It was 50 years ago…

Britain remains an island of lost and lonely people until we rediscover Christ’s gospel. As we start another year, let’s pray afresh for our nation.

Leaving a big church?

These days church planting and revitalisation are, rightly, on the agenda for us…

Clearly good news

 

Are you hoping to have non-Christian folk visit your church over Christmas to hear the gospel?

Trumped?

President elect, Donald Trump | photo: Wiki

 

I am a ‘legal alien’, I carry a Green Card and all our children have been born here, but I cannot vote in America….

Niger: YWAM Kidnap

Jeff Woodke preaching | photo: lostcoastoutpost

 

The kidnap of a pioneering American missionary on 14 October is a ‘terrible tragedy’ for the communities he served for 24 years, according to the local mayor, and it has raised security concerns among the country’s missionary community.

Oldies growing the church

Have you noticed the nature of old age changing? | photo: iStock

 

People are living full, healthy lives for much longer. ‘85 is when old age begins!’ emblazoned a headline some months ago. In the press around the Queen’s birthday earlier this year we read about people in their 90s and even 100s still working, still running business, still living very full lives.

Getting religious at Christmas

Oluwatosin Oyeniyi urges us to begin with James 1.27 this Christmas | photo: iStock

If you want to be religious this Christmas begin with James 1.27. Being religious is not about how many church services you attend, how many times you read the Bible or how much you pray. James 1.27 tells us it is about caring for the vulnerable in society.

Be encouraged

 

‘I’m gonna live for ever!’ went the song for the 80s TV series Fame and speaks of people wanting to be so famous everyone will know their name in entertainment history. This expresses well the ambition of so many, judging by the contestants of The X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent, which actually seems to prove the opposite!

Abstract expressionism

Jackson Pollock, Blue 212.1 x 488.9 cm National Gallery of Australia, Canberra | image: © The Pollock-Krasner Foundation ARS, NY and DACS London 2016

 

Nigel Halliday gives a Christian perspective on the exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts

Ashers: win for the losers

Colin, Karen, Daniel and Amy McArthur facing the cameras outside the High Court in Belfast | photo: The Christian Institute

 

The McArthurs have lost their appeal, but who has come out as the real winners?