Apr 23, 2025 | Infusing Culture
In a clear and unanimous decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 means biological sex. The terms ‘woman’, ‘man’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 (EA 2010) refer to biological sex, the Supreme Court has judged. In a unanimous...
Apr 23, 2025 | Infusing Culture
With the growing sense of God’s heart for a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit, across our nation, there’s a growing desire for holiness. This is very much in line with what, retrospectively, can be seen as ‘deep repentance’ across a much wider number of people when...
Mar 26, 2025 | Igniting Mission
We can be ready is the message. When, how, why, we don’t the answers to and probably a good thing. However, with a growing sense of God’s heart for a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit, across our nation, this will be an all too brief look at intensified prayer, as...
Mar 26, 2025 | Igniting Mission
The Lewis Awakening 1949-1952. A few sources for you to dig a little deeper. Watch here on Youtube – The Revival On The Isle Of Lewis. Awesome account of what happens in a true revival! This is a remarkable account by Duncan Campbell who is the person...
Feb 26, 2025 | Inspiring Discipleship
We can be ready! When I asked Willie McCloud, converted as a teenager during the revival on the Isle of Lewis, whether there was anything we could do to prepare for revival his reply was: ‘there is nothing we can do Nigel, but we can be ready’. I have returned time...
Feb 26, 2025 | Infusing Culture
In 1784, a call to prayer was issued among Baptist churches in England. These churches were in a state of serious decline, both in number and in spiritual vitality. John Sutcliff was the pastor of the Baptist church in Olney, Buckinghamshire for thirty-nine years. He...
Nov 27, 2024 | Infusing Culture
We had a great Leaders Day recently with Justin Brierley, exploring what he’s described as ‘the surprising rebirth of belief in God’. If you’re not familiar with Justin’s thesis he’s raising the question whether Matthew Arnolds’s ‘melancholy, long, withdrawing roar’...
Oct 29, 2024 | Inspiring Discipleship
I love the wisdom we hear in Proverbs 3:5-6 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” I’ve come back to focus on this, as I do again and again, as...
Sep 24, 2024 | Inspiring Discipleship
Gift of Christmas – Jesus is alive! Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. Jesus has come to deliver life in all its fulness. Some of the convictions we want to share with everyone, but for most people the first thing people identify Jesus with is … you’ve...
Sep 23, 2024 | Infusing Culture
Expressive individualism – why does it matter? If you are a frog, you jump from a pot of boiling water. But if you are placed in a pot of tepid water that is gradually heated to boiling, you die. It’s been one way to explain why humans react quickly to sudden...
