The Aylesbury church building and training for the future
Jim Sayers
Date posted: 29 Nov 2025
This year has seen major changes for Limes Avenue Baptist Church in Aylesbury, Bucks.
Building project
First, the church has been living in exile in a local school because of a £1.3 million building project which is due to be completed by the end of this year. Matt Benton, senior pastor since 2017, says the church has been amazed by how the money has been provided.
The Enhanced Games versus the grace of limitations
Jonny Reid
Date posted: 22 Oct 2025
British Olympic swimmer Ben Proud has joined the Enhanced Games. It’s a decision, and a potential trajectory, for sport, with significant consequences and challenges for Christians to reflect on.
The Enhanced Games encourages the use of performance-enhancing drugs to break world records. It claims to be the future of sport “on a mission to redefine super humanity through science, innovation and sports.”
Christ's authority over all - including politics
Paul Huxley
Date posted: 23 Nov 2025
With questions about "Christian Nationalism" swirling around evangelical circles, around 200 people gathered in Tamworth at the annual Mission of God conference to consider the timely topic of the Bible and politics, writes Paul Huxley.
The day of teaching, worship, and networking was jointly hosted by Christian Concern and the Ezra Centre for Christian Thought.
Explainer: What's happening with Gafcon & Anglicanism?
en staff
Date posted: 17 Oct 2025
Is it "one of the largest schisms in Western Christianity since Martin Luther launched the Protestant Reformation" - or rather more complex than that?
Yesterday, Gafcon, the organisation which draws together conservative, Biblical Anglicans from around the globe, announced that it was now "fulfilling our mandate to reform the Anglican Communion".
South Korea: Gospel work thrives
John-Edward Funnell
Date posted: 20 Nov 2025
I recently returned from a wonderful trip to Seoul in South Korea, where I was asked to speak at the “East Meets West” Conference held at SaRang Church as part of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) Assembly [see additional WEA article here].
SaRang Church has a membership just short of 40,000 and has a heart for mission. They give huge amounts of resources to the re-evangelisation of Europe. “East Meets West” is led by Sam Ko, who has supported many revitalisation projects and church plants across our continent and has a lead role at the Union School of Theology in Wales.
everyday evangelism
We need to talk about judgement
Gavin Matthews
Date posted: 14 Oct 2025
God’s judgement is a central Biblical theme, and for vast numbers of evangelical Christians, it was the experience of conviction of sin which led them to trust Christ as Saviour.
It certainly did for me. Knowing that I had sinned against God, and seeing the sombre truth about the rotten state of my soul before His righteous judgement, made the realisation that Christ had borne my punishment total liberation and joy!
US: Reactions to Nigeria being classed as CPC
Luke Randall
Date posted: 17 Nov 2025
There has been mixed reaction among missionary workers to the news that the US State Department has updated its classification of Nigeria to a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) due to its severe persecution of Christians.
The ongoing situation in Nigeria gained more publicity following comments by comedian Bill Maher, who described persecution as genocidal. Now, Trump’s administration has upped its designation of the country and has hinted at further action if violations of religious freedom are not halted.
‘Remarkable’ Bible translation progress
Wycliffe Bible Translators
Date posted: 26 Sep 2025
Imagine being in rural Kenya last March, where the Upper Pokomo people gathered in eager anticipation. After years of waiting, a joyous procession arrived carrying boxes wrapped like precious gifts. Inside lay something more valuable than gold: the New Testament in the Upper Pokomo language.
As the packages were opened, singing and dancing broke out. Then, for the very first time, God’s word was read aloud in the Upper Pokomo language. The moment was unforgettable. The Scriptures were no longer distant for the Upper Pokomo people, but they could finally hear God speak directly to them in the language they dream in, laugh in, and cry in.
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The challenge of sharing Jesus in the workplace
Gavin Matthews
Date posted: 15 Nov 2025
For many Christians, the place with the most challenges and opportunities for sharing their faith is the workplace. While most evangelistic training, prayer and activity is church-focused, the reality is that believers spend the bulk of the time they spend with non-Christians, in offices, shops, factories, airports or campuses.
A friend of mine once went on a short-term medical mission to Africa. Many Christians promised to pray for her trip. Her reply was striking: “Thank you. But please also pray for me the rest of the year too, because being a Christian in NHS Scotland is harder than in Africa!” At a recent Christian conference, almost every hand went up when delegates were asked if they felt unequipped by their church for the challenges of workplace discipleship. Yet this remains the frontline where the church meets the world.
Immigration & integration: A debate on how can we consider it wisely
Krish Kandiah & Tim Dieppe
Date posted: 14 Nov 2025
en invited Dr Krish Kandiah and Tim Dieppe to consider the question: "How can UK Christians respond in a Christlike way to issues of immigration and integration?"
Tim is Head of Public Policy at Christian Concern, the campaigning evangelical organisation and author of The Challenge of Islam: Understanding and Responding to Islam’s Increasing Influence in the UK (Wilberforce Publications 2025). Krish is the Director of the Sanctuary Foundation, which supports vulnerable individuals, families and children including refugees and those seeking asylum. He is a regular advisor to government on refugee resettlement and child welfare reform.
Reflections from ReNew 2025: Growing Leaders
Tim Vasby-Burnie & Neil Robbie
Date posted: 1 Oct 2025
Tim Vasby-Burnie and Neil Robbie reflect on the 2025 ReNew Conference, Growing Leaders, which was held from 29-30 September in Leeds. The event is all about "advancing Anglican Evangelical ministries for the salvation of England", and ReNew describes itself as a mission, a network, and conferences.
Reflections from day one - Tim Vasby-Burnie
Why should people attend a conference like ReNew?
Calling Mary 'Co-redemptrix' diminishes Christ, RCs told
en staff
Date posted: 5 Nov 2025
Calling Mary "Co-redemptrix" risks diminishing the work of Christ, Roman Catholics are being told.
The warning is given in an official RC document described as a "doctrinal note on some Marian titles regarding Mary's co-operation in the work of salvation". It has been produced by the "Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith", a Vatican department established in 1542 to promote religious discipline in matters of faith and doctrine.
Moldova: Repression or liberalism?
Luke Randall
Date posted: 4 Nov 2025
A Russian-inspired clampdown on evangelicals – or the advance of social liberalism.
That was the choice many evangelicals in Moldova faced. And it appears they opted for religious freedom first and foremost, according to a Crosslinks mission partner.
OMF investigation: No end in sight yet
Nicola Laver
Date posted: 29 Sep 2025
An investigation into allegations against several individuals from two former pupils at a former Chefoo school is “complex and sensitive”, mission organisation OMF International has said.
The investigation into “harm caused by several alleged perpetrators” at the school commenced after the former pupils made a complaint to OMF UK in June 2024. In January this year, OMF said in a statement that three specialist teams had been set up to conduct interviews.
Birmingham ban raises street preaching fears
Lydia Houghton
Date posted: 28 Sep 2025
Street evangelism will be hindered, it is feared, after Birmingham City Council imposed a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO).
The order prohibits the use of amplification equipment, musical instruments, or “other items used as musical instruments” within the stated “restricted area” – a designated part of Birmingham city centre highlighted by the local authority in the order.
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The gospel, our anchor
Michael Reeves
Date posted: 2 Nov 2025
For people of the gospel, the gospel serves as our mooring anchor. An anchor stops a ship from drifting while allowing it a certain amount of movement on the surface of the water. Just so, the gospel holds us to Scripture’s matters of first importance while allowing some slack for differences of opinion on other matters.
As Paul called the Romans and Corinthians to unity in the gospel and liberty in what to eat, so the anchor keeps us from making shipwreck of our faith (1 Tim. 1v19) without making our every disagreement a cause for schism.
Students invited to ‘uncover Jesus' with their friends
Lydia Houghton
Date posted: 27 Sep 2025
“See for yourself” – that’s been the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship’s (UCCF’s) invitation through its Uncover publication series. The first Uncover, released in 2011, explored Luke’s Gospel and was followed by Uncover John (2015) and Uncover Mark (2018). This year marks the next release in the family – a new version of Uncover Luke.
“How much do your friends know about the most famous Person in world history?” UCCF writes. Designed to help students and their friends discover more about Jesus and the life He offers, Uncover Luke (2025) was launched at this year’s national Forum conference where more than 1,000 students gathered to encourage one another, share Christian Union mission ideas, and pray together.
Eternal what?
There are many thoughts that might initially come to mind in relation to the “Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer” (see this article), now under construction after a £40 million fundraising target was met.
We might, quite apart from anything else, naturally feel somewhat cynical about the whole idea – an understandable reaction, perhaps, given the cynicism-soaked era in which we live. We are all marinaded in a media-enhanced weary distrust of most things at the moment.