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03 Feb 2022
The Absolute Terms of Jeremiah's Weighting 1/2 (feat. Nick Franks)
We're glad to be back after a month of extended reading, praying and discussing and hope that you're doing well!
Mairi and Nick together will be having the first convo of season 5 a week tomorrow (Friday, February 11th, 6am GMT) and will be featuring our plans for the extensive public reading of Scripture.
"Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion." (Psalm 84:5)
This initial episode of season 5 includes an update regarding some changes to the weekly scheduling of the podcast as well as an introductory word of warning to the often squeamish Church.
If you would like to help us we are still looking for support here and you can contact us about anything here.
Our full reading of the book of Jeremiah is happening LIVE on YouTube tomorrow night (Friday, February 4th) from 7:30pm. We’d love you to get involved here.
As we resume podcasting in 2022, our normal schedule will now be:
Fridays (adhoc) 6am GMT Sundays (weekly) 6am GMT
Would you be willing to help support our work? Please see here.
Our full reading of the book of Jeremiah is happening LIVE on YouTube tonight (Friday, February 4th) from 7:30pm - We’d love you to get involved here.
Today's resumption of our teaching series, City of Temples, will return to it's normal Sunday spot as from February 13th. We're publishing this today because it relates so closely to yesterday's first podcast of the year and also to our live reading of Jeremiah this evening.
Looking today at 1 Corinthians 14:1-5:
How do love and prophecy relate? Is there any contradiction between 1 Corinthians 13 and the prophetic weighting of Jeremiah 1:10? How are we to understand the heart of God to be faithful to Scripture?
Welcome to Into the Pray and our first joint convo of the year that you can also watch here.
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We keep it brief today to give you a little more news about what our plans are for public ministry in 2022.
Nick is speaking at an event tomorrow morning so Sunday’s teaching this week will be the recording from that. (Luke 21). We’ll continue with City of Temples on February 20th.
Please keep your eyes peeled here for ordering info for our new gospel tract publication, (Repent now; He loves you.).
We hope you guys appreciate what we're doing with these two projects.
We'll be sharing more next week about our 30 day reading through the Bible. We can certainly testify to the power of giving ourselves to the Word of God in a way that we haven't previously.
Surely this is the future of the true/sobered Church as the devil increasingly rages.
Why not join us for our next Friday night reading on YouTube LIVE (Friday, March 4th)? We'll be reading the stunning book of Revelation including prayer/intercession LIVE. (Subscribe to our YouTube channel here.)
More info soon and don't forget last week's epic Jeremiah stream, here. Let's break some more ice.
**This podcast is longer than usual because it is an edited morning of teaching from two sessions**
Welcome to Into the Pray and our weekly Bible teaching session. (There are 46 previous "City of Temples" sessions to catch up with from 1 Corinthians).
Today we were due to be continuing our study in 1 Corinthians chapter 14 but Nick was speaking at an event yesterday and didn't have time to prepare two sessions.
Being alarmed is not equal to be terrified.
What you're about to hear is his edited morning of teaching from Luke 21 about the need for the Church to be alarmed (not merely alert), to lift up our heads in prayer and see our Redemption drawing near.
"As I look back upon my course, I seem to myself as one who, ascending the dark staircase of a church tower and trying to steady himself, reached for the banister, but got hold of the bell rope instead. To his horror he had then to listen to what the great bell had soundedover him and not over him alone.” –Karl Barth.
If you would like to support our work financially and in prayer - or know others who might - please see here.
Why not join us for our next Friday night reading on YouTube LIVE (Friday, March 4th)? We'll be reading the stunning book of Revelation including prayer/intercession LIVE. (Subscribe to our YouTube channel here.)
More info will come soon and don't forget last week's epic Jeremiah stream, here.
We thought we would take today's session to go through the new gospel tract that we've produced - "Repent now; He loves you."
This is probably a gospel tract unlike any other you've come across before because we begin it with a "reality check" and an apology.
Why would we need to apologise to those who don't know Jesus yet? What warning is there sounding from those who are coming to faith in Jesus and who immediately recognise - and express - a disconnect between the Bible they're reading in private and the church they've tried to connect with in public?
Are we listening?
If you would like to watch this episode of the podcast, you can do so here and a related 15 min vlog with Nick here.
If you would like to order copies of this tract for reaching out into your own "parishes" please let us know.
If you would like to support our work financially and in prayer - or know others who might - please see here.
Why not join us for our next Friday night reading on YouTube LIVE (Friday, March 4th)? We'll be reading the stunning book of Revelation including prayer/intercession LIVE. (Subscribe to our YouTube channel here.)
More info will come soon and don't forget last week's epic Jeremiah stream, here.
Thank you for joining in with these teaching sessions on Into the Pray.
Today's session covers 1 Corinthians 14:6-25 and is a slightly longer recording due to the larger passaged covered.
Here's a funny - and related - Catherine Tate sketch for some light relief.
What of the gift of tongues and the gift of prophesy? Do our church cultures today reflect the wisdom and power of these verses (of the gifts of tongues and prophecy) or contorted, fleshy versions that lie at two ends of a denominational spectrum, that is no spectrum at all?
Don't our feelings and emotions often trump clear biblical teaching?What are your experiences of church meetings where spiritual activity has been occurring?
If you would like to support our work financially and in prayer - or know others who might - please see here.
Why not join us for our next Friday night reading on YouTube LIVE (Friday, March 4th)? We'll be reading the stunning book of Revelation including prayer/intercession LIVE. (Subscribe to our YouTube channel here.)
More info will come soon and don't forget the recent Jeremiah stream here.
Thank you for your time listening to Into the Pray and prayerfully considering what you're hearing here. If you think we're wrong or missing something, please feel free to get in touch and show us from the Bible.
Today is Nick's birthday and, as such, here is a brief teaching from Luke 19 (focussing on vv41-44) that's intended to be a gift to the listener, much like it would be to bring a cake into the office:
This is what we see, this is what we believe and this is why we can't be part of anything corporately until the mainstream Church confesses the chronic symptom of its unfaithfulness seen by the shoehorning of repentance into the most precious idol of all: man-centred christianity.
A logo-displaying, self-preening "day of repentance" is a contradiction in terms and a stench in the nostrils of God. God is not calling us to repent about abortion; He is calling us to repent.
Jesus wept then He whipped.
Ich weiss nicht.
Why not join us for our next Friday night reading on YouTube LIVE (Friday, March 4th)? We'll be reading the stunning book of Revelation including prayer/intercession LIVE. (Subscribe to our YouTube channel here.)
If you would like to support our work financially and in prayer - and/or know others who might - please see here.
Welcome to the second of a new mini-devotional series on Into the Pray to set us right for Monday mornings.
City of Temples will resume as normal this coming Sunday.
This morning is a brief devotional on Psalm 10. (Apologies for the mic distortion).
How should we pray for the world that, according to the Bible, will only continue to convulse and that, according to Jesus, will continue to increase in lawlessness?
Join us this Friday on YouTube LIVE for our next public reading of Scripture (Revelation). More info here.
Why not take the plunge and contact us about blessing your parish with the lovingly disruptive gospel?
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Why was Jeremiah told to sack the mainstream? This episode from Jeremiah 16 today is to clarify a couple of things that have featured in recent weeks on the podcast regarding our reservation about an event in London in a few weeks from now.
Our "Repent Now; He Loves You." publication is now ready if you're wanting to make a beeline for your parish with the full gospel of Jesus Christ.
Please contact us for bulk orders to arrange postage etc. All proceeds will be funnelled back into producing more gospel tracts with our generous Printer, to take Jesus into more homes and parishes around the nations.
If you'd like to donate to this work, please do so here.
Join us this Friday on YouTube LIVE for our next public reading of Scripture (Revelation). More info here.
We’re doing these short devotional episodes to set us right for Monday mornings and the new week of opportunity that lies ahead.
Today we focus briefly on J C Ryle and one of his most famous, best loved books, Holiness.
Keeping this as simple as possible, there is a difference between justification and sanctification.
“In justification the word to be addressed to man is believe - only believe; in sanctification the word must be ‘watch, pray and fight.’ What God has divided let us not mingle and confuse.”
When we get this wrong - when we contort Scripture to mean something that might be sensational and exciting but, at the end of the day, is utterly false - we are swimming with sharks.
This is a relatively brief word of testimony that we felt it right to give now following our recent reading of T A Sparks’ “Prophetic Ministry” at the same time as J C Ryle’s, “Holiness”.
Although this is partially referred to in Body Zero, the extra nuance here - and the passage of time since - is important. We’ve been gracious and anonymous but, equally, unreserved in the conclusions being drawn.
This coming Sunday Mairi and I will be sharing more on the critically important issue of godly submissiveness in Christian women and godly selflessness in Christian men.
What does it mean to be submissive and selfless? Essential/related reading here. Essential viewing here.
This is part 2 of “Silencing Demonic Disorder”. Part 1 here.
Today Nick covers the final concluding verses of 1 Corinthians 14 (vv36-40) in which Paul essentially silences demonic disorder and says that if we don't follow his command regarding church and home life - the Lord's command - that God will not recognise us.
And then I will say to them openly (publicly), I never knew you; depart from Me, you who act wickedly [disregarding My commands]. – Matthew 7:23
Clearly this is weighty and eternally serious, hence not rushing the session in which Mairi and Nick also have a joint conversation about what it means to be selfless and submissive as husbands and wives.
On Friday night we continued our public readings of Scripture; you can see the reading of Psalm 119 here. You can also order copies of our new, hard-hitting gospel tract here.
We’re doing these short devotional episodes to set us right for Monday mornings and the new week of opportunity that lies ahead.
Today we focus briefly on the first couple of paragraphs of Philippians 4, reading from the AMPC.
There is a beautiful promise in these verses that He is not only near to us right now by His Spirit but also that He is near in the ultimate sense that He is coming soon. (v5[b]).
Today's brief session is to flag a couple of things that are important to be flagged and to also whet your appetite for some forthcoming stories landing here on the podcast.
Bible teaching, public Bible reading, making disciples & visiting homes - sound good?
The LORD God is more awesome that we can fathom, His Gospel more powerful than we know and, without doubt, Jesus is moving behind the scenes and the scenes that He is behind.
A LIVE reading of 1 Corinthians can be listened to here.
Any questions or stories, please let us - and everyone else - know via Firebrand Notes.
This is a special devotional episode of the podcast to encourage all true soldiers of Jesus Christ: J C Ryle’s “The Fight” as found in his book, Holiness.
“Habitual, lively faith in Christ’s Presence and readiness to help, is the secret of the Christian soldier fighting successfully.”
I hope this is a deep encouragement to all who listen. (A real sense of spiritual struggle was evident outside our home as I was recording).
You can also listen to Bible readings here and order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
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To prove that even what Nick says in this episode doesn’t go far enough, please read this.
Today we go through vv12-19 of chapter 15 of 1 Corinthians and ask ourselves, "What could it mean for us all to be redeeming radicalisation?"
Look out for a new book project of this same title later in 2022.
As we continue into this 51st episode of City of Temples - and the great crescendo of the book - you can listen to a full reading of 1 Corinthians here.
As this teaching series finishes in the next month or so, please look out for the 50+ sessions in study-guide/commentary form towards the summer of 2022.
There is also a playlist of other Bible readings forming here. If you'd like to be a reader, please let us know, and please consider sharing to your networks.
Please consider supporting our work here and/or here.
Any questions or testimonies that others need to hear, please let us - and everyone else - know via Firebrand Notes.
We'll keep this brief:please place your gospel tract ordersthis week so that we can keep things as cost-effective as possible for everyone via a larger order.
We've had several larger orders in recent days as well as delivering most days ourselves and we now need to do a third print-run.
Grab your Bible and take a quick look at the first few verses of Acts 14. Boldness is supposed to be the norm.
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Any questions or testimonies that others need to hear, please let us - and everyone else - know via Firebrand Notes.
This podcast today is the private episode we recorded for our supporters this month and that we published mid-week. It then occurred to us that this would also be good for the general public to hear, hence posting today.
To compliment these episodes on eschatology, if you would like to hear/be involved in the private podcasts/follow-ups/Q&A, please consider becoming one of our supporters here.
We've had this series in mind for ages but haven't had capacity to give the due time to it that we would like.
Today we look at a broad summary of the three eschatological perspectives of hermeneutic, exegesis and interpretation, all of which hinge on Revelation 20 and that we'll look at much more closely in the weeks ahead.
Any questions or testimonies of disruption that others need to hear, please let us - and everyone else - know via Firebrand Notes.
Since mine eyes have looked on Jesus, I’ve lost sight of all beside, So enchained my spirit’s vision, Gazing on the Crucified.
Today's teaching session is revelling somewhat in the glories we're reading in this 15th chapter of 1 Corinthians:
- The premises of the heretical Corinthians were, in fact, false. - The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the fact that changes everything for everyone. - Jesus inaugurated a new race in His resurrection as the "first-fruits" from the dead. - Do you live in hope of the resurrection...practically? - Are you as bold as a lion? - Do you witness the supernatural? - Are we prepared to demolish contrary arguments? (If not, perhaps we don't yet have a living hope in the resurrection). - All men and women are either in Adam or in Christ. - God will be "all in all" and the eternal glory, beauty and worth of submission is central to it all: a difference in role and function despite utter parity in status and worth. - Woe to us when we tamper with what God says is good.
As we continue into this 52nd episode of City of Temples - and the great crescendo of the book - you can listen to a full reading of 1 Corinthians here.
As this teaching series finishes in the next month or so, please look out for the 50+ sessions in study-guide/commentary form towards the summer of 2022.
There is also a playlist of other Bible readings forming here. If you'd like to be a reader, please let us know, and please consider sharing to your networks.
Please consider supporting our work here and/or here.
Any questions or testimonies that others need to hear, please let us - and everyone else - know via Firebrand Notes.
As I explain in the introduction of today's podcast, our conversational focus on eschatology together will resume next week, although I also refer to this within the session on Ukraine.
Today, this is an extended devotional/Bible study from the YouTube video of the same title. You can watch the video here if you prefer.
There is also a playlist of other Bible readings forming here. If you'd like to be a reader, please let us know, and please consider sharing to your networks.
Please consider supporting our work here and/or here.
Any questions or testimonies that others need to hear, please let us - and everyone else - know via Firebrand Notes.
Today's verses in our study series, City of Temples, are 1 Corinthians 15:29-34.
We’ll be finishing our public reading of the gospel of Luke on Good Friday (April 15th, 4pm GMT) via YouTube LIVE.
In 1 Corinthians 4:14, Paul wrote:
“I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children.”
This fatherly Apostle has a different tone in today’s passage but one that is no less loving, (cf. 15:34).
Double-mindedness is a concept used in the philosophy and theology of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkergaard (1813–1855), meaning insincerity, egoism, or fear of punishment. As referenced in today’s session, the term is used in the book of James, (James 1:8).
PAUL IS PUSHING THE CORINTHIAN CHURCH TO SEE THAT THE MATURITY (perhaps even validity) OF THEIR DISCIPLESHIP DIDN’T HAVE TIME FOR IRRATIONAL DISCONNECTIONS BETWEEN THEIR PRACTICE AND THE CORE DOCTRINES OF APOSTOLIC FAITH.
How does this ring true systemically within the Church today?
How is this applicable to your own life?
If you have any questions, thoughts or testimonies, please contact us here.
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
This guest testimony episode today is very precious and very powerful: a former homosexual atheist radically saved by the sovereign hand of God, despite an unfaithful local church.
We'll let Aimee do the talking but suffice to say there is nothing as encouraging as listening to a new believer describe the transforming work of our resurrected King Jesus.
When new believers enter the kingdom with a polemic for/against the chaos in the Church, we should all (especially church leaders) sit up, listen and think long and hard.
GOOD FRIDAY premieres (15th April): You can watch this full length conversation via YouTube here at 7:30pm and a flagship testimony film first here at 7:15pm.
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How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
Today's episode is a preview of the final few sessions in 1 Corinthians as we race towards the conclusion of the book.
“And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.” (1 Corinthians 6:14)
What does the Demoniac in Luke 8 have to do with our next passage that we'll look at in more depth next Sunday?
CORRECTION: The demoniac didn’t necessarily have 12 demons. The exact number is unclear (not sure why that was in my head) though the significance of “legion”, in Roman terms, may indicate thousands. There were also approximately 2000 pigs (according to Mark).
Did you hear Aimee's STUNNING Good Friday testimony?
You can watch our full length conversation with her via YouTube here and her flagship testimony film here.
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If you have any questions, thoughts or testimonies, please contact us here.
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray. We hope you're being built up as you listen.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
As promised, today's episode is our next instalment digging down into the three main eschatological positions that we introduced last time. (You can listen to the overview episode here).
Today, our aim is to reject (and encourage you to also reject) the variant of pre-millennialism which is "dispensational". (Historic pre-millennialism is quite different).
What does that mean? Why should it be chucked out? How popular is it across Western evangelicalism? Where is the devil at work? What are the implications?
We will rejoin this conversation next week by contrasting dispensational pre-millenialism with historic pre-millenialism.
Please consider supporting our work here and/or here. (We are hosting private Q&A podcasts via Patreon for those who'd like to be involved).
Did you hear Aimee's STUNNING Good Friday testimony?
You can watch our full length conversation with her via YouTube here and her flagship testimony film here.
If you have any questions, thoughts or testimonies, please contact us here.
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
Today we focus on vv35-50 of 1 Corinthians 15 as our teaching series, City of Temples, races to an end in the next few weeks.
Please see a video here about Wim Hoff, the BBC and the demonic. (7:30pm BST, April 24th).
This passage today could easily be covered in three weeks (or more) as the intensity of the passage builds to the end of the chapter. Honestly, this content today would have been more appropriately covered in 7 weeks.
So, today’s session is to give what I see as an structured overview of the passage, while longing to bring something very “live” within myself that the Lord has been showing me concerning our nakedness, dirtiness and weakness without the clothing salvation of Jesus Christ.
“And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.” (1 Corinthians 6:14)
“But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.”(1 Corinthians 6:17)
Think of the demoniac, think of the new evangelist, think of the Decapolis, think of your street, think of your nearest and dearest and…think of yourself.
Are you one with the Lord?
If so,
“Return to your home, and declare how much God has done for you.” And he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole city how much Jesus had done for him.” (Luke 8:39)
I hope this short devotional is an encouragement at the beginning of this new week of opportunity for the kingdom of God, the gospel and the glory of Jesus.
If you didn't watch the Wim Hoff/demonic video yesterday, you can do so here.
Do you feel hopeless at times? Do you feel consumed by indignation because of the work of the enemy? Do you feel like your labours are in vain?
“Ask now, and see, can a man bear a child? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor? Why has every face turned pale?” (Jeremiah 30:6)
We pray that you can listen to this session and be filled with overflowing hope by the sheer majesty and power of the Holy Spirit.
Thanks very much for tracking with this podcast and we pray it is a blessing to your discipleship.
As we begin the final chapter of 1 Corinthians on Sunday a new focus begins to emerge on the horizon: Jesus Christ and Him crucified. (1 Corinthians 2:2).
Please consider tracking with these Sunday podcasts (or on YouTube if you prefer) because in this day and age of tumultuous noise, we need to hone in on the words of Jesus Christ more than ever.
So that's what we'll do.
We're also continuing with "Eschatology Explained" and will resume this a week today by covering historical pre-millennialism. (Please do make the time to listen to the previous two episodes on this vital area here and here).
Please consider supporting our work here and/or here. (We are hosting private Q&A podcasts via Patreon for those who'd like to be involved).
Did you hear Aimee's STUNNING Good Friday testimony?
You can watch our full length conversation with her via YouTube here and her flagship testimony film here.
If you have any questions, thoughts or testimonies, please contact us here.
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
Should you leave your church? See a new video here and here.
Thank you for trusting what we're saying and teaching here on Into the Pray.
Do you have any stories or testimonies that others need to hear that would also bless your heart to share?
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Today's City of Temples session covers the first half of chapter 16 of 1 Corinthians.
I cover the verses in light detail today and with some gloriously heavy points. We'll finish with two more sessions to complete the whole book before a series review session.
Did you hear Aimee's STUNNING Good Friday testimony? You can watch our full length conversation with her via YouTube here and her flagship testimony film here.
If you have any questions, thoughts or testimonies, please contact us here.
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
Today's Friday session is the audio from the third part of a YouTube series that went live last night. You can watch the video here if you prefer.
In recent weeks we have been posing the difficult question, "Should I Leave My Church?".
This is clearly a weighty matter and, as such, we have dealt with the question over three separate weeks (on YouTube) culminating today in considering what one should do in order to transition from a context of idolatry into one of faithfulness.
Nick shares candidly from experience in following the leading of the Holy Spirit away from lukewarm, spirit-killing compromise.
Upcoming episodes of this podcast in the next fortnight will include looking at a case for historic pre-millennialism as well as a session on Aquila and Prisca.
Our new teaching series through the gospel of John is previewed for you here.
Did you hear Aimee's STUNNING Good Friday testimony? You can watch our full length conversation with her via YouTube here and her flagship testimony film here.
If you have any questions, thoughts or testimonies, please contact us here.
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
Today Nick covers the penultimate session of City of Temples — an extended teaching series through the book of 1 Corinthians.
As we conclude with the final verses of chapter 16, we continue to consider the window that Scripture provides into the reforming (and sanctifying) Church in Corinth and consider the Body of Christ, today, in our juncture of world/church history.
God is sovereign.
“Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” (James 4:15).
Beware the Enchantment of Digital Media. Watch vlog from a few years back here.
Did you hear Aimee's STUNNING Good Friday testimony? You can watch our full length conversation with her via YouTube here and her flagship testimony film here.
If you have any questions, thoughts or testimonies, please contact us here.
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
"...when I would heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed." (Hosea 7:1)
CORRECTION: Nick mis-spoke regarding the “unashamedly egalitarian” church which is in fact Stirling Baptist Church (NOT Perth Baptist Church).
This session with Nick and Mairi today is a "bonus episode" looking at what we consider to be one of the most serious problems facing the Church today.
One of the most potent demonic roots of chaos within the Body of Christ is in the form of egalitarianism.
But this commonplace and ramping heresy is also a sign-post to those with 'ears to hear', who are being prepared for the Second Coming of Christ and the reforming "Church of Preparation"
Last year we did a collaborative vlog with a select few church leaders to expose the fallacious notion of female leadership in the Church and the fundamental death and dearth of spiritual authority in the Church that results (link below).
This is major deception and not slight; it is impossible to overstate the significance of this.
Did you hear Aimee's STUNNING Good Friday testimony? You can watch our full length conversation with her via YouTube here and her flagship testimony film here.
If you have any questions, thoughts or testimonies, please contact us here.
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
Episode 59 of City of Temples is Nick’s poignant conclusion of a teaching series through the book of 1 Corinthians that started on Thursday, September 3rd, 2020, and which concludes, today, on Thursday May 19th, 2022.
As Nick now takes a break from weekly teaching for the rest of the year, (in order to enter into an intense period of writing, info to follow), our prayer is that this pivotally important key verse of 1 Corinthians (2:2), will be in harness with the last phrase of 16:22.
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The most immature/chaotic churches today are the ones in which these two emphases (2:2; 16:22) grow TOGETHER the least.
The maturest & most fruitful churches today are the ones in which these two emphases (2:2; 16:22) grow TOGETHER the most.
Did you hear Aimee's STUNNING Good Friday testimony? You can watch our full length conversation with her via YouTube here and her flagship testimony film here.
If you have any questions, thoughts or testimonies, please contact us here.
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
Please consider supporting our work here and/or here.
As mentioned in our final, concluding episode of City of Temples on Thursday, Nick has now embarked on a period of writing for a second book (info forthcoming).
Therefore, Sundays will now be impromptu/unplanned teaching sessions to allow room for that for the rest of the year.
Today’s episode is an audio version of the C H Spurgeon sermon (1857), entitled, “Awake! Awake!” .
"Therefore let us not sleep as do others; but let us watch and be sober."—1 Thess. 5:6
We pray that you would weep through it with us and, as a result, put into action what the Holy Spirit highlights. Buy copies of our gospel booklets here.
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“Some people read the headline and don’t stay around long enough to listen to the song. This is one of the most beautiful testimonies I (Nick) have ever heard.”
Today’s episode of the podcast is the audio from Mairi’s beautiful testimony to a group of ladies from a church in London last week. You can watch the vlog here.
Please listen with an open heart knowing that we have nothing to gain as a couple by sharing this testimony, other than peace, joy and wholeheartedness before the One Who is coming.
Be encouraged by listening to C. H. Spurgeon’s sermon, “Awake! Awake!” (read by Nick) here.
Did you hear Aimee's STUNNING Good Friday testimony? You can watch our full length conversation with her via YouTube here and her flagship testimony film here.
If you have any questions, thoughts or testimonies, please contact us here.
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray. We hope you're being encouraged as you listen.
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We're sorry this episode is later than originally planned. It has been difficult fitting everything in during Nick's writing commitments as he works on a sequel to Body Zero.
Today's episode is our next instalment digging down into the three main eschatological positions that we introduced in April. (You can listen to the overview episode here and the pre-mill dispensationalism episode here).
Our aim in this podcast is to clarify historical pre-millennialism for you and to hold it up as a legitimate eschatological interpretation - unlike dispensational pre-millennialism. See here for associated reading by Craig Blomberg et al.
[Correction/Nick mis-spoke: High Priestly prayer is John 17 NOT 15.]
We will rejoin this conversation next by focusing on post-millennialism and a-millennialism.
Gay Household Disrupted - did you hear Aimee's STUNNING Good Friday testimony? You can watch our full length conversation with her via YouTube here and her flagship testimony film here.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
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This devotional today finds itself emerging in the midst of a busy time for us - of writing, witnessing, reading, singing and shrugging off the profound weakness of the flesh.
I hope this short devotional offers strength and ‘provision’ as to what it means to be comforted by the drawing near of Jesus to each one of us (who truly know Him), and to set our minds on the things of the Holy Spirit.
We are currently reading through the book of Isaiah on Friday evenings and will be reading the 3rd section of 8 this Friday evening here.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
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Today's episode is our next instalment digging down into the three main eschatological positions that we introduced in April. (You can listen to the overview episode here , the pre-mill dispensationalism episode here and the historic pre-mill here).
Our aim in this podcast is to clarify distinctives of post-millennialism for you and to hold it up as a legitimate eschatological interpretation - unlike dispensational pre-millennialism.
We will rejoin this conversation next by focusing on a-millennialism.
Sorry about a "congested" vocal in today's podcast as we battle the lurgy.
FOR YOUR DIARY: Look out for our sessions on Textual Criticism in the next week or two; we're looking forward to introducing you to a book that should be in every disciple's locker. And we'll also be doing some videos together as a couple looking at Dane Ortlund's wonderful book, Gentle and Lowly.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
This is the audio-only version of the YouTube piece of the same title that you can watch here if you prefer.
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Why did Steve Clifford publicly communicate with his friend Steve Chalke? Because the glory of God and the welfare of the Church is more important than losing face...or losing friends.
FOR YOUR DIARY: Look out for our sessions on Textual Criticism in the next week or two; we're looking forward to introducing you to a book that should be in every disciple's locker. And we'll also be doing some videos together as a couple looking at Dane Ortlund's wonderful book, Gentle and Lowly.
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This short video is an exposé from our first street event last Sunday during which we targeted a false "church" preaching a false "gospel" led by false "christians".
Should "christian" women be growing beards? Should "christian leaders" be lovingly providing beard products?
Are you seriously going to continue having holy huddles while the world - and much of the church - slipstreams to Sheol?
Are you being obedient to the one thing that Jesus has told you to do?
“The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God’s Word.” — Oswald Chambers
Martin Luther once slammed Desiderius Erasmus by saying:
"Your thoughts of God are too human."
Luther was right, but then again, so too were his thoughts of God too human. This is true for all of us but, for some, more terminally true - for those who think they know God when they do not.
This brief but weighty word landed with me in prayer this morning with force. Please at least respect us enough to listen, think and pray with an open heart.
Please see the original blog-form of this word here for photos and links, as well as a deep albeit brief word of thanks to our supporters.
What is textual criticism, why is it so important to get right and how does it relate to our faithful, public witness as disciples of Jesus Christ, the coming King?
As Alan Partridge might have said in an alternative universe to an unlikely gathering in a caravan: “Stop getting Jesus wrong!” (whilst playing air bass, of course).
When you read verses in the Bible, please read the whole of the sentence so that you don’t end up with a theology that is really no theology at all. In fact, we might as well call it ‘humanology’ because it is simply taking half- truths about God and refashioning them into our own, sinful image.
We have an incomparable and infinitely glorious future prospect ahead ✔️ (Romans 8:18)
We prove legitimate as sons by sharing in Christ’s sufferings now ✔️ (Romans 8:17b)
Don’t settle for anything less than truth; the future of the Bride depends on it!
Today's episode is our next instalment digging down into the three main eschatological positions that we introduced in April 2022. (You can listen to the overview episode here , the pre-mill dispensationalism episode here , the historic pre-mill here and the post-mill here).
Our aim in this podcast is to clarify distinctives of amillennialism for you and to hold it up as a legitimate eschatological interpretation - unlike dispensational pre-millennialism.
We also finish this mini-series by discussing what it means to be afforded the luxurious current reality of time to prepare, and how suffering relates with this.
FOR YOUR DIARY: Look out for our sessions on Textual Criticism in the next week or two; we're looking forward to introducing you to a book that should be in every disciple's locker. And we'll also be doing some videos together as a couple looking at Dane Ortlund's wonderful book, Gentle and Lowly. Podcast preview here and YouTube short here.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray. I'd also encourage you to read the blog version of this episode here for prayer and reflection.
Francis Schaeffer was born twelve years after the death of J. C Ryle who had no choice but to defrock his first-born son from a position of leadership in the Church of England, such was the tentacle reach of liberal theology even into his own family. There is no way that Ryle would remain within the Church of England today. He was too strong for that, too desirous of God. Spirit is always thicker than blood.
Listen on for my main observations from reading his 1985 book, The Great Evangelical Disaster.
We are all engulfed whether we know it or not.
FOR YOUR DIARY: Look out for our sessions on Textual Criticism in the next week or two; we're looking forward to introducing you to a book that should be in every disciple's locker. And we'll also be doing some videos together as a couple looking at Dane Ortlund's wonderful book, Gentle and Lowly. Podcast preview here and YouTube short here.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
“Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes food?” (Job 12:11).
I'd also encourage you to read the blog version of the previous episode here for prayer & reflection.
LAST TIME: The main point was that Francis Schaeffer was born twelve years after the death of J. C. Ryle who had no choice but to defrock his first-born son from a position of leadership in the Church of England, such was the tentacle reach of liberal theology even into his own family. We are all engulfed in the collapse & systemic decline of evangelicalism, whether we know it or not.
TODAY: I respond to a prophetic message from English church leader, Chris Wickland, that came to my attention through a text from a friend in America this morning. The link that I have forwarded to Chris regarding our tribute to Melvin Tinker is here. Before listening to my response, (& in addition to it), I’d like to emphasise that I don’t think this is necessarily a deliberately false prophet speaking or even that elements of what Chris shares about the autumnal change in church paradigm/season is wrong, (it will be impossible to judge this properly because the prophecy is too non-descript for this to be validated, especially given that Chris doesn’t even hold to a specific date that would officially mark the beginning of autumn).
I’d also like to endorse the general sense of what Chris says which is that the British church over the next two decades will:
1) Look radically & shockingly dissimilar to how we currently understand the Body of Christ &
2) This disruption will touch everything that we hold dear
BUT I strongly disagree that this will be an ecumenical “standing shoulder to shoulder.” (Rather: 1 Corinthians 11:19).
Chris, if you ever happen to listen, perhaps we can exchange notes in the future, but I do not believe that it is preparing the Church for the tribulation that is coming to preach about a post-millennial Golden Age of the Church. This is the wrong trajectory and perhaps one that will most ill-prepare the Bride for the Wedding supper of the Lamb. Please teach your people to long for this above ALL things. We need repentance NOT revival. (Then we might understand what revival actually is).
FOR YOUR DIARY: Look out for our sessions on Textual Criticism & more sessions onDane Ortlund's wonderful book, Gentle and Lowly. Podcast preview here and YouTube short here.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
This morning’s devotional is something of an autobiographical reflection - a memoir of the prophetic calling - by looking briefly at some of Job’s experiences dealing with so-called friends and brothers.
There are some experiences in this sojourn of “church life” (think of Blur) that should warrant close listening and prayerful reflection, but, instead, result only in impudence.
Do you feel discouraged, confused, hopeless, isolated?
There is a current onslaught on The Church, not against the lukewarm or the counterfeit but against those who want to stand and who are willing to be prepared to stand. There are powerful forces in the heavenly places that are bent on causing those who would stand, not to stand. Demonic deception and discouragement prowl like an unnatural lion, roaring as it hunts, seeking to devour those who would stand, those who are willing to be prepared.
The Church is struggling to stand against Satan, a reality that daily impacts all of us.
Hence, we pray “Maranatha!”
We hope this podcast and this brief video is an encouragement to you towards playing your part in what God really wants to do in the nations.
What is textual criticism, why is it so important to get right and how does it relate to our faithful, public witness as disciples of Jesus Christ, the coming King?
What are autographs? How are they different to manuscripts? Why does this fuel our personal & corporate evangelism?
“Do not despise prophecies, but test everything; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil.”
How does this testing relate to national prophecy to Great Britain and the British Church that seems in part to be correct, perhaps even impressively correct?
An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land: the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so.
The bold defiance of the people of God in refusing to repent before God has had (and will have) dire consequences.…but what will you do when the end comes?
What is textual criticism, why is it so important to get right and how does it relate to our faithful, public witness as disciples of Jesus Christ, the coming King?
What are the numbers for biblical manuscripts? Why does this fuel our personal & corporate evangelism?
Please familiarise yourself, as we are, with The Institute for New Testament Textual Research (INTF). Their website is here.
The prophet Malachi is normally pulled off the dusty shelf to support a pastor's teaching about tithes and offerings. Is this a faithful handling of Scripture?
Episode 1 is here. Episode 2 is here. Episode 3 is here.
What is textual criticism, why is it so important to get right and how does it relate to our faithful, public witness as disciples of Jesus Christ, the coming King?
What are the common mistakes in comparing the New Testament manuscripts with classical literature? What is the extent of this rhetoric? What is our confidence based on? Why does this fuel our personal & corporate evangelism? What are these myths showing us about the Church?
Please familiarise yourself, as we are, with The Institute for New Testament Textual Research (INTF). Their website is here.
This morning’s devotional provides a brief update on the podcast before looking briefly at two greek words that have been pivotally important to me over the years, specifically as regards to how we should orient ourselves towards the Church.
As we grow in love and maturity before Jesus as Lord and Saviour so too should our love for the Bride of Christ also grow.
Look out for our joint podcast on Friday examining the recent aggression of a fierce atheist.
Thank you for your prayers as I compete my second manuscript. If you'd like to support this project as a partly auto-biographical follow-on from Body Zero (2019), please drop me a line.
If you would be willing to support our work, please see here and get in touch.
This is part 5 of our series on textual criticism and close look at Elijah Hixon and Peter Gurry's excellent book, Myths and Mistakes in New Testament Textual Criticism. (Check YouTube for a short glimpse of the book).
Episode 1 is here. Episode 2 is here. Episode 3 is here. Episode 4 is here.
This week Nick and Mairi try to make sense of a very unpleasant exchange with an American lady who describes herself as a proponent of new atheism and who believes that Jesus was/is not real, that we are unimpressive cult leaders and that our sole intention is to lie and deceive.
This podcast deals with the profound arrogance, hypocrisy and inhumanity of new atheism as well as once again highlighting the historic fault lines in the chaos of the Church that we believe perfectly explain why a self-identifying ex-'Christian'-cum-atheist can think and type like this.
American Lady, we have been robust but we continue to be willing to speak personally if you will desist with the accusations. The ball is in your court.
Everyone else, please familiarise yourself, as we are, withThe Institute for New Testament Textual Research (INTF). Their website is here.
If you'd like to listen to my response to Doug Wilson's commentary on the Body of Christ, please see the video here.
This morning’s devotional looks at Psalm 63 and the soul-thirst of King David within the wilderness of Judah.
My soul thirsts for you (v1) My soul will be satisfied (v5) My soul clings to you (v8)
As you live in the world, are you aware of your extreme soul-thirst?
Look out for another podcast shortly with the audio I mentioned from the video responding to Doug Wilson’s commentary on the Body of Christ.
Thank you for your prayers as I compete my second manuscript. If you'd like to support this project as a partly auto-biographical follow-on from Body Zero (2019), please drop me a line.
Here's the audio from my video containing part of Doug Wilson's recent live stream discussing the "new evangelical order" within their annual No Quarter November content.
Within the video I interject as though I was in the room with Doug and his friend Jared. Before God as my witness, this is what I would say to the guys if occasion rose for a proper conversation.
Thank you for your prayers as I compete my second manuscript. If you'd like to support this project as a partly auto-biographical follow-on from Body Zero (2019), please drop me a line.
After a brief update about the podcast and my new forthcoming book, here’s the audio from a video that went live on YouTube yesterday. Within this brief focus on church leaders, elders and deacons, I give a response to Thabiti Anyabwile's book of the same title.
You can watch the YouTube version of this here with a short preview here.
Finding faithful elders and deacons - a pretty simple reality, eh? No, not simple but extremely important. What decisions do you need to make moving into 2023?
Thank you for your prayers as my second manuscript currently sits with a publisher for consideration. If you'd like to support this project as a partly auto-biographical follow-on from Body Zero (2019), please drop me a line.
A friend recently made a point about the critical question of church closures and I wanted to respond to that publicly for the wider benefit of anyone else who is willing to listen.
I have had a nasty chest infection over the last 7-10 days and hence will be resuming a flurry of podcasting activity from tomorrow onwards.
Thank you for your prayers as my second manuscript has been rejected by an evangelical publisher for being too provocative. If you'd like to support this new book as a partly auto-biographical follow-on from Body Zero (2019), please drop me a line.
I’ll say more about this tomorrow when I record the first of a new short series of podcasts that you’re going to hopefully love!
I received a very disappointing rejection of my manuscript last week after a promising potential for it to be supported by an evangelical publisher in the UK.
Even more distressing however was the publisher's stated rationale (as well as lack thereof) for their decision: apathy.
Dear Nick,
Thanks again for sending over your book idea. We appreciate you thinking of us.
Another team member and I looked over the PDF you sent and discussed it. I think we both agree that you are making some interesting and valuable points but, on balance, we felt it was perhaps a little too provocative for EP at the moment. I’m sorry, I appreciate that you are partly rallying against the type of apathy that we are showing in declining for this reason but it’s where we fell, nonetheless.
Wish you well with it as you endeavour to get it out by other means.
Anon
In this episode of Into the PrayI offer a few brief thoughts about this apathy from Christian publishers whose publishing decisions are often based on money and Christian 'pop culture' rather than on prophetic urgency.
J. C. Ryle would have been aghast by this apathy, as am I.
“We want more boldness among the friends of truth. There is far too much tendency to sit still and wait for committees…We want more men who are not afraid to stand alone. It is truth, not numbers, which shall always in the end prevail. We have the truth, and we need not be ashamed to say so. The judgment day will prove who is right, and to that day we boldly appeal.”
— J C Ryle
By contrast, have you ever considered the courage of the Holy Spirit that the men and women who owned printing presses had in the sixteenth century and that was demonstrated by standing with men like William Tyndale and Martin Luther?
God knows we need this courage today - what a slight on His glorious Name that apathy can be so readily admitted by evangelicals.
Can you imagine standing before the Judgment Seat of Christ and, acknowledging your apathy, shrugging your shoulders and saying, "But this is where I fell nonetheless”?
Thank you for taking the time to listen to Into the Pray.
See a related A. W. Tozer video on loneliness here.
In approaching advent this year, I wanted to provide a daily devotional series by way of an audio version of A. W. Tozer's classic, The Knowledge of The Holy.
I'll read two chapters a day running up to the completion on Friday, December 23rd.
The book has been an immense blessing to me in the past and so I hope it will be a blessing for you as you ease into a festive period of reflection, yearning for Him to come and, to that end, prayer.
If you'd like to see an old video/music project inspired by Tozer's opening line in this book (with yours truly without much facial hair) please see here.
Thank you for taking the time to listen to Into the Pray.
In approaching advent this year, I wanted to provide a daily devotional series by way of an audio version of A. W. Tozer's classic, The Knowledge of The Holy.
I'll read two chapters a day running up to the completion on Friday, December 23rd.
The book has been an immense blessing to me in the past and so I hope it will be a blessing for you as you ease into a festive period of reflection, yearning for Him to come and, to that end, prayer.
If you'd like to see an old video/music project inspired by Tozer's opening line in this book (with yours truly without much facial hair) please see here.
Thank you for taking the time to listen to Into the Pray.
In approaching advent this year, I wanted to provide a daily devotional series by way of an audio version of A. W. Tozer's classic, The Knowledge of The Holy.
I'll read two chapters a day running up to the completion on Friday, December 23rd.
The book has been an immense blessing to me in the past and so I hope it will be a blessing for you as you ease into a festive period of reflection, yearning for Him to come and, to that end, prayer.
If you'd like to see an old video/music project inspired by Tozer's opening line in this book (with yours truly without much facial hair) please see here.
Thank you for taking the time to listen to Into the Pray.
In approaching advent this year, I wanted to provide a daily devotional series by way of an audio version of A. W. Tozer's classic, The Knowledge of The Holy.
I'll read two chapters a day running up to the completion on Friday, December 23rd.
The book has been an immense blessing to me in the past and so I hope it will be a blessing for you as you ease into a festive period of reflection, yearning for Him to come and, to that end, prayer.
If you'd like to see an old video/music project inspired by Tozer's opening line in this book (with yours truly without much facial hair) please see here.
Thank you for taking the time to listen to Into the Pray.
In approaching advent this year, I wanted to provide a daily devotional series by way of an audio version of A. W. Tozer's classic, The Knowledge of The Holy.
I'll read two chapters a day running up to the completion on Friday, December 23rd.
The book has been an immense blessing to me in the past and so I hope it will be a blessing for you as you ease into a festive period of reflection, yearning for Him to come and, to that end, prayer.
If you'd like to see an old video/music project inspired by Tozer's opening line in this book (with yours truly without much facial hair) please see here.
Thank you for taking the time to listen to Into the Pray.
In approaching advent this year, I wanted to provide a daily devotional series by way of an audio version of A. W. Tozer's classic, The Knowledge of The Holy.
I'll read two chapters a day running up to the completion on Friday, December 23rd.
The book has been an immense blessing to me in the past and so I hope it will be a blessing for you as you ease into a festive period of reflection, yearning for Him to come and, to that end, prayer.
If you'd like to see an old video/music project inspired by Tozer's opening line in this book (with yours truly without much facial hair) please see here.
Thank you for taking the time to listen to Into the Pray.
In approaching advent this year, I wanted to provide a daily devotional series by way of an audio version of A. W. Tozer's classic, The Knowledge of The Holy.
I'll read two chapters a day running up to the completion on Friday, December 23rd.
The book has been an immense blessing to me in the past and so I hope it will be a blessing for you as you ease into a festive period of reflection, yearning for Him to come and, to that end, prayer.
If you'd like to see an old video/music project inspired by Tozer's opening line in this book (with yours truly without much facial hair) please see here.
Thank you for taking the time to listen to Into the Pray.
In approaching advent this year, I wanted to provide a daily devotional series by way of an audio version of A. W. Tozer's classic, The Knowledge of The Holy.
I'll read two chapters a day running up to the completion on Friday, December 23rd.
The book has been an immense blessing to me in the past and so I hope it will be a blessing for you as you ease into a festive period of reflection, yearning for Him to come and, to that end, prayer.
If you'd like to see an old video/music project inspired by Tozer's opening line in this book (with yours truly without much facial hair) please see here.
Thank you for taking the time to listen to Into the Pray.
In approaching advent this year, I wanted to provide a daily devotional series by way of an audio version of A. W. Tozer's classic, The Knowledge of The Holy.
I'll read two chapters a day running up to the completion on Friday, December 23rd.
The book has been an immense blessing to me in the past and so I hope it will be a blessing for you as you ease into a festive period of reflection, yearning for Him to come and, to that end, prayer.
If you'd like to see an old video/music project inspired by Tozer's opening line in this book (with yours truly without much facial hair) please see here.
Thank you for taking the time to listen to Into the Pray.
In approaching advent this year, I wanted to provide a daily devotional series by way of an audio version of A. W. Tozer's classic, The Knowledge of The Holy.
I'll read two chapters a day running up to the completion on Friday, December 23rd.
The book has been an immense blessing to me in the past and so I hope it will be a blessing for you as you ease into a festive period of reflection, yearning for Him to come and, to that end, prayer.
If you'd like to see an old video/music project inspired by Tozer's opening line in this book (with yours truly without much facial hair) please see here.
Thank you for taking the time to listen to Into the Pray.
In approaching advent this year, I wanted to provide a daily devotional series by way of an audio version of A. W. Tozer's classic, The Knowledge of The Holy.
I'll read two chapters a day running up to the completion on Friday, December 23rd.
Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here. Part 4 is here. Part 5 is here. Part 6 is here. Part 7 is here. Part 8 is here. Part 9 is here. Part 10 is here.
The book has been an immense blessing to me in the past and so I hope it will be a blessing for you as you ease into a festive period of reflection, yearning for Him to come and, to that end, prayer.
If you'd like to see an old video/music project inspired by Tozer's opening line in this book (with yours truly without much facial hair) please see here.
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We have no intention of reading the book or following this any more closely, but having watched Harry's interview last night by British journalist Tom Bradby, we felt we should say something about relational breakdown/estrangement and some important things that we've learnt over the last ten years of marriage.
- To what extent is Harry and Meghan's charge fair? - To what extent do we agree with what Harry shared? - What does this have to do with the gospel? - What is our opinion on the flat-line in this debacle?
We're currently working hard to bring a second book to a public audience. If you would like to help support this seminal work, please see here.
Josh Fortune is a pastor of a church in London and is experiencing the realities of what happens when the Holy Spirit gets hold of a man's life. He is a brother and an example to all pastors to sit up and take note of, especially if they are sleeping during their watch.
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Please listen to this podcast version of this video in a spirit of prayerful repentance. The YouTube version is here.
Having exhausted the biblical process of “going to your brother” in Matthew 18, a local situation has now been addressed publicly here.
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Several short years ago I wouldn’t have had any concerns about Bethel or Bill Johnson or his head honchos at all. I’d never been to Redding, I’d never really been directly influenced by them but, somehow, I’d still have struggled to believe that they were a viper’s pit of demonic/New Age activity and deception.
In June 2021 I did a quick, 30 min vlog responding to Bethel’s attempt to defend their theology. I’d evidently only dealt with the proverbial tip of the iceberg -- you can view this here.
A year and a half later, (Jan 2023), Mike Winger has kindly done the more substantial leg-work to expose the fuller extent of extraneous spiritual activity that is essentially nothing other than New Age occultism with Jesus’ precious Name slapped on top.
I strongly urge you to watch Mike Winger’s January 2023 work on these latest revelations here.
Over the course of the last decade, Mairi and I have actually sat privately with senior pastors who have held Bill Johnson high and aloft as ‘the’ man to listen to and follow and read. We have sat within local churches in Edinburgh who promote “Bethel students” whose indoctrination by the hands of Johnson and Bethel have been endorsed and encouraged. We have even led gatherings with people who lap all this demonic mysticism up (while ourselves not knowing the full extent of the tentacle-reach of the Satanic influence at the time).
Only by grace can we enter Only by grace can we stand Not by our human endeavour But by the blood of the Lamb Into Your presence You call us You call us to come Into Your presence You draw us And now by Your grace we come Now by Your grace we come
Lord if You mark our transgressions Who would stand? Thanks to Your grace we are cleansed By the blood of the Lamb.
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This morning’s podcast follows the podcast yesterday morning (part one) and the horrendous events in Turkey and Syria in the early hours of Monday morning. Who would stand?
Only by grace can we enter Only by grace can we stand Not by our human endeavour But by the blood of the Lamb Into Your presence You call us You call us to come Into Your presence You draw us And now by Your grace we come Now by Your grace we come
Lord if You mark our transgressions Who would stand? Thanks to Your grace we are cleansed By the blood of the Lamb.
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(The blog version of this podcast is available via Firebrand Notes where you can also enjoy stunning images of Scotland's iconic Glen Coe).
You can see the beautiful Andrew Peterson song, (Is He Worthy?), here.
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If you would prefer to watch the YouTube version of this podcast, please do so here.
You can find the full version of the featured worship song, Jesus Come, here.
The ESV claims that the book of Lamentations is the only book in the Bible to be penned by an eye-witness of the divine act of judgement that the Bible consistently calls, “the Day of the LORD”.
But what do they mean? And why must the Church radically alter its posture so as to wholeheartedly cry out God?
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You can watch the video of this conversation here and a short follow-up piece here.
Today I speak with Bill Elliff, the Founding and National Engage Pastor of The Summit Church in North Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. Bill has personally attended some of the meetings at Asbury University, Kentucky, and you can read his blog articles about them here.
As Bill says, there can be no revival without repentance. The question, therefore, as to what constitutes repentance (individually and corporately) is critically important.
Thank you, Bill, for being very gracious with me as I begged to differ in regard to what we should be expecting to happen when God does lead His people into revival.
I would also encourage you to watch the Justin Peters video about Abusry here.
There must be repentance over egalitarianism.
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Please also spend time watching this important message:
You can watch the YouTube version of this video here if you prefer.
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Over the last few years we have started to get more serious in detaching ourselves from that which is false and relying on the Presence and power of the Holy Spirit Who is radicalising us into radical disciples. We would still consider ourselves to be very much de-radicalised.
One of the things that happens when we surrender to the Holy Spirit, in worshipful repentance, is that it upsets people, including people who hate Israel.
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I don't know about you but I love a bit of snooker and today is the beginning of the World Snooker Championship in the "hallowed" Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.
It's a grief to me when I hear formerly professing Christians "walking away" from the faith because of X, Y and Z. Were they truly "born again" as they claimed?
As much as anything else, I think this is a failing of the de-radicalised Church to teach the Bible as they should — in this case, the AOG Pentecostal churches of the United Kingdom of which I used to be a part.
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Yesterday, Mairi and I released a new book entitled, The Glorious Few: Redeeming Radicalisation in the Kingdom of God.
Included in this episode of the podcast is a free taster of the audio-book version that will be available in the next couple of weeks. This, along with the paperback and eBook versions, will be available in the Body Zero book shop.
Please keep an eye out on YouTube for the film accompanying this book which is available here. There will also be an announcement on there soon about the joint Q&A session that Mairi and I will do together. If you have any questions for that please just email them to us in advance or join the live chat at the time.
I won't give an overview of the book her because that is available via the links above.
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We'll keep this simple by saying that a few people have asked what we think of the GAFCON situation and the recent conference in Rwanda. This is what we think. You can order my latest book, below, to understand in more detail why we think what we think.
“If you are the first to repent, earlier and more fully than others, you must expect predators in the guise of penitents to flock around and peck your liver.”
I’ll allow the podcast to explain itself but, suffice to say, if you are distressed at the contradictory condition in which we are as the Church as a whole, (and especially what is recognised as the word of the LORD), I pray this episode is a comfort to you/yours.
When magazines from the biggest para-church organisations in the country (ie Christian Concern) come through our doors, we must exercise discernment. I’ve personally warned Andrea Williams about this but she wouldn’t listen.
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Did you watch Amol Rajan interview Piers Morgan on the BBC last night? I like Amol and I don’t agree with Piers on everything, but he did nail it regarding our fascist western culture and the wokerati.
Try telling Christians today who are berated for being "hateful" and "bigoted", who even lose their livelihoods as a result, that fascism in the 21st. C. is merely "theoretical". Perhaps Amol Rajan would see things differently if he lost his job for the conscience conscription of his faith.
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Whether or not the Holy Spirit continues to give gifts to the Church today is not an "agree to disagree" issue. We should think about it like this: approximately 50% of the Body of Christ are believing/teaching error that both displeases the Lord but also hamstrings the Church.
I enjoyed watching this sermon from John MacArthur yesterday but in his handling of several passages of Scripture he failed to address the unfaithfulness of the Church. THIS is the question of the moment and it is no surprise to me that cessationist men of the stature and quality of MacArthur are failing to hit the nail on the head — instead they're in effect skimming the nail with a hammer so as to knock it in but knock it in all askew.
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Did you notice the headlines from Kenya yesterday regarding Paul Nthenge Mackenzie? This appalling case of counterfeit "Christian" spirituality serves to support the thesis of my new book information/sale for which can be found here. Related video here.
Today's episode of the podcast also includes montage edited from a 90 min conversation about the Church that I had with Tim and Helen over on the Owl and Badger podcast. You can listen to our excellent conversation in full here. It is always encouraging to speak with others who are also waking up and smelling the Babylonian coffee.
Am I a homophobic hypocrite as claimed by "Rawhead Rex"? Watch the short video here.
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I increasingly love the 19th C. witness of J. C. Ryle. I am also increasingly persuaded that he would not have condoned the "remain within" approach of many good men in the Church today.
Drawing on the work of Michael Drake, this video explains why I disagree with the likes of bro Jamie Franklin whose conviction is poles apart from mine.
In order to truly discover the radical work of the Holy Spirit in our personal and corporate life, we must come away from that which is manifestly false and repent that we found that simple action so profoundly hard.
C. H. Spurgeon agreed with me.
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Quoting the Athanasian Creed, this is what J. C. Ryle wrote regarding John 1:14:
In the first place, let us carefully remember that when “the Word became flesh,” He became so by the union of two perfect and distinct natures in one Person. The manner of this union we cannot explain, but the fact we must firmly believe. “Christ,” says the Athanasian Creed, “is God and Man; God of the substance of the Father, begotten before the world, and man of the substance of His mother, born in the world; perfect God and perfect man. Who, although He be God and man, yet He is not two but one Christ; one not by conversion of the godhead into flesh, but by taking of the manhood into God.”
These words are very important and yet are neglected or, worse still, contested by so-called Christian churches.
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“If we accept the idea of equality without distinction, we logically must accept the ideas of abortion and homosexuality.” — Francis Schaeffer
Thanks to Tim of the Owl and Badger podcast who recently joined me in conversation to discuss the church within which he was previously an elder and his resignation over their extra-biblical teaching.
Do you feel able to confront the LGBT narratives that are traipsing all over the flower beds of civilised society? What would be helpful to memorise to say? Should I have to sit through an LGBT indoctrination while working out in a fitness class?
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If you'd prefer you can watch the audio at the end of this podcast (Why I cut my hair...SHORT) you can do so here.
Please note: the audiobook version of The Glorious Few will be available at the end of June 2023.
In this episode I explain why I cut off my long hair yesterday, give you a snippet of The Glorious Few audiobook and provide a brief update on our movements.
The Glorious Few book info/sales are here and its hard-hitting promo film is here. (Please share).
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Please note: the audiobook version of The Glorious Few will be available at the end of June 2023.
The other day I happened to see a sermon that I preached when I was only 26. It was one of the first times I spoke publicly and basically centred on Philippians 1:21.
Approaching two decades later, and after a decade of marriage to beautiful Mairi, there are things to say. Hence this new four-part series in which we will transparently and appropriately discuss:
1) Forgiveness & family (when reconciliation isn’t guaranteed) 2) What we sounded like 10 years ago (social media and the de-radicalised Church) 3) Vocation & employment (trained for the kingdom of God)
This session today contextualises the conversations by way of an introduction.
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Thank you for purchasing this audiobook version of the 2023 book by Nicholas Paul Franks, The Glorious Few.
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“Islamic extremists blow-up our teenagers, our elected governments teach our children about the benefits of pornography and prominent church leaders say nothing biblical about abortion and transgenderism.”
Beginning with Saul’s dramatic transformation from Christian-hater to radical disciple, The Glorious Few leads the reader on a journey through the de-radicalised Church to discover what radical discipleship really means.
Nick Franks reflects on the counterfeit process by which Islamic terrorists are radicalised and what this spiritual forgery teaches us about the Holy Spirit and His preparation of the Church for the return of Christ.
Using scriptural study, extensive research and personal testimony, The Glorious Few is ultimately a heart-felt cry for national repentance and the Bride of Christ to be straightened out in preparation for the return of Jesus.
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