Author Archives: William Philip

‘… the whole body … when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.’ (Eph 4:16) Dear Friends Some of the most encouraging times for me personally in the routine of… →

Dear Friends Many of you have commented on how wonderfully the latter chapters of Genesis have spoken into our congregational life in our current time of struggle. This is just one evidence among many of the tender care of our… →

Dear Friends Perhaps one of the most consistent messages we have been learning from the Lord recently in our regular studies of Scripture together is the marvellous faithfulness of God’s promises in the face of the manifest (and multiple) flaws… →

Download Walking Away from Jesus by William Philip and Walking with Jesus by Dr J.I. Packer here. Over a year ago, the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland took the decisive step of walking away from the historic, orthodox… →

Dear Friends When I was growing up, I had a picture on the wall from my father’s great friend, Tom Swanston (who ministered in the West Parish, Inverness until he died in 1991). It was of a glorious sunrise, overlaid… →

  Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain… →

Dear Friends One of the issues that perennially confuses Christians is the place ‘The Church’ should occupy in the sphere of political, social, and (increasingly nowadays) environmental concerns. So it was not surprising that the 3rd Lausanne Congress on World… →

Dear Friends, As you know, our Kirk Session recently met to discuss the consultation paper from the General Assembly’s Special Commission on same sex relationships and the ministry. The whole consultation exercise has been, in our view, deeply flawed. However,… →

Dear friends At many times in our lives, particularly those of personal perplexity or anxiety, or of crisis in the church, we find ourselves asking ‘What is God’s will?’ or ‘What is the Lord saying to us about all this?’… →