Scottish Baptist Lay Preachers Association

Spring Harvest – Skegness – 10th-14th April 2012 Theme ‘Church Actually’  Trevor Brunning (Selkirk) ‘It’s so bracing’, yes indeed, and not just spiritually. We’re down at Skegness in a damp caravan, due to us booking late, for 6 days of heaven on earth. If anyone has experienced 3000 people praising God together, you’ll recognise that’s [...]

“You mean I’ll be able to dodge bullets?” “I mean when you’re ready, you won’t have to.” So Neo and Morpheus discuss the theoretical bending of the rules of the artificial reality, The Matrix. At its heart, the film is the story of one man’s journey of self-realisation. It is the realisation that The Matrix [...]

“The Resurrection, It changes everything.  Are we shaken by the reality of the resurrection … but not stirred to the degree we really should be (Are we complacent when it comes to real resurrection missional engagement)? “ Of course we’re not stirred to the degree we should be… it’s a bit like asking us if we pray enough. How [...]

Stanley Bonthron (Dalkeith Edinburgh) “found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but which is through faith in Christ- the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, [...]

Have you ever had to sacrifice something precious, to give it up willingly, fully aware of the personal impact this will have on you? In the mist of our busy lives, societies’ pressures, family demands, and the economic climate we live in today, we live in the fast lane of constant demands on our time [...]

Easter Sunday has come and gone but for the Christian every day is resurrection day we do not have to be doubters like Thomas. The disciples were ordinary men who became extraordinary because of Jesus, at the time of the crucifixion they were confused felt powerless and were frightened but they went on to become [...]

“For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, hat he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,  and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.  Then he appeared to more than [...]

‘‘But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense’ This was a dilemma that Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others had when trying to tell the apostles that Jesus has risen. They did not believe, but Peter got up and ran to the tomb” (Luke [...]

How many times have we been shaken but not stirred? When Mel Gibson’s film ‘The Passion of the Christ’ came out at the cinema, there were reports of people leaving both during, and after having watched it, in tears. Questions were asked about the authenticity of it and how could someone survive such cruel punishment. [...]

Entering these words in a GOOGLE search brings up one hundred and thirteen million “hits”. Those in the earlier pages (I didn’t get past the first four//five) tell you about the nineteenth film in the James Bond spy series which bears this title. Details of the plot, the director, the producer, the stars, the cost, [...]