Scottish Baptist Lay Preachers Association

“Timothy, my son, I give you this instruction in keeping with the prophecies once made about you so that by following them you may fight the good fight”  1 Timothy 1:17 Coming up after the Olympics is the Paralympics.  Advertising the coverage, Channel 4 has had an inspirational advert encouraging us to not focus on [...]

Lifelong commitment: Eric Liddell That Eric Liddell is still remembered today bears testimony to the witness of a man who desired to put God first in all he did; though for me his greatest achievement was not winning the Gold at the Olympic Games in 1924. Although remembered in Chariots of Fire for not running [...]

DAVID LIVINGSTONE – An ordinary man from Blantyre! My wife was born to missionary parents in Livingstone, Zambia and maybe that has fuelled in us a fascination for Africa. What is interesting about Livingstone is that it has retained its English-language name. Place names in that part of the African continent have been rightly changed [...]

Paul urges us to imitate those men and women of God who are examples for us to learn from and follow. Rupert Lonsdale was such a person; he was a devout Christian and a submarine commander in the Second World War. In April 1940, Lonsdale and his 59-man crew set off in the submarine Seal [...]

Around 7300 inspirational people had a part in carrying the Olympic torch around the UK. Now, if my Maths is right, that’s around 1 in 8000 of the people in the country. But surely there must be more than 1 inspirational person in every 8000 – if not, that means only 2 inspirational Baptists in [...]

As far as we know they preached no sermons, wrote no books, we know their names but not their lineage, how long they lived , or how old they were. Although they were Hebrews,  they didn’t make it into Hebrews’ “Hall of fame” (chapter 11) but Moses tells us that “God dealt well with them”. [...]

Elisha – Steadfast, Merciful, Bald and at times a bit Grumpy. While learning to drive last century, I took my father south across his parish boundary to the Fife village of Freuchie to collect something.   A little later as we crossed the main street, heading back to the car, a group of youths started jeering.  [...]

By today I expect you will have read many accounts of why David is many people’s inspirational character from the Bible. For me he is a beacon of light pointing to Jesus.  A beacon that describes the wonderfulness of being created in the image of God, Gen 1:27, and at the same time all that [...]

When thinking of Elijah his life and ministry I am reminded of our Lord first if we look at his name it means “the Lord He is God” he was the first in a long line of important prophets God sent to Israel and Judah and his single minded commitment to God should encourage us [...]

Job: A lesson in patience and trust. When we meet Job he is classed as a good and upright member of society. A member of the Wise. He has all that he appears to desire as far as the world is concerned; family, wealth, land, servants etc. He lives his life in a way that [...]