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The Missed Warning of Lockdown

In a world teetering on the brink of chaos, Nick Franks provocatively challenges the complacency of the Church. He unveils biblical justifications for closing churches, urging the faithful to escape unfaithful congregations. “God Closed Church” is a radical manifesto that confronts the slow decay of Christian commitment and calls for a daring reinstatement of true fellowship…

Worried about salvation?

Some Christians struggle with a settled sense of assurance more than others, though we all struggle with this in some ways. It is the fruit of a genuinely redeemed person to be in awe not in presumption. I trust that this brief video overview of J. C. Ryle’s superb chapter on the subject will bring you a seep sense of comfort and point you to the unchanging Word of God.

Peacetime Church in Wartime World đźŤŽ

This week, Mairi and I enjoyed the beauty of stunning gardens while picking apples and filming a podcast about the Church’s evolution since March 2020. We’ll explore contrasting views and share insights from an upcoming ebook titled “God Closed Church.” Check out the YouTube preview!

God’s Jealousy for the Faithfulness of His People

Paul’s Christian Midrash of Deuteronomy 32 (1 Corinthians 10) proves that Yahweh’s attitude and explosive response to idolatry remains unchanged from the fiery kiln of Exodus 19. LEARN MORE 👇

Vows Have Been Taken

Why am I preaching about jealousy, God’s very Name being Jealous and volcanos?

Throughout Scripture, from Eden to the heavenly Jerusalem, Yahweh has made marriage to be central. Vows have been taken, and yet vows have been broken…and so Jealous burns.

Please listen carefully to the I AM JEALOUS teaching series: sermons to awaken us to spiritual reality and our delusions of innocence. 

“What am I to you, that you should command me to love you and, if I do not, you should be angry with me and threaten great miseries?” (Augustine)

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Bible Teaching from a POW Camp

This is our fifth PodVlog providing a “behjnd the scenes” glimpse of our new teaching series, I AM JEALOUS (coming soon).

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This video is for those who are overwhelmed with the unfaithfulness of the Church, the pressures and forces afoot that will ultimately separate those who are true — the hot —from those who will grow horribly cold (Matthew 24:12).

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A Trustworthy Prophetic Word to the British Church (1963-2023)

This week on Into the Pray, I read out an excerpt of an address of Martin Lloyd-Jones to his own church during an annual away day as a church family in 1963.

Encouragingly for us, the crux of what Lloyd-Jones was saying 61 years ago in 1963 is the same embryonic train of thought as the things I have written in The Glorious Few in 2023, (60 years hence).

Please listen with an open mind and a willing heart.

“If I am right in my diagnosis, the position is moving very rapidly and unless we do something, it may be too late; or we may be so overwhelmed in disaster that it will only be out of a terrible wreckage that we may gradually crawl out into a new position. I say the alternative is to recognize that it is time for us to act, to clarify our own minds.” — MLJ (1963)

Maintaining the Evangelical Faith Today | An Address of Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1953)

In this week’s episode of Into the Pray, I drive to a local quiet spot on the east coast of north Scotland to read for you a 1953 address of Dr Martin Lloyd-Jones that ultimately caused John Stott, British Theologian from Cambridge, to publicly rebuke him.

Lloyd-Jones disagreed with ecumenicalism and the socio-political gospel of Billy Graham so strongly that he chose to face the ignominy that resulted from distancing himself from them rather than falling into the reality of Galatians 1:7-8.

Think along with me — are the attitudes which are central to the ecumenical agenda — in the Church and within Christian homes — really the foundations of faithful Christian relationships that are true to the gospel of Jesus Christ? What really of these “agree to disagree” agendas that cast a very dark shadow over those who refuse to agree that some matters, and some behaviours, shouldn’t ever be expected to change?

Listen to what Lloyd-Jones warned the church about in 1953.