Scottish Baptist Lay Preachers Association

“But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it,  and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.  All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful [...]

Ever since Satan was thrown out of heaven and from the presence of God, he set about using all his wily ways and powers to turn men from God. Right at the very beginning of mankind, he was there in the Garden of Eden. Because of Satan’s success in turning men and women away from [...]

Take a moment to view the regular Baptist Union of Scotland newsletter Connect March 2011

Florence MacKenzie (Aberdeen Christian Fellowship) When I was five years old, my Primary 1 teacher told me to stop talking in class.  “But I talk all the time at home”, I retorted.  I had yet to learn there was “a time to be silent and a time to speak” (Ecclesiastes 3:7).  I still enjoy talking [...]

Please read Paul’s letter to Philemon. The plot of the original film –Back to the Future includes some of the following features: – Dreams of what Marty aspires to be. Escape from the reality of everyday life, also from the Libyan terrorists from whom “Doc” had stolen plutonium to power their super car. Marty finds [...]

We all love a good story. Our earliest memories often include listening to stories our parents told us. Both my parents were teachers. I’ve now started to do some part time teaching. I see now how hard it is to teach. It means getting your point across. Or to use the buzz phrase, to achieve [...]

The devil was waiting. He had been waiting a long time for this moment. Thousands of years, in fact. Mind you, he had tried to avoid it if at all possible. But his stooges had messed up badly. Pharaoh, ruler of the great superpower of Egypt, had allowed himself to be outwitted by a few [...]

The Oxford popular dictionary gives this meaning for the word authority: ‘power to enforce obedience; person with specialised knowledge’. It gives the following meaning to the word history: ‘past events; methodical record of these; study of past events’. It also gives the meaning of the word future: ‘belonging to the time after the present; future [...]

Following His resurrection Jesus appeared to two believers travelling on the road to Emmaus, we read of this account in Luke 24. When Jesus met the two they were confused, Jesus responded to them by going to “the scriptures” the word of God and applying it to his ministry. Beginning in Genesis 3 we read [...]

“The Bible is a stuffy old book, written centuries ago that doesn’t mean anything today” “Harry Potter is much more fun than Jesus” “Aren’t all religions the same?” I’m sure we have all heard similar comments from people of all ages. I was “lucky”,  (or was it divine providence?) that I had two older Christian [...]