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Leaving Room For Hope: Stories Round the Table 1
Dec 2Tap to summarizeLeaving Room For Hope: Stories Round the Table 1, written, illustrated and read by Lily Cathcart. To read rather than listen to this story you can go to our Sanctuary First blog post. We are delighted to feature: ‘Stories Round the Table; a series of five specially commissioned short stories by Lily Cathcart which explore how subtle moments around shared tables can change our lives forever. Each story will be published in text and audio on the Sanctuary First Blog. Lily will take us to a disheveled car, a crowded kitchen table, a busy train compartment, a bustling cafe, a cosy dining room, and a long conference table as we travel with her through each week of Advent (and even a bonus story for Hogmanay!) The music is ‘Chasing the Light’ by Northern Heart licensed by Sanctus Media from www.Artist.io
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Beginning to Flourish Pod 1 — What actually happens when we read the Bible?
Feb 8, 2025Tap to summarizeBeginning to Flourish Pod 1 — What actually happens when we read the Bible? Welcome to the Beginning to Flourish Pod from Sanctuary First! Join James Cathcart and Albert Bogle’s free range exploration of life and theology as we’re living it today! This pair are buzzing with questions… What is actually happening when we open a Bible? Why, when it comes down to it, are we all actually Nicodemus? Why do we talk about having a ‘faith life’ as something different from our everyday life? (Does the phrase ‘faith life’ even make sense?) What happens when love is stripped bare on the cross? How can we begin to flourish wherever we’ve come from and whatever we’re heading into? What happens when we lose religion and find faith? Oh, and what’s so good about the Good Samaritan anyway? In this six part series, inspired by Sanctuary First’s Lent and Easter theme for 2025, Beginning to Flourish, they explore topics such as breath, shelter, thirst, belonging, eternal love and life changing grace. Over the episodes James and Albert shoot from the hip and cover a lot of ground from contemporary cultural trends to ancient biblical history (they even cook up a harebrained harmonica scheme at one point…) passionate to explore what beginning to flourish looks like for those restless and looking in at church, and those restless IN church and looking out. Let’s begin to flourish! And don’t forget your harmonica. Read our Connect Bible study for Lent 2025 here: https://www.sanctuaryfirst.org.uk/assets/documents/uploads/beginning_to_flourish_connect_booklet_A5_06.02.25.pdf Find out more about our Lent theme here: sanctuaryfirst.org.uk/themes/article_new/beginning-to-flourish-lent-2025 Find the podcast here on Sanctuary First, in our Sanctuary First App, and on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. (Listen to Episode 2: You, me, everybody, we are all Nicodemus!)
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Beginning to Flourish Pod 2 — You, me, everybody, we are all Nicodemus!
Feb 8, 2025Tap to summarizeBeginning to Flourish Pod 2 — You, me, everybody, we are all Nicodemus! Welcome to the Beginning to Flourish Pod from Sanctuary First! Join James Cathcart and Albert Bogle’s free range exploration of life and theology as we’re living it today! This pair are buzzing with questions… What is actually happening when we open a Bible? Why, when it comes down to it, are we all actually Nicodemus? Why do we talk about having a ‘faith life’ as something different from our everyday life? (Does the phrase ‘faith life’ even make sense?) What happens when love is stripped bare on the cross? How can we begin to flourish wherever we’ve come from and whatever we’re heading into? What happens when we lose religion and find faith? Oh, and what’s so good about the Good Samaritan anyway? In this six part series, inspired by Sanctuary First’s Lent and Easter theme for 2025, Beginning to Flourish, they explore topics such as breath, shelter, thirst, belonging, eternal love and life changing grace. Over the episodes James and Albert shoot from the hip and cover a lot of ground from contemporary cultural trends to ancient biblical history (they even cook up a harebrained harmonica scheme at one point…) passionate to explore what beginning to flourish looks like for those restless and looking in at church, and those restless IN church and looking out. Let’s begin to flourish! And don’t forget your harmonica. Read our Connect Bible study for Lent 2025 here: https://www.sanctuaryfirst.org.uk/assets/documents/uploads/beginning_to_flourish_connect_booklet_A5_06.02.25.pdf Find out more about our Lent theme here: sanctuaryfirst.org.uk/themes/article_new/beginning-to-flourish-lent-2025 Find the podcast here on Sanctuary First, in our Sanctuary First App, and on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. (Listen to episode 3: Why do we even talk about having a ‘faith life’?)
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Beginning to Flourish Pod 3 — Why do we even talk about having a ‘faith life’?
Feb 8, 2025Tap to summarizeBeginning to Flourish Pod 3 — Why do we even talk about having a ‘faith life’? Welcome to the Beginning to Flourish Pod from Sanctuary First! Join James Cathcart and Albert Bogle’s free range exploration of life and theology as we’re living it today! This pair are buzzing with questions… What is actually happening when we open a Bible? Why, when it comes down to it, are we all actually Nicodemus? Why do we talk about having a ‘faith life’ as something different from our everyday life? (Does the phrase ‘faith life’ even make sense?) What happens when love is stripped bare on the cross? How can we begin to flourish wherever we’ve come from and whatever we’re heading into? What happens when we lose religion and find faith? Oh, and what’s so good about the Good Samaritan anyway? In this six part series, inspired by Sanctuary First’s Lent and Easter theme for 2025, Beginning to Flourish, they explore topics such as breath, shelter, thirst, belonging, eternal love and life changing grace. Over the episodes James and Albert shoot from the hip and cover a lot of ground from contemporary cultural trends to ancient biblical history (they even cook up a harebrained harmonica scheme at one point…) passionate to explore what beginning to flourish looks like for those restless and looking in at church, and those restless IN church and looking out. Let’s begin to flourish! And don’t forget your harmonica. Read our Connect Bible study for Lent 2025 here: https://www.sanctuaryfirst.org.uk/assets/documents/uploads/beginning_to_flourish_connect_booklet_A5_06.02.25.pdf Find out more about our Lent theme here: sanctuaryfirst.org.uk/themes/article_new/beginning-to-flourish-lent-2025 Find the podcast here on Sanctuary First, in our Sanctuary First App, and on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. (Listen to episode 4: Feeling restless out of church? Feeling restless IN church?)
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Beginning to Flourish Pod 4 — Feeling restless out of church? Feeling restless IN church?
Feb 8, 2025Tap to summarizeBeginning to Flourish Pod 4 — Feeling restless out of church? Feeling restless IN church? Welcome to the Beginning to Flourish Pod from Sanctuary First! Join James Cathcart and Albert Bogle’s free range exploration of life and theology as we’re living it today! This pair are buzzing with questions… What is actually happening when we open a Bible? Why, when it comes down to it, are we all actually Nicodemus? Why do we talk about having a ‘faith life’ as something different from our everyday life? (Does the phrase ‘faith life’ even make sense?) What happens when love is stripped bare on the cross? How can we begin to flourish wherever we’ve come from and whatever we’re heading into? What happens when we lose religion and find faith? Oh, and what’s so good about the Good Samaritan anyway? In this six part series, inspired by Sanctuary First’s Lent and Easter theme for 2025, Beginning to Flourish, they explore topics such as breath, shelter, thirst, belonging, eternal love and life changing grace. Over the episodes James and Albert shoot from the hip and cover a lot of ground from contemporary cultural trends to ancient biblical history (they even cook up a harebrained harmonica scheme at one point…) passionate to explore what beginning to flourish looks like for those restless and looking in at church, and those restless IN church and looking out. Let’s begin to flourish! And don’t forget your harmonica. Read our Connect Bible study for Lent 2025 here: https://www.sanctuaryfirst.org.uk/assets/documents/uploads/beginning_to_flourish_connect_booklet_A5_06.02.25.pdf Find out more about our Lent theme here: sanctuaryfirst.org.uk/themes/article_new/beginning-to-flourish-lent-2025 Find the podcast here on Sanctuary First, in our Sanctuary First App, and on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. (Listen to episode five: Love was stripped bare on the cross)
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Beginning to Flourish Pod 5 — Love was stripped bare on the cross.
Feb 8, 2025Tap to summarizeBeginning to Flourish Pod 5 — Love was stripped bare on the cross. Welcome to the Beginning to Flourish Pod from Sanctuary First! Join James Cathcart and Albert Bogle’s free range exploration of life and theology as we’re living it today! This pair are buzzing with questions… What is actually happening when we open a Bible? Why, when it comes down to it, are we all actually Nicodemus? Why do we talk about having a ‘faith life’ as something different from our everyday life? (Does the phrase ‘faith life’ even make sense?) What happens when love is stripped bare on the cross? How can we begin to flourish wherever we’ve come from and whatever we’re heading into? What happens when we lose religion and find faith? Oh, and what’s so good about the Good Samaritan anyway? In this six part series, inspired by Sanctuary First’s Lent and Easter theme for 2025, Beginning to Flourish, they explore topics such as breath, shelter, thirst, belonging, eternal love and life changing grace. Over the episodes James and Albert shoot from the hip and cover a lot of ground from contemporary cultural trends to ancient biblical history (they even cook up a harebrained harmonica scheme at one point…) passionate to explore what beginning to flourish looks like for those restless and looking in at church, and those restless IN church and looking out. Let’s begin to flourish! And don’t forget your harmonica. Read our Connect Bible study for Lent 2025 here: https://www.sanctuaryfirst.org.uk/assets/documents/uploads/beginning_to_flourish_connect_booklet_A5_06.02.25.pdf Find out more about our Lent theme here: sanctuaryfirst.org.uk/themes/article_new/beginning-to-flourish-lent-2025 Find the podcast here on Sanctuary First, in our Sanctuary First App, and on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. (Listen to episode six: What’s so good about the Good Samaritan anyway?)
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Beginning to Flourish Pod 6 — What’s so good about the Good Samaritan anyway?
Feb 8, 2025Tap to summarizeBeginning to Flourish Pod 6 — What’s so good about the Good Samaritan anyway? Welcome to the Beginning to Flourish Pod from Sanctuary First! Join James Cathcart and Albert Bogle’s free range exploration of life and theology as we’re living it today! This pair are buzzing with questions… What is actually happening when we open a Bible? Why, when it comes down to it, are we all actually Nicodemus? Why do we talk about having a ‘faith life’ as something different from our everyday life? (Does the phrase ‘faith life’ even make sense?) What happens when love is stripped bare on the cross? How can we begin to flourish wherever we’ve come from and whatever we’re heading into? What happens when we lose religion and find faith? Oh, and what’s so good about the Good Samaritan anyway? In this six part series, inspired by Sanctuary First’s Lent and Easter theme for 2025, Beginning to Flourish, they explore topics such as breath, shelter, thirst, belonging, eternal love and life changing grace. Over the episodes James and Albert shoot from the hip and cover a lot of ground from contemporary cultural trends to ancient biblical history (they even cook up a harebrained harmonica scheme at one point…) passionate to explore what beginning to flourish looks like for those restless and looking in at church, and those restless IN church and looking out. Let’s begin to flourish! And don’t forget your harmonica. Read our Connect Bible study for Lent 2025 here: https://www.sanctuaryfirst.org.uk/assets/documents/uploads/beginning_to_flourish_connect_booklet_A5_06.02.25.pdf Find out more about our Lent theme here: sanctuaryfirst.org.uk/themes/article_new/beginning-to-flourish-lent-2025 Find the podcast here on Sanctuary First, in our Sanctuary First App, and on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. (Listen to episode one - What actually happens when we read the Bible?)
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Emerging Emmaus - Finding Your Voice
Jan 29, 2025Tap to summarizeAt Aberfeldy, in the very heart & middle of Scotland, Rev Neil Glover shares his own passion & fiery heart for Scotland’s Redemption. With 5 Perthshire parishes & serving the national church as convenor of the ambitious ’Seeds for Growth’ Fund, Rev Neil Glover has recently released a thoroughly readable & compelling book ‘Finding Your Voice’. Neil tells us his view of where we are at in secular Scotland as we position ourselves to share the wonderful news of Jesus Christ, as more and more people yearn to be re-enchanted with life and living. Revs Neil Urquhart & Neil Glover chat as they tread through the gorgeous gorge, waterfalls & burn of The Birks, once celebrated by Robert Burns in one of his poems. Be encouraged and inspired! We explore the stories of struggle and perseverance within the church allowing Jesus to renew our vision & vigour for His New Life. Join us as we discover, faith hope and stories of grief in the Church of Scotland. Come! Emmaus, Emerge from the gloom. Come Holy Spirit Come! Listen to the previous: Episode 24
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Songs of Christmas at the Brewery - Episode Three
Dec 28, 2024Tap to summarizeThis is the Third in our Live recordings of the Songs of Christmas at the Brewery. This Episode we have the whole gang joining us. Andrea and Angus, Jack Shuttleworth, Jim Steel, Graham Silk and Dan Harper shares the Christmas Message. Join us this month at the Brewery as we dive into three evenings of music and the story of Christmas this season. Listen to the recorded podcasts or join us in person ion Bridge of Allan Allanwater Brewhouse. Gather your friends and family for a cosy celebration filled with, Live music, stories of faith & some of the best local beer & cider in Scotland. Join us for three evenings of Live Music & Stories of Faith this Christmas season at the Allanwater Brewhouse in Bridge of Allan. Find out more about the events: Christmas Events - Songs of Christmas at the Brewery
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Working with the Grain by Katy Emslie-Smith
Dec 24, 2024Tap to summarizeRead this story as a Blog: Working with the Grain Next Episode: The Unexpected Gift 3 of 3 Working with the Grain by Katy Emslie-Smith The Third of our ‘Stories of the Unexpected’ is written by Katy Emslie-Smith. In this short story we hear of a carpenter dutifully working in his shop, he is interrupted with urgent and exciting news that makes him question everything ‘Sense of betrayal combated with affection, anger wrestled with love, custom warred with compassion’. To clear his head, he sets about doing what he knows best, and works the grain of the wood in his workshop with his hands… This Month on Sanctuary First we will be releasing a series of short stories ‘Stories of the Unexpected’ which will revolve around our December theme ‘The Unexpected Visitor’. Three writers and members of the Sanctuary First community have each contributed a short story that they have written around the months theme, these will be released each Sunday over the next three weeks in podcast and blog form, each story will be followed with its own ‘Writers Room Book Club’ on the following Saturday where we will meet to talk about the story, this will all conclude on the fourth week with a final story in the form of a Christmas film! This Podcast was originally published on: December 11, 2021
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