Rallying round
A team of Christians is seeking to reach out with the gospel in the world of motor sport
The Alpha & Omega Christian Motorsport Team have a mission on the track.
Anniversaries ‘14
Joy Horn
Date posted: 1 Jan 2014
Joy Horn with notable dates for the year ahead
EVENTS
Early in the year 664, the Synod of Whitby was held, summoned by the king of Northumbria. As a result, the ‘Celtic churches’, established through monks of Iona and Lindisfarne, accepted the practices of the ‘Roman churches’. This brought administrative advantages and theological dangers.
Worth anything ... worth everything
Steve Cossack
Date posted: 1 Feb 2014
Steve Cossack, caretaker of Bridge Chapel, Liverpool, tells his story
Football and the Beatles have made Liverpool famous throughout the world.
Origins of black preaching
Bishop Samuel Thomas
Date posted: 1 Feb 2014
Bishop Samuel Thomas of the New Testament church of God explains the history
Black preaching, according to Cleophus J. LaRue, has a theological and a sociological influence that runs deeper than mere preaching technique.
Growing a rural church
Chris Sinkinson
Date posted: 1 Feb 2014
Chris Sinkinson reports from deepest Hampshire
Town centre churches tend to get all the attention!
Five points of encouragement
John Piper
Date posted: 1 Jan 2014
John Piper explains how the doctrines of grace encourage and stimulate his Christian faith
The five points of Calvinism are not unimportant.
Bishops: double-speak on Pilling
Wallace Benn
Date posted: 1 Mar 2014
Wallace Benn comments on the recent consultation
‘No church can live in integrity if it proclaims loyalty to Scripture, but then ignores Scripture when faced with new proposals for her life.’ (Bishop Keith Sinclair)
A remarkable Chinese leader
Tony Lambert
Date posted: 1 Jan 2014
Tony Lambert reflects on the life of Pastor Samuel Lamb who went to be with the Lord in recent months
Pastor Samuel Lamb died in Guangzhou (Canton) in south China in early August 2013.
Rico’s recommendation
Pod Bhogal
Date posted: 1 Oct 2013
Evangelist Rico Tice suggests one resource which will help churches involved with A Passion For Life 2014
Pod Bhogal talks to Rico Tice, author of the Christianity Explored course about the importance of one-to-one personal work in evangelism, Seeker Bible studies and Uncover, UCCF’s latest gospel project which is now being adopted by local churches.
Oliver Barclay 1919 – 2013
One of the men who has had the greatest influence on post-war evangelicalism has gone to be with the Lord
Oliver Barclay, second General Secretary of IVF/UCCF, died at his home in Leicester on September 12, aged 94.
Uncover for Passion for Life 2014
Richard Cunningham
Date posted: 1 Sep 2013
Pod Bhogal talks to Richard Cunningham about reaching students and resourcing churches
Pod Bhogal, UCCF’s Head of Communications, talks to Richard Cunningham, UCCF’s Director, about the Uncover Gospel Project, the impact it has had in the student world and its potential for helping ordinary Christians — in a local church context — to introduce their friends to Jesus.
Evangelism out in the open
Andy Banton
Date posted: 1 Jul 2013
Andy Banton celebrates a great anniversary for the Open-Air Mission
It is sometimes said that you can make statistics say anything.
ENGAGING OUR CITIES
Jonny Dyer
Date posted: 1 Jul 2013
In 1800, 2% of the world’s population lived in cities.
By 1900 that figure was 12%. Today 52% of us are city dwellers and by 2050 it is estimated that will rise to 70%.
The heroine who said nothing
Tom Chapman
Date posted: 1 Jul 2013
Pastor Tom Chapman remembers the life of a Christian missionary who saved Jewish children from the Holocaust
It is a great privilege to belong to a church with a history.