All articles by David Murray
David works for SASRA in Scotland.
The Lewis Christian Conference committee has confirmed that the 2015 event will, God willing, take place this month, between Friday 19 and Monday 22 June. The speaker will be Dr Charles Price, senior pastor of the People’s Church in Toronto, Canada. Dr Price has been in this role since September 2001, with a congregation of more…
Read moreThis year’s Lewis Christian Conference took place from Friday 27 June to Monday 30 June in Stornoway. The speaker was Dr Sinclair B. Ferguson, who retired last year as senior minister of First Presbyterian Church, Columbia, South Carolina. He addressed the conference on the theme ‘In Christ Alone’ and helped focus our attention on…
Read moreThe Lewis Christian Conference committee has organised a conference between Friday 8 and Monday 11 November this year. The speaker will be Dr Dale Ralph Davis, who is the retired teaching pastor of Woodland Presbyterian Church, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Dr Davis was previously professor of Old Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary, in Jackson,…
Read moreFirst Lewis conference A group of like-minded brethren from different churches began a monthly prayer meeting in Stornoway last October, in the lead-up to the inaugural Lewis Christian Conference. This conference took place from Friday 29 June until Monday 2 July, when the speaker was Charles Price, senior pastor of the People’s Church in…
Read moreRev. Professor Hugh M. Cartwright — a tribute My first memories of Rev. Hugh Cartwright (1943-2011) were as a rather rebellious teenager longing for this rather old-fashioned looking man to finish his rather long communion sermon in Partick Highland Free Church, Glasgow. I couldn’t understand why my minister would want to bring such…
Read moreChrist's school With the new academic year now properly launched, many young people have headed off to various colleges and universities, some of them for the first time. Many months ago they received numerous prospectuses and brochures and weighed the various options. Many factors entered into their decisions about where to study, not least of…
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