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A new Cumbrian church plant is giving thanks for six months of life and looking ahead to God’s provision as they face the future…

The joke is often made that Barrow-in-Furness is at the end of the longest cul-de-sac in the country!

Mark Foster brings us news of how the gospel is being taken to the far east of Russia

They’ve been doing it for almost 70 years.

My parents were missionaries for 20 years in Brazil before I was born.

Two of my older siblings were born there. I arrived after they returned to Belfast shortly after the Second World War. So I grew up in a home where Christian faith was inseparable from mission commitment and global interest (aided by a stamp-collecting hobby). I remember asking Jesus to come into my heart as a young child of five or six, when my brother Paul asked me if my name was in the Lamb’s Book of Life; and when I asked how I could be sure (probably not quite understanding which book he had in mind), he told me to do just that.

Dave Brennan

Date posted: 1 Sep 2018

Dave Brennan with a biblical mandate to mobilise against abortion

As the 19th century draws to a close, English missionaries in King Leopold II’s Congo Free State face a heart-searching dilemma.

Linda Allcock on the mixed emotions experienced in a mobile congregation

‘People come. People go.’ That was the phrase repeated in The Globe Church original promotional video at our launch in 2015.

I suppose most of us sometimes wish our stories were more exciting than they are.

That goes for the stories of how God first brought us to faith in Jesus Christ; we sometimes wish – foolishly – that the contrast with our pre-conversion life might be more dramatic because we had sunk into deeper depths of sinfulness before our conversions than we did.

Tony Lambert gives his assessment of what is going on in the world’s most populous nation

Since the death of Mao in 1976, the church in China has enjoyed remarkable growth and revival.

Have we drifted too far from the Reformers’ vision of church?

How do you structure your church services?

Martin Salter

Date posted: 1 Jun 2018

Martin Salter, speaker at this year’s Keswick Convention, on how good deeds should dovetail with evangelism

When we speak of ‘mission’ or ‘missionaries’ we tend to automatically think of those in far-off places.

Imagine 12 people sitting in a pub chatting about John’s Gospel.

Nobody checks their phone, nobody needs to leave. This is despite the fact none of them has been in church for years (some never).

Paul Brennan tells us about the Cornhill Scotland approach

In the May edition of en the editorial raised some of weaknesses in traditional methods of ministry training.

Ben Putt tells the recent story of the well-known Christian youth centre

I had never planned to go into full-time gospel ministry.

Chris Wright on how Christians should live in an age of growing international chaos.

I read in the New York Times some weeks ago that there are increasing numbers of young couples getting married with the intention of not having children.

Gemma Adam with some advice for churches on getting ready for GDPR

From 25 May 2018 it is a legal requirement for every organisation (including churches and all charities) to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation.

Janice Pibworth

Date posted: 1 Apr 2018

Janice Pibworth tells the story of hymnwriter Ada Ruth Habershon (1861–1918)

Will the circle be unbroken is inscribed on the Country Music Hall of Fame’s Rotunda.

Looking at Acts 6.1-7, with Steve Nation

Thus far in the Book of Acts, it’s been quite a ride.

I was only a teenager in 1954 when a young American evangelist, Billy Graham, and his team were invited by local churches to come to the UK and conduct an evangelistic crusade in London.

I have a mixture of good memories of the team and their ministry. The ‘song leader’ was Cliff Barrows, and George Beverley Shea, with a rich baritone voice, was the soloist.

Richard Bewes, former rector of All Souls, Langham Place, recalls his meetings with the great evangelist

The first time I ever heard him, it was like a drumbeat in my head: You are going to be doing this for the rest of your life.

Langham Partnership’s International Ministries Director Chris Wright seeks a biblical response to the current world

Right now, we are living in a terminal phase of Western civilization.

Roger Carswell calls for urgent action

I wonder how different from ours will be the Lord’s record of church history in the 20th century?

Michael Farrier tells us about his research into starting new churches

‘Here is the church, Here is the steeple, Open the door, And here are the people!’

Joy Horn helps us to remember our Christian heritage

JANUARY

24. John Mason Neale, who is chiefly remembered for his hymns, was born in 1818 in Bloomsbury, London. A linguist, familiar with some 20 languages, and a poet, of High Anglican convictions, he revived many old carols and translated others from Greek and Latin. O come, o come, Emmanuel and Christ is made the sure foundation are two of the best known – and, of course, Good King Wenceslas.

Helen Roseveare tells her story of grappling to find happiness when the will of God is difficult.

I had arrived at Ibambi, in the Belgian Congo, one Tuesday in March 1953.

Alex Hays shares news of some encouraging gospel work in Asia

It was Charles Spurgeon who said: ‘If you give a man the gospel, wrap it in a sandwich. And if you give a man a sandwich, wrap it in the gospel.’