Church: UK

The Gospel is Not All About Me

by Eddie 16.03.2010

The Bible paints an amazing picture of God at work through history reconciling creation to himself. The breadth of His work is absolutely incredible. I was recently at a Christian event during which the worship leader read one of my favourite passages from Colossians 1. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn [...]

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Mission To The Whole of Society

by Eddie 11.03.2010

One of Bishop John V. Taylor’s legacies to the Church is his book The Go-Between God (1972). The opening words are: “The chief actor in the historic mission of the Christian Church is the Holy Spirit.” It is a powerful reminder not to be seduced by such phrases as “The responsibility is ours”, confusing divine [...]

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Authentic Christianity

by Eddie 07.02.2010

This weekend, Sue and I visited the wonderful Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire. The weather was cool and foggy, which gave an amazing atmosphere to the ruins. Which I hope comes across in these photographs. It must have been a hard life being a monk here through the hard winter months, and even the summers [...]

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Britain Doesn’t Want to Understand the Bible

by Eddie 01.07.2009

The Independent reports an interesting survey which was carried out on behalf of the Centre for Biblical Literacy at St. John’s Durham. The public is widely ignorant of the stories and people who provide the basis of Christianity, a survey has found, despite 75 per cent of respondents owning a copy of the Bible. The [...]

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Teenagers don’t believe in God

by Eddie 22.06.2009

According to today’s Telegraph Nearly two thirds of teenagers don’t believe in God, according to a study by Penguin books. It also emerged six out of ten 10 children (59 per cent) believe that religion “has a negative influence on the world”. The survey also shows that half of teenagers have never prayed and 16 [...]

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England and The US: Thoughts of a Foreigner

by Eddie 27.05.2009

Carl Medearis has just posted an excellent little peace comparing the state of the church in the US and England and also reflecting on the nomadic life of a missionary. About 5% of people in the United Kingdom would say they believe in Jesus as the way and do something about it. Nearly 40% of [...]

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Men and Church

by Eddie 07.05.2009

According to a survey in the Daily Mail: They have stood the test of time and it seems that today, despite all the changes to church services, men still prefer to sing ‘proper macho hymns’. Nearly 60 per cent of those who took part in a survey said they enjoyed singing – but added comments [...]

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Clear Communication

by Eddie 24.03.2009

I couldn’t resist this one. HT David Couchman [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6DAlWLVaCQ[/youtube]

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Persecution?

by Eddie 03.03.2009

Steve Fouch has just written an excellent blog post about the perceived persecution of Christians in the UK. …Secondly, this trivialises the genuine persecution that fellow Christians do experience in many parts of the world. It is a widely quoted statistic that there have been more Christian martyrs in the twentieth century than in all [...]

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Where is Christianity Heading?

by Eddie 03.02.2009

Two completely differing views of the future of the Church in Britain have come across my sights today. Firstly, Tear Fund have published something saying that church attendance has increased in the UK (I mentioned this last week – but there was nothing on their web site at that point). ‘We have noticed that in [...]

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Labour Does Do God After All

by Eddie 29.01.2009

A few years ago, Alistair Cambell famously stated of the labour government “we don’t do God”. Well, apparently they do now! Stephen Timms a government minister said the following in a recent speech: ‘What I want to argue today is that the faith communities offer a rich resource of hopefulness which, in progressive politics, we [...]

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Theology: Black, White or Grey?

by Eddie 13.01.2009

It is well worth setting aside the time to listen to the discussion between post-modern Englishman Jonny Baker and Pentecostal Nigerian Yemi Adedji from last year’s Greenbelt. These two look at the Christian faith from very different standpoints and yet demonstrate a very clear unity and close friendship. It is good stuff! There are a [...]

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