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Agents of lasting change
On the eastern coast of Mozambique, it was the city worst hit by ferocious winds that went on to rip through Malawi and Zimbabwe last March. The damage was evident in every street, in every community. I met countless people who had lost relatives and had their homes destroyed. Their stories, each…
Carey Ellis
Book review: Reappearing Church
A church leader from Melbourne in Australia, he has wrestled for many years through finding ways for the church to thrive in the post-Christian culture endemic in the places he lives, works and travels. From pioneering formats of church to reach those disillusioned with traditional church to…
Danny Webster
Roots and fruits
Biologically, a constitution refers to the physical health and strength of a body. Similarly, a political constitution embodies the fundamental principles for government, and expresses the national identity. Unlike the US, the UK doesn’t have a written constitution. Ours is uncodified, a blend of…
Dr David Landrum
A new year at Holyrood
It feels like something of a new season in politics across the United Kingdom as December’s General Election saw a new UK Government established with a significant majority. This matters because it meant that the UK’s Brexit Withdrawal Agreement duly passed by 99 votes last week, ending the…
Chris Ringland
Christians needed to champion a healthier culture
There’s an injustice that many diseases including obesity, heart disease and type 2 diabetes could be prevented, or better managed, by adopting healthier lifestyle patterns. We know these diseases impact individuals, society and the NHS, but what does this have to do with the church and can we…
Niky Dix
Are all welcome?
I'm passionate about seeing every church welcoming the stranger and discipling the nations. One really effective way of doing that is through Welcome Boxes. This is where trained volunteers deliver a Welcome Box filled with small gifts and local information to refugees who have recently arrived in…
Emily Holden
Finding God in unexpected places
I didn’t think this was the sort of place I’d meet a Christian. This is a fairly regular phrase I hear as our teams at Third Space Ministries go about sharing God’s love in the ‘third spaces’ of society; places outside of home and work; places of leisure such as gyms, nightclubs, pubs, cafes. I…
Carolyn Skinner
Stuck in maintenance mode?
As church leaders, it’s so easy to get caught up with our measurement for success being rooted in the ABC of church statistics: attendance, buildings, cash. It’s understandable, as these are tangible metrics against which we can measure the previous years. But while I’m not against their use per…
Iain Hesketh
Ten ways to keep your church focused on evangelism
Evangelism is summarised by Robert Warren as “the processes whereby people become disciples of Jesus Christ.” Those processes are helpfully described by missiologist David Bosch: “evangelism is the core, heart and centre of missions; it consists in the proclamation of salvation in Christ to…
Families hit hard by the crisis. People seeking Jesus.
The fact is, while our church buildings have been shut, the church is more open than ever. People like you have stepped into the gap. But today, as we navigate ‘the new normal,’ we face a now-or-never moment. The UK church response needs to scale up, get smarter, and be even more united and…
Heroes and hoarders
The country may not literally be on fire, but it's the imagery of the person running into the flames rather than away from the risk that we are buoyed by, that we admire, that is lauded so strongly on social media and the news. One of the challenges of this specific crisis is how inactive and…
Danny Webster
Coronavirus: Being together, apart
In the church calendar, it may be that we take part in the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity or occasionally swap pulpits. In my experience, it is often left unexplored. We know that it is one of the things that Jesus prayed for on the night before He died. Our Lord prayed that we might be…
Kevin Ellis
Disciple
Disciple is an extraordinary 10-week journey to discover who you are in Christ, to take hold of the freedom He has won for you, and to walk in your God-given mandate. It looks at our individual story and how God’s bigger story intersects it before unpacking all the things that can get in the way of…
Prayer for evangelism
Fred Drummond, director of Evangelical Alliance Scotland, has written this prayer for you or your church to use, as we celebrate all that God has done over the past year and anticipate all that’s to come this year. Lord, we look back to last year.Thank you for every sign of your grace.For every…
Prayer, faith and witness
Driving back from speaking at Gold Hill Baptist Church on Sunday, 15 March, there was a strange sense in my gut that things were about to change. The media stories were growing and the idea that things were about to become less free was increasingly clear. Within days, everything was being live…
Gavin Calver
