Scottish Baptist Lay Preachers Association

Iain Gillespie, member (Aberdeen Christian Fellowship) Anyone working in the current business environment will have been facing up to the many challenges created by the ‘credit crunch.’ A considerable amount of energy is expended, and rightly so, in creating new business strategies, developing more appropriate business models and responding to the changing economic climate Over [...]

Jim McFarlane, Active Member, Kirkintilloch At this time of the year we see plants you thought might not make it through the winter months pushing their way out of the soil, buds are appearing on branches, daffodils, snowdrops and other spring flowers are flowering. Animals are coming out of hibernation back into the land of [...]

  First and foremost, a ‘Happy New Year’ to you and your families! Flying back from the United States of America in September of last year (a three week ‘vacation’ in Boston, New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia and Washington DC is to be recommended!), my wife Adrienne, and I, landed at Reykjavik Airport in Iceland [...]

Alistair Kay, Sheddocksley, Aberdeen As preachers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, we are charged with the responsibility to be first and foremost witnesses to the Lord Jesus (Acts 1 v 8). Yet, if you ask the average man to be a witness he would dread the thought! What exactly does it mean to be [...]

          A Challenge to Change Dr Jim Brooks (Queen’s Park Baptist Church – Glasgow) was President of BUS in 2002-03 We live in changing times – new churches are born as old ones die; new evangelistic methods emerge as old ones become ineffective; new worship expressions take centre stage as old [...]

  I don’t know if any of you ever watched the television programme the ‘A-Team’ which was screened in the 1980s? (Was one of my favourites – I told you I need your prayers). The A-Team was an American adventure series about a fictional group of 4 ex-soldiers who were called upon to help those in [...]

Riaz Mohammed (Dr.), Newton Mearns An Indian story recounts an occasion when some blind men in a village encountered an elephant for the first time. Each had wondered what an elephant was like given that none of the blind men had ever seen an elephant before. The first blind man approached the elephant with outstretched [...]

Glen Cartwright (Newton Mearns), General Secretary, Having witnessed the sun setting on 2007, and saw the dawn of a brand New Year, 2008, it’s good to reflect on the Word of God as that compass bearing which has not only guided us in the past as an Association, but acts as that needle pointing us [...]