How do you share the gospel in a pandemic?
That was the question we asked ourselves at the Scottish Bible Society last year
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Mark: The Time Has Come
“Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went.” (Acts 8:4) What if we saw the crisis we are passing through as a Gospel moment for Scotland? What if, like the disciples in Acts 8, scattered as we are in the cities, […]
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A Summer of Discovery!
This summer 100 churches participated in Bags of Discovery, a new resource from SBS designed to give families an opportunity to chat about the Bible in simple and engaging ways when regular church activities were no longer running. […]
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“Boxes of Blessing”
Practical and spiritual care for a rural community in the highlands A few months ago we published a unique edition of Mark’s Gospel, with the intention of a campaign to distribute these around Scotland. We hoped that churches […]
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God’s Word spoken out amongst friends
This article is written by Fiona Stewart. Fiona works as the Creative Director of Foolproof Creative Arts. She is a writer, director and radio contributor, and is the host of The Outspoken Bible, a podcast brought to you […]
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A [dis]connected generation – Transform article
Adrian Armstrong, Head of Bible Engagement, reflects on “The Connected Generation”, a new piece of research from Barna Group that gives an overview of 18-35 year olds around the world. Crucially, Adrian highlights the opportunity for the church […]
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Bible 2020 – The stats so far…
The dawn of a global Bible movement The Bible 2020 app has been downloaded over 14,500 times, with over 4,000 registered users. The app has now been downloaded in 110 countries around the world, with the UK, New […]
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Journey toward healing
The last two years have been astounding for those of us working with Trauma Healing in Scotland. Although aware of the need for a Bible-based resource churches can use to help the broken-hearted, we could not have anticipated […]
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The Christmas Gospel – the story of Jesus wrapped up
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 […]
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