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Is there a relationship between politics and biblical love?
In order to address these questions, I’m drawing from Martin Luther King Jr., who is known to have talked and written a lot about biblical love. He famously followed a version of the classical distinctions between different kinds of love. Eros, which he understood as romantic love, philia, the love…
Stopping chaos and building a future
Estimating that the charity's work with more than 3,000 volunteers could reduce children going into care by 15 per cent*, the DfE report said the work had: "Potential to support several thousand of England's neediest children; to greatly reduce the numbers of children in care, and to demonstrably…
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Making the connection
Mountains figure prominently in the gospel of Matthew. They are the place of drama, of battles between Jesus and Satan, of appearances and transfigurations; of hungry crowds that have gathered around Jesus with their sick for healing and feeding. Mountains are the setting for famous sermons and we…
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Joining the movement - what next?
Concluding the day Roger Sutton, director of Movement Day UK gave a challenge: "What could your place look like in 15 years' time if we really got our act together? It's all about unity: working together in strategic and coordinated ways. About prayer and need for God's power in the social,…
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Establishing God’s kingdom in the next generation
"Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven (Matthew 6:9-13, KJV)." This manner in which Jesus taught us to pray inspires me to make my life count for the purposes of God. It inspires me to play my part in seeing churches…
Andy Frost
Flying the gospel to the ends of the earth
The developing world has seen no shortage of calamity, conflict, instability and suffering over the past century. Folk just have to turn on the news to see communities torn apart by war, battered by floods or stifled by insufficient medical care. So frequent are these types of news stories, that…
Naomi Osinnowo
Home is where the heart is in the kingdom of God
As I put my fingers to the keyboard to write this article, I'm still struck by my interview with Pete Cunningham, director of Green Pastures CBS Limited. Pastor Pete, as he is known, insisted that we meet face to face at the Evangelical Alliance's head office in London for the interview; and if we…
Naomi Osinnowo
We want to see the kingdom of God break out across Scotland
More than 20 years after the revival of Whiteinch church, Shona Stirling, director of pastoral care at the church's charity, Whiteinch Transformation, tells the Evangelical Alliance's editorial content manager, Naomi Osinnowo, how the church and its charity are on a mission to see the kingdom of…
Naomi Osinnowo
The kingdom of the Father’s love
Perhaps the most basic but clearest description of what the kingdom means comes from pastor and author John Piper on his website Desiring God:
Heavenly citizenship and earthly justice
The Prime Minister and Home Secretary have both faced difficult questions from MPs, as it has been revealed that migrants from the Caribbean who have lived in the UK for decades have been asked to prove their right to be here. Some have lost the benefits they need to live on, others have been…
John Coleby
Opportunity and opposition like never before
You and I live in unique times. Today, I’m convinced that there is a greater spiritual openness than I can remember for decades. Yet at the same time we face opposition. I believe that, right now, God is calling us to act. And that’s why I wrote to many of you recently – to ask you if you could…
Let’s together make Jesus known
Thank you for considering a gift today. With your previous support, we've just launched the Great Commission website to help Christians talk about Jesus. But that's not all we're doing to make Jesus know this year. If we want to see thousands come to faith, we need to think big. And we need to act…
Help equip the church to share the gospel
Though 57% of people in England call themselves Christians, just 9% are what we might call "practising Christians". That's fewer than 1 in 10 people who know Jesus and live out their faith in their daily lives. Perhaps more worrying still, 54% of non-Christians who know a Christian have never had a…
Betting machines curbed in crucial victory for campaigners
This is a significant victory that will help protect people from developing gambling problems, and reduce the impact of gambling losses on vulnerable people. The Evangelical Alliance has long campaigned on this issue, repeatedly calling for the Government to take action, and has today joined with…
Danny Webster
Protecting religious belief and observance in Scottish schools
Last week the SNP MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch Kate Forbes asked the Scottish Government, “what its position is on protecting young people’s right to religious observance, education and freedom of religious belief in schools?” This question was asked after constituents raised concerns with…
