HOW LONG, LORD?

In mid-September 2019 Northern Ireland will reach a significant milestone in its history. It’s one that seems highly unlikely to attract any of the attention of our decade of centenaries, the 100th anniversaries of the Home Rule crisis and Ulster Covenant, the Easter...

Rivers of Living Water

SECOND OF TWO…PS…blogs from the Board of Contemporary Christianity on a way forward in 2019…with an opportunity for you to respond.   “Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” (John 7:38) The months...

Falling Seeds & Flowering Buds  

FIRST OF TWO ..PS…blogs from the Board of Contemporary Christianity  on a way forward in 2019….with an opportunity for you to respond.  ‘In recent days one verse of scripture keeps recurring in my mind, and keeps coming to me in conversation, memories and in my...

THE SLIPPERY SLOPE TO NO MAN’S LAND?

Are evangelicals and evangelism on a slippery slope – even a slide into a cultural no-man’s land? The answer, I suggest, is a definite maybe! Maybe evangelicals have become so obsessed with issues of sexuality, gender and ‘traditional’ values...

Friday: The New Reformers

It’s often hard to step back and see the wide horizon of the moment of time, in which we live. The breathing space that decades, and even centuries allow, is a luxury not usually available within a lifetime.   We are blessed on this Island, as perhaps more than...