Seven years ago today, I was diagnosed with a form of Blood Cancer that has tried to destroy my identity and define who I am. Today, on my personal D-Day, I can report I have been slowly learning to defy those definitions. My identity is not merely a diseased and damaged individual. I am still in an ongoing battle to live beyond the labels, and it is far from easy. Read more
Russell Brand has interviewed his first Christian on his podcast. He chose the notorious Ex-Drug Smuggler, Michael Emmett, who is now a major part of the Prison Alpha movement. He was introduced to Holy Trinity Brompton whilst in prison via his wife's friend Sam Fox. Read more
Worshiping God with your body. Most Christians would agree that worship is an act that should engage the whole person including our emotions, and reflect a heart posture that seeks to honour God. But how should our bodies be involved with this? Read more
Birth, marriage and death are the three biggest emotional moments in life. Why would we seek to restrict our prophecies in these areas? Some call these "Hatch, match and dispatch" predictions and they are unlikely to contain true divine messages Read more
Adrian Warnock has been writing online on this site since 2003. Like many Patheos bloggers he first had his own site which later migrated here. Here we share his most visited posts since records began. Google Analytics is changing and the old data can’t be transported from the old system to the new one. So here are his top twenty most visited articles over the last few years. This will give you a chance to read some of them that... Read more
The resurrection of Jesus is not just about changing individual lives. The whole universe is going to experience a resurrection. It will be made new. There will be no more pain, no more sickness, no more death. We will live together in a glorious renewed creation with our Creator. Read more
Embrace the reality of life after death. Do not imagine we will merely be a spirit or angel in heaven. Rather we will be given an eternal, tangible, physical body. This eternity far outweighs all the pain and suffering we all endure in life. We will be reunited with loved ones, and with Jesus Christ himself who has gone before us. All this transforms death and loss into great eternal gain! Read more
Jesus commands us to go into all the world and create new followers of him. You clearly can’t follow a dead person, so the Great Commission comes to us from our risen saviour! As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you. JOHN 20:21 Jesus was sent into this world to bring glory to his Father and to bring good news to a needy people. He said, “For the Son of Man came to seek and to... Read more
Can a Christian experience God's love in such a way that they feel sure they are going to heaven? Can we receive supernatural joy and peace? Receiving the Holy Spirit is Luke's preferred term for baptism in the Holy Spirit in Acts. This is mostly about us being assured that we are Christians by the love of God being poured out into our hearts. I realise it is a controversial subject, but I hope I have handled it in a balanced way. Read more
"The Material World has nothing else to give you Russell, it can only take from you" So said a Hindu to Russell Brand to his great annoyance, but this statement over time triggered his realisation that he needed something from outside this world to trust in and experience. Russell has now concluded: "I have found it in that humble place that was at the end of my street. . . in Christianity and in particular in the figure of Christ." Read more
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