I remember the first time I prayed for someone for healing on my own. I was seventeen-years-old and sat in a car with my new driving instructor. She turned to me and said, ‘Please be careful not to stall the car or break harshly,’ explaining that she…
Do you remember watching Billy Graham preach in a stadium packed to the rafters with believers and unbelievers? Sometimes his gospel appeal at the end of a message was not solely addressed to the unsaved. He also challenged ‘believers’ to…
In this fascinating interview, Rani Joshi, now head of the Evangelical Alliance’s South Asian forum, shares how she met Christ as a young Hindu woman in a Baptist church – and how it changed everything!
As we step into 2024, I want to invite you to have confidence in God’s story about us. It is the truest, most beautiful and good story, and shows us what it truly means to be human. Because the stories…
‘The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world’ (John 1:9)
Sometimes you only see the significance of an event years later. It was the turn of the Millennium and I was heading into church for the last service…
It probably took at least as much out of him as it did out of me. He was (and still is) my friend and at the time was an elder in the church where I was a young pastor. To say I had embarked…
It’s nearly Christmas, a time when we, the Church, have such a great opportunity to share the good news of Jesus Christ coming into the world. During this season many people are open to coming to…
After more than twenty-five years of ministry, I know only too well that Christmas is both a great opportunity and hard work! So how do we stay fresh and creative in preaching the gospel every festive season? Here’s what I do…
We are living at a time of significant cultural shifts in western society. One of these involves questions around humanity and race. This year marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Windrush generation’s arrival in the UK. The term…
Recently I spent two days in the Peak District. I urgently needed to recharge my batteries and was encouraged by how immensely restful my time away proved to be. As I returned to the coal face of church life a few days later, I did so with a renewed focus on the missional work…