Kirk Reflections

Kirk Reflections 15th October 2023 . Rev. Erick du Toit brings today's reflection from Kirkliston Parish Church, Scotland. PEACE & JOY: OVERCOMING ANXIETY "Celebrate God all day, every day. I mean, revel in him! Make it as clear as you can to all you meet that you’re on their side, working with them and not against them. Help them see that the Master is about to arrive. He could show...

Kirk Reflections 8th October 2023 . Rev. Erick du Toit brings today's reflection from Kirkliston Parish Church, Scotland. FORWARD IN FAITH But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may...

Kirk Reflections 4th October 2023 . John McPhee brings today's reflection from Kirkliston Parish Church, Scotland. Following on from episode 47 , John brings s short reflection shared with our Rejoice gathering this week based upon Luke 13:20-21 .

Kirk Reflections 1st October 2023 . Rev. Erick du Toit introduces today's reflection from Kirkliston Parish Church, Scotland. We were privileged to welcome Chris Greenhalgh from Open Doors to lead us in worship and shed some light on the amazing work this charity is doing to support the persecuted Church around the World.

Kirk Reflections 17th September 2023 . Kirsteen Marcelin brings today's reflection from Kirkliston Parish Church, Scotland. “A woman in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding. She had suffered a great deal from many doctors, and over the years she had spent everything she had to pay them, but she had gotten no better. In fact, she had gotten worse. She had heard about J...

Kirk Reflections 17th September 2023 . John McPhee brings today's reflection from Kirkliston Parish Church, Scotland. WE ARE THE AROMA OF CHRIST "But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those w...

Kirk Reflections 10th September 2023 . Rev. Erick du Toit brings today's reflection from Kirkliston Parish Church, Scotland. Dressed for Success "Don’t run up debts, except for the huge debt of love you owe each other. When you love others, you complete what the law has been after all along. The law code—don’t sleep with another person’s spouse, don’t take someone’s life, don’t take what...

Kirk Reflections 3rd September 2023 . Rev. Erick du Toit brings today's reflection from Kirkliston Parish Church, Scotland. The 'i' replaced by the 'I' But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the p...

Kirk Reflections 27th August 2023 . Rev. Erick du Toit brings today's reflection from Kirkliston Parish Church, Scotland. RENEWAL OF YOUR MIND "So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do...

Kirk Reflections 6th August 2023 . John McPhee brings today's reflection from Kirkliston Parish Church, Scotland. What topic did Jesus discuss more than any other? You'd think love. Wrong answer. Money. Jesus spoke about money, wealth, riches and being generous more than ANYTHING else in the Gospels... why is that? Because he knew our love for security would replace our affection and depen...

Kirk Reflections 6th August 2023 . Rev. Erick du Toit brings today's reflection from Kirkliston Parish Church, Scotland. On the day when we celebrated Picnic & Praise at Carlowrie Castle, where we sat and enjoyed food and fellowship with one another as part of our worship, we are reminded of the only miracle recorded in all four gospels where Jesus asked the crowd to sit down and the disci...

Kirk Reflections 30th July 2023 . Rev. Erick du Toit brings today's reflection from Kirkliston Parish Church, Scotland. MORE THAN CONQUERORS (ROMANS 8: 26-39) All of us prefer winning over losing. All the world loves a winner. “There is no prize for second place” an old adage assures us. And most of us believe that without question. Once in a while, though, the world embraces a loser. Seldom d...

Kirk Reflections 23rd July 2023 . Rev. Erick du Toit brings today's reflection from Kirkliston Parish Church, Scotland. PARABLE OF THE WEEDS (Matthew 13: 24-30; 36-43) What do Fat Hen, Groundsel, Goosegrass, Hairy Bittercress, Prickly Milk, Oxalis, and Bugloss have in common? They’re all weeds! And I bet they grow in your garden, unless your name is «insert you own name here if you pride yours...

Kirk Reflections 16th July 2023 . Rev. Erick du Toit brings today's reflection from Kirkliston Parish Church, Scotland. SOWER, SOW, SEED (Matthew 13: 1-9) Barbara Brown Taylor retells the story. It’s not that she improves on it necessarily, but it might just shed some fresh light on what the parable is about… "Once upon a time a sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell along...

Kirk Reflections 9th July 2023 . Rev. Erick du Toit brings today's reflection from Kirkliston Parish Church, Scotland. REST (Matthew 11: 25-30) “Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anythi...

Kirk Reflections 2nd July 2023 . Rev. Erick du Toit brings today's reflection from Kirkliston Parish Church, Scotland. GOD PROVIDES (Genesis 22: 1-19) We're dealing with some really difficult passges: what would you have done if you were instructed to offer your only son? Where's the justice in that? How come Abraham showed no resistance when God gave the orders? What does this say abo...

Kirk Reflections 25th June 2023 . Rev. Erick du Toit brings today's reflection from Kirkliston Parish Church, Scotland. LEMONADE OUT OF LEMONS (Genesis 21: 8-21) In Chicken Soup for the Couple’s Soul there is a story that is very poignant. It is about a man named Edward Wellman, who left his home country and went to America. Times were desperate and his father gave him the family savings so th...

Kirk Reflections 18th June 2023 . John McPhee brings this week's reflection from Kirkliston Parish Church, Scotland. HE UNFAIRNESS OF GRACE Bitter about life and toward Christianity because of his circumstances, He began his downward spiral into degradation. When he learned that the  Herwick  was preparing to embark on a five-year voyage around the world, he tried to desert. However, a few sai...

Kirk Reflections 11th June 2023 . Marion Donald brings this week's reflection from Kirkliston Parish Church, Scotland.

Kirk Reflections 4th June 2023 . Rev. Erick du Toit brings today's reflection from Kirkliston Parish Church, Scotland. THE GREAT COMMISSION Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go...

Kirk Reflections 28th May 2023 . Rev. Adriaan van Tonder brings today's reflection from Kirkliston Parish Church, Scotland Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live. For those who are led by the Spi...

Kirk Reflections 14th May 2023 . Rev. Erick du Toit brings today's reflection from Kirkliston Parish Church, Scotland In today’s lesson, Jesus foretells his resurrection, chastises his disciples for arguing about who was the greatest among them, and points to a child as a model for discipleship… along with our teaching, we’ll be hosting a Compassion Sunday! On Compassion Sunday, people all ove...

In our first Kirk Conversations podcast, we speak to Pemma Ellis-Huddlestone of Kirkliston Community Conservation Volunteers (KCCV) about Kirkliston Community Fridge - a partnership project between Kirkliston Parish Church and KCCV.

Kirk Reflections 7th May 2023 . Rev. Erick du Toit brings today's reflection from Kirkliston Parish Church, Scotland KING OF KINGS, LORD OF LORDS 7 Lift up your heads, you gates;     be lifted up, you ancient doors,     that the King of glory may come in. 8 Who is this King of glory?     The Lord strong and mighty,     the Lord mighty in battle. 9 Lift up your heads, you gates;     lift them u...

Kirk Reflections 30th April 2023 . Rev. Erick du Toit brings today's reflection from Kirkliston Parish Church, Scotland SUFFERING SERVANT "I'm not sure God wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to love, and be loved. But we are like children, thinking our toys will make us happy and the whole world is our nursery. Something must drive us out of that nursery and into the lives of o...