We had an excellent turnout of members and friends at Church this morning and enjoyed a happy service with lots of singing (led by Rachel on the organ). During the service we continued our journey through Luke’s Gospel. We have reached the chapters in which Luke provides us with teaching about what it means to be a disciple of Jesus and were confronted with the story of the farmer who had a bumper crop, ordered his barns to be torn down and bigger barns rebuilt so that he could live in luxury and without worry for the rest of his life. However, that night he died with all his treasure in his barns rather than having laid up any treasure in heaven by, for example, sharing with others. Undoubtedly a challenge to all of us here!

Coupled with this reading was one from Ecclesiastes so we were introduced to the Philosopher and his thoughts about ‘chasing the wind’ and the recurring theme ‘Vanity, vanity, all is vanity.’ I realised that apart from the third chapter about there being a time for all things, it’s a book we don’t read today. Pity, I found it quite challenging.

As it is still the middle of the summer we don’t have a lot going on during the week. However, I do have an evening meeting with two of our folk about adult baptism and confirmation, a funeral later in the week and preparations for two concerts being held in the church next weekend. (Full details of these are in the previous post).