New Gaelic Audio Bible Project Launched Adrian Armstrong | Head of Bible Engagement “Mar sin tha creideamh a’ tighinn o èisteachd, agus èisteachd tro fhacal Chrìosd.” Ròmanaich 10:17 We are delighted to announce an exciting new Gaelic Bible audio project that will take place in Scotland this summer. The Scottish Bible Society published a new translation of the New Testament in modern Gaelic in 2017. We are working with Faith Comes by Hearing to produce an audio recording of this new translation, which will be made available free of charge on a variety of digital platforms. The recording ..read more

Faith after Covid Adrian Armstrong | Head of Bible Engagement The pandemic has brought change and disruption to all our lives. Churches too have had to adapt. As we continue to come out the other end of Covid, what are we to make of some the changes that are reshaping our churches?   Amidst the loss and distress of these years there are many signs of encouragement of what God is doing. One of these is the growing evidence of a huge uplift in the number of people interested in faith. In May 2020, early in the pandemic, Tearfund carried out a survey in which 24% of UK adults sa ..read more

Inspiration for this year’s Prize Giving Jen Robertson | Children’s Resources Manager This is often the time of year when we start to think of giving gifts to the young people and children in our church families and communities.  In days gone by, we may have labelled this as a “Sunday School Prize Giving” but we are now more motivated not to reward the young people in our churches, but to take an opportunity to give them a gift that will help them in their Christian growth and engagement with the Bible.  Wonderfully, choices of quality Christian books to give to younger chil ..read more

Easter Resources for 2022 Adrian Armstrong | Bible Engagement Manager Easter is a time of year when many people who don’t normally go to church will attend a service. This year those numbers may swell even more. A study by ComRes found that 25% of adults in the UK (an incredible one in four people) attended an online service during the first part of the Covid pandemic in 2020. Were these numbers to translate to people coming into our churches this Easter, our congregations would increase by four times. How can we make the most of this opportunity? The Scottish Bible Society has produc ..read more

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‘Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel, which means ‘God is with us.’ (Matthew 1:23 NLT) The news over the last few days has left many deeply disappointed.  Plans to spend a wee bit of time with loved ones this Christmas have had to be re-visited as we face another wave of the Coronavirus.  Many are weary of the way this virus has disrupted our lives so significantly this year.  We don’t always cope well when our expectations crumble and dreams are laid aside.  Even before we found ourselves caught up in a glob ..read more

“Today, in the town of David a Saviour has been born to you;  he is the Messiah, the Lord.” Luke 2:11 (NIV) During this season we will hear many words from the first two chapters of Luke’s Gospel. Luke wrote the most detailed and extensive narratives around the birth of Jesus. He gives us insights into ordinary people who are transformed by God’s intervention in their lives. He describes two births, both miraculous: but miracles of a different order.  He builds a picture that shows he has an interest in parentage: the ‘elderly’ Elizabeth and Zechariah giving birth to John; the virgin Mary giv ..read more

The Spoken Word I can sometimes forget that when I’m reading the Bible, what I’m looking at is a translation. Not just from the original Hebrew and Greek, but from the way it was originally communicated. The historical accounts of God’s people in the Old Testament, the songs in the Psalms and wisdom in the parables would have been passed on to one another through storytelling and in song. The books of the New Testament were letters written to people and churches with the intention of them being read to encourage, challenge and spur on Christ’s early Church as His Word spread out across the wor ..read more

Christmas – has it lost it’s meaning? When I was a child the autumn nights ‘drew in’, the clocks changed, the local Brownies had a Halloween party and the Scouts did a firework display. Sometime after that, and it felt like forever to a six-year-old, Christmas finally came. These days, red twinkling shop displays begin to appear in September, the giant Toblerones are on the shelves well before Halloween and the fireworks displays last until New Year. Yet, as the Christmas season lengthens in the shops, the understanding in society as to why we celebrate Christmas seems to diminish. With each ..read more

In the midst of all of life’s uncertainties do you find yourself asking ‘to whom should I listen?’ or ‘who should I believe, who should I trust?’ When we are in uncharted waters we long to find something that makes sense, something stable to hold on to. As I reflect on the Easter story again I have been struck by the response of the angel to the women that first Easter morning.  They have come to anoint Jesus’ body, but he is not there. In each of Matthew, Mark and Luke’s account the women are reminded that Jesus told them this would happen. ‘Jesus is going ahead of you to Galilee. You ..read more