Today’s service will be led by retired pastor Robin Riches, former president of the Southeast Asia Union Mission.  Robin has recently come to live in Crieff with his wife, Lamorna, to be nearer to family members ~ Lamorna’s brother is Pastor Bob Rodd, retired pastor of Crieff SDA church, and Mission President.

Pastor Riches’ sermon title is ‘Come out with your hands up!’

Today’s service is a CAP emphasis and update day.

We’ve got updates from Maluti and Albania, we’ve got (more-or-less) the complete accounts for 2009, and lots of other good stuff.

Today’s service will be led by the young people of Crieff SDA church, the Youth Leader is Alex Podbrezsky, and he and Che will be presenting the sermon, with the title ‘A Christian, or a Jesus Follower?’.  This will be an interesting and modern service with the young people taking part in skits, and Yvonne leading our on the piano, joined by other band members.

We live in a world of uncertainties. People worry about their jobs, their pensions, their health, global warming, crime, and a host of other things. Christianity has all but faded out of our society and many would suggest that its message is no longer relevant. But early Christians went to their deaths to torture and exile with the words on their lips “WE KNOW”. What did they know and does it have meaning and hope for us today?

Today’s service is led by Grant, one of the Elders of Crieff SDA Church.  This is the first day of the Week of Prayer.  Grant’s sermon title is ‘Conditioned thinking’ and his scripture is from Luke’s Gospel, chapter 14, from verse 28 to the end, where Jesus tackles the subject of the cost of being a Disciple.

MP3s from Gunnar Pedersen’s weekend study conference, ‘The Bible as a Grand Story‘, held at Crieff Adventist Church on 23-24 October 2009.

1. ‘What is the beginning of the story?’ (23MB, 1 hr 37 min)
2. ‘What is the Centre of the Story?’ (13MB, 56 min)
3. ‘Jesus, the Lamb of God’ (7MB, 32 min)
4. ‘What is the Goal of the Story?’ (14MB, 1 hr 4 min)
5. ‘A 7-stage structure for the reading of the Bible’ (70MB, 1 hr 15 min)

The srvice today will be taken by Pastor Bob Rodd, and he will be addressing three questions which God asks, to help us evalueate our relationship with Him:

1.  Where are you?

2.  Who am I?

3.  Will you also go away?

Our annual Harvest Festival…

Crieff church is hosting a series of 4 seminars by Dr. Gunnar Pedersen, Principal Lecturer in Systematic Theology and Head of Department of Theological Studies at Newbold College.

MP3 files of each talk are posted here.

• The first seminar is entitled ‘What is the beginning of the story?’ and is on Friday evening at 7:00pm, preceded at 6:30pm with light refreshments.
• Sabbath morning at 10:00am, seminar 2 is ‘What is the Centre of the Story?’,
• followed by the Worship service at 11:15 when Dr Pedersen will preach on the topic of ‘Jesus, the lamb of God’.

There will be a bring-and-share lunch, followed by time for a walk, and

• seminar 3 commences at 4pm ‘What is the  Goal of the  Story?’,
• seminar 4 at 5:30pm ‘A 7-stage structure for the reading of the Bible’.

All welcome.

How should we treat teenagers who seem to challenge our ideas, beliefs and values? In the service this week we will look at how Jesus confronted the expectations of the leadership of his time. We will review how his story of two loving fathers will help us know how to react in tough situations. Karen (Mrs Holford) and Bernie will be preaching together, with the help of some  young people too.

Today’s service is a family service, ‘Welcome to the Family’.  We will be asking what is a family?  Is the church a family?  How do we react in difficulty?  How can we care for each other, and help each other when we are down and continue to create and maintain a loving community?  We find some of the answers in Ephesians 4:1-6.

Lots of songs and stories included in this service.

The service today will be led by Pastor Bob Rodd, retired former pastor of Crieff SDA Church, and former Scottish Mission President.  Pastor Rodd is basing his thoughts today on Romans 8:1: “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus”.  This is one of the greatest texts in the New Testament, which expresses how the converted sinner can face God in the judgement with assurance.

Today has a special emphasis on the Bible.

A multilingual Bible with each book in a different language will be visiting the UK this week as part of a world tour that began in the Philippines. It is in the UK for just two days as part of a world tour that will make it become the most widely travelled Bible by the time the journey ends in the USA in July 2010.  It has already visited over 80 countries.

The ‘Follow the Bible’ programme is a worldwide initiative of the Seventh-day Adventist Church aimed at getting church members reconnected with the Bible as well as reinforcing the value of the Bible and its message to society in general.

See www.adventistinfo.org.uk/followthebible

This week’s service has a CAP emphasis – look at the website under the title ‘Crieff Aid Projects’.  Pastor Arthur will be giving an update, and speaking on the topic of ‘To do good and communicate; forget not’.

This is our new Pastor’s first service in Crieff  church, and the title of his sermon is ~ ‘Which Vision?  Whose Voice?’

Have you ever heard God speak to you? Would it be a sign of madness if you did? In the sermon ‘Which vision? Whose voice?’ we will be discovering how the prophet Samuel heard God’s voice.  We will briefly examine some of the concerns that we have about listening to God and will try to take time to listen to the voice of God for us today.