My friend Luke has launched a new podcast called The Legacy Podcast. The first one is a great interview with Nicky Gumbel (or Professor Gumbeldore as he is apparently now known!)
https://t.co/dc8y24ogB6…
#studentmission@fusion_movement
In a Shocking and Chilling Report, Human Rights Without Frontiers says that Nigerian Jihadists have “hacked to death” no fewer than 3,462 Christians in Nigeria during the past 200 days. https://t.co/kLoSS2mVKW
So the Coronavirus legislation allows 'commemorative events celebrating the life of someone who has died' to take place in church buildings. Does this include the Eucharist? Or does the Resurrection rule it out?
After contact with Government we hear that there is no change to guidance on places of worship. Worship is the work of God - not a social gathering - and gives the strength to love and serve.
"Traditional evangelism gets stuck at the cross... which even Jesus didn't..."
possibly the best content to have come out of a WhatsApp exchange with my bro-in-law @tom_bray in discussing the need for a bigger & whole gospel that envelopes creation and justice and all of it...
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us”
Remembering Tolkien, who died on this day in 1973
"Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith. I don't agree at all. They are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ" -C.S. Lewis
“He kept me alive for 18 years, so I’m going to get him through the next 6 months.”
Peter Snow is in his 80s, he’s self-isolating after his son Dan Snow asked him to. As millions in the UK prepare to self-isolate we meet families trying their best to look after each other.