The Reverend Garibaldi McFlurry

Every year, there’s lots of excitement about the John Lewis Christmas advert. A few years back, it featured the hibernating bear that was w...

‘They will beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor wi...

I seem to have a knack of having important life moments the same day as moments of national significance. My Institution here, as you might...

Last Sunday in Aghavea we had a special Gift Day service in the morning, and a Favourite Hymns Evening as well. So here are the two sermons...

I wonder if you’ve ever stopped to think about the words we use in the Holy Communion service: ‘And so with all your people, with angels an...

Back in the summertime, I was trying to plan some preaching series for church. At the time, I was considering dipping in to the opening cha...

One of the overwhelming facts that confront us each year around Remembrance Day is the sheer scale of loss. In this centenary year, the Tow...

What do you think of when you hear the word church? Your mind might turn to thoughts of buildings and services, robes and sermons, tea and b...

As you continue to read Psalm 22, you can't fail to be struck by the change that comes in verse 22. Up until then, the horrors of the cr...

I've previously blogged about how I enjoyed Graeme Goldsworthy's Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture , and I've had...

Here's the sermon mp3 from last Sunday morning's preaching on Revelation 5: Worthy is the Lamb . Very appropriate for the Ascension...

Who has the right to rule? It’s the question that we thought might be answered when the nation went to the polls on Thursday, but as we’ve s...

Earlier this evening we were sitting watching TV, when Phillip Schofield's programme came on UTV / ITV1. The Cube is a big glass cube, a...

... look away now. So said the lady doing the sports report on the late BBC news bulletin last night. It's a moment of warning that the ...

Ebony and Ivory Originally uploaded by Gary McMurray . I must confess. Sometimes my quiet times aren't so quiet. Music plays an importa...

One of the big bestsellers from last year, particularly in Christian book sales, was William Paul Young's The Shack . The rave reviews o...

I don't think the dead care about vengeance. So says 007 James Bond in the trailer for the new movie, Quantam of Solace, which is releas...

Sticks and stones my break my bones but names will never harm me. Would you agree with that? We find that words have a way of getting under ...

Over the summer I had the privilege of travelling to Romania for my College Summer Placement. Through the two weeks with the Smiles Foundat...