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"Christianity might still be 'in the air we breathe', but the air is becoming more and more polluted"

James Mildred writes following today's 'devastating' afternoon in Parliament where MPs voted 314 to 291 in favour of the assisted suicide bill.

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Assisted suicide backed: A dark day for the vulnerable
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...
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June 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"Inevitably, if you make human freedom your god, you will always prioritise those able to choose what they want. The casualties of this are those without a voice..."
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This abortion law change is evil, pure and simple
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...
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June 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM
"We can recognise the awful situations that many women considering an abortion find themselves facing, whilst still maintaining that unborn children are undeniably human beings and should have protection as the most vulnerable."

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Loving your pro-abortion neighbour after THAT vote
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...
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June 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Ahead of the third reading of the Assisted Dying Bill, expected to take place on Friday, what can we do?

James Mildred from Christian Research Action and Education writes:

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The last best chance to stop assisted suicide Bill is here
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 ...
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June 16, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Here are 11 ways to pray for the ongoing war in Ukraine, from Christian Ukranians themselves.

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How do Ukrainian Christians now want us to pray?
“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...
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May 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Today marks 80 years since Victory in Europe at the end of World War II. Here, historian Michael Haykin looks back and considers what lessons and relevance it has for our turbulent times today.
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VE Day 80 years on: A lasting victory?
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...
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May 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
A new report released today from the Evangelical Alliance UK reveals that there are now more people attending church than before the pandemic.
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More people attending church than before pandemic
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...
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May 8, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Well-known Canadian reformed pastor, speaker and author Tim Challies says Pope Francis was "the world's foremost false teacher".

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Pope Francis 'world's foremost false teacher' says well-known evangelical
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...
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May 6, 2025 at 9:27 AM
"In my thirties, I felt like a Christian superwoman... However, life in my forties was very different. When I was forty, I left my husband, got divorced, and left the church..."

Thank you for this honest account Anna Jones @passionforevangelism

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A message from one broken person to another
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 ...
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May 6, 2025 at 9:25 AM
"Sola Scriptura is not the same as the view that we should have 'no creed but the Bible!'"

Michael Reeves asks if a right view of the Bible's supreme authority has also become a panicked retreat from all learning or tradition?
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To a better understanding of ‘Scripture trumps all’
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...
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May 6, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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What do you want from a sermon?

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…
What do you want from a sermon?
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.
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May 6, 2025 at 6:16 AM
"Sola Scriptura is not the same as the view that we should have 'no creed but the Bible!'"

Michael Reeves discusses why a right view of the Bible's supreme authority must not also become a panicked retreat from all learning or tradition.

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To a better understanding of ‘Scripture trumps all’
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...
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May 6, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Three prisoners have been baptised at HMP Chelmsford after attending weekly Bible studies run by Daylight Christian Prison Trust.

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Prison sees three ‘emotional’ baptisms
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...
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April 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
"At one event, a delegate refused to let me into a venue because 'the leadership team is meeting in there'... they couldn’t see how a disabled woman could be part of the leadership team."
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Smiling, serving, and disabled: Why that shouldn’t be surprising
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...
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April 30, 2025 at 9:33 AM
“God is doing more among us than He ever has before... It’s exciting to be a part of. Five, six, seven years ago we weren’t seeing that.”

Hear about four churches across Wales experiencing renewed interest in the gospel.

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Surge of spiritual interest among youth in Wales
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...
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April 30, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Should we make alcohol available at church events?

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…
Should we make alcohol available at church events?
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.
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April 22, 2025 at 6:16 AM
"However we might have imagined it in our minds – seeing a depiction of it all on-screen done with this much care and love is a privilege – and has the power to turn us to the Bible again."
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The Chosen Season 5: A 'powder keg' about to blow
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...
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April 22, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Is the steady but rapid descent into the insanity that is transgender ideology starting to unravel?
Nicola Laver takes a look.

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The Supreme Court, transgender ideology - and women
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...
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April 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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 complementarian CofE evangelicals “unable to continue in ministry.”

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CofE complementarians ‘extremely concerned’
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...
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April 22, 2025 at 10:29 AM
A leading evangelical in Rome offers his personal assessment of Roman Catholicism's direction of travel under Pope Francis.

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Francis (1936-2025) – the Pope so close, yet so far away?
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.
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April 22, 2025 at 10:28 AM
"To have my son sit there riveted listening to the gospel being so clearly articulated, I’d have to give it a 5/5."
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The King of Kings: my son was riveted by the gospel
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...
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April 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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How does creativity work – what’s going on in our brains when we exercise our imaginations? And how can imagination point us to spiritual truth? I dig into these questions with the help of C.S. Lewis and neuroscientist/philosopher Iain McGilchrist... www.biggerinside.co.uk/p/creativity...
Creativity and spiritual inspiration: Iain McGilchrist and C.S. Lewis on Reason and Imagination
The surprising connections between McGilchrist's brain science, the origins of Narnia and the idea of Christianity as "myth become fact"
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April 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Today I'm thinking about the presence of fear in the task of church planting... jonnypollockwrites.substack.com/p/the-day-no...
The Day No One Came
Embracing The Fear Of Failure
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April 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM