The Greatest Gift   “I got an x box for Christmas it’s brilliant. You can play games really quickly and the pictures are amazing. It’s so exciting to play with my friends.”   “I got a Hugo Boss Tracksuit. It’s really cool and I look great.”   “I got a new I pad. It was […]

End of Term! See Colin’s message for the end of this year’s Sunday School term when we usually have a family service: [pdf-embedder url=”https://portree-parish-church.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/28-June-2020-4.pdf” title=”28 June 2020″]    

Fathers Imagine the scene. Little Ronald gets home from his shinty match starving hungry. “Dad can I have some bread for a sandwich?” “Sure son” says Dad while he sneaks a large bread shaped stone on to the plate… Watch your teeth when you bite… What kind of a horrible Dad would do that? Yet […]

Winners and losers   When I was a boy I used to play a lot of games with my twin brother.   Whoever won would sing a song:   “I am the winner, you are the loser”   It always felt horrible to be the loser.   The world we grow up in often sorts […]

After the fire At some time in our lives everybody feels sad. It may be because something bad has happened. It may be because we have worked too hard and not rested. It may be because we are disappointed that things have not turned out as we wanted them to. It may even be that […]

After the Feast?   I don’t know about you but I find myself eating more under this lockdown. It is one of the strange things in life but often, even when you have eaten a lot, you still want a bit more. Even after a giant feast like Christmas dinner there always seems something missing. […]

Running One of the good things about this lockdown is that most of us are still allowed to go out and do exercise every day. As an unfit overweight older man this is a bit of a challenge but I’m guessing that you kids run about like mad. Do you ever get dirty shoes? It’s […]

Light in the darkness   Hello again everyone. Last week we looked at a man who had a vision of Jesus in the last book of the Bible. This Sunday we are going to look at a man called Abraham who also had a wonderful experience of meeting Jesus when all seemed dark but this […]

Keys   Hello again everybody. Hope you are all well. Do any of you have keys? Keys are important things as they help you to open up and lock things. What type of things do we lock up? Animals perhaps, precious items, money in a money box? Perhaps you lock the house when you go […]

Lesson 2 May 2020 His Spirit gives us comfort After Jesus had risen from the dead he told his followers to wait in Jerusalem until he sent his Holy Spirit to help them. ( Acts 1 v 4 – 5 ) They were sad and afraid. Hiding indoors. Jesus seemed distant despite the miracles they […]