Scottish Baptist Lay Preachers Association

International Christian College (ICC), Glasgow and the Music and Worship Foundation (MWF) Scotland are gauging interest for one or more workshops aimed at equipping local churches to develop, enrich and renew their corporate worship. In order to help ICC plan workshops that will be popular and useful, they would be grateful if you could complete [...]

Some years ago we had the privilege of attending an Induction Service in Ness Parish Church in the Island of Lewis.   The service commenced at 7.30 pm and finished at around 10 pm.   During that time we had Psalms sung in Gaelic and in ‘English with no music.   The singing was heavenly – these people [...]

What is True worship and how should we do it? Before we can Worship God properly we need to ask the question what is”worship”? Is it standing up and singing songs about God with your hands clapping or waving in the air? Is that worship? Or is it sitting silently contemplating something about life’s events [...]

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 [...]

(Mark 15v21) He had been on his journey for a while now. It was a journey filled with purpose and promise. He could see the gates of Jerusalem now and with that image his journey was finally coming to an end. Immediately as he entered through the gates, he could a sense an air of [...]

Trevor May (Denny) A reflection based upon 1 Chronicles 16: 29b. David in his Song of Thanksgiving in 1 Chronicles 16:29 says, “Give to the Lord the glory due to His name; bring an offering and come unto him.” “Oh worship the Lord in the beauty of Holiness.” I recall attending a church in my [...]

Eric MacArthur (Dalbeattie) “God is in heaven and you are upon the earth therefore let your words be few.” (Ecclesiastes 5.2) We could fair preach some long sermons on that one eh? Seriously, owing to the shift work I do there are often Sunday mornings when I start work just a bit too early to [...]

The subject of leading worship at a funeral service may not be a pleasant one to discuss or read about.  However, there is no escaping the reality that it is something that all pastors and lay preachers must be prepared for.  Such services need to be prepared for, sensitively and thoughtfully.  Here are a few [...]

  Like all technologies, Powerpoint (ppt) is a good servant but a bad master. In St Andrews, we use ppt to project the words of hymns and songs on to a screen (for an annual licence fee), so the equipment is always available for sermons. However, overuse is overkill; too many slides can be distracting [...]