Fantastic answer to prayer – Maryam and Marzieh have been acquitted of all charges by the Iranian judicial authorities. However, they were warned that any future Christian activity in Iran would be seriously dealt with.
On Saturday 22nd May they left Iran and arrived safely in another country.
Maryam and Marzieh have sent a message of [...]
Read full post...Muslim doctors and nurses have been allowed to opt-out of NHS hygiene rules in a move that has been blasted by critics as double standards. Critics compared the opt-out given to Muslims to cases of Christians being marginalised by the NHS.
That is my gripe. Christian nurse Caroline Petrie was suspended for offering to pray for [...]
One of my daughters sent me the link to an excellent article on the demise of Emerging Church at WorldMag.com.
Written by Anthony Bradley, in ‘Farewell Emerging Church, 1989-2010′ Bradley says that while the effects of the emerging church movement will linger for some time we will begin to see books praising and attacking the movement [...]
The Labour Party has made a manifesto commitment to abolish a free speech safeguard introduced by Lord Waddington to a sexual orientation ‘hate’ crime law. The safeguard makes clear that criticising homosexual conduct, or encouraging someone to refrain from such conduct, is not in itself a crime.
The free speech protection is backed by comedy actor, [...]
Maryam and Marzieh’s Court Hearing has been set for Tuesday next, 13 April.
They need our prayer. They spent 259 days in prison for their Christian faith. After their conditional release on 18th November 2009 from Iran’s Evin Prison, they have been convalescing and receiving medical treatment for the past five months.
Both of them still remain [...]
I have just signed the Westminster Declaration 2010.
It is summarised in the following three statements:
WE BELIEVE
that protecting human life, protecting marriage, and protecting freedom of conscience are foundational for creating and maintaining strong families, caring communities and a just society.
WE INVITE
Christians of all denominations who subscribe to the historic Christian faith to sign the Westminster [...]
I was in a conversation recently and we were trying to decide how we could best sum up what the gospel is in as few words as possible. How about the following?
“Reconciliation is now available between a lost and sinful humanity, and the holy God.” 84 characters including spaces.
Of course that misses out how it [...]
