Clear as mud
David Baker
Date posted: 1 Mar 2015
Recently someone discovered and posted on Facebook a list entitled A Short Guide to the Duties of Church Membership issued at the requests of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York. Here it is:
1. To follow the example of Christ in home and daily life and to bear witness to him.
Website Smith video clip
Edward Fisher
Date posted: 1 Mar 2015
Dear Sir,
Thank you so much for having the courage
to present the Jay Smith video clip in the
news item headlined ‘Charlie at the corner’
on the online version of en on your website.
What Jay Smith says gets to the heart of the
problem with the Qu’ran: how to treat the
later surahs compared to the earlier.
The Third Degree
Messaging that matters
Daniel Stafford
Date posted: 1 Jan 2015
Social media is a relatively recent phenomenon.
According to an ONS report the number of adults accessing the Internet every day in Great Britain more than doubled between 2006 and 2012, largely driven by social media.1 Mention the phrase ‘social media’ and I suspect most people fit into one of three broad categories: willing participants, uneasy users, or steadfast refusers!
Carey: too comfortable?
JEB
Date posted: 1 Feb 2015
‘Afflicting the comfortable’ could be taken as
the keynote of this year’s Carey Conference
held at the Hayes, Swanick, 6-8 January.
The main
speaker was Professor Greg
Beale of Westminster Theological Seminary,
Philadelphia. He is the author of a landmark
and voluminous commentary on the Greek
text of the book of Revelation and he treated
the participants to a magisterial introduction
to John’s apocalypse. The book is meant to
be understood symbolically, according to its
opening verse. The dramatic word pictures of
the apostle will sedate the nominal Christian
but shock God’s true people
into action.
There are seven churches addressed in the
opening chapters of which only
two are
faithful. The others must change or be
judged with the world. Hence John’s writing
is addressed
first
to
the whole professed
church, but only the faithful remnant will
ultimately benefit.
Keeping the bookshop sailing
en staff
Date posted: 1 Feb 2015
The high street still provides tremendous opportunities for the gospel
The double award-winning Manna Christian Bookshop in Streatham, South London, opened in 1981.
London: a new church for the whole world
FIEC
Date posted: 1 Feb 2015
A new church is being planted on the South Bank of the Thames in London during 2015, and just in case you were wondering about the reasoning behind this, the FIEC have put together a very valuable Q&A about the real need for another Bible-centred church in the metropolis that is the UK capital city.
Q: Aren’t there already lots of gospel churches in London?
Who was Pharaoh?
Ian Cooper
Date posted: 1 Jan 2015
Ian Cooper investigates
After 17 years in the Police Force I understand what is and is not ‘evidence’.
Prepared to
preach
John Mollitt
Date posted: 1 Jan 2015
On 22 November, a
second
‘Certain
Sounds Seminar’ was held at Starbeck
Mission in Harrogate.
Last year the subject was
‘Basic Public
Speaking’ and this year ‘The Fundamentals
of Preaching’. Twenty five speakers/preachers
or potential speakers/preachers gathered to
hear Ron Collard and John Mollitt give
papers on the supremacy of preaching in a
multi-media society; motivation and inspiration; preparation of
self; preparation of
material; proclamation and examination.
Word Alive – worth the effort
Two church leaders tell us about why they make it a priority
Over the Easter holidays next year thousands of Christians will gather at two Word Alive events in North Wales.
Interrupted by hope
Esther Bennett
Date posted: 1 Jan 2015
Esther Bennett explains how a deeper understanding of being a child of God transformed her Christian life
It’s New Year’s Eve 2011.
From Houston to Hull
St John
Date posted: 1 Jan 2015
A team of 12 members of Champion Forest Baptist Church, Houston arrived at St John, Newland in Hull for a seven-day mission in November, with local church members led by US super lawyer, Mark Lanier.
Mark is one of the top ten trial lawyers in America and teaches an adult class of around 800 at his home church in Houston (biblical-literacy.org). He has recently published a book, Christianity on Trial (IVP) which has already sold 15,000 copies in the States.
Bangladesh: school attack
World Watch Monitor
Date posted: 1 Jan 2015
Hundreds of extremist Islamists attacked a
Christian
school
in Bangladesh
on
5
November in response to locals who were
outraged by rumours stating that the school,
which welcomes children of all faiths, was
forcing Muslim children
to convert
to
Christianity.
The mob comprised about 200 people.
The students were not physically injured, but
12 of its 14 members of staff were beaten. A
female teacher endured a serious head injury.
Another teacher said that he managed to run
away from six Madrasa students, armed with
knives and machetes, after being forced out
of his classroom.
In the heart of Manchester
Andy Paterson
Date posted: 1 Jan 2015
On 5 October around 300 people gathered to celebrate and witness the commissioning service for City Church Manchester.
Started in September with support from churches in Liverpool, Birmingham and Manchester itself, this young church (already numbering about 80 people) met to hear preaching from Richard Cunningham (UCCF), prayers from supporting friends, and covenant challenges to themselves and their pastors, Ralph Cunnington and Matt Waldock. They meet in Central Hall on Oldham Street, in the heart of the city and are part of the growing family of FIEC new church plants.
