clearwire’s fault, not a happy bunny with them!) so the lack of posts around here was due to that!
God bless you one and all
Uilleam Mac Gafraidh
Happy Anniversary Chelsea
My life in a photoframe - July 4th 2010
Written by Uilleam Mac Gafraidh
I write this in the midst of chaos! Tabi has given us another night of about 3 hours sleep (between us) she is currently laying on the couch asleep on top of mommy (who is also glad of the rest)
We need to do a doc’s appointment today as well as her EKG and X-ray, so we will (or at least should) have more news shortly! Normal rules go out the window when it comes to your child when she is sick. I have been humbled by your prayers and good wishes! I am blessed to have such great friends!
But the reason for this article is to honour my wife; 5 years ago she agreed to marry me for the first time! This was not our big wedding and was only attended by 7 people (not including us and the pastor)
Those of you who know the story of us will know that we had our “wee wedding” and our “big wedding” the wee wedding was a ceremony to get the necessary papers to allow Chelsea to get her marriage VISA to come across to the UK.
But it is yet another day that I get to declare my love for her! So that I am thankful, and the best way I can do that today is to lead my family by getting our sick daughter seen too, my hope is that we get a date night later on in the month!
God bless and thank you all for reading
Uilleam Mac Gafraidh
Sunday humour (part 2)
An open bible rather than a bulletin
Written by Uilleam Mac Gafraidh
It seems that my dad was that impressed by my last post that he sent me an email full of stuff that have appeared in church bulletins. (I presume these are British as they appear to be very British humour!) I hope you enjoy!
The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals.
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The sermon this morning: ‘Jesus Walks on the Water.’
The sermon tonight: ‘Searching for Jesus.’
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Ladies, don’t forget the rummage sale. It’s a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house.
Bring your husbands.
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Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our community.
Smile at someone who is hard to love.
Say ‘Hell’ to someone who doesn’t care much about you.
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Don’t let worry kill you off – let the Church help.
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Miss Charlene Mason sang ‘I will not pass this way again,’
giving obvious pleasure to the congregation.
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For those of you who have children and don’t know it, we have a nursery downstairs.
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Next Thursday there will be tryouts for the choir. They need all the help they can get.
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Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days.
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A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will follow..
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At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be
‘What Is Hell?’
Come early and listen to our choir practice.
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Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones.
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Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children.
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Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person you want remembered..
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The church will host an evening of fine dining, super entertainment and gracious hostility.
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Potluck supper Sunday at 5:00 PM – prayer and medication to follow.
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The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind!
They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.
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This evening at 7 PM there will be a hymn singing in the park across from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin.
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The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the Congregation would lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday.
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Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM.
Please use the back door.
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The eighth graders will be presenting Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the Church basement Friday at 7 PM. The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.
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Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church.
Please use large double door at the side entrance.
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The Associate Minister unveiled the church’s new campaign slogan last Sunday: ‘I Upped My Pledge – Up Yours.
God bless and I hope this made you smile
Uilleam Mac Gafraidh
Some Sunday humour for you!
I am sure that God has a sense of humour!
Written by Uilleam Mac Gafraidh
It has been a wee bit heavy reading on this blog for a while, so I thought I would hit you all with some irreverent reverend humour! And what better day than a Sunday to share it, we could all do with a wee smile every now and again! This is a joke I came across and I thought I would share…
A mother woke her son up on Sunday morning and told him he needed to get ready to go to church. The son replied to his mother that he didn’t want to go to church this morning. She told him nonsense he should get up and go to church.
“But mom” he replied, “Everybody hates me, the sermons are boring and none of my friends ever come.”
His mother replied, “Now, son…There are four reasons that you need to go!
First, everybody doesn’t hate you, only a couple of bullies and you just have to stand up to them.
Second, the sermons mean a lot to many people. If you listened to them, you’d be surprised at how good they are in helping people.
Third, you have lots of friends at church. They are always having you over to their house.
And finally, you have to go…
you’re the pastor!!”
Hope that tickled your ribs, If you liked if feel free to comment also! God bless you one and all!
Uilleam Mac Gafraidh
Please pray for Tabi
Tabi - When God made her, he was just showing off!
Written by Uilleam Mac Gafraidh
Have you ever had something so precious that it encompassed words? I have had that four times in my life, the three times goes as follows:
- when I asked Jesus to come into my life again and I was forgiven
- when I asked my wife, in New York, at the Empire state building to marry me
- my wedding day
- when my baby Tabitha was born
In all four of these things, as a result of them, I am blessed on a daily basis, so I would say that these things for the very foundation of who I am as a person, I am very much a Christian, I am also, very much a family man!
So when your family is hurting, you ask for help. Personally, there is no higher authority for me than prayer, so I would ask for everyone reading this to pray for my daughter Tabi.
Yesterday when she went to the doctor, they did a test on her and found out she had a heart murmur, this could be something, it could be nothing, we will only find out with further testing. It could mean that there is a hole in the heart, but Tabi could also not need to worry about it.
As you can imagine, as parents we are worried, but we are faithful to Gods plan, regardless of where it leads, but human nature tells us that we will worry about our kids, please pray for us as a family at this time.
We will go for an EKG and X-rays as soon as we can arrange it, then and only then will we know the full extent of what is going on! We do promise to keep you informed, after the family on both sides of the pond has been informed!
God bless you one and all
Uilleam Mac Gafraidh
