God blessed us with a good Sunday as we honoured our mother's today. (Happy Mother's Day!) This evening we looked at Ruth 4 as I preached a message, "About Mothers." Praise the Lord for those whom God has used to preserve life and give birth to each one of us. We wouldn't be here without God's blessing upon mothers. (Obviously there are loads of other reasons to be grateful to God for His goodness in giving motherhood.)

The Scottish government has given a date for when churches can begin in person services, 26 March. I've already checked with our normal location and they are not able to allow us to meet there. I've emailed the location we used during lockdown and they have yet to respond. Please pray that God will meet our need for a church location.

The gifts our ladies' are handing out with invitations to women to attend a Zoom meeting are being well received. Please pray that some would take the time to join our ladies this coming Saturday night at 8:30. It is purposefully late to allow women with children to attend uninterrupted. We know that the gifts have already been a special blessing to those who have received them. Thank you for praying for this special meeting.

Wind and rain has been the weather story of this week. We had a low pressure system move through on Tuesday and have a second one passing through just now. I was able to get out yesterday morning and do flyers. I only spoke with one man and it was a brief conversation. I said, "Your generation does not believe in God." I found out he was a year younger than me which makes it, "Our generation." (I can't see myself when I'm talking and forget that I'm looking older these days.)

I'm very thankful for God's help with The Journey and appreciate your prayers. The live streams are going well - praise the LORD. The segment for today was, "Righteous God." Interestingly, God's holiness is a source of great security for us.

One recent blessing from the livestream is connecting with some young people who used to attend our church. One girl (16) in particular is asking when we are going to be meeting again. Please pray for her. She attended our church for a couple years and stopped coming about 3 years ago. Several other former attendees have "liked" the posts. Praise the Lord. Thank you for praying.

I was able to get out yesterday to an area in Edinburgh about a mile from our church location. God gave me a really good divine appointment with 5 teens and I got to do a little "street preaching." (Some people walking by rolled their eyes when they heard what we were talking about.) 

One teen who didn't take a Journey card asked for one at the end of our conversation. He had asked me, "How do you know there is a God when you can't see Him?" I told him he needed to watch my video, "Invisible God. But, You did't take a card.  His mates laughed at him as he said, "What card?" He then remembered refusing my offer. 

Last night we put together a two minute advert which is currently running on Facebook in Scotland. I also uploaded it as a trailer for The Journey Channel on Youtube. We chose a large area for this advert to run because Scotland needs the Gospel. Please pray that God will direct this endeavour to areas of greatest need.

My Journey video today was, "Incomparable God." (Sermon Audio Link.) I am enjoying this focus on Who God Is. Your prayers are much appreciated. I have been much encouraged with God's help in this ministry project. 

God gave us a good Lord's day. We observed the Lord's table in our morning service. Sunday School was well attended and God encouraged our hearts through our different ministries.

I started a new weekly ministry this morning with  New Hope Residential Centre in Ireland.  (facebook link) I get to preach to the men on Zoom. I'm excited to get to work with these men and participate in this ministry. Thanks for praying.

Please pray as the ladies begin to hand out invitations for a ladies' Zoom meeting on 20th March. Katie has put together about a 100 gift bags for the ladies to give out with invitations to attend the meeting. 

We're thankful that God is opening ministry opportunities during lockdown. Our church supports three missionaries. One of which is the Layton Kelly family in Ireland. Layton runs his church RU (Reformers Unanimous) program. God has also allowed him to establish New Hope Residential Centre. New Hope is a men's home. They can house about 20 men. Over the years I've enjoyed getting to know several residents of the home at a men's retreat in Ireland.

Lately God put on my heart to offer to speak to the men if Layton had an opportunity. I expected a one off opportunity or maybe occasional. However, Layton offered a weekly opportunity and I'm confident that God would have me to do that. I'm going to be speaking to the men at 11 AM on Mondays. (I also have an extra opportunity in a few minutes to preach to them today.) Your prayers for God's blessing are apprecaited.

God gave us a good midweek service last night. I have really enjoyed our study of Hebrews. I think last night was lesson 25. The focus was on "Why Jesus Came."

Yesterday morning live session of The Journey was on Foundational God. We need a strong ROCK upon which to build our lives. Jesus is our ROCK. Thanks for praying.

Thank you for your continued prayers for our online evangelism. Some of my evangelism time is taken up in these extra ministry opportunities which I trust are effective in getting out the Gospel. Yesterday morning my Live Stream was,"Luminescent God," (sermon audio link) speaking about God's intrinsic light. "God is light and in Him is no darkness at all."

I'm doing two of these a week. The second one this week is tomorrow morning at 09:30 GMT. Please pray for wisdom as we consider advertising The Journey more broadly in the UK on Facebook. We want to prepare the right material for that advert and chose the right target location, plan, etc. Your prayers are appreciated.

Katie is also persuing a project with the help of our church ladies. She is assembling small gift bags to hand to women to be encouragement to them. They will also include an invitation to a woman's meeting on Zoom. Please pray for God's guidance and for His blessing upon this outreach. 

It was a lovely morning to get out and about in Edinburgh. God gave me several great divine appointments and one that was unique.

The Unique one first (although it wasn't first) was as I handed a woman a flyer who was sitting facing almost away from me as I walked up beside her park bench. I said, "May I hand you a wee flyer....of course I can!" It was Karen who attends our church. I had the privilige of knocking on her door three years ago. Leading her to the Lord at our church soon after that and also baptizing her. :) She was speaking to a co-worker and I hope she had a good conversation after I saw them. 

The first good opportunity was with a man, William, who has hurt his life with drugs. We spoke for about 10 minutes while he waited for the bus. He was very interested in The Journey and I believe he will look at some of the videos. 

The second opportunity was a young man, Josh, who works at the Train Station in Edinburgh. It was his day off and he was enjoying the sunshine. He was also open and said he would check out the videos.

Another opportunity was with a Catholic man, Stephen, who is definitely trusting in His goodness for salvation and believes all religions are good.

I witnessed to a Muslim man, Akim, who struggled with English. He said he loved Jesus more than his mother, but does not believe Jesus is God. 

One very interesting opportunity was with a man, Ian, who lost his mum one year ago today. 4 years ago 3 of his brothers were killed in a car accident. I told him that God is showing him his love by having me speak with him on the anniversary of his mum's passing. (There is no doubt that God did that.) 

I spoke with 3 young people. The boy was in the middle. He cursed God and tore up the track. The girls said they would look at the videos.

I spoke with 3 construction workers. One man mocked and I said, "Sometimes God has to brake us in life, but He will do it if necessary to save us from eternity in Hell." 

That's a summary of God grace guiding this morning and giving many divine appointments. Please pray for the power of God to work in these lives. You never know what fruit will grow. Someone who just took a flyer from my hand may be the one in whom God does the greatest work.

We have wanted to live stream our service. You may remember that we tried and failed a few months ago at our church location. (wifi issues) The Lord put on my heart to live stream during our Zoom service. Tonight we were livestreaming on Facebook. We hope to multicast soon to a new church Youtube page, Sermon Audio and Facebook. Your prayers for wisdom are appreciated as that attempt was unsuccesful this evening.

God gave us a good Lord's day. It seems that we are not going to be allowed to meet together until April. However, there is a court case in early March that could rule in the favour of churches. Please pray that this will be the result of that case.

I preached tonight from 2 Thessalonians 1 on Devoloping Our Faith. (Sermon Audio link) God wants us to go from infant faith to steadfast faith. Thank you for praying for our ministry.

God encouraged me yesterday with a comment from an atheist. He watched all of Invisible God (Youtube) and then took the time to comment. You may think it would discourage me. But, I'm reminded of a man in God's Word of whom the Bible can say, "He now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed." (Apostle Paul) Please pray for John's salvation. I'll share his comment below.

If you'd like to help us to reach a larger audience. Please visit The Journey page on Youtube and/or share the link. (You can copy and paste the URL into facebook posts and email messages etc. to promote it. The more hits we get on Youtube the better our results in the search engine. In other words, it will be more easily found and appear more readily.

Please pray with us that God will help us reach as large an audience as possible for His glory. The segment this morning was entitled, Loving God. (Youtube)

Thank you for your prayers as we take some steps of faith to get out the Gospel. Below are John's Comment. If you look on the Youtube channel, you will see my response to his comment.

"Is it possible to perceive God when he can not be seen? .........No.

Most people that do not believe in God do not believe in aliens as you claim.

We can feel and mesaure wind. We can make wind. Aircraft fly because of wind. The analogy 'we can't see wind therfore God" does not work.

Ditto for gravity.

Anecdotal evidence (God workde in my life) is not evidence.

God did not cure your son, the Doctors did. (How about giivng them the credit instead of your God?)

So God let all your dads family die in a crash but your God fixed your dads back? (nice one God)

My friend, this is nonsense, but I do respect your right to believe in your God.

You have a nice way of speaking and I enjoyed your video.

John (A very happy atheist) :)"

God put on my heart to get back to doing short videos during lockdown. That project began yesterday. This time I'm livestreaming on facebook. This is definitely a faith step and your prayers are much appreciated. 

Season One of The Journey was "The Journey To Jesus." (For those needing salvation, it was 15 Gospel segments.) Season 2 was the Journey With Jesus. (For those who got saved, it was 10 discipleship lessons.) Season 3 which will hopefully encourage believers and help unbelievers to faith is "The Journey About God." (For those needing a solid rock in a time of great change.)

We are using The Journey, on our church webpage. If you'd like to see how we are doing that, please click this link. We welcome you to do the same.

To make that possible the Journey is on Youtube. Any church or individual can use the videos from there as a Gospel resource. (If you are interested, please do so without any acknowledgment.) Here is the link to The Journey, Youtube Channel.

Season 3 of The Journey, "The Journey About God." Episode 1, Invisible God was recorded live on Facebook yesterday. Lord willing, I will live stream these segments every Tuesday and Thursday at 9:30 AM our time.

Thank you for your prayers. God is opening some doors of Gospel ministry.