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Tomorrow evening Stephen plans to begin preaching through the book of 2nd Samuel, having finished 1st Samuel a year ago.
As we begin the new series, a reminder of the contents of 1 Samuel will be helpful, and in the hour-long video below Dale Ralph Davis does just that. (He also has an overview of 2 Samuel here).
Another helpful resource on 1 Samuel is the current Let’s Worship God series of Bible reading notes, written by Joel Loughridge.
In his introduction to Sunday evening’s sermon, Stephen mentioned Rev. John Tweed, an RPCNA pastor who passed away last week. John served as interim pastor in Stephen’s home congregation during the summers of 2007 and 2008 when they were without a minister. There is also a connection to Scotland, as John’s father was the minister of the Glasgow congregation for a few years, until the outbreak of WWII meant he had to return home.
John and Alta Tweed pictured outside Faughan RPC in 2007
Rev. Kyle Borg, who preached in Stranraer in January, wrote a tribute to John the day that he died entitled ‘John H. Tweed | An Ordinary Pastor’. You can read it on the Gentle Reformation blog.
Kyle writes ‘Today, Jesus has tended another one of his sheep through the pasture of this life and into eternity’ - and on Sunday evening we saw how we can be confident that that will be true of us as well.
Some of us recently enjoyed the ‘Zoomutopia’ conference on ‘Suffering and the Glory of God’, organised by Gospel Reformation UK. The videos of the 3 talks and Q&A session are available to watch below:
GR UK also run a podcast called Grukology which seeks to encourage the planting and revitalisation of winsomely Reformed churches in the UK. One of the hosts, Josh Rieger, is pictured below with Stephen and Willow a couple of years ago:
Forty years ago today, Rev. Gerald Milligan was inducted as minister in Stranraer, after six years of ministry in Milford, Co. Donegal. He came to Stranraer two years after the retirement of Rev. Moffett Blair.
Although Gerald retired in 2010, he stayed on as stated supply until the ordination of Rev. Stephen Steele in 2015, and since then has served as an elder in the congregation.
Below are some photos from when the Presbytery marked Gerald’s retirement in 2010:
You can listen to some of Gerald’s sermons below:
Why (or did!) did God make a world with coronavirus? and Can the coronavirus be reconciled with the existence of a loving God? are the titles of two recent articles by John Lennox, emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford.
He has also written a short book entitled Where is God in a Coronavirus world? which is available here. If you live locally and would like a copy, please let us know!
You can watch also watch an interview with him below:
Another helpful resource is Coronavirus and Christ, a free book by John Piper. You can read it here or listen to it below:
In light of the pandemic, Stephen preached two one-off sermons about it, and you may also find our current series’ on Romans 8 and He is Able to be particularly relevant at the current time.
There’s also a series of articles on the Gentle Reformation website, including this one by Warren Peel: ‘Fallen, fallen is Babylon the Great’.
