Small towns and a great God

But you Bethlehem Ephrathah though you are small…
Micah 5:2
 
It’s been raining in Glasgow for 28 days! It makes me think of the homestead. I come from a small town on the Moray coastline…the town where this week the 40ft Sperm Whale was washed up. It’s a small town, ‘Pictish Capital of Scotland’ no less of around 2000 people. Burghead is a peninsular which juts into the sea with a small struggling fleet of fishing boats. The people of the town face a difficult Christmas this year. 2006 has been a year of great loss to so many people, fishing disasters and road accidents have brought incredible sadness to many families.
Separated by work and life one wonders what could be of comfort to the people of the town and indeed to us all? In foreseeing the birth of Jesus, Micah calls Bethlehem ‘small’. In his prophecy Isaiah in the ninth chapter speaks of people walking in darkness. Then he mentions a light! ‘The people walking in darkness have seen a great light, on those living in the land of the shadow of death’.
As we enjoy and value the people we love most this Christmas consider this; Jesus Christ as Lord and God knew for what he came and for whom. As people who are ‘living in the land of the shadow’ may we welcome the light of Christ to the dark places of our small lives.  
 
Rev Brian R More
Newton Mearns Baptist Church      

End of Year Thought

Life is short! Painfully short!! too short to not connect with somthing bigger than ourselves. 

New things ahead

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Matthew has a new jumper!

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