Lochee Baptist Chapel

31/03/2026

Latest Bright Street Beacon has rolled off the presses. Have a read and share around!

02/02/2026

We're having a family ceilidh at the church on Saturday! Everyone is most welcome.

19/12/2025

Security and Insurance at Christmas

By Ewan Gurr Sr.

Despite having just turned 40, I am a big bairn who loves Christmas. It is a perfect tonic for the coldness and darkness of my least-favourite season, but it is also is a time when Bing Crosby and Nat King Cole creep onto my playlist, our family tree is usually erected and a change of pace occurs as our seven of a family cosy up under blankets for the first two Home Alone movies. This year, my two daughters even handmade an advent calendar for my wife and I and planned to fill it with Quality Street, until they ate all the Quality Street.

However, Christmas is also a strange season. On one hand, it is an annual festival celebrating the birth of a homeless Jewish peasant, whom Christians believe to be the Son of God and source of salvation. On the other, it is an event in which people, who have all they could possibly need, become recipients of even more of what they could possibly need, whilst benefactors embrace unnecessary financial stress. The late G.K. Chesterton once said: “There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more. The other is to desire less.”

Last month, I attended a Bank of England event in Dundee. You might rightly query: ‘What interest do the well-to-do of Threadneedle Street in London have in us modest Dundonians?’ Harvesting citizen’s views concerning the greatest perils of our day is the answer. Yet an odd thing struck me as I saw what questions were asked. Their last report identified big problems like the cost-of-living, jobs, pay, savings, debt and rent – all monetary issues. Not one person mentioned the greatest form of social security and lifetime insurance we can have – the family.

Often the biggest reason we cannot answer the biggest questions to the biggest problems is because we are asking the wrong questions. It is hard to reconcile the austerity of Christ’s stable with the abundance of our Christmas tables but perhaps the best question we can ask at this time of year is: “What is the real reason for this season?” I suspect the answer lies in the name.

Article written for the Bright Street Beacon - Read other articles here https://locheebaptistchapel.com/what.../bright-street-beacon

11/12/2025

Communities are held together by common loves and goals. Supporters of a football team are united in their love for their team and their desire for them to win the Premiership. But what unites the supporters of rival teams? More basic than their love of their team is their love of the beautiful game. But what unites football supporters and rugby supporters? More basic than their love of football would be their common love of sport and their enjoyment of competition.

The wider a community we look to unite the more basic a love we need to unite over. What unites a community like Lochee? Our history, our families, our work, our schools, our health centre, our
community hub? Are these things everyone agrees on? Is it even important that we all agree? It certainly is in the case of a sports
team. If the players are confused about which team they are on; if the players are not agreed on the rules of the game, or what the
aim of the game is, then there is no unity, no community, and the team is going to fail miserably.

If we are invested in Lochee, if we desire to see Lochee flourish, then community, and unity is vital. If we are all pulling in different
directions our efforts will not produce the forward momentum we are hoping for.

Historically the church has provided the basic loves around which communities in Scotland united and flourished. Truths like equality,
compassion, consent, enlightenment, science, freedom, progress all Christian concepts that were new to Europe before the arrival of Christianity. Truths that were not present in Roman and Greek culture.

Want to find out how these truths built Scottish culture and why they now seem like common sense? Why not join us on Sunday
morning to find out more?

Article originally published in the Summer Edition of the Bright Street Beacon - Read other articles here https://locheebaptistchapel.com/whats-on/bright-street-beacon

29/11/2025

Bright Street Beacon Winter Edition heading to the printers... brownie points for spotting the typo I missed 😔

28/10/2025

26/03/2025

This week we began a new sermon series on what is church!

https://locheebaptistchapel.com/media/1226682-5000770-35028410/church

01/03/2025

29/01/2025

So great to hear of Pastor Jim's heart for the margins of the city. We at LBC would not be here and thriving without the support and prayers of Central Baptist church. Make sure to give this weeks reflection a listen.

Welcome to the Scottish Bible Podcast, recorded in the promised land of Scotland – the land of the book – where a father and son explore the Bible together, with the aim of completing it in one yea…

28/01/2025

Some of our members have setup a Bible read through podcast! Find more details here https://biblepodcast.scot/ or search for them on your favourite podcasting app.

28/01/2025

Bring along something creative to share, or just come along and enjoy the creativity of others. Plus cake and coffee, of course :) Clan-antics is our evening of family entertainment created by families. An informal gathering of fun. Everyone is welcome!