The 2nd in an 8 part series of beating and treating anxiety from the root up, applying Philippians chapter 8 to anxious thoughts, using the principle of Christian mindfulness, and the God test; "whatsoever things are honest, thing on these things" Dr J Stewart Gillespie, on Dalhanna Hill, New Cumnock.

My God and My Right - Reflections on the death of Queen Elizabeth II at Dumfries House from J Stewart Gillespie, graceinchrist.org

In the pre TikTok days before men lived for likes and posed for popularity biblical revelation left it's human authors exposed not to fame and fortune but infamy, poverty and death. Men spoke even when the burden they had was deeply unpopular or just bizarre and outlandish in the social and economic context in which it was revelled. These men spoke not to gain followers nor build a religion but they signed their own death warrants at times because they were utterly convinced that through them God spoke. This resulted in many recorded revelations which at the time seemed contradictory and implausible. Revelation chapter 9 contains a prediction of global military conflict involving armies totalling 200 million men! At the time this was written the world population was short of this by about 20 million! Today however it is reckoned that the world could mobilise about 1 billion people to participate in a war effort and  China alone could muster an army of at least 200 million! 

In retrospect these ancient impossibilities have crystallised into fully fledged realities. A child born of a virgin (Isaiah chp 7), a ruler born who has always been (Micah 5) and God pierced and gazed upon (Zechariah 12) all make sense to us now with the birth, death and saving resurrection of God's Son Jesus Christ. These deep mysteries find their answer in the deepest mystery of all; Jesus Christ! Do you know Him? God's message is a person. God's salvation is in a person; Jesus Christ! 

Dr J Stewart Gillespie

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Psalm 23 on the banks of the Afton dam at the foot of Benbreoch and Cannock Hill

A short message preached by J Stewart Gillespie from Matthew chapter 11 verse 28:

"Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest'"

Preached in the ruins of the Auld Kirk, New Cumnock which is the setting of the Robert Burns poem; 'The Kirk's Alarm' and the church of the Reverend James Young. 

Tragedy to Triumph by the Truth Route - JS Gillespie - a message for Easter

From the Corson Cone Hill, New Cumnock.

Revelation chapter 5 is the detonator for global catastrophe and judgment with all of the war, suffering, sorrow and pain that involves. Such an outpouring if God's wrath could only happen when humanity is in active rebellion against their creator. To see all of the pain and sorrow merely as a passive consequence of human disobedience is to miss the bigger picture and deeper mystery of the book of Revelation. God is bigger than we imagine and more in control than we could ever anticipate. Whilst God pours out His judgement upon a world that rejects Him, that crucified His Son and persecuted His people, in all of that sorrow and suffering God is working out His own purpose. His goal is an end to the corruption and mess of a fallen world and the ushering in of a new heaven and new earth. Grief is but the stepping stone to Glory. In the storm there is a peace to be found in the Christ who walks on the waves, at the grave there is a glory to be seen in the hope of resurrection through the grief of the present moment. Look for the hand of God, the purpose of the problem and the plan of an all powerful and sovereign God in every experience of life. 

Yours by Grace in Christ 

Dr J Stewart Gillespie