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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.

Do you recognise prophetic censure as well as prophetic promise?

In order to realise the ultimate heights of the prophetic promises of Yahweh’s redemptive masterplan for His own glory, the covenant people of God today must urgently recognise that prophetic censure is mysteriously and gloriously part of that realisation.

The presumed innocence of churches and church leaders who boast “sound doctrine” is arguably the greatest obstacle that must be overcome for this eschatological timeline (depth of censure—height of promise) to progress. I fear that, as the redeemed/being redeemed Body of Christ today mirror ancient Israel/Judah, we are, in effect, currently stalled…

Free A. W. Tozer Audio-Book (Advent Devotional)

Consider starting or finishing your days running up to the deep mystery of Christmas listening to A. W. Tozer’s exquisite classic examining the attributes of God. All 11 episodes available for free via the Into the Pray podcast!

An Open Letter to the Church: Is Your Church Faithful?

The Instruction of 2 Timothy in Assessing The Faithfulness of Our Churches. The podcast with the backstory for this letter is here and a follow-up YouTube here: If I go wrong it hurts me but if I get your Word wrong it hurts everybody. John Piper Dear Church, I am persuaded that God is preparingContinue reading “An Open Letter to the Church: Is Your Church Faithful?”

Conversation with Gavin Ashenden

Hello! Today we have a pause in our “All the Prophets” focused season as we welcome Gavin Ashenden, former Chaplain to the Queen and now British Catholic layman who converted from evangelicalism in 2019. In our conversation we discuss Justin Welby, apostasy, HTB seeker-sensitive progressive spirituality, demonic visitations, homosexuality, feminism, weak bladders etc etc etc.

Calling YESHUA

It was back in December 2020 that the Lord began to take us from one degree of being overwhelmed to another. (Film script below) We’d recently had an important encounter with a “word of faith christian” who, uninvited, had counselled us to simply “get back to choices” in order to end our eight years ofContinue reading “Calling YESHUA”