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Christ Church Southport's Story
Watch one church's story of how they reached out to the elderly in our community.
Christ Church Southport
Coronavirus: advice and resources
UPDATED - 11 June 2020 – this page has now largely been superseded by our reopening guidance and FAQs which is available here.
Discovering Jesus | Course introduction
To run the course and make the most of each session, you will need to purchase the participants' and leaders' guides. These guides set out the course objectives, session outlines, tips for leaders and much more.
Relational Mission: Courage conference
The church is called to serve that broken world, but in such a climate God’s people can also become fearful and try to hide in the shadows. God has not given us a spirit of fearfulness, but a Spirit of boldness and courage. Our leadership conference in 2018 explored what this might look like for…
Biblica: the Accessible Bible
Many people with sight loss, learning disabilities or lower levels of literacy find accessing and engaging with God’s Word difficult due to the formatting of the Bible. The NIrV Accessible Edition New Testament is one step towards greater Bible access and inclusion within the church, for those who…
Connect resource: Northern Ireland
Welcome to Connect, a vital resource from the Evangelical Alliance designed to help Christians in Northern Ireland engage with the evolving political landscape. With a Sinn Féin first minister and a UK-wide Labour government, the political environment is shifting rapidly. Connect provides…
Dynamics church leaders segment
Drag your square on the below map and copy the code. This will help to create a segment in Dynamics Marketing to target Primary contacts and senior ministers in the targeted area that have consent to receive emails from us.
Innovative church projects to aid Covid recovery
On the back of the recent budget, research from the New Economics Foundation predicts that the poorest fifth of all households will be worse off this year despite the chancellor’s decision to partly reverse cuts to universal credit. The report makes grim reading, but the reality could be even…
Kate Sharma
Reopening churches: acting with confidence and wisdom
However, this year the return to normality is not at all like we're used to. It’s not a six-week break that we’re returning from, but a gradual and hesitant resumption of something akin to the usual after six months of very unusual times. Over the course of the coronavirus crisis, as a society, we…
Danny Webster
The Reformation and Conscience
One of the great gifts of the Reformation to us today is its legacy of freedom of conscience. Luther did not directly address that issue in his Ninety-Five Theses in 1517, but six years later he wrote, “For over the soul God can and will let no one rule but Himself. Therefore, where temporal…
Churches muted by government inconsistency and intransigence
When churches were allowed to resume meeting in July last year a number of restrictions were put in place through both law and guidance to ensure they could operate safely and limit the spread of coronavirus. Churches have diligently followed these rules and advice, from limiting numbers, tracking…
Danny Webster
Changing Church: autumn survey
The coronavirus pandemic has proven to be a marathon not a sprint. The church is continuing to undergo the biggest change in a generation. Between the 1 and the 12 October we surveyed more than 1,000 individuals and in excess of 450 church leaders with our Changing Church: autumn survey, giving us…
Justice and mercy: A contemporary Christian perspective
Victims want things to be put right. They want corrective justice. Like the widow in Luke 18, victims seek for their voices to be heard. Corrective justice is not the only form of redress available to victims. There are other types of justice including restorative and healing justice described in…
Dr Hephzibah Egede
Reflections from the Evangelical Alliance Leadership Conference
The online event was organised after the Evangelical Alliance saw the need for Christians who hold positions of leadership, both within the church and in other spheres of society, to share reflections and pray into what is happening in the UK and what God is saying to His church. The evening was a…
Helen Locke
Christian charity Cornerstone challenges Ofsted's discrimination rating
After receiving inspection results of ‘good’ in 2015 the charity’s fostering work was marked as ‘requires improvement’ in 2019 mainly due to its policy of only recruiting evangelical carers. The policy is in line with the Equality Act 2010, and allows the charity to provide a service to a…
Danny Webster
