Scottish Baptist Lay Preachers Association

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

At the Assembly we were presented by the Baptist Union of Scotland and Scottish Baptist College with a Fresh training course training radical Baptist leaders. Find out more about this course starting Spring 2012

Malcolm Duncan, one of the guest speakers at the assembly shared with us a moving prayer for us as Scottish Baptist.  See the BUS website for the full prayer

On some Sunday afternoons Bearsden Baptist Church, not incidentally my own home fellowship, holds Reflective Services’, short (reflection on God’s word, less than twenty minutes!) with ‘old hymns’ and, sometimes, a soloist. As this implies, these services are mainly for those ‘golden oldies’ among Bearsden’s two baptist fellowships who do not find evening services easy [...]

At the ‘Loosing the Lion’ workshop in October, Andy Scarcliffe spoke about “Storytelling in preaching”. Here is the Powerpoint presentation for that session.

The Assembly over these last couple of days was challenging and refreshing on the theme of Outrageous Generosity. If you want to hear again or if you missed to hear the talks over the assembly, Please see the downloads page.

Jim Ewing (Bearsden) It might seem like stretching the word to call the Gospel “outrageous” but when you think about it, it’s not really inappropriate. To think that all-powerful God almighty loves us so much that he sent His Son to die in our place, taking upon himself the punishment we deserved for own actions! [...]

Nimal Wijesinghe (Airdrie) It has been preached and we have been taught in Sunday School and elsewhere in Christian circles that God loves us. While that is a very true statement, it is unlikely that the human mind can ever grasp the true depth, height, the width and completeness of God’s love for us – [...]

Florence MacKenzie (Aberdeen Christian Fellowship) One of my favourite bible characters is the Old Testament prophet, Jonah.  In many ways, he’s not a particularly likeable character and certainly not someone on whom you would want to model your life.  Nevertheless, the story of God’s dealings with him throughout the book that bears his name is fascinating [...]

The generosity of God in the sacrifice of his son is so outrageous to us as humans that it seems we find it on one level completely unbelievable that this is all that is required for us to have eternal life with God. As Christians we are in a constant battle to avoid adding anything [...]