God gave me a divine appointment Monday morning as I got out with flyers in a village very near our church location. It's interesting to me that people know the term, "Agnostic." I guess they have thought enough about God to decide that they believe in Him but do not accept who He says He is. It wasn't a long conversation with this young agnostic man, but he did take a Gospel of John and Romans.

Yesterday Tommy (from our church) met up with me and we put out flyers for about an hour. We didn't speak with anyone but enjoyed the fellowship as we did the Lord's work.

Today we are under a wind advisory with blustery showers turning to snow later. We've had an incredibly windy last 3 weeks. Today the wind speeds can hit 70's mph. :) Better put some rocks in your pockets if you are out and about. Before the three named storms of this past week, they said the UK had lost 8 million trees already this winter.

Last week our church sign posters were blown out of our sign. They were new ones that I had put in two weeks ago.  Another A-board sign was damaged. I had tied it to a post. The rope snapped but not before bending the sign. Please pray for wisdom for us as signs are very necessary to guide people into our church building. 

Well, you don't always get the attendance you hope to get. Today was a day like that. We had several who were unable to be in attendance due to illness. We had one other man and our family present today. I share that to make you aware that sometimes you can have ministry disappointments, but it's ok. God is still good, is still building His church, and has given us numerical encouragement this past week with new contacts. Please keep praying.

I preached a Gospel message this morning on Judas, who was "Born, but not Again." It's amazing how poor a trade Judas made for his soul and for how little it satisfied him.

We very much appreciate your prayers. Mac's cough is much better and God blessed us with a great week of HBC. We also had some good door to door opportunities yesterday. The best opportunity was sharing the Gospel with a Catholic woman. Please pray for fruit that will remain.

PS. We had 8 others plus our family tonight (15 in total) with some still absent due to illness. I thought I'd add that update - so that you don't feel badly for us. We do have a good church family but we need to see everyone get well.

God is blessing our week. Our 2 Bible college students have a reading week this week. So, they are able to help with HBC. The young mother who visited on Sunday is also helping us every day. We've had 10 children who are faithfully attending. All but two were out tonight with their families to watch a Torchlighter video on Gladys Aylward. One family who visited may visit our church on Wednesday nights. That would be a blessing as we have been praying for our midweek service to grow.

We had the possibility of 70 plus mile an hour winds this evening with Storm Dudley. God kept us safe and I'm thankful that we did not cancel our service. We moved our Friday HBC to tomorrow as another named storm hits on Friday. This one looks to be a snow and wind event. They are saying it is a historic storm that could bring gusts of 100 MPH to England and Wales. (In case you don't know we are all connected with Scotland in the North.)

With regard to our church, God's definitely given us some encouraging prospects lately. Thank you for praying.

We had a great start to our HBC with 10 children out. With our workers there were close to 20 of us and it was a lot of fun. All of our family members were well enough to attend. Mac has a cough that flares up at night and we'd appreciate your prayers for that tickle to go away. He feels well otherwise.

God blessed our day of prayer in Blair Atholl. There were 3 of us and it was worth the drive as it always is. I know that God is using these prayer times and I always leave looking forward to our next get together. 

The Lord brought us into contact with a young Christian family who is settling somewhere in our general area. Please pray for God's leading and provision in their lives as they just immigrated 3 weeks ago. We actually sold them a car and he said, "We don't believe it is an accident that we met your family." I don't either. I'm thankful that God has brought another Christian family to Scotland.

If you read this blog frequently, you may remember that my wife and I had an amazing morning doing door to door several weeks back. We had every confidence that we would see some at church that we had met. One of those families came today (a young mother with two children.) We still hope to see another of those families attend. So, we are praising the Lord for His goodness.

This morning we looked at Psalm 103 where David reflects on WHO GOD IS and WHAT GOD HAS DONE. It's a refreshing passage and we were blessed by it.

Illness is still impacting our church. Some in our family stayed home today. Another family was unable to attend. Please pray that our church can get beyond the illness that has been hurting our attendance.

Also, we'd very much appreciate your prayers for a school break Holiday Bible Club that we are running this week. It will be Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 10:30 - 12:30. We anticipate some visitors being in attendance. Thank you for praying.

Thank you for your prayers for our busy Sunday. It was a great day and we thoroughly enjoyed it. We left our house at 8:45AM and returned home around 8:30PM. 

God gave us a a very special day. First of all a young married couple visited the church. A man in our church had invited them about 6 weeks ago. They really enjoyed their time with us and stayed for the fellowship meal after the morning service.

I preached yesterday morning from Deuteronomy 30, Chose Life. Sunday School was David introducing Goliath to the Lord of Hosts.

We drove about a half hour away in the afternoon to fill pulpit for Pastor Dillman who is on a short trip to the States. Praise the Lord there was a good turnout to church even though 2:30 is not their normal service schedule. We returned to collect some children and have our evening service.

Today God gave me a great divine appointment in a village about 30 miles from our home. This village, Gullane, is surrounded by a links Golf Course which has been the field of play for the British Open. The man I witnessed to has a home that looks out on the course. He said jokingly that Sundays are for golf. I spoke with him for at least 15 minutes. Please pray that God will awaken Ken's heart. I'm thankful God had me there this morning. 

I was able to get out Monday and today (Wednesday) doing flyers. I must be getting whimpy as yesterday was too windy to get out. We had wind speeds close to 50mph most of the day. Thankfully the winds were away today.

God gave me a great divine appointment on Monday. A man had just finished unloading a lot of construction equipment from his truck just as I passed by. Gary is from an hour and a half away on the North West side of Glasgow.

Our conversation was definitely of the Lord and I said that to him. God's timing was perfect as he was just done with his work and able to rest a few minutes as we chatted. He said, "Yes and it has come at a turning point in my life." Gary has turned his life around a bit. He gave me a fist bump as we parted and promised to email me. I had asked him to do that so that I could send him some church details from his area.

Well, praise the Lord, he kept his word and emailed me yesterday. He said, "Thanks for speaking with me but I've ben Catholic for almost 40 years and don't think I can stray form it."

This morning I sent him a lengthy email :) which included details to a missionary friends ministry in Glasgow. Please pray that God would work a miracle of His grace in Gary's life and bring him to saving faith. 

Meanwhile, I put out between 3-4 hundred flyers in these two days and I'd appreciate you praying for God to bring forth lasting fruit from my labours. Thanks for your prayers.

Yesterday was extremely windy. 100 meters from our home is a row of pines that line a golf course. 7 of them ended up in the road making it impassible. (I love weather and so it was an exciting day for me.) I said to my family the night before that the fence between us and the neighbour was going to go.... and it did. I don't claim any prophetic abilities :) but it did come true.

Meanwhile, that was yesterday. Today there is another named storm and it is going to arrive about the time of our evening service. So, this could be an interesting night. It's not too unusual.... it is Scotland. We get high winds frequently and we are definitely into that weather pattern just now.

God gave us a interesting week. I put flyers out with Tommy on Tuesday and with Don Dillman in Livingston on Wednesday. The "most" interesting part of the week was Katie exiting church Wednesday night and stepping into a pothole. Thankfully her ankle was sprained and not broken. She is on the mend and getting around pretty well now. We are realizing that we need to be even "more thankful" for our health.

We had a good morning despite low attendance. I enjoyed preaching on Psalm 141, "My Prayer." (currently uploading) David needed God's help and he knew how to get it.

Next Sunday, I get to fill in for the Dillmans in the afternoon and would appreciate your prayers for God to give us a good Lord's day. Thank you for keeping up with what is going on her and for praying for our ministry.

Praise the Lord we had a good service today. One family made a heroic effort to be with us today. They had illness this past week plus a tootheache  that took them to Accident and Emmergency between 2 and 5 this morning.  We were thankful that they were with us. Please pray for God to releave the tooth infection. She has an emergency dentist appointment this afternon.

None of our visitors came, but the Lord met with us and we enjoyed a wonderful morning in the Lord's house. Please continue to pray for God to build our church spiritually and numerically.

I preached a message this morning on Felix, "In Danger of Hell." It was a sobering look at Felix who likely went to Hell as we considered, "You are in danger of Hell if..."

God's good. We're excited about what He is doing. With regard to our family, God provided a new to us vehicle yesterday and we're grateful for his provision. For the guys out there who care, it's a 2015 Renault Scenic Xmod, Diesel with 70k miles. We bought it for a very good price.

If you need some encouragement facing giants in the will of God, please listen in to our SS lesson this morning from the Life of David. It will be uploaded soon and I'll add a link to this thread. (Here is the link.)