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transcribed and formed the basis of a popular book “A Faith to Live By”. The subjects of these lectures were often chapters from the
Westminster Confession of Faith. From 1991 to 2015 Macleod lectured every year, usually five times, on winter Friday evenings, at Falkirk Free Church. Many of these lectures were recorded under the title “Lectures in the Faith”, the majority of which have been uploaded to YouTube and Rumble.
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A series of public lectures was delivered at St. Vincent St Free Church in
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Edinburgh on 21 May 2023, at the age of 82. His funeral was held at Stornoway Free Church on Tuesday 30 May, conducted by Rev. James Maciver. At Macleods express command, there was no eulogy. He was buried in Habost Cemetery, Ness - the township of his birth. There was
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Macleod was born on 24 November 1940 at 3 Habost, Ness. He grew up at
Laxdale in Stornoway. His primary schooling was spent at Laxdale Primary School, and later attended secondary at the Nicolson Institute. He was educated at the
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found that "the women had all lied in the witness box to further the ends of
Professor Macleod's enemies in the Free Church of Scotland." Those people who believed that Macleod should be put on trial by the
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