Emmanuel City Centre Key verse to learn: But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you…
‘Surprisingly, the liturgical season of Advent, rather than Lent, best locates the Christian community. Advent – the time in between – with its themes of crisis and judgment, now and not-yet, places us not in some privileged spiritual sanctuary but on the frontier where the promised kingdom of God exerts maximum pressure on the present,…
You want to sing carols. You can’t do that in a church building. You can’t travel the streets in a group, bringing comfort and joy. But you can arrange a sing-song from your doorstep. Imagine… It’s Saturday 19th December, darkness has fallen. You put on your worst Christmas jumper, brew a cup of mulled wine,…
For anyone who wasn’t able to make it along to the brilliant ‘Hope in the face of death’ evening with Jeremy Marshall – do check out the recording from the event below.
‘…an isolated, independent, separated, and self-hiding Christian life is alien to the Christianity of the New Testament. Biblical Christianity is thoroughly and foundationally relational. No one can live outside the essential ministries of the body of Christ and remain spiritually healthy.’ Paul David Tripp, Lead, p.148.
Justin Brierly’s Unbelievable? podcast hosts conversations between Christians and sceptics. Here, Amy Orr-Ewing, co-director of OCCA and author of ‘Where Is God In All The Suffering?’, discusses the problem of pain with Jon Steingard, whose own doubts around Christian faith were triggered by seeing the suffering of children in Uganda.
We know the gospel is good news for every part of life, including our mental health. And yet when we’re struggling, simply ‘trying harder to believe’ often doesn’t help. Emma and Glen Scrivener are having an online evening conversation, hosted by the London Institute of Contemporary Christianity (LICC), and we can tune in! They’ll be…
The Evangelical Alliance has called a UK day of prayer on 13 November. We are working with networks, denominations and churches to bring people together to pray. As communities across the UK face further restrictions and lockdowns, as many churches are forced to stop their in-person gatherings, as suffering and loss affect so many families, we hear the call again to…
“God’s goodness amid difficulty permeates the Scriptures, from Joseph declaring that God intended his brothers’ evil for good (Gen. 50:20) to the ultimate injustice when Jesus hung on the cross. The days that look like failures in the world’s eyes—and even in our eyes—are not really failures after all. They are accomplishing God’s plans for…
“For we have no power to face this vast army that is attacking us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you.” 2 Chronicles 20:12