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A deep dive into The Quiet Revival research
What is the Bible Society and what is your role there? Bible Society is a 200-year-old charity which exists to make the Bible accessible to everyone. For much of our history we worked on translating the Bible into different languages and making it available around the world. Today much of our work…
Nicola Morrison
Pointing young men in prison to Jesus
Spurred on by Romans 5:8 which says, “But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” and Romans 10:14 which says, “And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?”…
Tim Mycock
Four tips for navigating redundancy as a Christian
As she had been praying for me, an image had popped into her mind – drooping sunflowers trying to put down roots inside a vase. That’s the wrong place! she thought. Then she saw hands lifting the flowers out and planting them in soil where they began to flourish. I thanked her and let her know it…
Bryony Lines
Three tips for evangelising in a time of openness
Almost every Sunday Gavin Calver and I speak in a different church across the UK. We go where invited and preach across almost every denomination, to handfuls and hundreds, across the whole spectrum of society. And every week for the last few years we have texted each other with enthusiastic…
Phil Knox
Ending the wild west: why the Online Safety Act matters
The internet revolution has transformed every aspect of our lives. Parents, communities, schools, and churches are all being tested by an online world that often feels beyond our control. Many of us remember an earlier, more hopeful vision of the internet. Yet today, our online lives are saturated…
Mark Gilmore
Learn to listen, listen to learn: The sacred discipline of listening
In scripture, listening is not merely the prelude to speaking – it is a virtue in its own right. Proverbs is blunt in its warning: "He who answers a matter before he hears it, it is folly and shame to him” (Proverbs 18:13, NKJV). In other words, there is something inherently unwise, even…
Duncan Williams
Thresholds and tables
Hospitality is central in almost every culture. I’ve sat in near strangers' homes, sharing food around their tables in India, Ukraine, Africa and many other parts of the world and I’m sure you have similar stories. Something essential happens when we cross into each other’s homes and share food…
David Smyth
The pursuit of justice?
Following the Saville inquiry into Bloody Sunday in 2010, then Prime Minister David Cameron said, “what happened on Bloody Sunday was both unjustified and unjustifiable. It was wrong.” and that he was “deeply sorry”. This latest case was a complicated and long-running criminal trial into the…
David Smyth
Is your church ready to welcome the new young adults that are having dreams about Jesus?
People have been having dreams throughout the course of human history and will most likely continue to have them until the end of humanity. But if God is in our waking and in our sleeping, then we need to be open to the possibility that He may be speaking through our dreams. There are 21 dreams in…
Luke Smith
Grace’s Story – Medical diagnosis
It was at the 20-week scan, when all had seemed fairly routine at the start. Up to that point, this pregnancy had been the best of the three so far; with the previous two, I had been extremely sick and even hospitalised with hyperemesis. Given our excitement, we barely noticed that the scan was…
Kitione and Hannah's story
Soon after the scan, we were taken to speak to a specialist consultant who explained that it was his view that our baby had no chance of survival, and that it would be a matter of days or weeks until they passed away. My questions about any possible treatment, intervention, or early delivery if we…
Jesus who is holy and was wholly human
God with meat. God in flesh. I imagine my grandma would balk at the seeming irreverence, but if the usual response of the room is anything to go by, it’s a helpful jolt into re-engaging with the reality of the Incarnation. The opulence of God’s divine nature meets the ordinariness of last night’s…
Damilola Makinde
Leave a gift in your will
We want to see a church that is confident in its voice and inspired in its mission so that more people in the UK come to know Jesus. Thanks to the legacy gifts of our wonderful supporters, there have been many milestones and success stories in Evangelical Alliance history - but our work is far…
Public Leadership
The world is in desperate need of great leaders. Every walk of life needs leaders who embody integrity, humility, boldness, and most importantly, the servant-heartedness of Jesus. That is not exclusive to the church but must extend to every sphere of society – to the public and private sectors, in…
One People Commission
It is the gathering together of God's one church in all its vibrant expressions, modelling the unity of God's people. Find out more about the OPC and how you can help work for the unity of the church in the UK.
