Just moments ago, MPs voted 314 to 291 in favour of the assisted suicide bill. Lives will be needlessly lost as a result.Despite the many flaws with the legislation, intense criticism of the process a...

MPs have approved the biggest change to abortion law in England and Wales for 50 years.It was done via an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill. If this comes as a surprise to you, it is because th...

Last night MPs debated the Crime and Policing Bill, and voted by a majority of 242 to decriminalise abortion at any gestation time when a woman has acted in relation to her own pregnancy.I hope it goe...

We are drawing close to crucial debates and votes on Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.The aim of the legislation is to give terminally ill adults over 18 in England the right ...

A new world is bringing new opportunities. With those new opportunities come new challenges: challenges to know what is good and right and true; and challenges to know what choices to make around our ...

“How can we pray for Ukraine?” is a question I am often asked, as someone with extensive personal and ministry connections there.There are numerous suggestions I have made by way of an answer, some mo...

After the battle of Waterloo (June 18, 1815), Arthur Wellesley, the Anglo-Irish 1st Duke of Wellington and the commander-in-chief of the Allied forces fighting Napoleon, famously commented that “I don...

Churches are seeing twice as many people commit to following Jesus as in 2021, the Evangelical Alliance's new Changing Church survey reveals.Changing Church 2025, released today, explores the state of...

Well-known Canadian reformed pastor, speaker and author Tim Challies says Pope Francis was "the world's foremost false teacher".Writing on his blog, which he has updated regularly since 2003, Challies...

Life in my thirties looked somewhat sorted out, at least from the outside.I was married, had three children, worked part-time, and was active in my local church. I ran the toddler group, played piano ...

Again and again since the close of the New Testament, the church has reasserted the essential evangelical principle of the supremacy of Scripture alone. Why so? Quite simply, because that is what Jesu...

I have spoken about this a number of times before, but it rarely stops needing a new airing. Preaching can be a difficult business. It can be hard work reading, preparing, trying to understand the passage on its terms and trying to wrap our head around the commentaries we have that are at least supposed to shed some light on the passage at hand. Hard as that is, that is not where the work stops. Once we have some understanding of the passage, we have to think about how we are going to present what it says.

Again and again since the close of the New Testament, the church has reasserted the essential evangelical principle of the supremacy of Scripture alone. Why so? Quite simply, because that is what Jesu...

Three prisoners have been baptised at HMP Chelmsford after attending weekly Bible studies run by Daylight Christian Prison Trust.“It was a very emotional service, and other prisoners attending were cl...

I smile a lot. I’m known for it.I wear bright clothes, wacky glasses and glam up my wheelchair. I also receive a lot of comments about being smiley and bright, and living my life ‘out there’. I love l...

Through the faithful preaching of God’s word, prayer, and community outreach, several churches in Wales are seeing God “doing more… than He ever has before” and lives being transformed by the gospel.M...

The Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches (FIEC) is launching a new Eastertime gathering, after popular Christian festival Word Alive shut down last year (see en July 2024).Rising Lights will take place from 6–10 April 2026 in the Devon town of Torquay, and is described as a chance to “hear God’s word, to praise our risen Saviour, and to rest.”

Last week, I wrote about the Jurassic Park Principle of Christian freedom. You can read that post here. After writing that, I saw a question floating around about whether it is okay, or wise, to have alcohol at church events. So, with a nod to that previous post, let me have a stab at my particular answer. Two basic principles The two relevant principles are pretty basic. On the one hand, we have Christian liberty. On the other hand, there are times whereby - out of love and for the sake of the gospel - we will not take up our liberty for the sake of others.

In the poster for The Chosen: The Last Supper Part 1 Jesus is sporting a striking purple cape – described in Mark 15 as a ‘robe’ but dramatised here almost as a superhero’s cape. We know Jesus is goin...

Is the steady but rapid descent into the insanity that is transgender ideology starting to unravel?Today (16 April) the UK Supreme Court unanimously ruled that "woman" under the Equality Act 2010 mean...

Evangelicals are reacting with “extreme concern” to the launch of a new campaign aiming to eliminate the provisions included in the 2014 women bishops’ legislation – claiming it may leave complementar...

A leading evangelical in Rome, Leonardo De Chirico, offers his personal reflections on the direction of the Roman Catholic Church globally under Francis over the last 12 years.

Here we have the gospel laid out for - and seen through the lens of - a wide-eyed, sword-wielding small boy. Simple truths are explained without becoming overly simplistic, and at the same time, despi...

The surprising connections between McGilchrist's brain science, the origins of Narnia and the idea of Christianity as "myth become fact"

Embracing The Fear Of Failure

As we look forward to Easter, some of us may reflect on how many people attended Christmas services, and be recalling the joy of overflowing churches.There has been talk of a Christian revival in the ...

‘Replace capitalism with something nicer.’ – May Day placard, 2001 (1)‘The failure of our world is not that there is too much globalization, but that there is too little.’ – Martin Wolf (2)

The Government has now released its Green Paper on disability benefits.You may have been aware of the discussions around this, both from the government and in the press.

The gripping Netflix mini-series Adolescence screened last week. Some are suggesting it might be as influential as Mr Bates vs The Post Office, which aired at the beginning of last year.It’s all about...

Funeral services with no gospel and no hope are now the norm.Having no service at all is now a popular option. Instead, people are encouraged to use the money saved for a celebratory memorial. It's an...

We are told in Romans (12:13) to "practice hospitality".I’m not sure that hospitality is just when people come round to your house though. Church services – they’re a teeny bit like having your neighb...

You almost couldn’t get two more different places than the bustling metropolis of Moscow and what Ricky Wilhelm describes as the ‘sleepy seaside town’ of Penarth, Wales. Yet, married missionaries Rick...

There’s a large pastoral issue arising that we all need to be aware of.It’s a hidden pastoral issue that may be flying under the radar in many churches. The people these issues will affect will also o...

When we find ourselves wanting to sin, is that something which we should repent of, confess to God, and ask forgiveness for? Or is that only necessary if we give in to that desire? What does this have...

The latest edition of Evangelicals Now contains a story with the following headline: Christians launch legal challenge on VAT for private schools. You can read the full post here (paywall). Particularly worthy of note is the claim within the article that the moves are 'unjust and discriminatory' for Christians. I don't quite know why Christians would seek to do this. I appreciate that different people will have a range of views on the extent to which the state should be permitted to dictate to parents how to raise and educate their children.

Is Avoiding Conflict The Best Way to Grow The Church?

On February 5, just last week, Larry Sanger — a former philosophy professor and a co-founder of Wikipedia — announced his conversion to Christianity. He accompanied it with a long account of how that ...

A Christian was unlawfully dismissed from her role as a school pastoral worker after she criticised LGBT relationship education on her social media, the Court of Appeal has ruled.Lord Justice Underhil...

On February 5, just last week, Larry Sanger — a former philosophy professor and a co-founder of Wikipedia — announced his conversion to Christianity. He accompanied it with a long account of how that ...

David Fletcher, a central figure in the cover-up of John Smyth’s horrific abuses, sexually abused several girls and young women over many years, it has been revealed.Three women - two of them sisters ...

In the blue corner, once-Conservative MP, now-podcaster Rory Stewart. In the red corner, the Vice President of the United States of America, JD Vance. The topic: a Christian doctrine from the fifth ce...

Dignity. The dictionary definition of this word is 'The state or quality of being worthy of honour or respect.'However, as Christians we use the word dignity in many different ways, and as a result it...

More than 7,000 Christians were killed in Nigeria in 2023, representing 90% of the overall worldwide total killed because of their faith, making it the deadliest country in the world for Christians.Th...

Kim Leadbeater, the MP behind the new and controversial assisted suicide bill, has been criticised for deciding the first committee sitting would sit partly in private – and for producing a list of po...

Mark Vroegop has been appointed as the new President of evangelical network The Gospel Coalition (TGC).Vroegop, who has pastored College Park Church in Indiana for nearly two decades, is a current TGC...

It is sometimes said that Jesus is nowhere explicitly referred to as God. There are lots and lots of examples in the Bible of Jesus doing things only God can do, operating in ways only God operates and accepting things that only God ought to receive. I was speaking with a Muslim the other day - who affirmed Jesus as a good prophet - and said, considering Jesus went around forgiving sin and receiving worship from people without correcting them, he was either God incarnate or an extremely bad prophet who encouraged severe blasphemy!

Leading climate scientist and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe says the wildfires causing devastation in California are a stark reminder of the reality of climate change today.Hayhoe, currently ...