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We can make every day a jubilee
Half a tin of beans and a yoghurt. “How long will this last you?” asks the voiceover man as the camera lingers on the saddest of fridges. "Four days," says Holly. So begins the documentary The Debt Saviours which was aired on BBC2 this autumn. It focuses on some of the individuals being helped by…
John Kirkby
Our lives as new creations
Earlier this year a woman who’d joined our church through our coffee shop, who had lived for years under domestic violence but was now free, bounded up to me and said, “It’s incredible! – I’ve just been activated in Christ.” It was a great way of describing the Jesus she’d experienced, and her…
Dr Deirdre Brower-Latz
What John Lewis tells us about the gift of the gospel
So far, the feedback for John Lewis’ 2018 campaign has been overwhelmingly positive. Entitled ‘The Boy and the Piano’, the advert is a short film starring Elton John. The viewer is taken on a journey with Elton, looking back through the years at stadium tours, playing in pubs, and school concerts.…
Bethany Macleod
Firm Foundations – new resource from the Evangelical Alliance
Over the last few years the Evangelical Alliance has spoken to many churches that have experienced challenges finding properties to meet in and encountered hurdles relating to cost, bureaucracy and opposition. Churches that are part of our One People Commission, which represents churches from…
Danny Webster
Lessons from the life of John Owen
My wife and I decided to travel to London and do some site-seeing for my birthday weekend. When asked what I wanted to spend my time doing in London, I probably gave a surprising answer that might have made my wife re-evaluate the trip, if not her vows. I said that the one place I would love to go…
Sam Pritchard
Public Leader Scotland: weekend one
A dentist, lawyer, engineers, and a business owner, to name just a few, were among those in attendance, and each had the same intention: to step up, speak out and engage in public life in the area God has placed them. The PLS course’s vision is to see a new generation of Christians in their 20s and…
Bethany Macleod
Christmas: Emmanuel, God is with us, changes everything
God being with us has changed everything. At Christmas, we remember that God doesn’t watch us from the sidelines with His fingers crossed, hoping we’ll sort it out before it’s too late. At Christmas, we remember that God saw us, a broken mess of humankind, and decided to do something about it.…
Alexandra Davis
Christmas: Emmanuel in public leadership
It might seem like an obvious message, but there was great power in hearing these words from senior national leaders in politics, the army and the charity sector. These weren’t just theories, this is the reality for men and women who have spent decades fulfilling their calling from God. Knowing…
Abi Jarvis
Why I wrote Transformed
I felt ill-equipped to answer these questions. The Bible has much to say on identity and the importance of the body, but I needed to understand more if I were to offer any guidance. I decided to read all I could and meet with people for whom this is a very real experience. So, I met with the trans…
Peter Lynas
Mars landing: a reminder of our creator God
Mars landing: a reminder of our creator God Recently, as the US Space Agency NASA managed to land a robot on Mars, there was a tense seven minutes while the probe hurtled towards the surface of the planet in radio silence. The objective of this project was to study the interior of the planet,…
Sam Pritchard
Christmas: Creating shared spaces this festive season
Recently, I arranged to meet a close contact of mine who was going through some very challenging marital issues. As I listened intently, I couldn’t help but wonder how she was getting through the overwhelming trials in her life. As a Christian, I know that whatever lies before me, God is with me.…
Manoj Raithatha
Answering the call to leadership
A simple Google search of “Are millennials lazy?” yields more 4.3 million results. Author and motivational speaker Simon Sinek says that millennials don’t stick with things long enough, preferring to drift through life in pursuit of our ‘purpose’ rather than working towards becoming competent…
Christine Gilland Robinson
Celebrate and share Christ with these 10 Christmas carols
Throughout the Bible, singing was used to declare the goodness of God, and there are at least 50 commands from God to sing His message of grace and truth together. We have been created, compelled and commanded to sing. And Christmas is a wonderful time for us as Christians to sing traditional…
Keith Getty OBE
Christmas: A handful of rice
In this incredibly poor Indian state, each family puts aside a handful of rice every time they prepare a meal, which is then gathered together and resold by the church to fund local Christian ministry work. What struck me most is the faithful obedience of the Mizo people, in that, despite living…
Lizzie Thomson
Christmas: The proximity of Emmanuel
Proximity. Noun. Nearness in space, time or relationship. Immanuel. Noun. God is with us. As human beings we are made with an inbuilt awareness of how close is too close. We ideally like to keep strangers at least three metres away. We feel comfortable with acquaintances coming as close as one…
Phil Knox
