Scottish Baptist Lay Preachers Association

Jim McFarlane (Kirkintilloch) & President of SBLPA

Let me finish this series by  bringing before you Revelation 5 where we read of Jesus being the Lion of Judah and also the Lamb that was slain. Amazing!
The triumph of the Lion, Jesus has conquered, Jesus has triumphed. His is the great triumph of the cross. He won the [...]

Location of Seven Churches

Nimal Wijesinghe (Airdrie)
A summary of the 7 letters to the 7 Churches – Revelation 1, 2 and 3.
The seven churches form a horseshoe-shaped pattern on the map above and are located clockwise from Ephesus.
Revelation 1:3-4
“Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it [...]

Eric MacArthur (Dalbeattie)

If Christ is not risen your faith is in vain…….so wrote Paul to a church where some people evidently didn’t believe that Jesus had really been raised from the dead.(1 Corinthians 15) But for Paul, as the other apostles, the resurrection of Jesus was the foundation of his faith. It was encountering the [...]

Jimmy Edmiston (Kings Park)
‘And when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. So it was that for a whole year they assembled with the church and taught a great many people. And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.’(NKJV). Acts 11:26
Whenever a new group starts up whether it be a revolutionary one, [...]

(Some notes from a sermon on Acts 23-26)
 

One theme through all Paul’s court trials: the Resurrection. “I believe in the hope of Israel, foretold in the OT, fulfilled in Jesus of Nazareth, who was raised from the dead so that we too might rise.”
Paul, rescued from the mob by the Roman commander, Lysias, who takes [...]

 Visiting someone in prison is not a happy experience. The security procedures for visitors (emptying your pockets, giving over your mobile phone and any other hard object, signing an endless set of forms) are depressing enough, but there us in most prisons I’ve visited a sense of emptiness. The routines the prisoners have to go [...]

Opportunity to learn about more about the developing church as seen in from Resurrection to the early church and other updates. See Below:
 
The Developing Church Series
 
Who Moved the stone? (reviewed by Andrew Young)
Born to Develop (Jim Sutherland, Islay)
A Developing Community (Andrea Mill, Bristo, Edinburgh)
The Name of Jesus (John Bingham, Newton Mearns)
Prayer in Acts (Philip Magee, Dingwall)
Equipping the Church – Then [...]

Florence MacKenzie (Aberdeen Christian Fellowship)

Ever tried getting a job done without the proper tools? Or begun tackling a project that you didn’t have the necessary skills to complete well? It’s really frustrating when we find ourselves in situations like this, but immensely satisfying when we have all we need to carry out a task effectively.
God [...]

What strikes me about Acts is the real commitment to prayer. As the church was daily being added to they committed themselves to prayer. They prayed even when they experienced difficulties. They prayed regarding leadership of the new developing church. Alongside being committed to prayer they were committed to Apostles’ teaching, breaking of bread and [...]

Jesus invested three years of his life in twelve men, living with them, eating with them, praying with them, teaching them and above all, loving them. Then he sent out the seventy-two others stressing to both groups the importance of trusting God to provide and not to be weighed down by material possessions. He gave [...]