Affinity have announced in a press release plans to set up a UK version of The Gospel Coalition. TGC describes itself as “ a fellowship of evangelical churches in the Reformed tradition deeply committed to renewing our faith in the gospel of Christ and to reforming our ministry practices to conform fully to the Scriptures. “… Continue reading Does the UK need The Gospel Coalition?
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Faithroots Feedback survey Spring 2024
I appreciate getting regular feedback from readers to gauge how Faithroots is going. If you have a few minutes, I’d appreciate it if you could fill in this survey
Job opportunity in Birmingham: May suit potential church planter
I just wanted to highlight this job opportunity working for the Church Central group of churches in Birmingham and partnering with a couple of other churches including Christchurch and Redeemer. This is an opportunity for someone with particular compassion for those struggling with poverty, debt and low incomes. Income Maximisations Project Worker It is also… Continue reading Job opportunity in Birmingham: May suit potential church planter
Review of the year – this year’s top ten articles
So, here it is, this year’s top ten most read articles. 10. Why did God test Adam? 9. The real problem with Gnosticism 8. Women and church leadership 7. John McArthur – Incarnational and Eternal Sonship 6. Rumours of Revival 5. Learning from the Brethren 4. Belching 3. John Piper and Coffee in the Sanctuary… Continue reading Review of the year – this year’s top ten articles
Review of the year: The top resources from 2023
It seems to be be the pattern for most people who run blogs to have a look back at the previous year around about now and produce little top tens or top 3s to show what people were reading in the year that has just gone by. I thought this year, it might be helpful… Continue reading Review of the year: The top resources from 2023
Post Covid Symposium
The UK are currently engaging in a public enquiry in order to review and learn lessons from our response to the COVID pandemic. I’ve argued for a little while that the Church would benefit from having it’s own COVID enquiry to learn lessons for our own response. Well, Affinity have decided to host, not a… Continue reading Post Covid Symposium
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem
On Saturday we woke up to horrific news from Israel as Hamas terrorists had cut through security fencing and infiltrated into much of southern Israel where they had gunned people down and taken hostages. They had also launched extensive rocket attacks on Israel. We are used to tensions in the Middle East but something seemed… Continue reading Pray for the peace of Jerusalem
Can we stop naming things after other Christians -even Tim Keller and Don Carson
The Gospel Coalition have announced that they are setting up the Carson Center for Theological Renewal. The aim of the centre is described as follows: “As we see in Scripture and church history, spiritual renewal follows theological renewal when the ancient gospel of Jesus Christ recaptures our hearts and minds.” [1] With that in mind,… Continue reading Can we stop naming things after other Christians -even Tim Keller and Don Carson
911 22 years on
Every September we are reminded of the passage of time as a new school year starts and Sarah realises that the new intake won’t have been alive at key milestones in our lives. If a former generation remember where they were when we put a man on the moon or when JFK was shot, for… Continue reading 911 22 years on
What is Birmingham’s bankruptcy saying to us?
Yesterday I wrote about our city going bankrupt and what that might mean for us. As I explained in the article, there’s actually a lot of uncertainty and the honest answer to “what does this mean?” Is that we really don’t know yet. It is entirely possible that for most of us we’ll see very… Continue reading What is Birmingham’s bankruptcy saying to us?
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