Scottish Baptist Lay Preachers Association

Please see below this week’s update on the the website this week which will keep you posted on the news.  Our Exploring worship series has come to an end with thanks to our members who have written these posts. 
 
Just under 2 weeks until the SBLPA AGM and conference
SBLPA Annual Conference
 
Follow the last seven days of our Exploring worship
 
Tough Worship  (James Mackenzie)
Role [...]

Jim McFarlane (Kirkintilloch) & President of SBLPA

Apparently, so I’m told, every human being needs to worship someone or something outside themselves. Worship then is concentrating our whole mind, heart and life on something or someone in which we find satisfaction. Some people build statues to please ‘the spirits’ which they believe will help. Others devote [...]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
ONLY 2 WEEKS TO GO ……
WILL YOU BE THERE?
‘THE SCOTTISH BAPTIST LAY PREACHERS’ ASSOCIATION’
ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2010
STENHOUSE-GORGIE BAPTIST CHURCH, EDINBURGH
SATURDAY 13th MARCH - 
WITH GUEST, REV EDWIN GUNN
This is guaranteed to be a day of fellowship, encouragement and inspiration and therefore a day not to missed. For more details on our Guest speaker and the day please see [...]

Below are some previous posts which fit into the theme of this series:
What a Lay Preacher Sees (Jim Macfarlane) This will give you an idea what to expect as you preapare to lead a worship service from the minute you get the invitation.
Every Communion Special and Unique George Petrie asks the question Is it necessary to [...]

George Petrie (Broxburn) and former president of the SBLPA
Alone on a bright still day on the top of a Scottish mountain able to see for miles, the silence is almost deafening. On such occasions I have often felt the presence of God.
Has silence a place in corporate worship?  My childhood memory of church was a [...]

“ Since then we have a great high Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the son of God. Let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathise with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet [...]

When we returned as a family from Nigeria to Scotland well over forty years ago we looked for somewhere to live (a story in itself!) and somewhere to worship, a place where we would be fed  by the faithful, enlivened preaching of God’s word and where we could really meet with the living Lord.  We found such [...]

Alan Milnes (Leslie) and Treasurer of the SBLPA
Eric MacArthur has already written on this subject but, as we know from our current experience in vacancy at Leslie Baptist, when God gives the same message to more than one person it usually means He has something important to say.
I echo Eric’s plea for more silence in [...]

Have you ever had to do something that’s the opposite of what seems sensible to do in the circumstances? I mean something that seems counter-intuitive? We’ve had a terrible winter here in the northeast of Scotland. There has been snow on the ground for two months and many days I’ve been driving to work on [...]

Please find below news and posts over the past week.  The exploring worship series  continues – please keep your eyes glued for the final thoughts in the series which will end on sunday. 
SBLPA News..
 
A New Member
 
Mull Baptist Church
 
2009 Preaching Statistics
 
February’s Connect four evaluation
 
Baptist Union of Scotland Newsletter
 
March Connect
 
More from Our Worship Series..

Worship and Work [...]