Into the Pray: Recent Episodes
Nick & Mairi Franks
“Breaching the Chaos of the Church” is the phrase we use regarding the Body of Christ to acknowledge that there is both a problem - a gargantuan one - and a stunningly blessed Hope. If you’re fed up, sick and tired of “church” and “christian spirituality” - and we expect you are - and if you’re also gagging for the Coming King - and we hope you are - this podcast will be a timely prescription for you. Maranatha...Come, Lord Jesus!
Dear Church,
You can watch the video that this podcast is referring to here.
In this deep-dive follow-up to this video, Nick and Mairi unpack the stark, sobering reality that occurs when the structural machinery of modern churches collides with the true Word of the LORD. If you have ever felt a profound, unsettling disconnect between the casual peace of the church platform and the heavy burden in your own soul for genuine faithfulness, this conversation is for you.
We break down three critical dimensions of this spiritual landscape:
- The Polar Opposite Clash: Why is there a recurring collision between institutional church leaders and those who steward a prophetic word? We expose the stark contrast between pastors who are jealously consumed with defending their own local kingdoms using the vocabulary of Christ, versus a heart that is completely broken by His cross and undone by His glory.
- Defining the True Prophetic Word: Scripturally, the spirit of prophecy is not a tool for fortune-telling or religious entertainment, it is the direct testimony of Jesus. It is a deep, agonising empathy with the suffering heart of God the Father over a backslidden people. Because it pierces systemic idolatry, it is historically met with a fierce, demonic resistance that seeks to see it missed, rejected, and murdered.
- What is Required of His People: For the harassed, helpless, and scattered sheep who have ears to hear, the instruction is clear. We look at the absolute necessity of stepping out from under blind institutional allegiance, running from shepherds who merely feed themselves, and intentionally seeking out contexts where the ultimate focus is a jealous regard for the glory of Yahweh.
Urgent action is required!
Could these TRULY be the words of worship and prayer of this nation? 👇
*When the music fades
All is stripped away
And I simply come
Longing just to bring
Something that's of worth
That will bless Your heart
I'll bring You more than a song
For a song in itself
Is not what You have required
You search much deeper within
Through the way things appear
You're looking into my heart
I'm coming back to the heart of worship
And it's all about You, it's all about You, Jesus. Im sorry, Lord, for the thing I've made it, when it's all about You, it's all about You, Jesus!
King of endless worth
No one could express
How much you deserve
Though I'm weak and poor
All I have is Yours
Every single breath!
I'll bring You more than a song
For a song in itself is not what You have required. You search much deeper within, through the way things appear, You're looking into my heart!
I'm coming back to the heart of worship
And it's all about You, it's all about You, Jesus. Im sorry, Lord, for the thing I've made it, when it's all about You, it's all about You, Jesus!*
This is the one Bible teaching series that we would gladly give the rest of our lives to proclaiming: I AM JEALOUS: The Exclusive Demands of Yahweh, and His Renegade Bride
Maranatha?
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Yours in Christ,
Nick & Mairi Franks
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2024: God Closed Church
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
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Dear Church,
You can watch the video version of this podcast here.
Sick of the apostate 'church'? Read our statement and confession of faith here.
In 1883, the volcanic island of Krakatoa gave months of warning signs—tremors, ash, and minor blasts—before its catastrophic eruption. Yet, many ignored the data until it was too late. Spiritual history mirrors natural history.
In this teaching, Nick dives into Acts 3:17-21 where the apostle Peter confronts a crowd that missed the definitive sign standing right in front of them. Discover how volcanic warning signs parallel spiritual alertness, the danger of ignoring divine prompts, and the powerful promise of "times of refreshing" and ultimate restoration that follows true repentance.
This is the one Bible teaching series that we would gladly give the rest of our lives to proclaiming: I AM JEALOUS: The Exclusive Demands of Yahweh, and His Renegade Bride
Maranatha?
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Yours in Christ,
Nick & Mairi Franks
PS
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: God Closed Church
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Support the show
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Dear Church,
Greetings to you all!
You can watch the original YouTube version of this podcast here.
Relevant email correspondence (anonymous) here.
OUR STATEMENT & CONFESSION OF FAITH IS HERE.
In this video I pluck up the courage to call the finest men and brothers in the land to repentance — the men of Puritan and Reformed tradition — who should be calling and leading and teaching the national Church to repentance, NOT leveraging a call to national prayer to raise millions of pounds for their new building fund.
May God have mercy on the Church who are currently as unfeeling as fat, (Psalm 119:70)
Maranatha?
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Maranatha?
Yours in Christ,
Nick & Mairi Franks
PS
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: God Closed Church
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Support the show
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Dear Church,
Greetings to you all!
You can read a short blog preview for this podcast here and my message to Justin Welby and HTB is here.
OUR STATEMENT & CONFESSION OF FAITH IS HERE.
When Esther chapter 4 and verse 14 is used to encourage young people in large gatherings, how is it that church pastors often fall short?
Esther was brought to the kingdom for such a time as she was; but she first had to repent from her cowardice and silence.
Maranatha?
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Maranatha?
Yours in Christ,
Nick & Mairi Franks
PS
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: God Closed Church
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Support the show
Please support our podcast here.
Dear Church,
Greetings to you all!
You can watch a short video preview for this podcast here.
How would one of the finest preachers throughout the history of Great Britain have responded to the Artemis II mission to the moon?
“The modern scientist who denies the gospel is confirming the gospel.”
— Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Maranatha?
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Maranatha?
Yours in Christ,
Nick & Mairi Franks
PS
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: God Closed Church
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
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Dear Church
Greetings to you all!
If you’d prefer, you can watch the video version of this podcast here.
The brokenness of the carnal recruitment processes of the world is reflected in the recruitment processes (and adverts) of the Church.
What do we include in our person specification for a church leader?
We include at least these 14 points in our personal specification for a church leader:
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A man who is able to describe personal cost associated with their stand for the Gospel;
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A man who is able to describe personal repentance and specific examples
of their change of mind recently; -
A man who is able to describe relationships as well as estrangements;
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A man who is able to describe their urgent burden for the lost;
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A man who is NOT popular with everyone;
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A man who even has enemies;
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A man who has been ostracised;
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A man whose stand for doctrinal clarity has been personally costly;
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A man who can describe turning down an opportunity to alleviate pain,
ultimately declining out of conviction; -
A man who is calling the Church to repentance as a Body and not only
individual members; -
A man who is willing to relocate, to be disrupted, including family/children/job;
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A man whose testimony is radically different post-2020 cf. pre-2020;
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A man who sings/praises God every day;
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A man who weeps for the state the Church and the glory of His Name.
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Maranatha?
Yours in Christ,
Nick & Mairi Franks
PS
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: God Closed Church
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
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Dear Church
Greetings to you all!
If you’d prefer, you can watch the video versions of this podcast here and here.
This Christmas we focus on Luke chapter one and Isaiah chapter 9 — how many Christmas cards have you seen with Isaiah 9:5 on it? We hazard to guess…none.
In this special podcast episode, you can listen to a short devotional about Zechariah’s radical transformation of faith, followed by Mairi and Nick performing a spoken word monologue/pastiche, (under glitzy Christmas city lights), inspired by these two chapters.
Maranatha?
Yours in Christ,
Nick & Mairi Franks
PS
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You can read a full chapter and learn what this means in this here.
If you would like to help us to begin a new house church, please see here.
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2024: God Closed Church
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
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Dear Church
This is the video HERE to watch before listening to this podcast.
This is the Q&A session with pastors and elders following episode four of a new six-part YouTube series in which Mairi is reading out our 2024 book, God Closed Church. (All info about the book here).
How do church pastors and elders typically think about the all-important church closures of March 2020? Where are the fault lines that result from a lack of wisdom and 'prophetic knowledge'?
"Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint..." (Proverbs 29:18)
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children." (Hosea 4:6)
Here is the first video.
Yours in Christ,
Nick & Mairi Franks
PS
Our main giving page is here.
You can read a full chapter and learn what this means in this here.
If you would like to help us to begin a new house church, please see here.
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✍️ Books (free to those in need) here.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: God Closed Church
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
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Dear Church
WATCH this podcast here.
Gandalf said, "Swords are no more use here!" on the Bridge of Khazad-dûm in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring to emphasize that the creature they were facing, Durin's Bane, was a foe beyond their collective skill and physical weapons. He meant that their swords were useless against this powerful being, a demon of shadow and flame, and that they needed to flee, not fight.
Following on from the significant events in London over the last weekend, you can read Nick's blog article (and see related videos) here.
As we sat down this evening to read and pray, Nick was prompted to record this impromptu episode of the podcast to appeal to 'all who will hear' about the dangers of a great British confluence — that of the apostate British churches blending with the vast unsaved/unchurched population of the nation. It is surely a Corinthian river of spiritual lukewarmness.
What of this juncture in world and church history really? Have we not profoundly underestimated the pivotal importance of clarifying true doctrine from false? What of this place of reformatory opportunity that we are standing at?
Do we not need a new confession?
If you would like to help us to begin a new house church, please see here.
Yours in Christ,
Nick & Mairi Franks
PS
Our main giving page is here.
You can read a full chapter and learn what this means in this here.
🤝 You can give here.
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✍️ Books (free to those in need) here.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: God Closed Church
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Support the show
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Dear Church
Following on from the second episode of a new six-part YouTube series in which we are reading out our 2024 book, God Closed Church, this is a follow-up conversation about the importance of recognising the illogical place of 'agree to disagree' that the Church comes to on matters of eternal importance. (All info about the book here).
WATCH this podcast here.
What of this juncture in world and church history really? Have we not profoundly underestimated the pivotal importance of clarifying true doctrine from false? What of this place of reformatory opportunity that we are standing at?
Do we not need a new confession?
If you would like to help us to begin a new house church, please see here.
Yours in Christ,
Nick & Mairi Franks
PS
Our main giving page is here.
You can read a full chapter and learn what this means in this here.
🤝 You can give here.
🤝 Contact us here.
✍️ Books (free to those in need) here.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: God Closed Church
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Support the show
Please support our podcast here.
Dear Church
This is the first episode of a new six-part YouTube series in which Mairi is reading out our 2024 book, God Closed Church. (All info about the book here).
We are only including this episode on the podcast because we are trying to encourage engagement with the videos on YouTube. You can help us by 'liking/commenting/sharing' the videos there. Here is the first video.
Yours in Christ,
Nick & Mairi Franks
PS
Our main giving page is here.
You can read a full chapter and learn what this means in this here.
If you would like to help us to begin a new house church, please see here.
🤝 You can give here.
🤝 Contact us here.
✍️ Books (free to those in need) here.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: God Closed Church
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Support the show
Please support our podcast here.
Dear All,
A YouTube version of this podcast filled with powerful images is here.
What does it mean to repent? What would it mean for you to repent, dear Christian? What would it mean for you to repent, lost unbeliever? And you, beloved Body and Bride of Christ…what would it mean for you to repent?
Yours in Christ,
Nick & Mairi Franks
PS
Our main giving page is here.
You can read a full chapter and learn what this means in this here.
If you would like to help us to begin a new house church, please see here.
🤝 You can give here.
🤝 Contact us here.
✍️ Books (free to those in need) here.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: God Closed Church
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Support the show
Please support our podcast here.
Dear Body of Christ,
A YouTube version of this podcast is here.
As we prayed and read Acts chapter 21 this morning, like Paul in Acts chapter 17 v 16, we were provoked by the immaturity of the behaviour of the men involved.
Paul walked bow-legged because of the extreme suffering that he endured (the marks of the Lord Jesus Christ, no less — Galatians 6:17) and yet he was wrongly accused of being false by immature Christians who would essentially have no clue whatsoever as to what Paul was called to walk through. To make matters worse, the senior leaders of the Jerusalem church did not sufficiently support him, nor honour him, but rather made him jump through hoops made up of the traditions of men.
We are now being very honest about the path to which we have been called. In the natural, were an oxen muzzled as it worked hard under its burden, it would eventually grow faint and collapse. The Lord often used analogies from nature like this, (falling birds of the sky, fading flowers of the field, fish, eggs given to little children), precisely in order to highlight the INFINITE difference in value between an animal and a covenant child of God. This is exactly the case in the passages I highlight in tonight’s video and regarding which, once again, Mairi and I offer very robust and honest thoughts, including from our personal life, submitted to the Body of Christ at large.
In this video, Nick walks us through the further false accusations levelled at Paul, (of apparent hypocrisy,) and shows how it was far from being hypocrisy that led Paul to join the other four Jewish Christians in having his head shaved.
Mairi also shares very openly as to where a road of multi-faceted suffering has led us.
MAIRI'S TESTIMONY about our struggle with fertility here.
Yours in Christ,
Nick Franks
PS
Our main giving page is here.
You can read a full chapter and learn what this means in this here.
If you would like to help us to begin a new house church, please see here.
🤝 You can give here.
🤝 Contact us here.
✍️ Books (free to those in need) here.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: God Closed Church
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
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ADMONISHMENT: receiving from those trained by anguishDear All,
Disciples of Jesus Christ seem to me to be in one of three possible categories:
— Not listening (preaching false gospels of ease)
— Ravenously hungry for truth
— Somewhere between the two
Would you open your Bible with me at 1 Thessalonians 5 and Acts 20 for less than 15 mins?
A YouTube version of this podcast is here.
Yours in Christ,
Nick Franks
PS
Our main giving page is here.
You can read a full chapter and learn what this means in this here.
If you would like to help us to begin a new house church, please see here.
🤝 You can give here.
🤝 Contact us here.
✍️ Books (free to those in need) here.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: God Closed Church
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
ALL CONTENT: www.firebrandnotes.com
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Dear All,
Thank you for taking the time to listen to Into the Pray. You can find all content, including seminal books to flesh-out what we’re saying, below!
A YouTube version of this podcast is here.
Our main giving page is here.
This week on Into the Pray, I am joined by a former Baptist pastor from England, Mark Lindsell, who kindly shares his radical testimony from the only appropriate position for the Body of Christ to be adopting — one of sitting appalled.
You can read a full chapter and learn what this means in this here.
You can also get a BUNDLE version here. FREE to those in need.
Thoughts?
If you would like to help us to begin a new house church, please see here.
🤝 You can give here.
🤝 Contact us here.
✍️ Books (free to those in need) here.
Assessing the faithfulness of our churches (open letter/article) here.
All I AM JEALOUS sessions are here.
We are now seeking to establish a truly radical home church; if you’d like to help us please drop us a line here and please consider supporting our work here.
MARANATHA?
MARANATHA!
Love, Nick & Mairi
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: God Closed Church
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
ALL CONTENT: www.firebrandnotes.com
Support the show
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Dear All,
Thank you for taking the time to listen to Into the Pray. You can find all content, including seminal books to flesh-out what we’re saying, below!
Our main giving page is here.
This week on the Into the Pray podcast, I am joined by a fellow disciple of Jesus Christ, Andy Ewan, sharing his recent and radical testimony from the other side of the world.
Thoughts?
A YouTube version of this podcast is here.
Assessing the faithfulness of our churches (open letter/article) here.
Books to help you (free to those in need) here.
All I AM JEALOUS sessions are here.
We are now seeking to establish a truly radical home church; if you’d like to help us please drop us a line here and please consider supporting our work here.
MARANATHA?
MARANATHA!
Love, Nick & Mairi
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: God Closed Church
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
ALL CONTENT: www.firebrandnotes.com
Support the show
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Dear All,
Thank you for taking the time to listen to Into the Pray. You can find all content, including seminal books to flesh-out what we’re saying, below!
Our main giving page is here.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." (Edmund Burke)
We often hear from good men and women who are harassed and agitated by the plight of the Body of Christ but who are also fundamentally unwilling to act, to step out, to join forces, to begin a church without the company mentalities (and false doctrines) of the de-radicalised church system.
But good men and women though they are, they are not only perpetuating their own agony but also obstructing what the Lord Jesus wants to happen within His people — a holy radicalisation. Please watch this film here.
A YouTube version of this podcast (featuring Benji the Corgi) is here.
A short of this video is available here.
All I AM JEALOUS sessions are here.
We are now seeking to establish a truly radical home church; if you’d like to help us please drop us a line here and please consider supporting our work here.
MARANATHA?
MARANATHA!
Love, Nick & Mairi
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: God Closed Church
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
ALL CONTENT: www.firebrandnotes.com
Support the show
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Translation in this video is edited down to a minimum while preserving some for a beautiful glimpse into Indian culture
Last night Nick was kindly invited by our Indian friend, Pastor John, to share a word at his regular pastors gathering. You can watch the YouTube video version of this session here.
Paul taught Timothy and the Church to, “…preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.” (2 Timothy 4:2)
What would you share if you had to get up at the drop of a hat? This podcast is what, Lord willing, I will continue to say:
All I AM JEALOUS sessions are here.
We are now seeking to establish a truly radical home church; if you’d like to help us please drop us a line here and please consider supporting our work here.
MARANATHA?
MARANATHA!
Love, Nick & Mairi
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: God Closed Church
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Support the show
Please support our podcast here.
Hello everyone,
Would you help us establish a new radical home church? (More info on this podcast to follow).
You can support our work here.
In addition to our podcasts this year, we have published approximately 60 videos over on YouTube and, perhaps especially if you're new here, you will be helped by a summary of our 12 key moments of the year.
If you prefer, you can watch this podcast on YouTube here.
Beginning in the first quarter of 2025 we hope to feature a more dedicated podcast schedule with the focus on the great work of the Lord Jesus Christ as He continues to build His Church.
All 12 videos featured in today's podcast are here:
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Entering The Realm of Conflict & Cost | A Personal Testimony (PART 1/2)
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Looking Back at Lausanne | 50 Years of False Covenant
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Our Podcast | From Dunnottar Castle (The Alpha CURSE)
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I AM JEALOUS series.
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Difficult Christian marriage?
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My message to Justin Welby & HTB…
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Are We Unemployable?
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A Statement Concerning Pastor Chris Wickland
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Emma Stark, are we deceived?
(The additional and related 13th video — "Test the spirits" — that Mairi mentioned is here)
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Proof that ...John MacArthur is very wrong
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re. Justin Welby's resignation.
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God Closed Church
Book orders here.
We are now seeking to establish a truly radical home church; if you’d like to help us please drop us a line here and please consider supporting our work here.
MARANATHA?
Support the show
Please support our podcast here.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones is our ‘go-to’ minister though he passed away in 1981. The quality of his preaching/teaching is very difficult to find today such is the rising tide of ecumenical seeker-sensitivity. Lloyd-Jones departed from all such nonsense and, rather, preached about such awesome realities as, ‘…the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men…’ (Romans 1:18).
Mairi and I pray that these rough audio recordings (captured in a Skoda Fabia pulled into a remote beach lay-by) will be a blessing to you this Christmas.
Chapter One: The Religious History of Mankind Chapter Two:Religion & MoralityChapter Three: The Nature of SinChapter Four:The Wrath of GodChapter Five:The Only Solution
You can watch the God Closed Church promo here and find all other info about the new book here.Dear All,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray, a podcast akin to a growing library of voice-notes helping disciples of Christ around the world to breach the global chaos of the unfaithful Church...because Christ is coming and we are not ready.
Please don’t forget that if you use the new “text us” option through Buzzsprout (the host of our podcast) you need to include your email address so we can reply!
We would be very grateful if you’d support our work here (or below) and also leave us a review here to help this podcast travel as far as possible. Thank you.
Mairi’s blog is here.
MARANATHA?
MARANATHA!
Love, Nick & Mairi
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Support the show
Please support our podcast here.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones is our ‘go-to’ minister though he passed away in 1981. The quality of his preaching/teaching is very difficult to find today such is the rising tide of ecumenical seeker-sensitivity. Lloyd-Jones departed from all such nonsense and, rather, preached about such awesome realities as, ‘…the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men…’ (Romans 1:18).
Mairi and I pray that these rough audio recordings (captured in a Skoda Fabia pulled into a remote beach lay-by) will be a blessing to you this Christmas.
Chapter One: The Religious History of Mankind Chapter Two:Religion & MoralityChapter Three: The Nature of SinChapter Four:The Wrath of GodChapter Five:The Only Solution
You can watch the God Closed Church promo here and find all other info about the new book here.Dear All,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray, a podcast akin to a growing library of voice-notes helping disciples of Christ around the world to breach the global chaos of the unfaithful Church...because Christ is coming and we are not ready.
Please don’t forget that if you use the new “text us” option through Buzzsprout (the host of our podcast) you need to include your email address so we can reply!
We would be very grateful if you’d support our work here (or below) and also leave us a review here to help this podcast travel as far as possible. Thank you.
Mairi’s blog is here.
MARANATHA?
MARANATHA!
Love, Nick & Mairi
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Support the show
Please support our podcast here.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones is our ‘go-to’ minister though he passed away in 1981. The quality of his preaching/teaching is very difficult to find today such is the rising tide of ecumenical seeker-sensitivity. Lloyd-Jones departed from all such nonsense and, rather, preached about such awesome realities as, ‘…the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men…’ (Romans 1:18).
Mairi and I pray that these rough audio recordings (captured in a Skoda Fabia pulled into a remote beach lay-by) will be a blessing to you this Christmas.
Chapter One: The Religious History of Mankind Chapter Two:Religion & MoralityChapter Three: The Nature of SinChapter Four:The Wrath of GodChapter Five:The Only Solution
You can watch the God Closed Church promo here and find all other info about the new book here.Dear All,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray, a podcast akin to a growing library of voice-notes helping disciples of Christ around the world to breach the global chaos of the unfaithful Church...because Christ is coming and we are not ready.
Please don’t forget that if you use the new “text us” option through Buzzsprout (the host of our podcast) you need to include your email address so we can reply!
We would be very grateful if you’d support our work here (or below) and also leave us a review here to help this podcast travel as far as possible. Thank you.
Mairi’s blog is here.
MARANATHA?
MARANATHA!
Love, Nick & Mairi
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Support the show
Please support our podcast here.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones is our ‘go-to’ minister though he passed away in 1981. The quality of his preaching/teaching is very difficult to find today such is the rising tide of ecumenical seeker-sensitivity. Lloyd-Jones departed from all such nonsense and, rather, preached about such awesome realities as, ‘…the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men…’ (Romans 1:18).
Mairi and I pray that these rough audio recordings (captured in a Skoda Fabia pulled into a remote beach lay-by) will be a blessing to you this Christmas.
Chapter One: The Religious History of Mankind Chapter Two:Religion & MoralityChapter Three: The Nature of SinChapter Four:The Wrath of GodChapter Five:The Only Solution
You can watch the God Closed Church promo here and find all other info about the new book here.Dear All,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray, a podcast akin to a growing library of voice-notes helping disciples of Christ around the world to breach the global chaos of the unfaithful Church...because Christ is coming and we are not ready.
Please don’t forget that if you use the new “text us” option through Buzzsprout (the host of our podcast) you need to include your email address so we can reply!
We would be very grateful if you’d support our work here (or below) and also leave us a review here to help this podcast travel as far as possible. Thank you.
Mairi’s blog is here.
MARANATHA?
MARANATHA!
Love, Nick & Mairi
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Support the show
Please support our podcast here.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones is our ‘go-to’ minister though he passed away in 1981. The quality of his preaching/teaching is very difficult to find today such is the rising tide of ecumenical seeker-sensitivity. Lloyd-Jones departed from all such nonsense and, rather, preached about such awesome realities as, ‘…the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men…’ (Romans 1:18).
Mairi and I pray that these rough audio recordings (captured in a Skoda Fabia pulled into a remote beach lay-by) will be a blessing to you this Christmas.
Chapter One: The Religious History of Mankind Chapter Two:Religion & MoralityChapter Three: The Nature of SinChapter Four:The Wrath of GodChapter Five:The Only Solution
You can watch the God Closed Church promo here and find all other info about the new book here.Dear All,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray, a podcast akin to a growing library of voice-notes helping disciples of Christ around the world to breach the global chaos of the unfaithful Church...because Christ is coming and we are not ready.
Please don’t forget that if you use the new “text us” option through Buzzsprout (the host of our podcast) you need to include your email address so we can reply!
We would be very grateful if you’d support our work here (or below) and also leave us a review here to help this podcast travel as far as possible. Thank you.
Mairi’s blog is here.
MARANATHA?
MARANATHA!
Love, Nick & Mairi
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Support the show
Please support our podcast here.
This advent I will be reading Martyn Lloyd-Jones’, “The Plight of Man and the Power of God” as an audiobook for your advent devotions. I trust that this will be of encouragement as we reflect on the deep mystery of the incarnation and the Word become flesh.
You can also see a little glimpse of the closed 800-year-old cathedral that we filmed in yesterday here. Book orders for Christmas delivery (UK) here.
"ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 4TH, 2020, BEFORE ANY SIGN OF COVID-19 OR ANY REMOTE POSSIBILITY OF A GLOBAL LOCKDOWN, THE HOLY SPIRIT LED ME TO PUBLICLY CALL THE CHURCHES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM TO CLOSE..."
Now five years later, with the threat of world wars looming and with Israel's vulnerability on show in the geo-political world, the Body of Christ remain comatose amidst the ramping chaos. It is at this juncture in world and Church history that Nick Franks answers the question,
"Is there really a biblical precedent for God closing the churches?"
Beginning with an exposé of the quintessential Bible verse weaponised to condemn those whose consciences do not permit them to linger within unfaithful churches, and ending with a summons to legitimately radical home congregations as our remedy, God Closed Church is a hand-grenade of a book unpinned and thrown liberally into the apostate landscape of the Christian world.
Consider the missed warning of lockdown. Order your copies of God Closed Church here.
Dear All,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray, a podcast akin to a growing library of voice-notes helping disciples of Christ around the world to breach the global chaos of the unfaithful Church...because Christ is coming and we are not ready.
Please don’t forget that if you use the new “text us” option through Buzzsprout (the host of our podcast) you need to include your email address so we can reply!
We would be very grateful if you’d support our work here (or below) and also leave us a review here to help this podcast travel as far as possible. Thank you.
Mairi’s blog is here.
MARANATHA?
MARANATHA!
Love, Nick & Mairi
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Support the show
Please support our podcast here.
What will it be like to have a new body? What on Earth will it be like for Jesus Christ to rule and reign for 1000 years? If you'd prefer, you can watch this PodVlog here**.
"ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 4TH, 2020, BEFORE ANY SIGN OF COVID-19 OR ANY REMOTE POSSIBILITY OF A GLOBAL LOCKDOWN, THE HOLY SPIRIT LED ME TO PUBLICLY CALL THE CHURCHES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM TO CLOSE**..."
Now five years later, with the threat of world wars looming and with Israel's vulnerability on show in the geo-political world, the Body of Christ remain comatose amidst the ramping chaos. It is at this juncture in world and Church history that Nick Franks answers the question,
"Is there really a biblical precedent for God closing the churches?"
Beginning with an exposé of the quintessential Bible verse weaponised to condemn those whose consciences do not permit them to linger within unfaithful churches, and ending with a summons to legitimately radical home congregations as our remedy, God Closed Church is a hand-grenade of a book unpinned and thrown liberally into the apostate landscape of the Christian world.
Consider the missed warning of lockdown. Order your copies of God Closed Church here.
Dear All,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray, a podcast akin to a growing library of voice-notes helping disciples of Christ around the world to breach the global chaos of the unfaithful Church...because Christ is coming and we are not ready.
Please don’t forget that if you use the new “text us” option through Buzzsprout (the host of our podcast) you need to include your email address so we can reply!
We would be very grateful if you’d support our work here (or below) and also leave us a review here to help this podcast travel as far as possible. Thank you.
Mairi’s blog is here.
MARANATHA?
MARANATHA!
Love, Nick & Mairi
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Support the show
Please support our podcast here.
"ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 4TH, 2020, BEFORE ANY SIGN OF COVID-19 OR ANY REMOTE POSSIBILITY OF A GLOBAL LOCKDOWN, THE HOLY SPIRIT LED ME TO PUBLICLY CALL THE CHURCHES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM TO CLOSE..."
Now five years later, with the threat of world wars looming and with Israel's vulnerability on show in the geo-political world, the Body of Christ remain comatose amidst the ramping chaos. It is at this juncture in world and Church history that Nick Franks answers the question,
"Is there really a biblical precedent for God closing the churches?"
Beginning with an exposé of the quintessential Bible verse weaponised to condemn those whose consciences do not permit them to linger within unfaithful churches, and ending with a summons to legitimately radical home congregations as our remedy, God Closed Church is a hand-grenade of a book unpinned and thrown liberally into the apostate landscape of the Christian world.
Consider the missed warning of lockdown. Order your copies of God Closed Church here.
Dear All,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray, a podcast akin to a growing library of voice-notes helping disciples of Christ around the world to breach the global chaos of the unfaithful Church...because Christ is coming and we are not ready.
Please don’t forget that if you use the new “text us” option through Buzzsprout (the host of our podcast) you need to include your email address so we can reply!
We would be very grateful if you’d support our work here (or below) and also leave us a review here to help this podcast travel as far as possible. Thank you.
Mairi’s blog is here.
MARANATHA?
MARANATHA!
Love, Nick & Mairi
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Support the show
Please support our podcast here.
This week we are recording Into the Pray from an island off the coast of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where friends have blessed us with a time away from the United Kingdom. We are in the middle of producing the new book, God Closed Church, **and will be producing related content about the pivotal importance of March 2020 while we are here.
Please see a preview of our overseas trip here and a related vlog en route here**.
Dear All,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray, a podcast akin to a growing library of voice-notes helping disciples of Christ around the world to breach the global chaos of the unfaithful Church...because Christ is coming and we are not ready.
Please don’t forget that if you use the new “text us” option through Buzzsprout (the host of our podcast) you need to include your email address so we can reply!
We would be very grateful if you’d support our work here (or below) and also leave us a review here to help this podcast travel as far as possible. Thank you.
Nick's forthcoming ebook, "God Closed Church", will be available shortly.
Mairi’s blog is here.
MARANATHA?
MARANATHA!
Love, Nick & Mairi
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Support the show
Please support our podcast here.
Listen to proof that John MacArthur is very wrong and that the gifts of the Holy Spirit very much continue today. And yet cessationists won't even engage with the evidence in this video. You can watch this original video of this short podcast here.
Dear All,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray, a podcast akin to a growing library of voice-notes helping disciples of Christ around the world to breach the global chaos of the unfaithful Church...because Christ is coming and we are not ready.
Please don’t forget that if you use the new “text us” option through Buzzsprout (the host of our podcast) you need to include your email address so we can reply!
We would be very grateful if you’d support our work here (or below) and also leave us a review here to help this podcast travel as far as possible. Thank you.
Nick's forthcoming ebook, "God Closed Church", will be available shortly.
Mairi’s blog is here.
MARANATHA?
MARANATHA!
Love, Nick & Mairi
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Support the show
Please support our podcast here.
Dear All,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray, a podcast akin to a growing library of voice-notes helping disciples of Christ around the world to breach the global chaos of the unfaithful Church...because Christ is coming and we are not ready.
This episode of the Into the Pray today follows this YouTube video/exposé of the dire deception of Emma Stark and those who've succumbed to her false teaching.
Please watch our YouTube conversation about deception here with our notes here**.
The backstory to our personal situation is here and here**.
Please don’t forget that if you use the new “text us” option through Buzzsprout (the host of our podcast) you need to include your email address so we can reply!
We would be very grateful if you’d support our work here (or below) and also leave us a review here to help this podcast travel as far as possible. Thank you.
Nick's forthcoming ebook, "God Closed Church", will be available shortly.
Mairi’s blog is here.
MARANATHA?
MARANATHA!
Love, Nick & Mairi
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Support the show
Please support our podcast here.
Dear All,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray, a podcast akin to a growing library of voice-notes helping disciples of Christ around the world to breach the global chaos of the unfaithful Church...because Christ is coming and we are not ready.
Please watch our YouTube conversation about deception here with our notes here. As a follow-on, this episode of the podcast today in an introductory session in Jude ...from which we encourage you to do your own study.
Please don’t forget that if you use the new “text us” option through Buzzsprout (the host of our podcast) you need to include your email address so we can reply!
We would be very grateful if you’d support our work here (or below) and also leave us a review here to help this podcast travel as far as possible. Thank you.
Nick's forthcoming ebook, "God Closed Church", will be available shortly.
Mairi’s blog is here.
MARANATHA?
MARANATHA!
Love, Nick & Mairi
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Support the show
Please support our podcast here.
Send us a text
Dear All,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray, a podcast akin to a growing library of voice-notes helping disciples of Christ around the world to breach the global chaos of the unfaithful Church...because Christ is coming and we are not ready.
We would be very grateful if you’d support our work here (or below) and also leave us a review here to help this podcast travel as far as possible. Thank you.
You can read this statement here and/or watch a video version (portraying Ezra's appalled state) here.
Nick's forthcoming ebook, "God Closed Church", will be available shortly.
Mairi’s blog is here.
MARANATHA?
MARANATHA!
Love, Nick & Mairi
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Support the show
Please support our podcast here.
Send us a text
Dear All,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray, a podcast akin to a growing library of voice-notes helping disciples of Christ around the world to breach the global chaos of the unfaithful Church...because Christ is coming and we are not ready.
We would be very grateful if you’d support our work here (or below) and also leave us a review here to help this podcast travel as far as possible. Thank you.
You'll probably want to grab your Bible and a pen for this podcast, (YouTube version here). What do we pray in an emergency...not so much a geo-political emergency but a spiritual emergency as seen by the pandemic of Christian leaders who fail to think and pray like Ezra, Nehemiah and Daniel?
Please spend a few minutes with Nick considering the main themes of Ezra, Nehemiah and Daniel chapter 9 and a prayer of emergency for the glory of The Holy One of Israel and his wayward people.
Nick's forthcoming ebook, "God Closed Church", will be available shortly.
Mairi’s blog is here.
MARANATHA?
MARANATHA!
Love, Nick & Mairi
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Support the show
Please support our podcast here.
Send us a text
Dear All,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray, a podcast akin to a growing library of voice-notes helping disciples of Christ around the world to breach the global chaos of the unfaithful Church...because Christ is coming and we are not ready.
We would be very grateful if you’d support our work here (or below) and also leave us a review here to help this podcast travel as far as possible. Thank you.
Mairi and I went to some gorgeous gardens this week to pick some apples for somebody and to make a video about God closing the Church. Please watch/sharea YouTube previewof this podcast filmed in one of the most beautiful gardens you'll ever see. **With the permission of a friend with whom we strongly disagree, we anonymously examine a personal email conveying the increasingly popular conviction of church leaders who claim that, in March 2020, God was both judging the Church but not closing it...
Nick's forthcoming ebook, "God Closed Church", will be available shortly.**
Mairi’s blog is here.
MARANATHA?
MARANATHA!
Love, Nick & Mairi
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Support the show
Please support our podcast here.
Send us a text
Dear All,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray, a podcast akin to a growing library of voice-notes helping disciples of Christ around the world to breach the global chaos of the unfaithful Church...because Christ is coming and we are not ready.
We would be very grateful if you’d support our work here (or below) and also leave us a review here to help this podcast travel as far as possible. Thank you.
In her profoundly beautiful testimony concerning that which God is teaching her about IVF, Mairi spoke to a woman’s group in London a couple of years ago. You can watch/listen here.
Mairi’s blog is here.
“I know that no child would replicate the joy of God speaking.” (Mairi Franks)
Now, after significant examine, study and ultimately prayer, Mairi is starting a new blog in which she will be sharing articles, vlogs and podcasts about this horrific bio-ethical reality.
Church leaders don’t even talk about abortion, much less IVF, and yet, as Mairi explains, they are fertility practices from one and the same source.
Before the end, the Church will come to a clarified position on this taboo subject — the very heart and mind of the coming Lord Jesus Christ.
MARANATHA?
MARANATHA!
Love, Nick & Mairi
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Support the show
Please support our podcast here.
Send us a text
Dear All,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray, a podcast akin to a growing library of voice-notes helping disciples of Christ around the world to breach the global chaos of the unfaithful Church...because Christ is coming and we are not ready.
**What is your opinion about the events of March 2020 that included the Church? Are you sure? You better be right because it will determine where you go henceforward.
Ephesians 3:8-10:
“To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God, who created all things,so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places**.”
PLEASE WATCH/SHARE: Urgent Bible teaching here with all info here**.
Nick's reflections on Jordan Peterson & Elon Musk's conversation here****.
Mairi speaking about IVF here**.
You can subscribe to our YouTube channel and tap the "bell" to ensure you don't miss any videos here.
Please do share these videos on to your networks.
Maranatha?
MARANATHA!
Love, Nick & Mairi
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Support the show
Please support our podcast here.
Dear All,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray, a podcast akin to a growing library of voice-notes helping disciples of Christ around the world to breach the global chaos of the unfaithful Church...because Christ is coming and we are not ready.
The right hand of fellowship is an essential safeguard for the darkness that is coming upon the earth. All of us must be better at protecting it.
Dave’s important podcast is here.
PLEASE WATCH/SHARE: Urgent Bible teaching here with all info here**.
Nick's reflections on Jordan Peterson & Elon Musk's conversation here****.
Mairi speaking about IVF here**.
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Dear All,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray, a podcast akin to a growing library of voice-notes helping disciples of Christ around the world to breach the global chaos of the unfaithful Church...because Christ is coming and we are not ready.
Jesus issues a warning of great exclamation in Luke 12 — that we must be very careful to fear Him who has authority to throw us into hell rather than man who can but kill the body. I publish this podcast because I fear Him infinitely more than any man.
You can watch the original YouTube version of this here.
PLEASE WATCH/SHARE: Urgent Bible teaching here with all info here**.
Nick's reflections on Jordan Peterson & Elon Musk's conversation here****.
Mairi speaking about IVF here**.
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Love, Nick & Mairi
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2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
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Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray, a podcast akin to a growing library of voice-notes helping disciples of Christ around the world to breach the global chaos of the unfaithful Church...because Christ is coming and we are not ready.
Today's episode of the podcast briefly previews a taster of what we're going to be talking about over the next few months: IVF, recognising apostate churches and war. We then spend most of our session today hearing from Mairi about the I AM JEALOUS series and the life-changing nature of godly human jealousy.
PLEASE WATCH/SHARE: Urgent Bible teaching here with all info here**.
Nick's reflections on Jordan Peterson & Elon Musk's conversation here****.
Mairi speaking about IVF here**.
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MARANATHA!
Love, Nick & Mairi
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2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
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Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray, a podcast akin to a growing library of voice-notes helping disciples of Christ around the world to breach the global chaos of the unfaithful Church...because Christ is coming and we are not ready.
Today's special general election episode of the podcast considers the astonishing book by Paul Lynch, "Prophet Song", winner of the Booker Prize, (2023). You can watch the YouTube version of this podcast here.This is our manifesto. It has been for years. We've talked about it as such. It's the song of the Bible that most of us don't want to sing.
But Paul Lynch's "Prophet Song" is a book that carries with it an unregenerate prophetic quality that offers more than entertainment and lyrical prowess. Molly, especially, is a beautiful character that, were I still an English Literature student, I'd write all of my main essays about.
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2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
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Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray, a podcast akin to a growing library of voice-notes helping disciples of Christ around the world to breach the global chaos of the unfaithful Church...because Christ is coming and we are not ready.
Today's episode considers the question of the British General Election 2024 and the indomitable character of Nigel Farage who we think would make a superb church leader…if he was a Christian.
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2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
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Good morning to you all,
Last night I received an email from a Christian in their latter years that distressed me greatly because it is representative of so much of the Body of Christ: claiming to be in Christ and yet that also embracing, celebrating and rationalising false forms of prophecy and extra-biblical spirituality, all the while unfollowing and rejecting the compelling diagnosis and prescription from Scripture for such a malaise.
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2023: The Glorious Few
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2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
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2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
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Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray, a podcast akin to a growing library of voice-notes helping disciples of Christ around the world to breach the global chaos of the unfaithful Church...because Christ is coming and we are not ready.
Today's episode includes:
- Our reflections on two seminal Lloyd-Jones sermons on schism (division).
- Addressing the problematic period of time between Lloyd-Jones' prophetic critique of the Church and the chaos of 2024 (did he see how bad it would get?)
- A brief preview of the forthcoming "God's Unfaithful Wife" video here.
- Exposing the false doctrines of the Lausanne people who get John 17 and Acts 2 VERY wrong.
- What constitute essential doctrines?
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Maranatha?
MARANATHA!
Love, Nick & Mairi
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2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
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Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray, a podcast akin to a growing library of voice-notes helping disciples of Christ around the world to breach the global chaos of the unfaithful Church...because Christ is coming and we are not ready.
Today's episode includes the first "intro" audio from out new I AM JEALOUS teaching series on YouTube. (All seven other episodes will just be in video from there).
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Watch the first episode here.
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2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
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Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray, a podcast akin to a growing library of voice-notes helping disciples of Christ around the world to breach the global chaos of the unfaithful Church...because Christ is coming and we are not ready.
With reference to the pastoral words of Jesus in John 10, Nick briefly discusses the frightening reality being revealed in the Church, on this first day of a new general election in British politics, when national "prophecies" and "prophets" are demonstrably proven false (or, at the very least, in error). “The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out..." (Jesus (John 10:3)
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MARANATHA!
Love, Nick & Mairi
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2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
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Hello!
*N.B*. Our main giving page is here*. We especially need help with a new filming project that is arguably the most important project we will ever produce. We need financial backing for venue-hire and the expertise from film-makers/editors. “The devil's cleverest ruse is to make men believe that he does not exist” Baudelaire1. The related YouTube vlog is here. 2.* The euthanasia blog Nick mentions is here.
3. Nick's university pastiche is here.
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray, a podcast akin to a growing library of voice-notes helping disciples of Christ around the world to breach the global chaos of the unfaithful Church...because Christ is coming and we are not ready.
This week Nick and Mairi discuss the reality of Paul’s famous sentence, “***For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” (Ephesians 6:12)
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places…” (Ephesians 1:3).***
Maranatha?
MARANATHA!
Love, Nick & Mairi
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2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
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2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
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Hello!
N.B. Our main giving page is here*. We especially need help with a new filming project that is arguably the most important project we will ever produce. We need financial backing for venue-hire and the expertise from film-makers/editors.*
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray, a podcast akin to a growing library of voice-notes helping disciples of Christ around the world to breach the global chaos of the unfaithful Church...because Christ is coming and we are not ready.
This week I read out an excerpt of an address of Martin Lloyd-Jones to his own church during an annual day away as a church family in 1963. Encouragingly for us, the crux of what Lloyd-Jones was saying 61 years ago in 1963 is the same embryonic train of thought as the things I have written in The Glorious Few in 2023, (60 hence).
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2023: The Glorious Few
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2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
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2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
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Hello!
**In this week’s episode of Into the Pray, I drive to a local quiet spot on the east coast of north Scotland to read for you a 1953 address of Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones that ultimately caused John Stott, British Theologian from Cambridge, to publicly rebuke him.
Lloyd-Jones disagreed with ecumenicalism and the socio-political gospel of Billy Graham so strongly that he chose to face the ignominy that resulted from distancing himself from them rather than falling into the reality of Galatians 1:7-8.
Think along with me — are the attitudes which are central to the ecumenical agenda — in the Church and within Christian homes — really the foundations of faithful Christian relationships that are true to the gospel of Jesus Christ? What really of these “agree to disagree” agendas that cast a very dark shadow over those who refuse to agree that some matters, and some behaviours, shouldn’t ever be expected to change?**Listen to what Lloyd-Jones warned the church about in 1953.
See info on our new film series here and here.
Maranatha?
MARANATHA!
Love, Nick & Mairi
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2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
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Hello!
N.B. Our main giving page is here*. We especially need help with a new filming project that is arguably the most important project we will ever produce. We need financial backing for venue-hire and the expertise from film-makers/editors.*
This important episode of Into the Pray provides the promised follow-up conversation to this YouTube video exposing the woefully weak arguments of Peter Master's book, The Charismatic Illusion.
As Nick and Mairi discuss together, on the one hand we should be all calling out the contradictory condition of the Church with heated indignation and the sharpness of the prophetic gifts of the Holy Spirit, (50% of the Church are in error to the dishonour of God), but we should also produce the bountiful fruit in keeping with His nature.You can see the 2021 film Nick refers to at the end, Calling YESHUA, below.
Links:
See info on our new film series here and here.
Maranatha?
MARANATHA!
Love, Nick & Mairi
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
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Hello!
N.B. Our main giving page is here. We especially need help with a new filming project that is arguably the most important project we will ever produce. We need financial backing but also expertise from film-makers/editors.
This important episode of Into the Pray features the disturbing details (including lack thereof) of the Lausanne “Covenant” and Movement that’s followed since 1974.
The late Billy Graham and John Stott believed that “fundamentalists” were sinful in their “individualism”…but was this true and is this true today?
WATCH related vlog here.
Links:
Nick’s Bethel blog.
Lausanne Covenant
Piper’s 1989 Reflections
E.S. Williams Book
Maranatha?
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2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
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2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
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Hello!
The “Into the Pray” podcast lands this week in a new “on the run” vlog-form. Please let us know in the comments section if you like it!
The YouTube version of this podcast is here. **Please don't forget to subscribe and click the bell for notifications.
Our main giving page is here**. We especially need help with a new filming project that is arguably the most important project we will ever produce. We need financial backing but also expertise from film-makers/editors.
Episode #2 of these new PodVlogs is from a very busy shopping centre and coffee shop just yesterday on Good Friday, (we resisted the delicious cakes on Episode #2 of these new PodVlogs, discussing the Iranian church and the unchanging nature of biblical theology and doctrine, is from a very busy shopping centre and coffee shop on Good Friday, (we resisted the delicious cakes on offer).
Our conversation today followed a meeting that Nick had this week and that once again brought into distressing focus the chaos of the Church. Suffice to say, featuring Jesus' words in John 8, "Let’s Agree to Disagree” is the demonic inscription chiselled over millennia deeply into our altars of self. But Jesus dismantles all by the blast of His merciful Word…
Maranatha?
Love, Nick & Mairi
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2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
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2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
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Hello!
The “Into the Pray” podcast lands this week in a new “on the run” vlog-form. Please let us know in the comments section if you like it!
The YouTube version of this podcast is here. Please don't forget to subscribe and click the bell for notifications.
Our main giving page is here.
Episode #1 is from a very blustery Scottish beach in bright sunshine and taking shelter together in a warm cafe with excellent coffee, (we resisted the delicious cakes on offer).
Our conversation this week is to get us all to think about the spiritual climate that we’re all living within — ie that the multiplicity of different Christian doctrines and denominations that are tolerated (and even celebrated) equate to nothing other than deep spiritual sickness and spawning false gospels.
We also provide an update regarding my intense work in the background and invite you to support what we can not do on our own.
Maranatha?
Love, Nick & Mairi
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2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
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Greetings All!
[Apologies that the sound isn't as good as we would like it to be while we're trying to make the most of our current set-up].Nick recently had a significant conversation with a dairy farmer, Edward, while he milked his cows. Edward opened up about the inordinate pressures that he and his family are being put under by the godless government of the land which now means that a bottle of water is more expensive (of more worth) than a bottle of milk. But what does this have to do with eating at McDonald's and shopping with Amazon?
In today's episode of Into the Pray we explain why we've recently stopped eating McDonald's and shopping with Amazon.
What are ultra-processed foods (UPFs)?
Is Amazon's customer service really as good as we're all led to believe that it is?
Is McDonald's OK to eat?
Podcast title music can be listened to here.
Would you consider supporting our work? Neither of us now have salaries and the work we are doing in the background to produce all that we do is significant. You can support us here**. Thank you!
Also of note:**
Back in the spring of this I year, I published the seminal work, "The Glorious Few: Redeeming Radicalisation in the Kingdom of God." In the period of 2 weeks following publishing, several major things happened all at once that could have happened at any point in the previous 9 years. The disruption of the Lord culminated in Mairi resigning from her role as a Teacher of French in a large secondary school in Edinburgh and was a disruption that I wrote about prophetically in the book's epilogue. This episode of the Into the Pray podcast is Mairi's testimony and, as the final podcast in our home where the podcast began, please let me encourage you to listen with a prayerful heart. Perhaps you'd also share the episode to your networks.
Finally, what would Nick say to your local church and leadership? The 1% Church.
Thank you for listening. Maranatha! Nick & Mairi
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Greetings All!
[Apologies that the sound isn't as good as we would like it to be while we're trying to make the most of our current set-up].
In today's episode of Into the Pray, Mairi and Nick provide a follow-on from this YouTube a few days ago that probes the general response of church pastors to the prospect of radical change. Please leave your comments on the YouTube video
Podcast title music can be listened to here. In short, what are the dynamics that cause the disconnect between good, godly men whose doctrine is sound...and the radical change that is urgently required?After an intro responding critically to a T.A-Sparks devotional, Mairi and Nick go through a list of thoughts that is just the starting point of this urgent conversation....
Would you consider supporting our work? Neither of us now have salaries and the work we are doing in the background to produce all that we do is significant. You can support us here**. Thank you!
Also of note:**
Back in the spring of this I year, I published the seminal work, "The Glorious Few: Redeeming Radicalisation in the Kingdom of God." In the period of 2 weeks following publishing, several major things happened all at once that could have happened at any point in the previous 9 years. The disruption of the Lord culminated in Mairi resigning from her role as a Teacher of French in a large secondary school in Edinburgh and was a disruption that I wrote about prophetically in the book's epilogue. This episode of the Into the Pray podcast is Mairi's testimony and, as the final podcast in our home where the podcast began, please let me encourage you to listen with a prayerful heart. Perhaps you'd also share the episode to your networks.
Finally, what would Nick say to your local church and leadership? The 1% Church.
Thank you for listening. Maranatha! Nick & Mairi
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2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
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2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
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Greetings All!
In today's episode of Into the Pray, I provide a follow-on from my personal testimony shared on YouTube last week. You can watch that here. In short, ***what happens when "domesticated" civilian leaders encounter shell-shocked prophetic soldiers?
At the end of the episode I offer some advice to both
1) Shivering, shell-shocked prophets &
2) Civilian pastoral leadersMy university pastiche is here.
The other book I mention is here.
T.A-Sparks video re the demonic idolatry in the Church is here. ______________________________________________***
Would you consider supporting our work as we head into another increasingly "radicalised" year of service for the soon-to-come Lord Jesus? Neither of us now have salaries and the work we are doing in the background to produce all that we do is significant. You can support us here. Thank you!
Podcast title music can be listened to here. Also of note:
Back in the spring of this I year, I published the seminal work, "The Glorious Few: Redeeming Radicalisation in the Kingdom of God." In the period of 2 weeks following publishing, several major things happened all at once that could have happened at any point in the previous 9 years. The disruption of the Lord culminated in Mairi resigning from her role as a Teacher of French in a large secondary school in Edinburgh and was a disruption that I wrote about prophetically in the book's epilogue. This episode of the Into the Pray podcast is Mairi's testimony and, as the final podcast in our home where the podcast began, please let me encourage you to listen with a prayerful heart. Perhaps you'd also share the episode to your networks.
Finally, what would Nick say to your local church and leadership? The 1% Church.
Thank you for listening. Maranatha! Nick & Mairi
My books are available here with info about the latest, The Glorious Few, here. Order our gospel tracts for your parish here.
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2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
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2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
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Greetings All!
Firstly, would you consider supporting our full-time ministry as we head into another increasingly "radicalised" year of service for the soon-to-come Lord Jesus? Neither of us now have salaries and the work we are doing in the background to produce all that we do is significant. You can support us here. Thank you!
Podcast title music can be listened to here. In today's episode of Into the Pray, we sit down in Costa Coffee with a microphone to have a prayerful conversation 4+ months on having "left home and city" as a result of the stand we're taking concerning the chaos of the Church. We've tried to be honest, gracious and encouraging with a very niche audience **mainly in mind. We hope that the public ambience isn't distracting from what we share.
By providing something akin to a general update/catch-up, we talk about:
— Life since leaving home and city
— Reading the Bible twice in 4 months
— Three key verses of Scripture: Ezekiel 12:4; Hebrews 10:34; 1 Thessalonians 5:14.
— Prophetic encouragement and challenge, especially for those experiencing the inner discomfort (and even turmoil) as to if/how you are to separate yourself from all forms and communities of spiritual compromise.
— Brief feature of a rather forthright naysayer called Rosemary.**
Also of note:
Back in the spring of this I year, I published the seminal work, "The Glorious Few: Redeeming Radicalisation in the Kingdom of God." In the period of 2 weeks following publishing, several major things happened all at once that could have happened at any point in the previous 9 years. The disruption of the Lord culminated in Mairi resigning from her role as a Teacher of French in a large secondary school in Edinburgh and was a disruption that I wrote about prophetically in the book's epilogue. This episode of the Into the Pray podcast is Mairi's testimony and, as the final podcast in our home where the podcast began, please let me encourage you to listen with a prayerful heart. Perhaps you'd also share the episode to your networks.
Finally, what would Nick say to your local church and leadership? The 1% Church.
Thank you for listening. Maranatha! Nick & Mairi
My books are available here with info about the latest, The Glorious Few, here. Order our gospel tracts for your parish here.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Retur
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Greetings All!
Please seriously consider supporting our full-time ministry as we head into another increasingly "radicalised" year of service for the soon-to-come Lord Jesus. Neither of us now have salaries and the work we do in the background to produce all that we do is significant. As I explain in this teaching session, regular videos/podcasts will resume, Lord wiling, when we have a home to move into. You can support us here. Thank you.
The YouTube version of this recording is here.
Title music can be listened to here.
Also of note:
Back in the spring of this I year, I published the seminal work, "The Glorious Few: Redeeming Radicalisation in the Kingdom of God."
In the period of 2 weeks following publishing, several major things happened all at once that could have happened at any point in the previous 9 years. The disruption of the Lord culminated in Mairi resigning from her role as a Teacher of French in a large secondary school in Edinburgh and was a disruption that I wrote about prophetically in the book's epilogue. This episode of the Into the Pray podcast is Mairi's testimony and, as the final podcast in our home where the podcast began, please let me encourage you to listen with a prayerful heart. Perhaps you'd also share the episode to your networks.
Finally, what would Nick say to your local church and leadership? The 1% Church.
Maranatha!
My books are available here with info about the latest, The Glorious Few, here. Order our gospel tracts for your parish here.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi
Support the show
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Dear All
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray — our little offering of sanity amidst the ramping chaos of the Church and the anti-Christ world.
Wasn't Ravi Enough?is the title of one of the chapters in my latest book that you can see here. The question as to whether or not the scale and shock of the RZIM scandal was sufficient to rouse the Church from comatose is rhetorical; of course it wasn't. Neither was COVID-19, church closures and the emergence of totalitarian governments. Nevertheless, if we are going to take Jesus' return seriously, the question remains: what should happen when Christian leaders fall?
The YouTube version of this podcast here.
You can support us here.
Title music can be listened to here.
Back in the spring of this I year, I published the seminal work, "The Glorious Few: Redeeming Radicalisation in the Kingdom of God."
In the period of 2 weeks following publishing, several major things happened all at once that could have happened at any point in the previous 9 years. The disruption of the Lord culminated in Mairi resigning from her role as a Teacher of French in a large secondary school in Edinburgh and was a disruption that I wrote about prophetically in the book's epilogue.
This podcast is now Mairi's testimony and, as the final podcast in our home where the podcast began, please let me encourage you to listen with a prayerful heart. Perhaps you'd also share the episode to your networks.
Finally, what would Nick say to your local church and leadership? The 1% Church.
Maranatha!
My books are available here with info about the latest, The Glorious Few, here. Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
You can watch my "whistle-stop" response to the horrible situation with Hillsong here.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Support the show
If you would like to support this podcast, you can do so here.
Dear All
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray — our little offering of sanity amidst the ramping chaos of the Church and the anti-Christ world. This podcast is infinitely more important than anything that Russell Brand is saying.
YouTube version of this podcast here.
Stuart Greaves message here.
I love him, but Mike Bickle does not seem credible as a Bible teacher in this video.
Please read: THE DEATH & DEARTH OF SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY.
You can support us here.
Title music can be listened to here.
Back in the spring of this I year, I published the seminal work, "The Glorious Few: Redeeming Radicalisation in the Kingdom of God."
In the period of 2 weeks following publishing, several major things happened all at once that could have happened at any point in the previous 9 years. The disruption of the Lord culminated in Mairi resigning from her role as a Teacher of French in a large secondary school in Edinburgh and was a disruption that I wrote about prophetically in the book's epilogue.
This podcast is now Mairi's testimony and, as the final podcast in our home where the podcast began, please let me encourage you to listen with a prayerful heart. Perhaps you'd also share the episode to your networks.
Finally, what would Nick say to your local church and leadership? The 1% Church.
Maranatha!
My books are available here with info about the latest, The Glorious Few, here. Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
You can watch my "whistle-stop" response to the horrible situation with Hillsong here.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Support the show
If you would like to support this podcast, you can do so here.
Dear All
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray — our little offering of sanity amidst the ramping chaos of the Church and the anti-Christ world.
You can support us here.
Title music can be listened to here.
Back in the spring of this I year, I published the seminal work, "The Glorious Few: Redeeming Radicalisation in the Kingdom of God."
In the period of 2 weeks following publishing, several major things happened all at once that could have happened at any point in the previous 9 years. The disruption of the Lord culminated in Mairi resigning from her role as a Teacher of French in a large secondary school in Edinburgh and was a disruption that I wrote about prophetically in the book's epilogue.
This podcast is now Mairi's testimony and, as the final podcast in our home where the podcast began, please let me encourage you to listen with a prayerful heart. Perhaps you'd also share the episode to your networks.
May His will be done.
Maranatha!
My books are available here with info about the latest, The Glorious Few, here. Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
You can watch my "whistle-stop" response to the horrible situation with Hillsong here.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Support the show
Dear All
You can watch the YouTube version of this podcast here.
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray — our little offering of sanity amidst the ramping chaos of the Church and the anti-Christ world.
You can support this work here.
Title music can be listened to here.
Based in the United Kingdom, “Premier Christianity” are the largest “Christian” media organisation in Europe, influencing hundreds of thousands of people.
This week I happened to see a job advert on their website entitled, “Pastoral minister, part-time, LGBT inclusive church”. So I wrote to Premier to enquire as to what was going on.
The email that I received back from their Editorial Director, Sam Hailes, was absolutely sickening.
Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:23 Highlights
2:37 The email
40:50 Hosea study
1:04:08 Jackie Hill Perry example
1:11:19 closing prayer
You may disagree that I should have taken this course of public action, but it is the Lord Jesus Who is my witness; He will have a Bride prepared but it will be through travail.
“Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.”(Ephesians 5:11)
The largest “Christian” media organisation in Europe is joined to the spirit of whoredom. Therefore the book of Hosea is a pivotally important book for the reforming Church in the years ahead.
“Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone.” (Hosea 4:17)
My books are available here with info about the latest, The Glorious Few, here. Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
You can watch my "whistle-stop" response to the horrible situation with Hillsong here.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Support the show
Dear All
You can watch a video presentation of this podcast here.
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray — our little offering of sanity amidst the ramping chaos of the Church and the anti-Christ world.
You can support this work here.
Title music can be listened to here.
An elderly lady in her 90s wasn’t sure what I meant when I publicly announced during a sermon in a local church recently that it was the Lord Who closed our churches in 2020. It’s a tender picture: a fine Christian lady in her ninth decade struggling to grasp the need of God to “smite” His Bride.
Uncertainty about this is completely understandable but this video below addresses what is now a chasm of more than 3 years in church history.
It is insane to ask the question in the middle of the night and then, come the morning, refuse to listen to the answer.
Thank you for listening.
My books are available here with info about the latest, The Glorious Few, here. Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
You can watch my "whistle-stop" response to the horrible situation with Hillsong here.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Support the show
Dear All
You can watch a video presentation of this podcast here.
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray — our little offering of sanity amidst the ramping chaos of the Church and the anti-Christ world.
You can support this work here.
Title music can be listened to here.
When the term "wounded prophet" is used, often by church pastors, what is really going on?
Of the biblical Prophets, Abraham Heschel wrote:
"The sorts of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics. To us a single act of injustice – cheating business, exploitation of the poor – is slight; to the prophets, a disaster. To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world."
Thank you...and thank you for listening.
My books are available here with info about the latest, The Glorious Few, here. Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
You can watch my "whistle-stop" response to the horrible situation with Hillsong here.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Support the show
Dear All
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray — our little offering of sanity amidst the ramping chaos of the Church and the anti-Christ world.
You can support this work here.
Title music can be listened to here.
Today's impromptu episode of Into the Pray functions as both an urgent request for prayer and an absolutely "bang-on" devotional from T. A. Sparks that you can read here.
"Touch some Christians, or Christian institutions, and let the touch be even in relation to something more of the Lord Himself, and you will find an uprising of jealous regard for the institution which utterly blinds to that possibility of an extra measure of the Lord Himself...if you are spiritually sensitive, that you are not just encountering the established institutions, but you are encountering a terrific spiritual force."
I personally encounter this demonic power on a regular basis but it is one that has and does attack us as a couple in quite serious ways. Please pray for our protection and for provision, discernment, HEALING and leading at this time.
Thank you...and thank you for listening.
You can watch my "whistle-stop" response to the horrible situation with Hillsong here.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Support the show
Dear All
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray — our little offering of sanity amidst the ramping chaos of the Church and the anti-Christ world. If you'd prefer you can watch this podcast here.
You can support this work here.
Title music can be listened to here.
Today's podcast provides a brief update on our previously advertised series, the introduction for which is here.
The Hillsong scenario is difficult to watch, difficult to commentate on but, nevertheless, a reality that must throw us again into the place of prayer for the radical preparation of the true Bride of Christ and a genuine reformation in our tumultuous days.
**My commentary on the Hillsong situation will:
- Save you watching 4 hours of “The Secrets of Hillsong” docu-series;
- Provide my “take” on what the situation is saying to those who have been given ears to hear.**
You can watch the YouTube version of this here.
Related blog including my 2018 Twitter argument with Karl here: https://firebrandnotes.com/2018/05/10/paul-scanlon-carl-lentz-world-class-leadership-or-social-media-cowardice/
THE GLORIOUS FEW BOOK 👇
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Support the show
Today I was cancelled (and probably reported) by Amazon meaning that
1) the audiobook version of The Glorious Few is not going to be available on Kindle and
2) the paperback version of The Glorious Few is not going to be available on Kindle (you will have to get your copy from us directly: https://www.bodyzerobook.com/product/the-glorious-few)
HOWEVER, you can now subscribe to "premium" content on this podcast where the entire audiobook is available.
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**Thank you for purchasing this audiobook version of the 2023 book by Nicholas Paul Franks, The Glorious Few.
If you would like to support this ministry, please click here**.
For more information, including the book's promo film and hard copy orders, please click here.
“Islamic extremists blow-up our teenagers, our elected governments teach our children about the benefits of pornography and prominent church leaders say nothing biblical about abortion and transgenderism.”
Beginning with Saul’s dramatic transformation from Christian-hater to radical disciple, The Glorious Few leads the reader on a journey through the de-radicalised Church to discover what radical discipleship really means.
Nick Franks reflects on the counterfeit process by which Islamic terrorists are radicalised and what this spiritual forgery teaches us about the Holy Spirit and His preparation of the Church for the return of Christ.
Using scriptural study, extensive research and personal testimony, The Glorious Few is ultimately a heart-felt cry for national repentance and the Bride of Christ to be straightened out in preparation for the return of Jesus.
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Support the show
Subscriber-only episode
**Thank you for purchasing this audiobook version of the 2023 book by Nicholas Paul Franks, The Glorious Few.
If you would like to support this ministry, please click here**.
For more information, including the book's promo film and hard copy orders, please click here.
“Islamic extremists blow-up our teenagers, our elected governments teach our children about the benefits of pornography and prominent church leaders say nothing biblical about abortion and transgenderism.”
Beginning with Saul’s dramatic transformation from Christian-hater to radical disciple, The Glorious Few leads the reader on a journey through the de-radicalised Church to discover what radical discipleship really means.
Nick Franks reflects on the counterfeit process by which Islamic terrorists are radicalised and what this spiritual forgery teaches us about the Holy Spirit and His preparation of the Church for the return of Christ.
Using scriptural study, extensive research and personal testimony, The Glorious Few is ultimately a heart-felt cry for national repentance and the Bride of Christ to be straightened out in preparation for the return of Jesus.
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Subscriber-only episode
**Thank you for purchasing this audiobook version of the 2023 book by Nicholas Paul Franks, The Glorious Few.
If you would like to support this ministry, please click here**.
For more information, including the book's promo film and hard copy orders, please click here.
“Islamic extremists blow-up our teenagers, our elected governments teach our children about the benefits of pornography and prominent church leaders say nothing biblical about abortion and transgenderism.”
Beginning with Saul’s dramatic transformation from Christian-hater to radical disciple, The Glorious Few leads the reader on a journey through the de-radicalised Church to discover what radical discipleship really means.
Nick Franks reflects on the counterfeit process by which Islamic terrorists are radicalised and what this spiritual forgery teaches us about the Holy Spirit and His preparation of the Church for the return of Christ.
Using scriptural study, extensive research and personal testimony, The Glorious Few is ultimately a heart-felt cry for national repentance and the Bride of Christ to be straightened out in preparation for the return of Jesus.
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Subscriber-only episode
**Thank you for purchasing this audiobook version of the 2023 book by Nicholas Paul Franks, The Glorious Few.
If you would like to support this ministry, please click here**.
For more information, including the book's promo film and hard copy orders, please click here.
“Islamic extremists blow-up our teenagers, our elected governments teach our children about the benefits of pornography and prominent church leaders say nothing biblical about abortion and transgenderism.”
Beginning with Saul’s dramatic transformation from Christian-hater to radical disciple, The Glorious Few leads the reader on a journey through the de-radicalised Church to discover what radical discipleship really means.
Nick Franks reflects on the counterfeit process by which Islamic terrorists are radicalised and what this spiritual forgery teaches us about the Holy Spirit and His preparation of the Church for the return of Christ.
Using scriptural study, extensive research and personal testimony, The Glorious Few is ultimately a heart-felt cry for national repentance and the Bride of Christ to be straightened out in preparation for the return of Jesus.
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Subscriber-only episode
**Thank you for purchasing this audiobook version of the 2023 book by Nicholas Paul Franks, The Glorious Few.
If you would like to support this ministry, please click here**.
For more information, including the book's promo film and hard copy orders, please click here.
“Islamic extremists blow-up our teenagers, our elected governments teach our children about the benefits of pornography and prominent church leaders say nothing biblical about abortion and transgenderism.”
Beginning with Saul’s dramatic transformation from Christian-hater to radical disciple, The Glorious Few leads the reader on a journey through the de-radicalised Church to discover what radical discipleship really means.
Nick Franks reflects on the counterfeit process by which Islamic terrorists are radicalised and what this spiritual forgery teaches us about the Holy Spirit and His preparation of the Church for the return of Christ.
Using scriptural study, extensive research and personal testimony, The Glorious Few is ultimately a heart-felt cry for national repentance and the Bride of Christ to be straightened out in preparation for the return of Jesus.
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Subscriber-only episode
**Thank you for purchasing this audiobook version of the 2023 book by Nicholas Paul Franks, The Glorious Few.
If you would like to support this ministry, please click here**.
For more information, including the book's promo film and hard copy orders, please click here.
“Islamic extremists blow-up our teenagers, our elected governments teach our children about the benefits of pornography and prominent church leaders say nothing biblical about abortion and transgenderism.”
Beginning with Saul’s dramatic transformation from Christian-hater to radical disciple, The Glorious Few leads the reader on a journey through the de-radicalised Church to discover what radical discipleship really means.
Nick Franks reflects on the counterfeit process by which Islamic terrorists are radicalised and what this spiritual forgery teaches us about the Holy Spirit and His preparation of the Church for the return of Christ.
Using scriptural study, extensive research and personal testimony, The Glorious Few is ultimately a heart-felt cry for national repentance and the Bride of Christ to be straightened out in preparation for the return of Jesus.
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Subscriber-only episode
**Thank you for purchasing this audiobook version of the 2023 book by Nicholas Paul Franks, The Glorious Few.
If you would like to support this ministry, please click here**.
For more information, including the book's promo film and hard copy orders, please click here.
“Islamic extremists blow-up our teenagers, our elected governments teach our children about the benefits of pornography and prominent church leaders say nothing biblical about abortion and transgenderism.”
Beginning with Saul’s dramatic transformation from Christian-hater to radical disciple, The Glorious Few leads the reader on a journey through the de-radicalised Church to discover what radical discipleship really means.
Nick Franks reflects on the counterfeit process by which Islamic terrorists are radicalised and what this spiritual forgery teaches us about the Holy Spirit and His preparation of the Church for the return of Christ.
Using scriptural study, extensive research and personal testimony, The Glorious Few is ultimately a heart-felt cry for national repentance and the Bride of Christ to be straightened out in preparation for the return of Jesus.
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Subscriber-only episode
**Thank you for purchasing this audiobook version of the 2023 book by Nicholas Paul Franks, The Glorious Few.
If you would like to support this ministry, please click here**.
For more information, including the book's promo film and hard copy orders, please click here.
“Islamic extremists blow-up our teenagers, our elected governments teach our children about the benefits of pornography and prominent church leaders say nothing biblical about abortion and transgenderism.”
Beginning with Saul’s dramatic transformation from Christian-hater to radical disciple, The Glorious Few leads the reader on a journey through the de-radicalised Church to discover what radical discipleship really means.
Nick Franks reflects on the counterfeit process by which Islamic terrorists are radicalised and what this spiritual forgery teaches us about the Holy Spirit and His preparation of the Church for the return of Christ.
Using scriptural study, extensive research and personal testimony, The Glorious Few is ultimately a heart-felt cry for national repentance and the Bride of Christ to be straightened out in preparation for the return of Jesus.
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Subscriber-only episode
**Thank you for purchasing this audiobook version of the 2023 book by Nicholas Paul Franks, The Glorious Few.
If you would like to support this ministry, please click here**.
For more information, including the book's promo film and hard copy orders, please click here.
“Islamic extremists blow-up our teenagers, our elected governments teach our children about the benefits of pornography and prominent church leaders say nothing biblical about abortion and transgenderism.”
Beginning with Saul’s dramatic transformation from Christian-hater to radical disciple, The Glorious Few leads the reader on a journey through the de-radicalised Church to discover what radical discipleship really means.
Nick Franks reflects on the counterfeit process by which Islamic terrorists are radicalised and what this spiritual forgery teaches us about the Holy Spirit and His preparation of the Church for the return of Christ.
Using scriptural study, extensive research and personal testimony, The Glorious Few is ultimately a heart-felt cry for national repentance and the Bride of Christ to be straightened out in preparation for the return of Jesus.
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Subscriber-only episode
**Thank you for purchasing this audiobook version of the 2023 book by Nicholas Paul Franks, The Glorious Few.
If you would like to support this ministry, please click here**.
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“Islamic extremists blow-up our teenagers, our elected governments teach our children about the benefits of pornography and prominent church leaders say nothing biblical about abortion and transgenderism.”
Beginning with Saul’s dramatic transformation from Christian-hater to radical disciple, The Glorious Few leads the reader on a journey through the de-radicalised Church to discover what radical discipleship really means.
Nick Franks reflects on the counterfeit process by which Islamic terrorists are radicalised and what this spiritual forgery teaches us about the Holy Spirit and His preparation of the Church for the return of Christ.
Using scriptural study, extensive research and personal testimony, The Glorious Few is ultimately a heart-felt cry for national repentance and the Bride of Christ to be straightened out in preparation for the return of Jesus.
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Subscriber-only episode
**Thank you for purchasing this audiobook version of the 2023 book by Nicholas Paul Franks, The Glorious Few.
If you would like to support this ministry, please click here**.
For more information, including the book's promo film and hard copy orders, please click here.
“Islamic extremists blow-up our teenagers, our elected governments teach our children about the benefits of pornography and prominent church leaders say nothing biblical about abortion and transgenderism.”
Beginning with Saul’s dramatic transformation from Christian-hater to radical disciple, The Glorious Few leads the reader on a journey through the de-radicalised Church to discover what radical discipleship really means.
Nick Franks reflects on the counterfeit process by which Islamic terrorists are radicalised and what this spiritual forgery teaches us about the Holy Spirit and His preparation of the Church for the return of Christ.
Using scriptural study, extensive research and personal testimony, The Glorious Few is ultimately a heart-felt cry for national repentance and the Bride of Christ to be straightened out in preparation for the return of Jesus.
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Subscriber-only episode
**Thank you for purchasing this audiobook version of the 2023 book by Nicholas Paul Franks, The Glorious Few.
If you would like to support this ministry, please click here**.
For more information, including the book's promo film and hard copy orders, please click here.
“Islamic extremists blow-up our teenagers, our elected governments teach our children about the benefits of pornography and prominent church leaders say nothing biblical about abortion and transgenderism.”
Beginning with Saul’s dramatic transformation from Christian-hater to radical disciple, The Glorious Few leads the reader on a journey through the de-radicalised Church to discover what radical discipleship really means.
Nick Franks reflects on the counterfeit process by which Islamic terrorists are radicalised and what this spiritual forgery teaches us about the Holy Spirit and His preparation of the Church for the return of Christ.
Using scriptural study, extensive research and personal testimony, The Glorious Few is ultimately a heart-felt cry for national repentance and the Bride of Christ to be straightened out in preparation for the return of Jesus.
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Subscriber-only episode
**Thank you for purchasing this audiobook version of the 2023 book by Nicholas Paul Franks, The Glorious Few.
If you would like to support this ministry, please click here**.
For more information, including the book's promo film and hard copy orders, please click here.
“Islamic extremists blow-up our teenagers, our elected governments teach our children about the benefits of pornography and prominent church leaders say nothing biblical about abortion and transgenderism.”
Beginning with Saul’s dramatic transformation from Christian-hater to radical disciple, The Glorious Few leads the reader on a journey through the de-radicalised Church to discover what radical discipleship really means.
Nick Franks reflects on the counterfeit process by which Islamic terrorists are radicalised and what this spiritual forgery teaches us about the Holy Spirit and His preparation of the Church for the return of Christ.
Using scriptural study, extensive research and personal testimony, The Glorious Few is ultimately a heart-felt cry for national repentance and the Bride of Christ to be straightened out in preparation for the return of Jesus.
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Subscriber-only episode
**Thank you for purchasing this audiobook version of the 2023 book by Nicholas Paul Franks, The Glorious Few.
If you would like to support this ministry, please click here**.
For more information, including the book's promo film and hard copy orders, please click here.
“Islamic extremists blow-up our teenagers, our elected governments teach our children about the benefits of pornography and prominent church leaders say nothing biblical about abortion and transgenderism.”
Beginning with Saul’s dramatic transformation from Christian-hater to radical disciple, The Glorious Few leads the reader on a journey through the de-radicalised Church to discover what radical discipleship really means.
Nick Franks reflects on the counterfeit process by which Islamic terrorists are radicalised and what this spiritual forgery teaches us about the Holy Spirit and His preparation of the Church for the return of Christ.
Using scriptural study, extensive research and personal testimony, The Glorious Few is ultimately a heart-felt cry for national repentance and the Bride of Christ to be straightened out in preparation for the return of Jesus.
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Subscriber-only episode
**Thank you for purchasing this audiobook version of the 2023 book by Nicholas Paul Franks, The Glorious Few.
If you would like to support this ministry, please click here**.
For more information, including the book's promo film and hard copy orders, please click here.
“Islamic extremists blow-up our teenagers, our elected governments teach our children about the benefits of pornography and prominent church leaders say nothing biblical about abortion and transgenderism.”
Beginning with Saul’s dramatic transformation from Christian-hater to radical disciple, The Glorious Few leads the reader on a journey through the de-radicalised Church to discover what radical discipleship really means.
Nick Franks reflects on the counterfeit process by which Islamic terrorists are radicalised and what this spiritual forgery teaches us about the Holy Spirit and His preparation of the Church for the return of Christ.
Using scriptural study, extensive research and personal testimony, The Glorious Few is ultimately a heart-felt cry for national repentance and the Bride of Christ to be straightened out in preparation for the return of Jesus.
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Subscriber-only episode
**Thank you for purchasing this audiobook version of the 2023 book by Nicholas Paul Franks, The Glorious Few.
If you would like to support this ministry, please click here**.
For more information, including the book's promo film and hard copy orders, please click here.
“Islamic extremists blow-up our teenagers, our elected governments teach our children about the benefits of pornography and prominent church leaders say nothing biblical about abortion and transgenderism.”
Beginning with Saul’s dramatic transformation from Christian-hater to radical disciple, The Glorious Few leads the reader on a journey through the de-radicalised Church to discover what radical discipleship really means.
Nick Franks reflects on the counterfeit process by which Islamic terrorists are radicalised and what this spiritual forgery teaches us about the Holy Spirit and His preparation of the Church for the return of Christ.
Using scriptural study, extensive research and personal testimony, The Glorious Few is ultimately a heart-felt cry for national repentance and the Bride of Christ to be straightened out in preparation for the return of Jesus.
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Subscriber-only episode
**Thank you for purchasing this audiobook version of the 2023 book by Nicholas Paul Franks, The Glorious Few.
If you would like to support this ministry, please click here**.
For more information, including the book's promo film and hard copy orders, please click here.
“Islamic extremists blow-up our teenagers, our elected governments teach our children about the benefits of pornography and prominent church leaders say nothing biblical about abortion and transgenderism.”
Beginning with Saul’s dramatic transformation from Christian-hater to radical disciple, The Glorious Few leads the reader on a journey through the de-radicalised Church to discover what radical discipleship really means.
Nick Franks reflects on the counterfeit process by which Islamic terrorists are radicalised and what this spiritual forgery teaches us about the Holy Spirit and His preparation of the Church for the return of Christ.
Using scriptural study, extensive research and personal testimony, The Glorious Few is ultimately a heart-felt cry for national repentance and the Bride of Christ to be straightened out in preparation for the return of Jesus.
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Subscriber-only episode
**Thank you for purchasing this audiobook version of the 2023 book by Nicholas Paul Franks, The Glorious Few.
If you would like to support this ministry, please click here**.
For more information, including the book's promo film and hard copy orders, please click here.
“Islamic extremists blow-up our teenagers, our elected governments teach our children about the benefits of pornography and prominent church leaders say nothing biblical about abortion and transgenderism.”
Beginning with Saul’s dramatic transformation from Christian-hater to radical disciple, The Glorious Few leads the reader on a journey through the de-radicalised Church to discover what radical discipleship really means.
Nick Franks reflects on the counterfeit process by which Islamic terrorists are radicalised and what this spiritual forgery teaches us about the Holy Spirit and His preparation of the Church for the return of Christ.
Using scriptural study, extensive research and personal testimony, The Glorious Few is ultimately a heart-felt cry for national repentance and the Bride of Christ to be straightened out in preparation for the return of Jesus.
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Subscriber-only episode
**Thank you for purchasing this audiobook version of the 2023 book by Nicholas Paul Franks, The Glorious Few.
If you would like to support this ministry, please click here**.
For more information, including the book's promo film and hard copy orders, please click here.
“Islamic extremists blow-up our teenagers, our elected governments teach our children about the benefits of pornography and prominent church leaders say nothing biblical about abortion and transgenderism.”
Beginning with Saul’s dramatic transformation from Christian-hater to radical disciple, The Glorious Few leads the reader on a journey through the de-radicalised Church to discover what radical discipleship really means.
Nick Franks reflects on the counterfeit process by which Islamic terrorists are radicalised and what this spiritual forgery teaches us about the Holy Spirit and His preparation of the Church for the return of Christ.
Using scriptural study, extensive research and personal testimony, The Glorious Few is ultimately a heart-felt cry for national repentance and the Bride of Christ to be straightened out in preparation for the return of Jesus.
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Subscriber-only episode
**Thank you for purchasing this audiobook version of the 2023 book by Nicholas Paul Franks, The Glorious Few.
If you would like to support this ministry, please click here**.
For more information, including the book's promo film and hard copy orders, please click here.
“Islamic extremists blow-up our teenagers, our elected governments teach our children about the benefits of pornography and prominent church leaders say nothing biblical about abortion and transgenderism.”
Beginning with Saul’s dramatic transformation from Christian-hater to radical disciple, The Glorious Few leads the reader on a journey through the de-radicalised Church to discover what radical discipleship really means.
Nick Franks reflects on the counterfeit process by which Islamic terrorists are radicalised and what this spiritual forgery teaches us about the Holy Spirit and His preparation of the Church for the return of Christ.
Using scriptural study, extensive research and personal testimony, The Glorious Few is ultimately a heart-felt cry for national repentance and the Bride of Christ to be straightened out in preparation for the return of Jesus.
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Subscriber-only episode
**Thank you for purchasing this audiobook version of the 2023 book by Nicholas Paul Franks, The Glorious Few.
If you would like to support this ministry, please click here**.
For more information, including the book's promo film and hard copy orders, please click here.
“Islamic extremists blow-up our teenagers, our elected governments teach our children about the benefits of pornography and prominent church leaders say nothing biblical about abortion and transgenderism.”
Beginning with Saul’s dramatic transformation from Christian-hater to radical disciple, The Glorious Few leads the reader on a journey through the de-radicalised Church to discover what radical discipleship really means.
Nick Franks reflects on the counterfeit process by which Islamic terrorists are radicalised and what this spiritual forgery teaches us about the Holy Spirit and His preparation of the Church for the return of Christ.
Using scriptural study, extensive research and personal testimony, The Glorious Few is ultimately a heart-felt cry for national repentance and the Bride of Christ to be straightened out in preparation for the return of Jesus.
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Subscriber-only episode
**Thank you for purchasing this audiobook version of the 2023 book by Nicholas Paul Franks, The Glorious Few.
If you would like to support this ministry, please click here**.
For more information, including the book's promo film and hard copy orders, please click here.
“Islamic extremists blow-up our teenagers, our elected governments teach our children about the benefits of pornography and prominent church leaders say nothing biblical about abortion and transgenderism.”
Beginning with Saul’s dramatic transformation from Christian-hater to radical disciple, The Glorious Few leads the reader on a journey through the de-radicalised Church to discover what radical discipleship really means.
Nick Franks reflects on the counterfeit process by which Islamic terrorists are radicalised and what this spiritual forgery teaches us about the Holy Spirit and His preparation of the Church for the return of Christ.
Using scriptural study, extensive research and personal testimony, The Glorious Few is ultimately a heart-felt cry for national repentance and the Bride of Christ to be straightened out in preparation for the return of Jesus.
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Dear All
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray — our little offering of sanity amidst the ramping chaos of the Church and the anti-Christ world. If you'd prefer you can watch this podcast here.
You can support this work here.
Title music can be listened to here.
Please note: the audiobook version of The Glorious Few will be available at the end of June 2023.
The other day I happened to see a sermon that I preached when I was only 26. It was one of the first times I spoke publicly and basically centred on Philippians 1:21.
Approaching two decades later, and after a decade of marriage to beautiful Mairi, there are things to say. Hence this new four-part series in which we will transparently and appropriately discuss:
1) Forgiveness & family (when reconciliation can not happen)
2) What we sounded like 10 years ago (social media and the de-radicalised Church)
3) Vocation & employment (trained for the kingdom of God)
This session today contextualises the conversations by way of an introduction.
The Glorious Few book info/sales are here and its hard-hitting promo film is here. (Please share).
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Dear All
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray — our little offering of sanity amidst the ramping chaos of the Church and the anti-Christ world.
If you'd prefer you can watch the audio at the end of this podcast (Why I cut my hair...SHORT) you can do so here.
Please note: the audiobook version of The Glorious Few will be available at the end of June 2023.
In this episode I explain why I cut off my long hair yesterday, give you a snippet of The Glorious Few audiobook and provide a brief update on our movements.
The Glorious Few book info/sales are here and its hard-hitting promo film is here. (Please share).
You can support this work here.
Title music can be listened to here.
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Dear All
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray — our little offering of sanity amidst the ramping chaos of the Church and the anti-Christ world.
If you'd prefer you can watch this podcast here.
Do you feel able to confront the LGBT narratives that are traipsing all over the flower beds of civilised society? What would be helpful to memorise to say? Should I have to sit through an LGBT indoctrination while working out in a fitness class?
The Glorious Few book info/sales are here and its hard-hitting promo film is here. (Please share).
You can support this work here.
Title music can be listened to here.
Watch this podcast on YouTube here.
“If we accept the idea of equality without distinction, we logically must accept the ideas of abortion and homosexuality.”
— Francis Schaeffer
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Dear All
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray — our little offering of sanity amidst the ramping chaos of the Church and the anti-Christ world.
The Glorious Few book info/sales are here and its hard-hitting promo film is here. (Please share).
You can support this work here.
Title music can be listened to here.
Watch this podcast on YouTube here.
Thanks to Tim of the Owl and Badger podcast who recently joined me in conversation to discuss the English Baptist church within which he was previously an elder and his resignation over their extra-biblical teaching.
If you'd prefer you can watch to this podcast here.
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Dear All
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray — our little offering of sanity amidst the ramping chaos of the Church and the anti-Christ world.
You can support this work here.
Title music can be listened to here.
Watch this podcast on YouTube here.
Quoting the Athanasian Creed, this is what J. C. Ryle wrote regarding John 1:14:
In the first place, let us carefully remember that when “the Word became flesh,” He became so by the union of two perfect and distinct natures in one Person. The manner of this union we cannot explain, but the fact we must firmly believe. “Christ,” says the Athanasian Creed, “is God and Man; God of the substance of the Father, begotten before the world, and man of the substance of His mother, born in the world; perfect God and perfect man. Who, although He be God and man, yet He is not two but one Christ; one not by conversion of the godhead into flesh, but by taking of the manhood into God.”
These words are very important and yet are neglected or, worse still, contested by so-called Christian churches.
The Glorious Few book info/sales are here and its hard-hitting promo film is here. (Please share).
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Dear All
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray — our little offering of sanity amidst the ramping insanity of the chaotic Church and the anti-Christ world. You can support this work here.
Title music can be listened to here.
Watch this podcast on YouTube here. **I increasingly love the 19th C. witness of J. C. Ryle. I am also increasingly persuaded that he would not have condoned the "remain within" approach of many good men in the Church today.
Drawing on the work of Michael Drake****, this video explains why I disagree with the likes of bro Jamie Franklin whose conviction is poles apart from mine.
The Owl & Badger podcast speak with Jamie here**.
In order to truly discover the radical work of the Holy Spirit in our personal and corporate life, we must come away from that which is manifestly false and repent that we found that simple action so profoundly hard.
C. H. Spurgeon agreed with me.
The Glorious Few book info/sales are here and its hard-hitting promo film is here. (Please share).
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
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2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Dear All
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray, our little offering of sanity amidst the ramping insanity of the chaotic Church and the anti-Christ world. You can support this work here. Title music can be listened to without charge here.
Did you notice the headlines from Kenya yesterday regarding Paul Nthenge Mackenzie? This appalling case of counterfeit "Christian" spirituality serves to support the thesis of my new book information/sale for which can be found here. Related video here.
Today's episode of the podcast also includes montage edited from a 90 min conversation about the Church that I had with Tim and Helen over on the Owl and Badger podcast. You can listen to our excellent conversation in full here. It is always encouraging to speak with others who are also waking up and smelling the Babylonian coffee.
Am I a homophobic hypocrite as claimed by "Rawhead Rex"? Watch the short video here.
The Glorious Few book info/sales are here and its hard-hitting promo film is here. (Please share).
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
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2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello everyone
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray. The YouTube version of this vlog is here.
Whether or not the Holy Spirit continues to give gifts to the Church today is not an "agree to disagree" issue. We should think about it like this: approximately 50% of the Body of Christ are believing/teaching error that both displeases the Lord but also hamstrings the Church.
I enjoyed watching this sermon from John MacArthur yesterday but in his handling of several passages of Scripture he failed to address the unfaithfulness of the Church. THIS is the question of the moment and it is no surprise to me that cessationist men of the stature and quality of MacArthur are failing to hit the nail on the head — instead they're in effect skimming the nail with a hammer so as to knock it in but knock it in all askew.
The Glorious Few book info/sales are here and its hard-hitting promo film is here. (Please share).
You can support this work here.
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
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Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Dear All,
Thank you for listening to the Into the Pray podcast. You can watch the YouTube version of this vlog here.
Did you watch Amol Rajan interview Piers Morgan on the BBC last night? I like Amol and I don’t agree with Piers on everything, but he did nail it regarding our fascist western culture and the wokerati.
Try telling Christians today who are berated for being "hateful" and "bigoted", who even lose their livelihoods as a result, that fascism in the 21st. C. is merely "theoretical". Perhaps Amol Rajan would see things differently if he lost his job for the conscience conscription of his faith.
The Glorious Few book info/sales are here and its hard-hitting promo film is here. (Please share).
You can support this work here.
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
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Let's smash this fake gospel up.
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2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Dear All,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
I’ll allow the podcast to explain itself but, suffice to say, if you are distressed at the contradictory condition in which we are as the Church as a whole, (and especially what is recognised as the word of the LORD), I pray this episode is a comfort to you/yours.
When magazines from the biggest para-church organisations in the country (ie Christian Concern) come through our doors, we must exercise discernment. I’ve personally warned Andrea Williams about this but she wouldn’t listen.
You can watch this week's two videos here:
1) Dealing with a "call to repentance" that I view as false.
2) Dealing with the distress of this that impacts all who long to be true.
The Glorious Few book info/sales are here and its hard-hitting promo film is here. (Please share).
You can support this work here.
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
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Let's smash this fake gospel up.
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2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Dear All
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
We'll keep this simple by saying that a few people have asked what we think of the GAFCON situation and the recent conference in Rwanda. This is what we think. You can order my latest book, below, to understand in more detail why we think what we think.
“If you are the first to repent, earlier and more fully than others, you must expect predators in the guise of penitents to flock around and peck your liver.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Related video here.
The Viral Distraction of the UK blessing (as referred to in this episode) is here.
The Glorious Few — all information and sales can be found here.
Please watch/share The Glorious Few film here. (Please do share the film for us).
If you would like to support our work financially, please do so here (or contact us directly via email).
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2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Dear All
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray and this special episode of the podcast that features the focus of my full-time work over more than the last year.
All information and sales can be found here.
Please watch/share The Glorious Few film here.
If you would like to support our work financially, please do so here (or contact us directly via email).
Yesterday, Mairi and I released a new book entitled, The Glorious Few: Redeeming Radicalisation in the Kingdom of God.
Included in this episode of the podcast is a free taster of the audio-book version that will be available in the next couple of weeks. This, along with the paperback and eBook versions, will be available in the Body Zero book shop.
Please keep an eye out on YouTube for the film accompanying this book which is available here. There will also be an announcement on there soon about the joint Q&A session that Mairi and I will do together. If you have any questions for that please just email them to us in advance or join the live chat at the time.
I won't give an overview of the book her because that is available via the links above.
Please also spend time watching this important message:
The Children, The Deception & The Dishonour.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Greetings All,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray! My new book will be available next week.
The video version of this podcast is here.
I don't know about you but I love a bit of snooker and today is the beginning of the World Snooker Championship in the "hallowed" Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.
It's a grief to me when I hear formerly professing Christians "walking away" from the faith because of X, Y and Z. Were they truly "born again" as they claimed?
As much as anything else, I think this is a failing of the de-radicalised Church to teach the Bible as they should — in this case, the AOG Pentecostal churches of the United Kingdom of which I used to be a part.
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Nick & Mairi xx
Greetings All!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
You can watch the YouTube version of this video here if you prefer.
Please also consider supporting this podcast and our radical publishing (new book forthcoming this month related to this discussion). You can give here.
Over the last few years we have started to get more serious in detaching ourselves from that which is false and relying on the Presence and power of the Holy Spirit Who is radicalising us into radical disciples. We would still consider ourselves to be very much de-radicalised.
One of the things that happens when we surrender to the Holy Spirit, in worshipful repentance, is that it upsets people, including people who hate Israel.
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Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Greetings All,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray. You can watch the video of this conversation here and a short follow-up piece here.Today I speak with Bill Elliff, the Founding and National Engage Pastor of The Summit Church in North Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. Bill has personally attended some of the meetings at Asbury University, Kentucky, and you can read his blog articles about them here.
As Bill says, there can be no revival without repentance. The question, therefore, as to what constitutes repentance (individually and corporately) is critically important.
Thank you, Bill, for being very gracious with me as I begged to differ in regard to what we should be expecting to happen when God does lead His people into revival. I would also encourage you to watch the Justin Peters video about Abusry here.
There must be repentance over egalitarianism.
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Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Greetings everyone!
If you would prefer to watch the YouTube version of this podcast, please do so here.
You can find the full version of the featured worship song, Jesus Come, here.
The ESV claims that the book of Lamentations is the only book in the Bible to be penned by an eye-witness of the divine act of judgement that the Bible consistently calls, “the Day of the LORD”.
But what do they mean? And why must the Church radically alter its posture so as to wholeheartedly cry out God?
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Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
(The blog version of this podcast is available via Firebrand Notes where you can also enjoy stunning images of Scotland's iconic Glen Coe).You can see the beautiful Andrew Peterson song, (Is He Worthy?), here. If you would like to support our work and to be part of our small supporter base who receive monthly newsletters please contact us here AND support our radical publishing work here.
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Greetings in the Name of Jesus,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
This morning’s podcast follows the podcast yesterday morning (part one) and the horrendous events in Turkey and Syria in the early hours of Monday morning. Who would stand?
Related blog from January 18th, 2023.
Related video re Bethel/Bill Johnson.
Only by grace can we enter Only by grace can we stand
Not by our human endeavour
But by the blood of the Lamb
Into Your presence You call us
You call us to come
Into Your presence You draw us
And now by Your grace we come
Now by Your grace we come
Lord if You mark our transgressions Who would stand?
Thanks to Your grace we are cleansed
By the blood of the Lamb.
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Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Greetings in the Name of Jesus,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
This morning’s podcast follows the horrendous events in Turkey and Syria in the early hours of yesterday morning. Who would stand?
Related blog from January 18th, 2023.
Only by grace can we enter Only by grace can we stand
Not by our human endeavour
But by the blood of the Lamb
Into Your presence You call us
You call us to come
Into Your presence You draw us
And now by Your grace we come
Now by Your grace we come
Lord if You mark our transgressions Who would stand?
Thanks to Your grace we are cleansed
By the blood of the Lamb.
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Greetings in the Name of Jesus,
Please listen to this podcast version of this video in a spirit of prayerful repentance. The YouTube version is here.
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Several short years ago I wouldn’t have had any concerns about Bethel or Bill Johnson or his head honchos at all. I’d never been to Redding, I’d never really been directly influenced by them but, somehow, I’d still have struggled to believe that they were a viper’s pit of demonic/New Age activity and deception.
In June 2021 I did a quick, 30 min vlog responding to Bethel’s attempt to defend their theology. I’d evidently only dealt with the proverbial tip of the iceberg -- you can view this here.
A year and a half later, (Jan 2023), Mike Winger has kindly done the more substantial leg-work to expose the fuller extent of extraneous spiritual activity that is essentially nothing other than New Age occultism with Jesus’ precious Name slapped on top.
I strongly urge you to watch Mike Winger’s January 2023 work on these latest revelations here.
Over the course of the last decade, Mairi and I have actually sat privately with senior pastors who have held Bill Johnson high and aloft as ‘the’ man to listen to and follow and read. We have sat within local churches in Edinburgh who promote “Bethel students” whose indoctrination by the hands of Johnson and Bethel have been endorsed and encouraged. We have even led gatherings with people who lap all this demonic mysticism up (while ourselves not knowing the full extent of the tentacle-reach of the Satanic influence at the time).
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Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi
Greetings All,
(Advisory: scenes from the battlefield are included in this podcast).
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
Watch the video of this podcast here.
Josh Fortune is a pastor of a church in London and is experiencing the realities of what happens when the Holy Spirit gets hold of a man's life. He is a brother and an example to all pastors to sit up and take note of, especially if they are sleeping during their watch.
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Dear All
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You can watch the podcast video of this on YouTube here from 7:30pm this evening.
We have no intention of reading the book or following this any more closely, but having watched Harry's interview last night by British journalist Tom Bradby, we felt we should say something about relational breakdown/estrangement and some important things that we've learnt over the last ten years of marriage.
- To what extent is Harry and Meghan's charge fair?
- To what extent do we agree with what Harry shared?
- What does this have to do with the gospel?
- What is our opinion on the flat-line in this debacle?
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Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Greetings Everyone
Thank you for taking the time to listen to Into the Pray.
In approaching advent this year, I wanted to provide a daily devotional series by way of an audio version of A. W. Tozer's classic, The Knowledge of The Holy.
I'll read two chapters a day running up to the completion on Friday, December 23rd.
Part 1 is here.
Part 2 is here.
Part 3 is here.
Part 4 is here.
Part 5 is here.
Part 6 is here.
Part 7 is here.
Part 8 is here.
Part 9 is here.
Part 10 is here.The book has been an immense blessing to me in the past and so I hope it will be a blessing for you as you ease into a festive period of reflection, yearning for Him to come and, to that end, prayer.
If you'd like to see an old video/music project inspired by Tozer's opening line in this book (with yours truly without much facial hair) please see here**.
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2018:
Greetings Everyone
Thank you for taking the time to listen to Into the Pray.
In approaching advent this year, I wanted to provide a daily devotional series by way of an audio version of A. W. Tozer's classic, The Knowledge of The Holy.
I'll read two chapters a day running up to the completion on Friday, December 23rd.
Part 1 is here.
Part 2 is here.
Part 3 is here.
Part 4 is here.
Part 5 is here.
Part 6 is here.
Part 7 is here.
Part 8 is here.
Part 9 is here.The book has been an immense blessing to me in the past and so I hope it will be a blessing for you as you ease into a festive period of reflection, yearning for Him to come and, to that end, prayer.
If you'd like to see an old video/music project inspired by Tozer's opening line in this book (with yours truly without much facial hair) please see here**.
Looking for evangelism motivation? See here for ideas.**
Recent content:
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"REPENT NOW" - The Public Respond
Babylon Takeover
The Great Evangelical Disaster
The Context of the Power
Your thoughts of God Are Too Human.
Are You Ananias & Sapphira?
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Greetings Everyone
Thank you for taking the time to listen to Into the Pray.
In approaching advent this year, I wanted to provide a daily devotional series by way of an audio version of A. W. Tozer's classic, The Knowledge of The Holy.
I'll read two chapters a day running up to the completion on Friday, December 23rd.
Part 1 is here.
Part 2 is here.
Part 3 is here.
Part 4 is here.
Part 5 is here.
Part 6 is here.
Part 7 is here.
Part 8 is here.The book has been an immense blessing to me in the past and so I hope it will be a blessing for you as you ease into a festive period of reflection, yearning for Him to come and, to that end, prayer.
If you'd like to see an old video/music project inspired by Tozer's opening line in this book (with yours truly without much facial hair) please see here**.
Looking for evangelism motivation? See here for ideas.**
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Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Greetings Everyone
Thank you for taking the time to listen to Into the Pray.
In approaching advent this year, I wanted to provide a daily devotional series by way of an audio version of A. W. Tozer's classic, The Knowledge of The Holy.
I'll read two chapters a day running up to the completion on Friday, December 23rd.
Part 1 is here.
Part 2 is here.
Part 3 is here.
Part 4 is here.
Part 5 is here.
Part 6 is here.
Part 7 is here.The book has been an immense blessing to me in the past and so I hope it will be a blessing for you as you ease into a festive period of reflection, yearning for Him to come and, to that end, prayer.
If you'd like to see an old video/music project inspired by Tozer's opening line in this book (with yours truly without much facial hair) please see here**.
Looking for evangelism motivation? See here for ideas.**
Recent content:
Bus Stop Evangelism
"REPENT NOW" - The Public Respond
Babylon Takeover
The Great Evangelical Disaster
The Context of the Power
Your thoughts of God Are Too Human.
Are You Ananias & Sapphira?
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Greetings Everyone
Thank you for taking the time to listen to Into the Pray.
In approaching advent this year, I wanted to provide a daily devotional series by way of an audio version of A. W. Tozer's classic, The Knowledge of The Holy.
I'll read two chapters a day running up to the completion on Friday, December 23rd.
Part 1 is here.
Part 2 is here.
Part 3 is here.
Part 4 is here.
Part 5 is here.
Part 6 is here.The book has been an immense blessing to me in the past and so I hope it will be a blessing for you as you ease into a festive period of reflection, yearning for Him to come and, to that end, prayer.
If you'd like to see an old video/music project inspired by Tozer's opening line in this book (with yours truly without much facial hair) please see here**.
Looking for evangelism motivation? See here for ideas.**
Recent content:
Bus Stop Evangelism
"REPENT NOW" - The Public Respond
Babylon Takeover
The Great Evangelical Disaster
The Context of the Power
Your thoughts of God Are Too Human.
Are You Ananias & Sapphira?
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Greetings Everyone
Thank you for taking the time to listen to Into the Pray.
In approaching advent this year, I wanted to provide a daily devotional series by way of an audio version of A. W. Tozer's classic, The Knowledge of The Holy.
I'll read two chapters a day running up to the completion on Friday, December 23rd.
Part 1 is here.
Part 2 is here.
Part 3 is here.
Part 4 is here.
Part 5 is here.
The book has been an immense blessing to me in the past and so I hope it will be a blessing for you as you ease into a festive period of reflection, yearning for Him to come and, to that end, prayer.
If you'd like to see an old video/music project inspired by Tozer's opening line in this book (with yours truly without much facial hair) please see here**.
Looking for evangelism motivation? See here for ideas.**
Recent content:
Bus Stop Evangelism
"REPENT NOW" - The Public Respond
Babylon Takeover
The Great Evangelical Disaster
The Context of the Power
Your thoughts of God Are Too Human.
Are You Ananias & Sapphira?
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Greetings Everyone
Thank you for taking the time to listen to Into the Pray.
In approaching advent this year, I wanted to provide a daily devotional series by way of an audio version of A. W. Tozer's classic, The Knowledge of The Holy.
I'll read two chapters a day running up to the completion on Friday, December 23rd.
Part 1 is here.
Part 2 is here.
Part 3 is here.
Part 4 is here.
The book has been an immense blessing to me in the past and so I hope it will be a blessing for you as you ease into a festive period of reflection, yearning for Him to come and, to that end, prayer.
If you'd like to see an old video/music project inspired by Tozer's opening line in this book (with yours truly without much facial hair) please see here**.
Looking for evangelism motivation? See here for ideas.**
Recent content:
Bus Stop Evangelism
"REPENT NOW" - The Public Respond
Babylon Takeover
The Great Evangelical Disaster
The Context of the Power
Your thoughts of God Are Too Human.
Are You Ananias & Sapphira?
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Greetings Everyone
Thank you for taking the time to listen to Into the Pray.
In approaching advent this year, I wanted to provide a daily devotional series by way of an audio version of A. W. Tozer's classic, The Knowledge of The Holy.
I'll read two chapters a day running up to the completion on Friday, December 23rd.
Part 1 is here.
Part 2 is here.
Part 3 is here.
The book has been an immense blessing to me in the past and so I hope it will be a blessing for you as you ease into a festive period of reflection, yearning for Him to come and, to that end, prayer.
If you'd like to see an old video/music project inspired by Tozer's opening line in this book (with yours truly without much facial hair) please see here**.
Looking for evangelism motivation? See here for ideas.**
Recent content:
Bus Stop Evangelism
"REPENT NOW" - The Public Respond
Babylon Takeover
The Great Evangelical Disaster
The Context of the Power
Your thoughts of God Are Too Human.
Are You Ananias & Sapphira?
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Greetings Everyone
Thank you for taking the time to listen to Into the Pray.
In approaching advent this year, I wanted to provide a daily devotional series by way of an audio version of A. W. Tozer's classic, The Knowledge of The Holy.
I'll read two chapters a day running up to the completion on Friday, December 23rd.
Part 1 is here.
Part 2 is here.
The book has been an immense blessing to me in the past and so I hope it will be a blessing for you as you ease into a festive period of reflection, yearning for Him to come and, to that end, prayer.
If you'd like to see an old video/music project inspired by Tozer's opening line in this book (with yours truly without much facial hair) please see here**.
Looking for evangelism motivation? See here for ideas.**
Recent content:
Bus Stop Evangelism
"REPENT NOW" - The Public Respond
Babylon Takeover
The Great Evangelical Disaster
The Context of the Power
Your thoughts of God Are Too Human.
Are You Ananias & Sapphira?
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Greetings Everyone
Thank you for taking the time to listen to Into the Pray.
In approaching advent this year, I wanted to provide a daily devotional series by way of an audio version of A. W. Tozer's classic, The Knowledge of The Holy.
I'll read two chapters a day running up to the completion on Friday, December 23rd.
Part 1 is here.
The book has been an immense blessing to me in the past and so I hope it will be a blessing for you as you ease into a festive period of reflection, yearning for Him to come and, to that end, prayer.
If you'd like to see an old video/music project inspired by Tozer's opening line in this book (with yours truly without much facial hair) please see here**.
Looking for evangelism motivation? See here for ideas.**
Recent content:
Bus Stop Evangelism
"REPENT NOW" - The Public Respond
Babylon Takeover
The Great Evangelical Disaster
The Context of the Power
Your thoughts of God Are Too Human.
Are You Ananias & Sapphira?
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Greetings Everyone
Thank you for taking the time to listen to Into the Pray.
In approaching advent this year, I wanted to provide a daily devotional series by way of an audio version of A. W. Tozer's classic, The Knowledge of The Holy.
I'll read two chapters a day running up to the completion on Friday, December 23rd.
The book has been an immense blessing to me in the past and so I hope it will be a blessing for you as you ease into a festive period of reflection, yearning for Him to come and, to that end, prayer.
If you'd like to see an old video/music project inspired by Tozer's opening line in this book (with yours truly without much facial hair) please see here**.
Looking for evangelism motivation? See here for ideas.**
Recent content:
Bus Stop Evangelism
"REPENT NOW" - The Public Respond
Babylon Takeover
The Great Evangelical Disaster
The Context of the Power
Your thoughts of God Are Too Human.
Are You Ananias & Sapphira?
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Dear All,
Thank you for listening to the podcast!
I received a very disappointing rejection of my manuscript last week after a promising potential for it to be supported by an evangelical publisher in the UK.
Even more distressing however was the publisher's stated rationale (as well as lack thereof) for their decision: apathy.
*Dear Nick,
Thanks again for sending over your book idea. We appreciate you thinking of us.
Another team member and I looked over the PDF you sent and discussed it. I think we both agree that you are making some interesting and valuable points but, on balance, we felt it was perhaps a little too provocative for EP at the moment. I’m sorry, I appreciate that you are partly rallying against the type of apathy that we are showing in declining for this reason but it’s where we fell, nonetheless. Wish you well with it as you endeavour to get it out by other means.
Anon*
In this episode of Into the PrayI offer a few brief thoughts about this apathy from Christian publishers whose publishing decisions are often based on money and Christian 'pop culture' rather than on prophetic urgency.
J. C. Ryle would have been aghast by this apathy, as am I.
“We want more boldness among the friends of truth. There is far too much tendency to sit still and wait for committees…We want more men who are not afraid to stand alone. It is truth, not numbers, which shall always in the end prevail. We have the truth, and we need not be ashamed to say so. The judgment day will prove who is right, and to that day we boldly appeal.”
— J C Ryle
By contrast, have you ever considered the courage of the Holy Spirit that the men and women who owned printing presses had in the sixteenth century and that was demonstrated by standing with men like William Tyndale and Martin Luther?
God knows we need this courage today - what a slight on His glorious Name that apathy can be so readily admitted by evangelicals.
Can you imagine standing before the Judgment Seat of Christ and, acknowledging your apathy, shrugging your shoulders and saying, *"But this is where I fell nonetheless”?
Read: "What I Learnt From Walking Away From A Mainstream Publisher".*
Tomorrow I will begin a short series running up to Christmas reading A. W. Tozer's classic, The Knowledge of the Holy.
Looking for evangelism motivation? See here for ideas. Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
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2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Greetings all
A friend recently made a point about the critical question of church closures and I wanted to respond to that publicly for the wider benefit of anyone else who is willing to listen.
I have had a nasty chest infection over the last 7-10 days and hence will be resuming a flurry of podcasting activity from tomorrow onwards.
Thank you for your prayers as my second manuscript has been rejected by an evangelical publisher for being too provocative. If you'd like to support this new book as a partly auto-biographical follow-on from Body Zero (2019)**, please drop me a line.
I’ll say more about this tomorrow when I record the first of a new short series of podcasts that you’re going to hopefully love!
Looking for evangelism motivation? See here for ideas.**
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"REPENT NOW" - The Public Respond
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The Great Evangelical Disaster
The Context of the Power
Your thoughts of God Are Too Human.
Are You Ananias & Sapphira?
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Greetings all
After a brief update about the podcast and my new forthcoming book, here’s the audio from a video that went live on YouTube yesterday. Within this brief focus on church leaders, elders and deacons, I give a response to Thabiti Anyabwile's book of the same title.
You can watch the YouTube version of this here with a short preview here.
Finding faithful elders and deacons - a pretty simple reality, eh? No, not simple but extremely important. What decisions do you need to make moving into 2023?
You can also listen to a full LIVE reading of Job from last night.
Thank you for your prayers as my second manuscript currently sits with a publisher for consideration. If you'd like to support this project as a partly auto-biographical follow-on from Body Zero (2019)**, please drop me a line.
Looking for evangelism motivation? See here for ideas.**
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Bus Stop Evangelism
"REPENT NOW" - The Public Respond
Babylon Takeover
The Great Evangelical Disaster
The Context of the Power
Your thoughts of God Are Too Human.
Are You Ananias & Sapphira?
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Greetings all
Here's the audio from my video containing part of Doug Wilson's recent live stream discussing the "new evangelical order" within their annual No Quarter November content.
You can watch the YouTube version of this here.
Doug's video in question is here.
Within the video I interject as though I was in the room with Doug and his friend Jared. Before God as my witness, this is what I would say to the guys if occasion rose for a proper conversation.
Thank you for your prayers as I compete my second manuscript. If you'd like to support this project as a partly auto-biographical follow-on from Body Zero (2019)**, please drop me a line.
Looking for evangelism motivation? See here for ideas.**
Recent content:
Bus Stop Evangelism
"REPENT NOW" - The Public Respond
Babylon Takeover
The Great Evangelical Disaster
The Context of the Power
Your thoughts of God Are Too Human.
Are You Ananias & Sapphira?
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
This morning’s devotional looks at Psalm 63 and the soul-thirst of King David within the wilderness of Judah.
My soul thirsts for you (v1)
My soul will be satisfied (v5)
My soul clings to you (v8)
As you live in the world, are you aware of your extreme soul-thirst?
Look out for another podcast shortly with the audio I mentioned from the video responding to Doug Wilson’s commentary on the Body of Christ.
Thank you for your prayers as I compete my second manuscript. If you'd like to support this project as a partly auto-biographical follow-on from Body Zero (2019)**, please drop me a line.
Looking for evangelism motivation? See here for ideas.**
Recent content:
Bus Stop Evangelism
"REPENT NOW" - The Public Respond
Babylon Takeover
The Great Evangelical Disaster
The Context of the Power
Your thoughts of God Are Too Human.
Are You Ananias & Sapphira?
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Dear All,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
If you would be willing to support our work, please see here and get in touch.
This is part 5 of our series on textual criticism and close look at Elijah Hixon and Peter Gurry's excellent book, Myths and Mistakes in New Testament Textual Criticism. (Check YouTube for a short glimpse of the book).
Episode 1 is here.
Episode 2 is here.
Episode 3 is here.
Episode 4 is here.
This week Nick and Mairi try to make sense of a very unpleasant exchange with an American lady who describes herself as a proponent of new atheism and who believes that Jesus was/is not real, that we are unimpressive cult leaders that our sole intention is to lie and deceive.
The lady's website is here.
This podcast deals with the profound arrogance, hypocrisy and inhumanity of new atheism as well as once again highlighting the historic fault lines in the chaos of the Church that we believe perfectly explain why a self-identifying ex-'Christian'-cum-atheist can think and type like this.
American Lady, we have been robust but we continue to be willing to speak personally if you will desist with the accusations. The ball in your court. Everyone else, please familiarise yourself, as we are, withThe Institute for New Testament Textual Research (INTF). Their website is here.
RECENT CONTENT: Babylon Takeover
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
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Let's smash this fake gospel up.
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2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
This morning’s devotional provides a brief update on the podcast before looking briefly at two greek words that have been pivotally important to me over the years, specifically as regards to how we should orient ourselves towards the Church.
As we grow in love and maturity before Jesus as Lord and Saviour so too should our love for the Bride of Christ also grow.
Look out for our joint podcast on Friday examining the recent aggression of a fierce atheist.
Thank you for your prayers as I compete the related manuscript. If you'd like to support this project as a partly auto-biographical follow-on from Body Zero (2019)**, please drop me a line.
Looking for evangelism motivation? See here for ideas.**
Recent content:
Bus Stop Evangelism
"REPENT NOW" - The Public Respond
Babylon Takeover
The Great Evangelical Disaster
The Context of the Power
Your thoughts of God Are Too Human.
Are You Ananias & Sapphira?
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Dear All,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
If you would be willing to support our work, please see here and get in touch.
This is part 4 of our close look at Elijah Hixon and Peter Gurry's excellent book, Myths and Mistakes in New Testament Textual Criticism. (Check YouTube for a short glimpse of the book).
Episode 1 is here.
Episode 2 is here.
Episode 3 is here.
What is textual criticism, why is it so important to get right and how does it relate to our faithful, public witness as disciples of Jesus Christ, the coming King?
**What are the common mistakes in comparing the New Testament manuscripts with classical literature?
What is the extent of this rhetoric?
What is our confidence based on?
Why does this fuel our personal & corporate evangelism?
What are these myths showing us about the Church?
Please familiarise yourself, as we are, with** The Institute for New Testament Textual Research (INTF). Their website is here.
RECENT CONTENT: Babylon Takeover
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello.
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
The prophet Malachi is normally pulled off the dusty shelf to support a pastor's teaching about tithes and offerings. Is this a faithful handling of Scripture?
This podcast is available on YouTube here .
Full reading of the book Malachi is here.
Evangelism street video is here.
If you would like to help us by supporting our work, please see here.
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The Struggle to Stand
The Great Evangelical Disaster
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If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Dear All,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
If you would be willing to support our work, please see here and get in touch.
This is part 3 of our close look at Elijah Hixon and Peter Gurry's excellent book, Myths and Mistakes in New Testament Textual Criticism. (Check YouTube for a short glimpse of the book).
Episode 1 is here.
Episode 2 is here.
What is textual criticism, why is it so important to get right and how does it relate to our faithful, public witness as disciples of Jesus Christ, the coming King?
**What are the numbers for biblical manuscripts?
Why does this fuel our personal & corporate evangelism?
Please familiarise yourself, as we are, with** The Institute for New Testament Textual Research (INTF). Their website is here.
RECENT CONTENT: Babylon Takeover
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello.
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
This podcast is available in video on YouTube here . (YouTube currently blocked outside of U.K. but I’m working on it).
Previous related podcast is here.
Please read Jeremiah chapter 5, 6 & 7.
An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land: the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their discretion; my people love to have it so..
The bold defiance of the people of God to repent before God has had and will have dire consequences.…but what will you do when the end comes?
May God have mercy on us all.
Notional is the Enemy of National
The Struggle to Stand
The Great Evangelical Disaster
The Context of the Power
Your thoughts of God Are Too Human.
Are You Ananias & Sapphira?
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2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello.
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
How close were we to national repentance? How close might we still be?
1 Thessalonians 5:20-22 says,
“Do not despise prophecies, but test everything; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil.”
How does this testing relate to national prophecy to Great Britain that seems in part to be correct, even impressively correct?
May God have mercy on us all.
Notional is the Enemy of National
The Struggle to Stand
The Great Evangelical Disaster
The Context of the Power
Your thoughts of God Are Too Human.
Are You Ananias & Sapphira?
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
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2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Dear All,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
This is part 2 of our close look at Elijah Hixon and Peter Gurry's excellent book, Myths and Mistakes in New Testament Criticism. (Check YouTube for a short glimpse of the book).
Episode 1 is here.
What is textual criticism, why is it so important to get right and how does it relate to our faithful, public witness as disciples of Jesus Christ, the coming King?
What are autographs?
How are they different to manuscripts?
Why does this fuel our personal & corporate evangelism?
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Your thoughts of God Are Too Human.
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2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
How close were we to national repentance?
How close might we still be?
Hence, we pray “Maranatha!”
Recent content:
Notional is the Enemy of National
The Struggle to Stand
The Great Evangelical Disaster
The Context of the Power
Your thoughts of God Are Too Human.
Are You Ananias & Sapphira?
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Greetings and thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
Today's podcast is an unplanned word for the church relating to this 60 second video here.
You can read the blog here.
Do you feel discouraged, confused, hopeless, isolated?There is a current onslaught on The Church, not against the lukewarm or the counterfeit but against those who want to stand and who are willing to be prepared to stand. There are powerful forces in the heavenly places that are bent on causing those who would stand, not to stand. Demonic deception and discouragement prowl like an unnatural lion, roaring as it hunts, seeking to devour those who would stand, those who are willing to be prepared.
The Church is struggling to stand against Satan, a reality that daily impacts all of us.
Hence, we pray “Maranatha!”
We hope this podcast and this brief video is an encouragement to you towards playing your part in what God really wants to do in the nations.
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The Context of the Power
Your thoughts of God Are Too Human.
Are You Ananias & Sapphira?
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Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
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2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
This morning’s devotional is something of an autobiographical reflection - a memoir of the prophetic calling - by looking briefly at some of Job’s experiences dealing with so-called friends and brothers.
There are some experiences in this sojourn of “church life” (think of Blur) that should warrant close listening and prayerful reflection, but, instead, result only in impudence.
Hence, we pray “Maranatha!”
Recent content:
The Great Evangelical Disaster
The Context of the Power
Your thoughts of God Are Too Human.
Are You Ananias & Sapphira?
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Dear All,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
I'd also encourage you to read (perhaps even re-read) the blog version of the previous episode here for prayer and reflection.
The main point from last time is that Francis Schaeffer was born twelve years after the death of J. C Ryle who had no choice but to defrock his first-born son from a position of leadership in the Church of England, such was the tentacle reach of liberal theology even into his own family. **We are all engulfed in the collapse and systemic decline of evangelicalism, whether we know it or not.
TODAY: I respond to a prophetic message from English church leader, Chris Wickland, that came to my attention through a text from a friend in America first thing this morning.
Before listening to my response, (and in addition to it), I’d like to emphasise that I don’t think this is necessarily a false prophet speaking or even that elements of what Chris shares about the autumnal change in church paradigm/season is wrong (actually, it will be impossible to judge this properly because the prophecy is too non-descript for this to be validated in the future, especially given that Chris doesn’t even hold to a specific date that would officially mark the beginning of autumn).
I’d also like to endorse the general sense of what Chris says which is that the British church over the next two decades (if we have them) will:
1) Look radically and shockingly dissimilar to how we currently understand the Body of Christ and
2) This disruption will touch everything that we hold dear.
But I strongly disagree that this will be an ecumenical “standing shoulder to shoulder.” (Rather: 1 Corinthians 11:19).
Chris, if you ever happen to listen, perhaps we can exchange notes in the future, but I do not believe that it is preparing the Church for the tribulation that is coming to preach about a post-millennial Golden Age of the Church. This is the wrong trajectory and perhaps one that will most ill-prepare the Bride for the Wedding supper of the Lamb. Please teach your people to long for this above ALL things. We need repentance NOT revival. (Then we might understand what revival actually is).
FOR YOUR DIARY: Look out for our sessions on Textual Criticism in the next week or two**; we're looking forward to introducing you to a book that should be in every disciple's locker. And we'll also be doing some videos together as a couple looking at Dane Ortlund's wonderful book, Gentle and Lowly. Podcast preview here and YouTube short here.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
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2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
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2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018:
Dear All,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray. I'd also encourage you to read the blog version of this episode here for prayer and reflection.
Francis Schaeffer was born twelve years after the death of J. C Ryle who had no choice but to defrock his first-born son from a position of leadership in the Church of England, such was the tentacle reach of liberal theology even into his own family. There is no way that Ryle would remain within the Church of England today. He was too strong for that, too desirous of God. Spirit is always thicker than blood.
Listen on for my main observations from reading his 1985 book, The Great Evangelical Disaster.**We are all engulfed whether we know it or not.
FOR YOUR DIARY: Look out for our sessions on Textual Criticism in the next week or two**; we're looking forward to introducing you to a book that should be in every disciple's locker. And we'll also be doing some videos together as a couple looking at Dane Ortlund's wonderful book, Gentle and Lowly. Podcast preview here and YouTube short here.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
Please consider supporting our work here and/or here.
An Evening of Eschatology can be watched here.
Today's episode is our next instalment digging down into the three main eschatological positions that we introduced in April 2022. (You can listen to the overview episode here , the pre-mill dispensationalism episode here , the historic pre-mill here and the post-mill here).
Our aim in this podcast is to clarify distinctives of amillennialism for you and to hold it up as a legitimate eschatological interpretation - unlike dispensational pre-millennialism.
We also finish this mini-series by discussing what it means to be afforded the luxurious current reality of time to prepare, and how suffering relates with this.
FOR YOUR DIARY: Look out for our sessions on Textual Criticism in the next week or two; we're looking forward to introducing you to a book that should be in every disciple's locker. And we'll also be doing some videos together as a couple looking at Dane Ortlund's wonderful book, Gentle and Lowly. Podcast preview here and YouTube short here.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Dear All,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
As Alan Partridge might have said in an alternative universe to an unlikely gathering in a caravan: “Stop getting Jesus wrong!” (whilst playing air bass, of course).
When you read verses in the Bible, please read the whole of the sentence so that you don’t end up with a theology that is really no theology at all. In fact, we might as well call it ‘humanology’ because it is simply taking half- truths about God and refashioning them into our own, sinful image.
We have an incomparable and infinitely glorious future prospect ahead ✔️ (Romans 8:18)
We prove legitimate as sons by sharing in Christ’s sufferings now ✔️ (Romans 8:17b)
Don’t settle for anything less than truth; the future of the Bride depends on it!
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Let's smash this fake gospel up.
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2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Dear All,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
This is part 1 of our close look at Elijah Hixon and Peter Gurry's excellent book, Myths and Mistakes in New Testament Criticism. (Check YouTube for a short glimpse of the book).
What is textual criticism, why is it so important to get right and how does it relate to our faithful, public witness as disciples of Jesus Christ, the coming King?
Recent content:
The Context of the Power.
Your thoughts of God Are Too Human.
Are You Ananias & Sapphira?
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Dear All,
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
This brief but weight word landed with me in prayer this morning with force. Please at least respect us enough to listen, think and pray with an open heart. (Especially if you're the person I anonymously refer to). I am disturbed and stirred in my spirit following our text exchanges this week).
Please see the original blog-form of this word here for photos and links, as well as a deep albeit brief word of thanks to our supporters.
Recent content:
The Context of the Power.
Your thoughts of God Are Too Human.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
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2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray. We hope you're being encouraged as you listen.
Please consider supporting our work here and/or here.You can watch the YouTube video of the same title here. Martin Luther once slammed Desiderius Erasmus by saying:
"Your thoughts of God are too human."
Luther was right, but then again, so too were his thoughts of God too human. This is true for all of us but, for some, more terminally true - for those who think they know God when they do not.
Recent content:
The Context of the Power - For God's sake, pick up a cross and take Jesus to people.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
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2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Thanks for listening to this podcast. You can watch the video here.
Please take a moment to engage with these podcasts and videos. We want truth and radical disruption to penetrate the wider church psyche.
Please also consider supporting our work via Patreon here or Paypal here.
This short video is an exposé from our first street event last Sunday during which we targeted a false "church" preaching a false "gospel" led by false "christians".
Should "christian" women be growing beards? Should "christian leaders" be lovingly providing beard products?
Are you seriously going to continue having holy huddles while the world - and much of the church - slipstreams to Sheol?
Are you being obedient to the one thing that Jesus has told you to do?
Make a cross, go to the lost!
“The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God’s Word.” — Oswald Chambers
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How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
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2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Greetings all,
This is the audio-only version of the YouTube piece of the same title that you can watch here if you prefer.
Please consider supporting our work here and/or here.
Why did Steve Clifford publicly communicate with his friend Steve Chalke? Because the glory of God and the welfare of the Church is more important than losing face...or losing friends.
Related reading: The Oslo Face of Despising
FOR YOUR DIARY: Look out for our sessions on Textual Criticism in the next week or two; we're looking forward to introducing you to a book that should be in every disciple's locker. And we'll also be doing some videos together as a couple looking at Dane Ortlund's wonderful book, Gentle and Lowly.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray. We hope you're being encouraged as you listen.
Please consider supporting our work here and/or here.
Today's episode is our next instalment digging down into the three main eschatological positions that we introduced in April. (You can listen to the overview episode here , the pre-mill dispensationalism episode here and the historic pre-mill here).
Our aim in this podcast is to clarify distinctives of post-millennialism for you and to hold is up as a legitimate eschatological interpretation - unlike dispensational pre-millennialism.
We will rejoin this conversation next by focusing on a-millennialism.
Sorry about a "congested" vocal in today's podcast as we battle the lurgy.
FOR YOUR DIARY: Look out for our sessions on Textual Criticism in the next week or two; we're looking forward to introducing you to a book that should be in every disciple's locker. And we'll also be doing some videos together as a couple looking at Dane Ortlund's wonderful book, Gentle and Lowly.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray, we hope you’re encouraged as you listen.
Please consider supporting our work here and/or here.
This devotional today finds itself emerging in the midst of a busy time for us - of writing, witnessing, reading, singing and shrugging off the profound weakness of the flesh.
I hope this short devotional offers strength and ‘provision’ as to what it means to be comforted by the drawing near of Jesus to each one of us (who truly know Him), and to set our minds on the things of the Holy Spirit.
We are currently reading through the book of Isaiah on Friday evenings and will be reading the 3rd section of 8 this Friday evening here.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
Who closed the churches? See a short video here.
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2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray. We hope you're being encouraged as you listen.
Please consider supporting our work here and/or here.We're sorry this episode is later than originally planned. It has been difficult fitting everything in during Nick's writing commitments as he works on a sequel to Body Zero.
Today's episode is our next instalment digging down into the three main eschatological positions that we introduced in April. (You can listen to the overview episode here and the pre-mill dispensationalism episode here).
Our aim in this podcast is to clarify historical pre-millennialism for you and to hold is up as a legitimate eschatological interpretation - unlike dispensational pre-millennialism. See here for associated reading by Craig Blomberg et al.
We will rejoin this conversation next by focusing on post-millennialism and a-millennialism.
Gay Household Disrupted - did you hear Aimee's STUNNING Good Friday testimony? You can watch our full length conversation with her via YouTube here and her flagship testimony film here.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray. Please consider supporting our work here and/or here.
“Some people read the headline and don’t stay around long enough to listen to the song. This is one of the most beautiful testimonies I (Nick) have ever heard.”
Today’s episode of the podcast is the audio from Mairi’s beautiful testimony to a group of ladies from a church in London last week. You can watch the vlog here.
Please listen with an open heart knowing that we have nothing to gain as a couple by sharing this testimony, other than peace, joy and wholeheartedness before the One Who is coming.
Be encouraged by listening to C. H. Spurgeon’s sermon, “Awake! Awake!” (read by Nick) here.
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Did you hear Aimee's STUNNING Good Friday testimony? You can watch our full length conversation with her via YouTube here and her flagship testimony film here.
If you have any questions, thoughts or testimonies, please contact us here.
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
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2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
Please consider supporting our work here and/or here.
As mentioned in our final, concluding episode of City of Temples on Thursday, Nick has now embarked on a period of writing for a second book (info forthcoming).
Therefore, Sundays will now be impromptu/unplanned teaching sessions to allow room for that for the rest of the year.
Today’s episode is an audio version of the C H Spurgeon sermon (1857), entitled, “Awake! Awake!” .
"Therefore let us not sleep as do others; but let us watch and be sober."—1 Thess. 5:6
We pray that you would weep through it with us and, as a result, put into action what the Holy Spirit highlights.
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Our Bible reading on Friday evening was of the books of 1 & 2 Thessalonians.If you have any questions, thoughts or testimonies, please contact us here.
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
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2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
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2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
Episode 59 of City of Temples is Nick’s poignant conclusion of a teaching series through the book of 1 Corinthians that started on Thursday, September 3rd, 2020, and which concludes, today, on Thursday May 19th, 2022.
As Nick now takes a break from weekly teaching for the rest of the year, (in order to enter into an intense period of writing, info to follow), our prayer is that this pivotally important key verse of 1 Corinthians (2:2), will be in harness with the last phrase of 16:22.
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The most immature/chaotic churches today are the ones in which these two emphases (2:2; 16:22) grow TOGETHER the least.
The maturest & most fruitful churches today are the ones in which these two emphases (2:2; 16:22) grow TOGETHER the most.
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Did you hear Aimee's STUNNING Good Friday testimony? You can watch our full length conversation with her via YouTube here and her flagship testimony film here.
If you have any questions, thoughts or testimonies, please contact us here.
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello and thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
"...when I would heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed." (Hosea 7:1)
CORRECTION: Nick mis-spoke regarding the “unashamedly egalitarian” church which is in fact Stirling Baptist Church (NOT Perth Baptist Church).
This session with Nick and Mairi today is a "bonus episode" looking at what we consider to be one of the most serious problems facing the Church today.
One of the most potent demonic roots of chaos within the Body of Christ is in the form of egalitarianism.
But this commonplace and ramping heresy is also a sign-post to those with 'ears to hear', who are being prepared for the Second Coming of Christ and the reforming "Church of Preparation"
You can also watch this podcast on YouTube.
Last year we did a collaborative vlog with a select few church leaders to expose the fallacious notion of female leadership in the Church and the fundamental death and dearth of spiritual authority in the Church that results (link below).
This is major deception and not slight; it is impossible to overstate the significance of this.
ESSENTIAL/related content:
Mike Winger's leg-work on the absurd egalitarian "conviction".
Nick's article, The Death & Dearth of Spiritual Authority.
Our Tribute to Melvin Tinker, "Destroying Our Gender"
TGC Article, cited.
Should you leave your church? (part one), part two here, part three here.
Our new teaching series through the gospel of John is previewed for you here.
Other NEW VLOGS:
Wim Hoff, the Demonic & the BBC
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Did you hear Aimee's STUNNING Good Friday testimony? You can watch our full length conversation with her via YouTube here and her flagship testimony film here.
If you have any questions, thoughts or testimonies, please contact us here.
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
Beware the Enchantment of Digital Media. Watch vlog from a few years back here.
Today Nick covers the penultimate session of City of Temples! (through chapter 16) as we continue to consider the window that Scripture is into the reforming (and faithful) Church of this stage in world/church history.
God is sovereign.
Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” (James 4:15).
Should you leave your church? (part one), part two here, part three here.
Our new teaching series through the gospel of John is previewed for you here.
Other NEW VLOGS:
Should you leave your church? (part one) and part two here.
Wim Hoff, the Demonic & the BBC
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Did you hear Aimee's STUNNING Good Friday testimony? You can watch our full length conversation with her via YouTube here and her flagship testimony film here.
If you have any questions, thoughts or testimonies, please contact us here.
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
Today's Friday session is the audio from the third part of a YouTube series that went live last night. You can watch the video here if you prefer.
In recent weeks we have been posing the difficult question, "Should I Leave My Church?".
This is clearly a weighty matter and, as such, we have dealt with the question over three separate weeks (on YouTube) culminating today in considering what one should do in order to transition from a context of idolatry into one of faithfulness.
Nick shares candidly from experience in following the leading of the Holy Spirit away from lukewarm, spirit-killing compromise.
Upcoming episodes of this podcast in the next fortnight will include looking at a case for historic pre-millennialism as well as a session on Aquila and Prisca.
Our new teaching series through the gospel of John is previewed for you here.
Other NEW VLOGS:
Should you leave your church? (part one) and part two here.
Wim Hoff, the Demonic & the BBC.
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Did you hear Aimee's STUNNING Good Friday testimony? You can watch our full length conversation with her via YouTube here and her flagship testimony film here.
If you have any questions, thoughts or testimonies, please contact us here.
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for trusting what we're saying and teaching here on Into the Pray.
Do you have any stories or testimonies that others need to hear that would also bless your heart to share?
Please consider supporting our work here and/or here. (We are hosting private Q&A podcasts via Patreon for those who'd like to be involved).
Today's City of Temples session covers the first half of chapter 16 of 1 Corinthians.
I cover the verses in light detail today and with some gloriously heavy points. We'll finish with two more sessions to complete the whole book before a series review session.
As an aside, was Apollos an Apostle?
Our new teaching series through the gospel of John is previewed for you here.
Other NEW VLOGS:
Should you leave your church? (part one) and part two here.
Wim Hoff, the Demonic & the BBC
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Did you hear Aimee's STUNNING Good Friday testimony? You can watch our full length conversation with her via YouTube here and her flagship testimony film here.
If you have any questions, thoughts or testimonies, please contact us here.
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thanks very much for tracking with this podcast and we pray it is a blessing to your discipleship.
As we begin the final chapter of 1 Corinthians on Sunday a new focus begins to emerge on the horizon: Jesus Christ and Him crucified. (1 Corinthians 2:2).
Hence, we are beginning a new teaching series entitled, Look at the Lamb.
Please consider tracking with these Sunday podcasts (or on YouTube if you prefer) because in this day and age of tumultuous noise, we need to hone in on the words of Jesus Christ more than ever.
So that's what we'll do.
We're also continuing with "Eschatology Explained" and will resume this a week today by covering historical pre-millennialism. (Please do make the time to listen to the previous two episodes on this vital area here and here).
Please consider supporting our work here and/or here. (We are hosting private Q&A podcasts via Patreon for those who'd like to be involved).
Did you hear Aimee's STUNNING Good Friday testimony?
You can watch our full length conversation with her via YouTube here and her flagship testimony film here.
If you have any questions, thoughts or testimonies, please contact us here.
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
Should you leave your church? See a new video here and here.
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
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2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for tracking with these teaching sessions on Into the Pray. We hope they are a blessing.
Today’s verses are 1 Corinthians 15:50-58.
See related reading here.
Do you feel hopeless at times? Do you feel consumed by indignation because of the work of the enemy? Do you feel like your labours are in vain?“Ask now, and see, can a man bear a child? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor? Why has every face turned pale?” (**Jeremiah 30:6)
We pray that you can listen to this session and be filled with overflowing hope by the sheer majesty and power of the Holy Spirit.**
Please share this teaching with your mates.
NEW VLOGS:
Should you leave your church?
Wim Hoff, the Demonic & the BBC
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Please consider supporting our work hereand/or here. (We are hosting private Q&A podcasts via Patreon for those who'd like to be involved).
Did you hear Aimee's STUNNING Good Friday testimony?
You can watch our full length conversation with her via YouTube here and her flagship testimony film here.
If you have any questions, thoughts or testimonies, please contact us here.
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
I hope this short devotional is an encouragement at the beginning of this new week of opportunity for the kingdom of God, the gospel and the glory of Jesus.
If you didn't watch the Wim Hoff/demonic video yesterday, you can do so here.
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Please consider supporting our work hereand/or here. (We are hosting private Q&A podcasts via Patreon for those who'd like to be involved).
Did you hear Aimee's STUNNING Good Friday testimony?
You can watch our full length conversation with her via YouTube here and her flagship testimony film here.
If you have any questions, thoughts or testimonies, please contact us here.
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray!
Today we focus on vv35-50 of 1 Corinthians 15 as our teaching series, City of Temples, races to an end in the next few weeks.
Please see a video here about Wim Hoff, the BBC and the demonic. (7:30pm BST, April 24th).
This passage today could easily be covered in three weeks (or more) as the intensity of the passage builds to the end of the chapter. Honestly, this content today would have been more appropriately covered in 7 weeks.
So, today’s session is to give what I see as an structured overview of the passage, while longing to bring something very “live” within myself that the Lord has been showing me concerning our nakedness, dirtiness and weakness without the clothing salvation of Jesus Christ.
“And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.” (1 Corinthians 6:14)
“But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.” (1 Corinthians 6:17)
Think of the demoniac, think of the new evangelist, think of the Decapolis, think of your street, think of your nearest and dearest and…think of yourself.
Are you one with the Lord?
If so,
“Return to your home, and declare how much God has done for you.” And he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole city how much Jesus had done for him.” (Luke 8:39)Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Please consider supporting our work hereand/or here. (We are hosting private Q&A podcasts via Patreon for those who'd like to be involved).
Did you hear Aimee's STUNNING Good Friday testimony?
You can watch our full length conversation with her via YouTube here and her flagship testimony film here.
If you have any questions, thoughts or testimonies, please contact us here.
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray. We hope you're being built up as you listen.
If you have any testimonials, please reach out, make contact across the 'digital divide', and let us know!
As promised, today's episode is our next instalment digging down into the three main eschatological positions that we introduced last time. (You can listen to the overview episode here).
Today, our aim is to reject (and encourage you to also reject) the variant of pre-millennialism which is "dispensational". (Historic pre-millennialism is quite different).
See here for associated reading by Craig Blomberg et al.
What does that mean? Why should it be chucked out? How popular is it across Western evangelicalism? Where is the devil at work? What are the implications?
We will rejoin this conversation next week by contrasting dispensational pre-millenialism with historic pre-millenialism.
Please consider supporting our work here and/or here. (We are hosting private Q&A podcasts via Patreon for those who'd like to be involved).
Did you hear Aimee's STUNNING Good Friday testimony?
You can watch our full length conversation with her via YouTube here and her flagship testimony film here.
If you have any questions, thoughts or testimonies, please contact us here.
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
He is Risen!
Today's episode is a preview of the final few sessions in 1 Corinthians as we race towards the conclusion of the book.
“And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.” (*1 Corinthians 6:14)
What does the Demoniac in Luke 8 have to do with our next passage that we'll look at in more depth next Sunday?
CORRECTION: The demoniac didn’t necessarily have 12 demons. The exact number is unclear (not sure why that was in my head) though the significance of “legion”, in Roman terms, may indicate thousands. There were also approximately 2000 pigs (according to Mark).*
Did you hear Aimee's STUNNING Good Friday testimony?
You can watch our full length conversation with her via YouTube here and her flagship testimony film here.
Please consider supporting our work here and/or here.
If you have any questions, thoughts or testimonies, please contact us here.
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
This guest testimony episode today is very precious and very powerful: a former homosexual atheist radically saved by the sovereign hand of God, despite an unfaithful local church.
We'll let Aimee do the talking but suffice to say there is nothing as encouraging as listening to a new believer describe the transforming work of our resurrected King Jesus.
When new believers enter the kingdom with a polemic for/against the chaos in the Church, we should all (especially church leaders) sit up, listen and think long and hard.
GOOD FRIDAY premieres (15th April): You can watch this full length conversation via YouTube here at 7:30pm and a flagship testimony film first here at 7:15pm.
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If you have any questions, thoughts or testimonies, please contact us here.
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
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Let's smash this fake gospel up.
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2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted by Gospel
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for joining us on Into the Pray.
Today's verses in our study series, City of Temples, are 1 Corinthians 15:29-34.
We’ll be finishing our public reading of the gospel of Luke on Good Friday (April 15th, 4pm GMT) via YouTube LIVE.
In 1 Corinthians 4:14, Paul wrote:
“I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children.”
This fatherly Apostle has a different tone in today’s passage but one that is no less loving, (cf. 15:34).
Double-mindedness is a concept used in the philosophy and theology of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkergaard (1813–1855), meaning insincerity, egoism, or fear of punishment. As referenced in today’s session, the term is used in the book of James, (James 1:8).
PAUL IS PUSHING THE CORINTHIAN CHURCH TO SEE THAT THE MATURITY (perhaps even validity) OF THEIR DISCIPLESHIP DIDN’T HAVE TIME FOR IRRATIONAL DISCONNECTIONS BETWEEN THEIR PRACTICE AND THE CORE DOCTRINES OF APOSTOLIC FAITH.
How does this ring true systemically within the Church today?
How is this applicable to your own life?
If you have any questions, thoughts or testimonies, please contact us here.
How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
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Let's smash this fake gospel up.
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2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for joining us on Into the Pray.
As I explain in the introduction of today's podcast, our conversational focus on eschatology together will resume next week, although I also refer to this within the session on Ukraine.
Today, this is an extended devotional/Bible study from the YouTube video of the same title. You can watch the video here if you prefer.
There is also a playlist of other Bible readings forming here. If you'd like to be a reader, please let us know, and please consider sharing to your networks. Please consider supporting our work here and/or here.
Any questions or testimonies that others need to hear, please let us - and everyone else - know via Firebrand Notes.
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
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2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thanks to everyone for listening to Into the Pray.
Since mine eyes have looked on Jesus,
I’ve lost sight of all beside,
So enchained my spirit’s vision,
Gazing on the Crucified.
Today's teaching session is revelling somewhat in the glories we're reading in this 15th chapter of 1 Corinthians:
**- The premises of the heretical Corinthians were, in fact, false.
- The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the fact that changes everything for everyone.
- Jesus inaugurated a new race in His resurrection as the "first-fruits" from the dead.
- Do you live in hope of the resurrection...practically?
- Are you as bold as a lion?
- Do you witness the supernatural?
- Are we prepared to demolish contrary arguments? (If not, perhaps we don't yet have a living hope in the resurrection).
- All men and women are either in Adam or in Christ.
- God will be "all in all" and the eternal glory, beauty and worth of submission is central to it all: a difference in role and function despite utter parity in status and worth.
- Woe to us when we tamper with what God says is good.
Modus Tollens/Ponens info here**.
As we continue into this 52nd episode of City of Temples - and the great crescendo of the book - you can listen to a full reading of 1 Corinthians here.
As this teaching series finishes in the next month or so, please look out for the 50+ sessions in study-guide/commentary form towards the summer of 2022.
There is also a playlist of other Bible readings forming here. If you'd like to be a reader, please let us know, and please consider sharing to your networks. Please consider supporting our work here and/or here.
Any questions or testimonies that others need to hear, please let us - and everyone else - know via Firebrand Notes.
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you as ever for listening to Into the Pray.
This podcast today is the private episode we recorded for our supporters this month and that we published mid-week. It then occurred to us that this would also be good for the general public to hear, hence posting today.
To compliment these episodes on eschatology, if you would like to hear/be involved in the private podcasts/follow-ups/Q&A, please consider becoming one of our supporters here.
We've had this series in mind for ages but haven't had capacity to give the due time to it that we would like.
Today we look at a broad summary of the three eschatological perspectives of hermeneutic, exegesis and interpretation, all of which hinge on Revelation 20 and that we'll look at much more closely in the weeks ahead.
Any questions or testimonies of disruption that others need to hear, please let us - and everyone else - know via Firebrand Notes.
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
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2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
We'll keep this brief: please place your gospel tract orders this week so that we can keep things as cost-effective as possible for everyone via a larger order.
We've had several larger orders in recent days as well as delivering most days ourselves and we now need to do a third print-run.
Grab your Bible and take a quick look at the first few verses of Acts 14. Boldness is supposed to be the norm.
Please consider supporting our work here and/or here.
Any questions or testimonies that others need to hear, please let us - and everyone else - know via Firebrand Notes.
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
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2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for joining us on Into the Pray.
To prove that even what Nick says in this episode doesn’t go far enough, please read this.Today we go through vv12-19 of chapter 15 of 1 Corinthians and ask ourselves, "What could it mean for us all to be redeeming radicalisation?"
Look out for a new book project of this same title later in 2022.
As we continue into this 51st episode of City of Temples - and the great crescendo of the book - you can listen to a full reading of 1 Corinthians here.
As this teaching series finishes in the next month or so, please look out for the 50+ sessions in study-guide/commentary form towards the summer of 2022.
There is also a playlist of other Bible readings forming here. If you'd like to be a reader, please let us know, and please consider sharing to your networks. Please consider supporting our work here and/or here.
Any questions or testimonies that others need to hear, please let us - and everyone else - know via Firebrand Notes.
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
This is a special devotional episode of the podcast to encourage all true soldiers of Jesus Christ: J C Ryle’s “The Fight” as found in his book, Holiness.
“Habitual, lively faith in Christ’s Presence and readiness to help, is the secret of the Christian soldier fighting successfully.”
I hope this is a deep encouragement to all who listen. (A real sense of spiritual struggle was evident outside our home as I was recording).
You can also listen to Bible readings here and order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
If you’d like to support our work you can do so here and/or here.
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2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for joining us on Into the Pray.
As we go into this 50th episode of City of Temples - and the great crescendo of the book - you can listen to a full reading of 1 Corinthians here.
Today we go through vv1-11 of chapter 15 and ask ourselves, "What does it mean to be reminded of the gospel and of resurrection?"
Indeed, why should we repent of our "gospelessness"?
Any questions or testimonies that others need to hear, please let us - and everyone else - know via Firebrand Notes.
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
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2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello! Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
Today's brief session is to flag a couple of things that are important to be flagged and to also whet your appetite for some forthcoming stories landing here on the podcast.
Bible teaching, public Bible reading, making disciples & visiting homes - sound good?
The LORD God is more awesome that we can fathom, His Gospel more powerful than we know and, without doubt, Jesus is moving behind the scenes and the scenes that He is behind.
A LIVE reading of 1 Corinthians can be listened to here.
Any questions or stories, please let us - and everyone else - know via Firebrand Notes.
Order our new gospel tract for your parish here.
Let's smash this fake gospel up.
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2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
We’re doing these short devotional episodes to set us right for Monday mornings and the new week of opportunity that lies ahead.
Today we focus briefly on the first couple of paragraphs of Philippians 4, reading from the AMPC.
There is a beautiful promise in these verses that He is not only near to us right now by His Spirit but also that He is near in the ultimate sense that He is coming soon. (v5[b]).
Any questions, please let us know via Firebrand Notes.
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2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for joining us on Into the Pray.
What does it mean to be submissive and selfless? Essential/related reading here. Essential viewing here.
This is part 2 of “Silencing Demonic Disorder”. Part 1 here.
Today Nick covers the final concluding verses of 1 Corinthians 14 (vv36-40) in which Paul essentially silences demonic disorder and says that if we don't follow his command regarding church and home life - the Lord's command - that God will not recognise us.
You can watch our conversation here.
And then I will say to them openly (publicly), I never knew you; depart from Me, you who act wickedly [disregarding My commands]. – Matthew 7:23
Clearly this is weighty and eternally serious, hence not rushing the session in which Mairi and Nick also have a joint conversation about what it means to be selfless and submissive as husbands and wives.
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On Friday night we continued our public readings of Scripture; you can see the reading of Psalm 119 here. You can also order copies of our new, hard-hitting gospel tract here.
**Related reading/viewing:
1) The Death & Dearth of Spiritual Authority*.
2) Our* Tribute to Melvin Tinker*.
3)* Nick’s 2013 article about marriage.**
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Hello!
This is a relatively brief word of testimony that we felt it right to give now following our recent reading of T A Sparks’ “Prophetic Ministry” at the same time as J C Ryle’s, “Holiness”.
Although this is partially referred to in Body Zero, the extra nuance here - and the passage of time since - is important. We’ve been gracious and anonymous but, equally, unreserved in the conclusions being drawn.
You can read this podcast here.
This coming Sunday Mairi and I will be sharing more on the critically important issue of godly submissiveness in Christian women and godly selflessness in Christian men.
Thank you for joining in to listen to Into the Pray.
**Related reading/viewing:
1) The Death & Dearth of Spiritual Authority*.
2) Our* Tribute to Melvin Tinker*.
3)* Nick’s 2013 article about marriage.**
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2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
We’re doing these short devotional episodes to set us right for Monday mornings and the new week of opportunity that lies ahead.
Today we focus briefly on J C Ryle and one of his most famous, best loved books, Holiness.
Keeping this as simple as possible, there is a difference between justification and sanctification.
“In justification the word to be addressed to man is believe - only believe; in sanctification the word must be ‘watch, pray and fight.’ What God has divided let us not mingle and confuse.”
When we get this wrong - when we contort Scripture to mean something that might be sensational and exciting but, at the end of the day, is utterly false - we are swimming with sharks.
Any questions, please let us know via Firebrand Notes.
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2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for joining us on Into the Pray. Please consider supporting our work here.
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Last night we continued our public readings of Scripture; you can see the reading of the book of Revelation here.
You can order copies of our new gospel tract here.
As we resume City of Temples today, we come to a difficult passage in 1 Corinthians 14 (vv26-36) in which Paul silences women.
What’s going on here, both in Corinth and in the Church today? What unspeakable disorder is tolerated as normal? What is Paul actually silencing?Join us for a second part of this podcast next week in which Mairi will share observations about all of this from her female perspective. **Related reading/viewing:
1) The Death & Dearth of Spiritual Authority*.
2) Our* Tribute to Melvin Tinker*.
3)* Nick’s 2013 article about marriage.**
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2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Welcome to Into the Pray and thank you for joining.
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Why was Jeremiah told to sack the mainstream? This episode from Jeremiah 16 today is to clarify a couple of things that have featured in recent weeks on the podcast regarding our reservation about an event in London in a few weeks from now.
Our "Repent Now; He Loves You." publication is now ready if you're wanting to make a beeline for your parish with the full gospel of Jesus Christ.
You can find info here and the shop to place your orders here. (Booklet, eBook and bundle versions available).
Please contact us for bulk orders to arrange postage etc. All proceeds will be funnelled back into producing more gospel tracts with our generous Printer, to take Jesus into more homes and parishes around the nations.
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2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Welcome to the second of a new mini-devotional series on Into the Pray to set us right for Monday mornings.
City of Temples will resume as normal this coming Sunday.
This morning is a brief devotional on Psalm 10. (Apologies for the mic distortion).
How should we pray for the world that, according to the Bible, will only continue to convulse and that, according to Jesus, will continue to increase in lawlessness?
Join us this Friday on YouTube LIVE for our next public reading of Scripture (Revelation). More info here.
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Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for your time listening to Into the Pray and prayerfully considering what you're hearing here. If you think we're wrong or missing something, please feel free to get in touch and show us from the Bible.
Today is Nick's birthday and, as such, here is a brief teaching from Luke 19 (focussing on vv41-44) that's intended to be a gift to the listener, much like it would be to bring a cake into the office:
This is what we see, this is what we believe and this is why we can't be part of anything corporately until the mainstream Church confesses the chronic symptom of its unfaithfulness seen by the shoehorning of repentance into the most precious idol of all: man-centred christianity.
A logo-displaying, self-preening "day of repentance" is a contradiction in terms and a stench in the nostrils of God. God is not calling us to repent about abortion; He is calling us to repent.
Jesus wept then He whipped.
Ich weiss nicht.
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Hello!
Welcome to the first of a new mini-devotional series on Into the Pray to set us right for Monday mornings.
I (Nick) was arrested by a couple of things in the last 24 hours:
1) Someone unusually saying to me, “Stay close to the Lord…”, and the sin of my heart in response;
2) An Oswald Chambers post that you can read here.
May this encourage us all towards growing humility, increasing love of Jesus and significant progress in the building up of the Church in agapé.
“And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’” (Matthew 25:40)
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Hello!
Thank you for joining in with these teaching sessions on Into the Pray.
Today's session covers 1 Corinthians 14:6-25 and is a slightly longer recording due to the larger passaged covered.
Here's a funny - and related - Catherine Tate sketch for some light relief.
What of the gift of tongues and the gift of prophesy? Do our church cultures today reflect the wisdom and power of these verses (of the gifts of tongues and prophecy) or contorted, fleshy versions that lie at two ends of a denominational spectrum, that is no spectrum at all?
Don't our feelings and emotions often trump clear biblical teaching? What are your experiences of church meetings where spiritual activity has been occurring?
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More info will come soon and don't forget the recent Jeremiah stream here.
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Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Welcome and thank you for listening to Into the Pray!
We thought we would take today's session to go through the new gospel tract that we've produced - "Repent now; He loves you."
This is probably a gospel tract unlike any other you've come across before because we begin it with a "reality check" and an apology.
Why would we need to apologise to those who don't know Jesus yet? What warning is there sounding from those who are coming to faith in Jesus and who immediately recognise - and express - a disconnect between the Bible they're reading in private and the church they've tried to connect with in public?
Are we listening?
If you would like to watch this episode of the podcast, you can do so here and a related 15 min vlog with Nick here.
If you would like to order copies of this tract for reaching out into your own "parishes" please let us know.
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More info will come soon and don't forget last week's epic Jeremiah stream, here.
Let's break some more ice.
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2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
*This podcast is longer than usual because it is an edited morning of teaching from two sessions*
Welcome to Into the Pray and our weekly Bible teaching session. (There are 46 previous "City of Temples" sessions to catch up with from 1 Corinthians).
Today we were due to be continuing our study in 1 Corinthians chapter 14 but Nick was speaking at an event yesterday and didn't have time to prepare two sessions.
Being alarmed is not equal to be terrified.
What you're about to hear is his edited morning of teaching from Luke 21 about the need for the Church to be alarmed (not merely alert), to lift up our heads in prayer and see our Redemption drawing near.
"As I look back upon my course, I seem to myself as one who, ascending the dark staircase of a church tower and trying to steady himself, reached for the banister, but got hold of the bell rope instead. To his horror he had then to listen to what the great bell had soundedover him and not over him alone.” –Karl Barth.
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Why not join us for our next Friday night reading on YouTube LIVE (Friday, March 4th)? We'll be reading the stunning book of Revelation including prayer/intercession LIVE. (Subscribe to our YouTube channel here.)
More info will come soon and don't forget last week's epic Jeremiah stream, here.
Let's break some more ice.
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Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Greetings!
Welcome to Into the Pray and our first joint convo of the year that you can also watch here.
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We keep it brief today to give you a little more news about what our plans are for public ministry in 2022.
Nick is speaking at an event tomorrow morning so Sunday’s teaching this week will be the recording from that. (Luke 21). We’ll continue with City of Temples on February 20th.
Please keep your eyes peeled here for ordering info for our new gospel tract publication, (Repent now; He loves you.).
We hope you guys appreciate what we're doing with these two projects.
We'll be sharing more next week about our 30 day reading through the Bible. We can certainly testify to the power of giving ourselves to the Word of God in a way that we haven't previously.
Surely this is the future of the true/sobered Church as the devil increasingly rages.
Why not join us for our next Friday night reading on YouTube LIVE (Friday, March 4th)? We'll be reading the stunning book of Revelation including prayer/intercession LIVE. (Subscribe to our YouTube channel here.)
More info soon and don't forget last week's epic Jeremiah stream, here. Let's break some more ice.
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2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
As we resume podcasting in 2022, our normal schedule will now be:
Fridays (adhoc) 6am GMT
Sundays (weekly) 6am GMT
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Our full reading of the book of Jeremiah is happening LIVE on YouTube tonight (Friday, February 4th) from 7:30pm - We’d love you to get involved here.
Today's resumption of our teaching series, City of Temples, will return to it's normal Sunday spot as from February 13th. We're publishing this today because it relates so closely to yesterday's first podcast of the year and also to our live reading of Jeremiah this evening.
Looking today at 1 Corinthians 14:1-5:
How do love and prophecy relate? Is there any contradiction between 1 Corinthians 13 and the prophetic weighting of Jeremiah 1:10? How are we to understand the heart of God to be faithful to Scripture?
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Greetings All!
**We're glad to be back after a month of extended reading, praying and discussing and hope that you're doing well!
Mairi and Nick together will be having the first convo of season 5 a week tomorrow (Friday, February 11th, 6am GMT) and will be featuring our plans for the extensive public reading of Scripture.**
"Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion." (Psalm 84:5)
This initial episode of season 5 includes an update regarding some changes to the weekly scheduling of the podcast as well as an introductory word of warning to the often squeamish Church.
If you would like to help us we are still looking for support here and you can contact us about anything here.
Our full reading of the book of Jeremiah is happening LIVE on YouTube tomorrow night (Friday, February 4th) from 7:30pm. We’d love you to get involved here.
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2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Welcome to Into the Pray and thank you for listening. (Don’t miss an extended YouTube conversation between Nick and Steve Buckley on Boxing Day here).
This is the final episode of Into the Pray for 2021 and we couldn't be joined by better people!
Please stay tuned to the end of this podcast where Gwil performs an impromptu acoustic version of his new song, Like Jehovah.
Gwil & Beth Davey are involved in the leadership of New Hope Christian Centre in Norwich, England. You can watch this podcast here.
Gwil is a gifted worship leader and singer/song-writer (please see his Spotify artist link here) and has a new single out, entitled Like Jehovah, in January. Here's a the pre-save link for that new song!
Beth is also involved in leading an exciting and pioneering work with children for the surrounding Norwich vicinity. Please take some time to read Beth's blog here.
It is a fitting end for this final episode in our "All the Prophets" season to be one in which ‘beholding worship’ has its place: when all is said and done, there is no-one like you, Jehovah.
Thank you to Gwil and Beth for joining us and sharing so honestly.
Relevant content/links from recent podcasts are as follows:
- Where is this Coming? (video)
- Fake Prophets Do Not Mean Zero Prophets (info)
- Is Your Church Faithful? (letter & podcast)
- Is the Holy Spirit correcting you? (blog & video)
- Why I love (but disagree with) Christian Concern (video)
Thank you very much for your ongoing prayers for healing as Nick is still rather sick. The process is not necessarily overnight! We share more on our Patreon page for those of you who would like to walk this journey more closely with us.
If you would like to support our work, (including a full-length audiobook version of Body Zero) you can do so here and/or here.
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2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Dear All,
It was lovely to connect with one of our supporters, Peter, yesterday via zoom and spend an hour or so chatting together.
If you would like to join our small group of supporters, please see here and/or here.
You can also watch the video of this podcast here.
Today’s podcast is as a pause in our City of Temples series as we go into the Christmas holidays.
Instead, what you're about to hear is the audio of a YouTube video premiering this evening at 7:30pm GMT.
Related Oswald Chambers devotional here.
"Why I Love (but disagree with) Christian Concern" is a heartfelt expression of standing with the leadership of CC (and other fine para-church organisations ) but also, in so doing, an honest expression of what I believe to be true - and not true - pertaining to the voice of the coming Lord Jesus to our sleepy, arrogant, calloused, unfaithful church and nation.
Should the Church be calling the government to account for closing the churches? Should UK church leaders be revelling in this?
Via a brief examination of CC's new magazine released this week, I can only conclude not.
With the aggressive and ramping evil that we will all be aware of to some degree, this is my best effort to explain what I believe to be the major disconnect that currently renders the Church both sitting duck and laughing stock.
Relevant content/links from this week's podcasts are as follows:
- Where is this Coming? (video)
- Fake Prophets Do Not Mean Zero Prophets (info)
- Is Your Church Faithful? (letter & podcast)
- Is the Holy Spirit correcting you? (blog & video)
Thank you very much for your ongoing prayers for healing as Nick is still rather sick. The process is not necessarily overnight! We share more on our Patreon page for those of you who would like to walk this journey more closely with us.
If you would like to support our work, (including a full-length audiobook version of Body Zero) you can do so here and/or here.
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2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello and welcome to Into the Pray. Thank you for listening in.
Nick is joined this morning by Josh Fortune, a church pastor and very talented film-maker and animator serving in Woolwich, London.
It has been a joy to meet with Josh in recent months as he brings a rare sense of honesty and transparency regarding both the church at large and his own leadership within that.
Please sit back and be refreshed by Josh's openness and honesty fuelled by a desire to know the power of God working in our churches!
Relevant content/links from this week's podcasts are as follows:
- Where is this Coming? (video)
- Fake Prophets Do Not Mean Zero Prophets (info)
- Is Your Church Faithful? (letter & podcast)
- Is the Holy Spirit correcting you? (blog & video)
Thank you very much for your ongoing prayers for healing as Nick is still rather sick. The process is not necessarily overnight! We share more on our Patreon page for those of you who would like to walk this journey more closely with us.
If you would like to support our work, (including a full-length audiobook version of Body Zero) you can do so here and/or here.
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2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
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2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Welcome and thank you to you all for listening to Into the Pray.
This week's penultimate mid-week session of 2021 with Dave Brennan focuses on the book of 2 Timothy and the disruption of sound doctrine.
Please also consider sharing this podcast to your networks for us.
We'll let this podcast speak for itself.
The relevant content/links that we discuss in today's podcast are as follows:
- Where is this Coming? (video)
- Fake Prophets Do Not Mean Zero Prophets (info)
- Is Your Church Faithful? (letter & podcast)
- Is the Holy Spirit correcting you? (blog & video)
Thank you very much for your ongoing prayers for healing as Nick is still rather sick. The process is not necessarily overnight! We share more on our Patreon page for those of you who would like to walk this journey more closely with us.
If you would like to support our work, (including a full-length audiobook version of Body Zero) you can do so here and/or here.
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2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
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2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for joining us in our teaching sessions through 1 Corinthians.
Please consider sharing this podcast to your networks for us. Here is a preview of this evening’s vlog.
Today we finish chapter 13 by focusing on vv8-13.
"Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is." (1 John 3:2)
Here are the helpful AMPC definitions for you:
Faith: Conviction & faith respecting man’s relation to God & divine things.
Hope: Joyful and confident expectation of eternal salvation.
Love: True affection for God & man, growing out of God’s love for us and in us.
And the blog article r.e. the inability of Jannes and Jambres to create gnats is here.
**The vlog session later today (featuring the thoughts of other quality church leaders) is focusing on the 1993 Waco disaster in Texas, USA.
Why is David Koresh's "messianic" cult relevant to the disruption of the Holy Spirit today?
You can subscribe view these vlogs here**.
Thank you very much for your ongoing prayers for healing as Nick continues to return to full health. The process is not necessarily overnight! We share more on our Patreon page for those of you who would like to walk this journey more closely with us.
If you would like to support our work, (including a full-length audiobook version of Body Zero) you can do so here and/or here. Please also consider sharing this podcast to your networks for us.
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2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Welcome to the Into the Pray podcast and thank you for joining.
Our Friday focus on 'All the Prophets' continues today with the help of our Dad, Ant Franks!
Many thanks to you again, Dad, for faithfully preparing as you always do.
You can also watch this podcast via YouTube here.
One of the thoughts that stayed with us having listened back again was the thought of Amos being taken by the LORD from his context and commanded prophetically into something new.
How are we open to this convicting/compelling/correcting work of the Spirit today?
But the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’ (Amos:15)
Thank you very much for your ongoing prayers for healing as Nick continues to return to full health. The process is not necessarily overnight! We share more on our Patreon page for those of you who would like to walk this journey more closely with us.
If you would like to support our work, (including a full-length audiobook version of Body Zero) you can do so here and/or here. Please also consider sharing this podcast to your networks for us.
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Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for listening in to Into the Pray.
This week's Wednesday session is a follow-up from Nick's open letter to the Church last week. You can read this here.
You can watch this podcast on YouTube here.
The bottom line is that false theology and false doctrine has spread and is spreading like gangrene throughout the Church.
Church leaders/Bible teachers are more accountable than those whom they lead (James 3:1) but we are all accountable before God for the diet that we consume, both for our physical bodies - temples of the Holy Spirit - and for our spirits.
Is the church that you go to faithful? Is the church that you lead faithful?
Thank you very much for your ongoing prayers for healing as Nick continues to return to full health. The process is not necessarily overnight! We share more on our Patreon page for those of you who would like to walk this journey more closely with us.
If you would like to support our work, (including a full-length audiobook version of Body Zero) you can do so here and/or here. Please also consider sharing this podcast to your networks for us.
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Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for joining us on Into the Pray!
Today Nick and Mairi kick back in a more relaxed conversational style to approach the next few verses of 1 Corinthians in our study series, City of Temples.
This conversation is also available to watch on YouTube.
The focus of today is vv 4-7 of chapter 13.
Drawing on Mairi's expertise as a French teacher, we begin to think about the less familiar reality of this chapter which is that it should never be wrenched out of its context for wedding ceremonies without the direct application for which it was written: the often painful anguish of Christian discipleship.
Here is a related video on this very same struggle that I think, if we're all being honest, we will all relate to in one way or another.
Whether we absorb these words in a wedding ceremony or in the normal, daily rhythms of Christian community, we often conclude that we must simply buckle up and "try harder".
However, the reality is that unless He creates this crescendo of His fruit in our lives (love/agapé) - unless we grow in understanding how much we have first been loved - we are never going to change beyond temporary/sporadic improvement.
Thank you very much for your ongoing prayers for healing as Nick continues to return to full health. The process is not necessarily overnight! We share more on our Patreon page for those of you who would like to walk this journey more closely with us.
If you would like to support our work, (including a full-length audiobook version of Body Zero) you can do so here and/or here. Please also consider sharing this podcast to your networks for us.
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2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray!
For our latest Friday session looking at "All the Prophets", it is a joy to spend time talking with John Betts from Norwich, the most senior guest that we've hosted on this podcast.
Leading within both the local and national church scene for more than 50 years, John carries an infectious passion to see biblical truth once again resound from British churches.
Talking broadly around the mysterious biblical prophet, Ezekiel, grab your Bible and sit back and listen to John and Nick discuss the church, prayer and the hope of reformation and renewal.
This conversation is also available to watch on YouTube.
Thank you very much for your ongoing prayers for healing as Nick continues to return to full health. The process is not necessarily overnight! We share more on our Patreon page for those of you who would like to walk this journey more closely with us.
If you would like to support our work, (including a full-length audiobook version of Body Zero) you can do so here and/or here. Please also consider sharing this podcast to your networks for us.
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Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you, as ever, for listening to Into the Pray!
We're recycling our 2016 worship song, Jesus Come, because we didn't ever make a music video for it and because you might not have heard it!
The spoken word video for this song is here and the brand-new music/lyric video is here.We hope it’s a blessing!
The essence of this song has increasingly become the essence of everything that we do including, at the right time and Lord willing, helping a local community to emerge where we're living.
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Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
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2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you to all of you for tuning in to Into the Pray.
As the intro in this podcast explains, over the weekend we have been compelled to communicate again regarding the proliferation of false doctrine in our churches up and down the country and through the nations of the West.
"Is Your Church Faithful? -The Instruction of 2 Timothy in Assessing The Faithfulness of Our Churches" is the open letter that Nick has written this week to the Church as a result.
This episode of Into the Pray is both a brief back-story by way of explanation about the process of discerning the Lord's leading (that then resulted in this open letter) as well as an audio version of the letter itself.
If you would prefer, you can read the open letter to the Church with Bible references here.
Thank you very much for your ongoing prayers for healing as Nick continues to return to full health. The process is not necessarily overnight! We share more on our Patreon page for those of you who would like to walk this journey more closely with us.
If you would like to support our work, (including a full-length audiobook version of Body Zero) you can do so here and/or here. Please also consider sharing this podcast to your networks for us.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for listening to this week's teaching session through 1 Corinthians. Today we're looking at chapter 13 and especially the first three verses.
Just to clarify about the point concerning Bar Mitzvah and chapter 13 having 13 verses: obviously these are man-made constructions (the original manuscripts didn’t have chapter or verse divisions) but in Paul’s forensically ordered and inspired thinking it seems significant that this issue of love and ‘coming of age’ is saved for this exact point in his letter.
In chapter 14, Paul directly commends the distinctive role of individual instruments being played in isolation, for a special visit and for battle; in chapter 12 today, Paul indirectly commends the harmony of an ensemble of instruments being played together, for every day community life.
What would it mean for us to be harmonious and indistinct at the time of war? What would it mean for us to be shrill and obsessed with solos as our main rhythm of community life?
All manner of possible hypothetical scenarios can be concocted, but Paul's principle is clear: the proof of our genuine "coming of age" into the kingdom of God is that we are continuing to ask the present continuous Holy Spirit to increasingly pour into our hearts His agape love.
Love is a noun: love is not love; God is love.
Thank you very much for your ongoing prayers for healing as Nick continues to return to full health. The process is not necessarily overnight! We share more on our Patreon page for those of you who would like to walk this journey more closely with us.
If you would like to support our work, (including a full-length audiobook version of Body Zero) you can do so here and/or here. Please also consider sharing this podcast to your networks for us.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray!
We would be very surprised if there was another podcast available today offering an overview of the prophet Hosea as an antidote to the madnesses of Black Friday.
As a balm for our materialistically bombarding world, sit back in your favourite chair with a coffee or in the car or on the move with your favourite podcast and listen to Nick read part of chapter 7 (HIM) from is book, Body Zero.
Don't forget to join us for our teaching sessions on Sunday! We're continuing to work towards the end of the book of 1 Corinthians in our series, City of Temples. This coming Sunday we'll be looking at the first three verses of Paul's exquisite chapter on love (13).
Thank you very much for your ongoing prayers for healing as Nick continues to return to full health. The process is not necessarily overnight! We share more on our Patreon page for those of you who would like to walk this journey more closely with us.
If you would like to support our work, (including a full-length audiobook version of Body Zero) you can do so here and/or here. Please also consider sharing this podcast to your networks for us.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you all for listening to this episode of Into the Pray. You can watch our conversation with Dave Brennan here if you'd prefer.
**First of all we'd like to honour the memory of our good friend, Melvin Tinker, who very sadly passed away earlier yesterday morning.
We feel very grateful for the times we had with Melvin, albeit briefly, and will miss calling on him for input and the vast wisdom he carried.**Our next episode of our new YouTube series, featuring Melvin at length, is available here.
The recent conversation Nick had with Melvin, just days before he was diagnosed, is in full here. "Welcome him [home] then in the Lord with all joy, and honour and highly appreciate men like him..." (Philippans 2:29 AMPC).
Today we have sad hearts but determined all the more continue to look together through the window of Scripture into eternity beyond. Today we are in Jeremiah 7.
Thank you very much for your ongoing prayers for healing as Nick continues to return to full health. The process is not necessarily overnight! We share more on our Patreon page for those of you who would like to walk this journey more closely with us.
If you would like to support our work, you can do so here and/or here. Please also consider sharing this podcast to your networks for us.
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for listening to these City of Temples sessions through 1 Corinthians. (This is episode 42 and all previous episodes are here).
You might like to watch/share our flagship 2021 film here.You can also watch Friday’s session with Alisa Childers here via YouTube.
Finally, you can also watch our new YouTube series, featuring 15 leaders, regarding the state of the Church. View/subscribe/share here.
Drawing on some experience of open heart surgery and working in a medical context while responsible for some very "high-risk" patients, today Nick goes through the last verses of 1 Corinthians chapter 12 as we continue to think about the main burdens of Paul's heart for the Church:
1) The variety of the Body of Christ;
2) The unity of the Body of Christ;
3) The mission of the Body of Christ.
What will it take to humble the Body of Christ? Further manifest evil? Further child sacrifice and abuse? A cataclysmic volcano erupting?
Either way, God will have His way; Jesus will have His Bride.
Thank you very much for your ongoing prayers for healing as we continue to return to full capacity this week. We share more on our Patreon page for those of you who would like to walk this journey more closely with us.
If you would like to support our work, you can do so here and/or here. Please also consider sharing this podcast to your networks for us.
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
This week on the Into the Pray podcast we're grateful to be joined by Alisa Childers...author, worship leader and Christian apologist from the USA.
You can also watch this conversation here via YouTube if you'd prefer. Please remember to subscribe to the channel and share to your networks!
You can also watch our new YouTube series, featuring 15 church leaders, regarding the chaos of the Church. View/subscribe here.
Do you know what "progressive christianity" is? Do you know why it's so dangerous? Do you understand how commonplace heresy is? Do you agree that something more radical is afoot in the Body of Christ? ...and that sitting on the fence will soon no longer be an option?
Please do share this convo to your networks for us
Alisa's book, "Another Gospel?”, can be purchased here.
Our flagship content:
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - A Conversation About Mental Health for the Church
Please support our work here and/or here.
Thank you!
Love,
Nick & Mairi
Hello!
Thank you for joining us for our mid-week session of Into the Pray - you can find all episodes here.
You might like to watch/share our flagship 2021 film here.
This week we continue peering through the God-given window of Scripture to discover how abnormal our secularised world is, let alone our secularised Church.
The main audio in this episode is from a meeting Nick had been invited to speak in last year, hence the audio quality is via Zoom. The blog article/photos associated with this is here along with part two of the audio if you're interested here.
We'll pick things back up with Dave Brennan of Brephos next week.
Thank you very much for your ongoing prayers for healing as we continue to return to full capacity this week. We share more on our Patreon page for those of you who would like to walk this journey more closely with us.Thank you also for those who have left reviews for us. There are approximately 25 reviews left via iTunes meaning there’s scope for several thousand others! 🙏
If you would like to support our work, you can do so here and/or here. Please also consider sharing this podcast to your networks for us.
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Greetings All!
Have you had a difficult weekend? Is Monday proving to be more of a struggle than usual?
Perhaps as you’ve watched TV, heard the news or even visited a church, maybe your heart has been ‘stirred with a noble theme’ (Psalm 45:1) and you’re not sure what to do next or, even, who you might talk with?
Spend some time drawing aside with the Lord, lift your heart and mind to Jesus and ask for the fire and wisdom of the Holy Spirit to baptise you in a new way.
Please see here for the rest of the content of this project including a music video here.
Would you like to help us produce more music like this?
If you would like to support our work, you can do so here and/or here. Please also consider sharing this podcast to your networks for us.
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thanks as ever for joining us on Into the Pray and our teaching series, City of Temples, through the book of 1 Corinthians.
You can watch this podcast on YouTube here.
For related reading, you can buy Nick's book, Body Zero, here.
In today's session, we spend time looking at vv 14-27 of chapter 12.
Because of his immense suffering for the sake of Jesus’ Name, Paul's own body would have been disabled, heavily scarred and bow-legged; he would have experienced wound infections, mental anguish and, quite likely, joint dislocations.
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As we read and think about Paul's description of the Church as a body, what do you think of the Church today? Are we 'fit for purpose'?
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Where do you think we are heading over the next few years?
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Does your own church feel healthy or dislocated?
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How do you fit in and how do you help others to also fit in?
Here's the film, "Paul - Apostle of Christ" - that I mention. I'm sure you can find it easily for rent.
Here's Nick’s short blog regarding what we thought of the film. What do you think?
Thank you very much for your ongoing prayers for healing as we continue to return to full capacity this week. We share more on our Patreon page for those of you who would like to walk this journey more closely with us.Thank you also for those who have left reviews for us. There are approximately 25 reviews left via iTunes meaning there’s scope for several thousand others! 🙏
If you would like to support our work, you can do so here and/or here. Please also consider sharing this podcast to your networks for us.
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
Next Friday we are being joined by Alisa Childers so we thought it would be fun this Friday to have a relatively light hearted wind down to the weekend.
Listen to us discuss the top ten most common questions for first dates and you might just chuckle...you'll certainly hear some stories that were new to us!
Here's the film, "Paul - Apostle of Christ" - that we mention. I'm sure you can find it easily for rent.
Here's Nick’s short blog regarding what we thought of the film. What do you think?
Thank you very much for your ongoing prayers for healing as we continue to return to full capacity this week. We share more on our Patreon page for those of you who would like to walk this journey more closely with us.Thank you also for those who have left reviews for us. There are approximately 25 reviews left via iTunes meaning there’s scope for several thousand others! 🙏
If you would like to support our work, you can do so here and/or here. Please also consider sharing this podcast to your networks for us.
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Welcome to Into the Pray and thank you for listening along. You can also watch along here.
Today's midweek session with Dave Brennan of Brephos begins to lift our thinking above the realm of the natural and normal into the transcendent and eternal.
“A world without windows” is how sociologist Peter Berger describes the secularized view of the world. He also calls it the “prison of modernity.” Bultmann the theologian, as much as Sagan the scientist, is an inmate of this prison. Both agree that a modern scientific view of the cosmos requires reality to be interpreted as a closed system of natural cause and effect—a system without signs of transcendence.
The renewal of Christian witness and mission requires constant examination of the assumptions shaping the Church’s life. Today an apparent loss of a sense of the transcendent is undermining the Church’s ability to address with clarity and courage the urgent tasks to which God calls it in the world.
Grab a brew and listen or watch Nick, Mairi and Dave read Psalm 139 and begin the sometimes foreign process for all of us of lifting our thinking.
Paul said it like this, "Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth." (Colossians 3:2).Thank you very much for your prayers for healing as we have sought to return to full capacity this week. We share more on our Patreon page for those of you who would like to walk this journey more closely with us.
If you would like to support our work, you can do so here and/or here. Please also consider sharing this podcast to your networks for us.
Here’s a short review of “Paul - Apostle of Christ.”
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for listening to this episode of Into the Pray!
Today we continue our passage through the book of 1 Corinthians in our teaching series, City of Temples (this is the 40th episode!).
You can watch this teaching session on YouTube here.
The focus of our time together today are vv12-13 of chapter 12 in what is effectively a mini-series called The Present & Continuous Holy Spirit. (This is part 5).
- What have you received from Him?
- What role does the public manifestation of the gifts have on churches?
- What does it mean to be baptised in the Holy Spirit?
Thank you very much for your prayers for healing as we have sought to return to full capacity this week. We share more on our Patreon page for those of you who would like to walk this journey more closely with us.
If you would like to support our work, you can do so here and/or here. Please also consider sharing this podcast to your networks for us.
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray!
This week's Friday session is special!
Turn off the TV, sit back and listen to Dave, Nick and Mairi read J.C.Ryle's 19th Century classic, A Call to Pray.
This is our answer to the question regarding climate change:
No! The real emergency threatening the world is the "prayerless Church".
Please follow our new vlog series over on YouTube that is showcasing the very rare wonder that is faithful **church leaders in the UK (and overseas) as well as shining a light on the work of the enemy within the lukewarm Church at large.
Part one is here*; part two is* here**; part three drops on Sunday (subscribe to get notifications).
Thank you very much for your prayers for healing as we have sought to return to full capacity this week. We share more on our Patreon page for those of you who would like to walk this journey more closely with us.
If you would like to support our work, you can do so here and/or here. Please also consider sharing this podcast to your networks for us.
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Greetings All,
This is part 1 of a 2-part podcast. Tune in to Into the Pray this Friday to hear J C Ryle's "A Call to Pray" read in full by Mairi, Nick & Dave.**
You can watch this podcast via basic YouTube video here**.
Look out for our conversation with Alisa Childers next week.
Thank you very much for your prayers for healing as we have sought to return to full capacity this week. We share more on our Patreon page for those of you who would like to walk this journey more closely with us.
Today's Wednesday session with friend Dave Brennan of Brephos involves those two dreaded words (no, not Brexit debate) climate change.
Dave's blog is here.
As you have watched the world swarm on Glasgow this week for COP26, as you have witnessed generations collaborating effectively together, as you have heard Greta Thunberg's scripted protestations, what have you thought?
- Is all of this harmless and, actually, quite good?
- Is there something more nefarious lurking behind the scenes?
- How should we think about the importance of creation?
- How should we both steward and worship?
Grab a brew and listen to Nick and Dave discuss an incident in Norwich last week that serves as a strong reminder (if that was needed) that the 'climate change emergency' narrative is not harmless at all.
As a visual display of Yahweh's great creation, you might enjoy a glimpse into our half-term break and Scotland’s jaw-dropping beauty? “Open Your Eyes” can be seen here.
Thank you for your prayers and please feel free to let us know how we can be praying for you.
If you would like to support our work, you can do so here and/or here. Please also consider sharing this podcast to your networks for us.
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello!
Thank you for listening to this episode of Into the Pray.
Our schedule of podcasts this coming week (as well as VLOGs etc) has been delayed for a week or two due to Nick’s ill health.
Please do pray for us and, especially, for pain management and good, uninterrupted, healing sleep.
Here’s a related prayer.
In the meantime, you might enjoy a glimpse into our half-term break and Scotland’s jaw-dropping beauty. “Open Your Eyes” can be seen here.
Thank you for your prayers and please feel free to let us know how we can be praying for you.
If you would like to support our work, you can do so here and/or here.
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
Nick & Mairi
Hello!
Thank you for listening to our podcast and hope that you are growing in a love for the Bible through this weekly teaching series, City of Temples.
In a couple of weeks we welcome Alisa Childers to the podcast, so please look out for that.
Today, approaching the UK's autumn half-term week, perhaps you would spend some time thinking about the previous 3 episodes, (The Present Continuous Holy Spirit parts 1-3) and this vital emphasis today within that.
Are we keeping on asking or have we 'grown up'?
You can watch this episode of Into the Pray here.
AND if you haven't seen the beginning of our new church leader VLOG series on YouTube, you can do so here.
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Greetings All,
Please forgive this unplanned, impromptu additional podcast this week, but I believe this is very important.
You can find the blog article from this episode here.
“Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics. To us a single act of injustice--cheating in business, exploitation of the poor--is slight; to the prophets, a disaster. To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.”
― Abraham Joshua HeschelPLEASE WATCH & SHARE THIS FILM
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Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
In a couple of weeks we welcome Alisa Childers to the podcast, so please look out for that.
Did you know that there are approaching 40 teaching episodes in the book of 1 Corinthians available in our series, City of Temples? We're currently in a mini-series as part of that entitled, The Present & Continuous Holy Spirit.
This week we're grateful to be joined by Christopher Ash, Writer-in-Residence at Tyndale House, whose extensive work on the book of Psalms enables us to think about the prophetic place and purpose of the book within the Bible.
If you haven't seen the beginning of our new VLOG series on YouTube, you can do so here.
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Hello!
Thank you once again for listening to Into the Pray.
In a couple of weeks we welcome Alisa Childers to the podcast, so please look out for that.
Our mid-week session this week sees Nick and Dave picking up a question that has been quite commonly asked in the last few months:
***If we take a stand regarding the COVID-19 vaccines, won't that mean that we also have to take a similar stand regarding a wide range of other medications?
Apologies that we didn’t manage to get this conversation onto YouTube this week***Thank you to those of you who have made contact to ask this and we hope this session helps, at least to clarify what we think about the question.
If you haven't seen the beginning of our new church leader VLOG series on YouTube - To the Church in Great Britain - you can do so here.
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Hello!
Thank you for listening to our podcast and trust that you are finding these weekly sessions in 1 Corinthians helpful?
This is the third episode in a mini-series (within the overall City of Temples series), entitled, The Present & Continuous Holy Spirit.
Episode one is here.
Episode two is here.
Today our focus is on vv8-11 of chapter 12.
If you haven't see the beginning of our new VLOG series on YouTube, you can do so here.
You can also watch this episode of Into the Pray here.
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Thank you very much to you all for listening and especially those who track with us regularly and support our work. If you would like to join our small group of patrons, you can do so here.
Our Friday session this week is the audio version of our new vlog/video series that starts today over on YouTube. Entitled, 'To The Church In Great Britain', you can subscribe to see the videos here and WATCH the premier here.
PLEASE N.B: 1)the audio from the vlogs will not be featuring here on the podcast after today. 2) Christopher Ash will be on the podcast next Friday with arguably a world-class look at the prophetic significance of the book of Psalms.
To The Church in Great Britain
For a few months now we have wanted to compare and contrast two very popular podcast series with a view of holding high and aloft the reality that Paul thunders in 2 Corinthians 2:11, that we should not be 'unaware of the devil's schemes'.
By focusing on Christianity Today's podcast series, The Rise & Fall of Mars Hill, and the BBC's secular podcast examination of the Waco tragedy in February 1993, End of Days, there are certainly schemes to note and historic lessons to learn.
But are these the schemes and strategies and lessons that we might think strike us as being obvious? We believe that there are more nefarious schemes of Satan hidden beneath the surface. Join us over the next few months as we showcase probing questions to (and honest responses from) church leaders across Great Britain.
Are you a church leader? Then you will be very conscious of Jesus' terms and conditions in the first three books of Revelation.
This vlog series focuses on Jesus' words in chapter 3:1-3:
Revelation 3:1–3 (ESV)
“‘I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Wake up, and STRENGTHEN WHAT REMAINS and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God. Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you"
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Hello!
Thank you all for listening to Into the Pray.
In our Wednesday session this week, Nick and Dave continue to discuss the intimate interconnectedness of abortion and transgender ideology.
*CORRECTION: Reference to the conversation with Laurie Penny - “morally reprehensible” was, of course, addressing the position of being pro-life rather than being pro-abortion.*
Why would we do well to listen to what Jordan Peterson says, whether he is personally taking a stand for Jesus or not? Check this.
Related reading: Maugrim & The Secret Scottish Police.
Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel where our new church leader vlog series, To The Church in Great Britain, will be premiering on Friday of this week.
You can watch this episode of the podcast here, premiering on YouTube at 9pm today.
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Maranatha/love
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Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
Today's teaching focus is on vv 4-7 of 1 Corinthians 12.
Why should we resist spirituality?
"...having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people." (2 Timothy 3:5)
What should the common good look like in our churches?
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Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
What you will hear in this week's Friday session is the full audio from a video call with Melvin Tinker in which Nick asks some important questions for our new video series over on YouTube.
Melvin's contribution is important, bold, clear and helpful so we wanted you to hear it in its fullness!
What is the root problem in the Church today?
Where many church leaders are liberal, "progressive", deconstructionist, more culturally controlled than they have the courage to admit and responding to Satan's schemes by rejecting evangelical truth wholesale… (forget the evangelical wing of denominationalism, we're not talking about that; we're talking about biblical truth), ….shouldn’t we be exposing the devil's strategy? (Ephesians 5:11).
If you would like to watch the church leader video series (starting next week) on YouTube, please subscribe here.
Find related reading - The Death & Dearth of Spiritual Authority - here.
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Hello!
Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.
Today's episode contains ten minutes of audio from a Facebook LIVE video in which Dave Brennan speaks with Laurie Penny at Parliament Square, London, regarding abortion and related feminist/transgender ideologies.
We begin this week to discuss the interconnectedness of "pro-choice" thinking, the abortion industry and other ideologies that are aggressively trampling conscience, common sense and freedom of thought/speech.
Intimidating as they are (check the first ten seconds of Dave's conversation with Laurie) what impact is this all giving on the lover and follow of Jesus - aka genuine disciples of the coming King?
You can watch this episode of Into the Pray premeiring on YouTube here at 9pm this evening.
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Maranatha!**
Hello!
Thank you for listening to our teaching series through the book of 1 Corinthians.
You can watch today's episode - including the Narnia clip - on YouTube here.
Today we focus on the first three verses of chapter 12 as we begin a period of study concerning the Holy Spirit.
Does the Holy Spirit give spiritual gifts today or not? Does it really matter? Can’t we just agree to disagree?
Finally, please would you help us with 3 things:
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Welcome again to Into the Pray - thank you for listening.
Today we speak with The Rt Hon. Ann Widdecombe, ex-MP, ex-MEP, political commentator, author and TV personality. You can browse Ann's website here.
It was nearer the beginning of the COVID situation that we spoke with Ann previously. You can listen to that here and watch it on YouTube here.
This brief conversation regarding Ann's vast experience in the political world is to help us continue to think about our season focus of 'All the Prophets' and the prospect of being "politically correct or prophetically correct?"
We didn't do Isaiah justice today but Ann does help us think about his life and the role of the Prophets generally. We discuss the relationship between the monarchy and the Spirit of prophecy and the frailty of relying on the establishment.
In what might feel like quite a dreary outlook regarding the prospect of the power of the Spirit in our midst, the most significant thought from Ann is right at the end.
"For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." (Revelation 19:10[b])
What do you think?
Many thanks again to Ann for her time in recording with us!
You can watch today's conversation on YouTube here.
Finally, please would you help us with 3 things:
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Hello!
Thank you for tuning in to our mid-week session of Into the Pray!
Our episode with Dave Brennan today previews the next 12 weeks or so as we race towards the end of another year.
We will be discussing the following as faithfully as we know how to:
- Predestination
- Transgender ideology
- Prayer/intercession & activism/street work
- Forging communities of prayer
- "Is your church like this...?"
"For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming. The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness." (2 Thessalonians 2: 7-12)
"From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and the violent take it by force..." (Matthew 11:12)
"Come to me, all who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” (Matthew 11:29-30)
We meet again with Ann Widdecombe on Friday regarding the life of Isaiah and next month we have Christopher Ash helping us with our season series on "All the Prophets". (Author of umpteen books, including one of our faves, Bible Delight, Christopher is something of an authority on the Psalms). Finally, please would you help us with 3 things:
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2) Forward this episode to your networks and, if you haven't already,
3) Rate & review Into the Pray on whatever platform you get your podcasts on. **Many thanks.
Maranatha!
Love,
N&Mxx**
Hello!
Thank you for joining us again for our teaching series through the book of 1 Corinthians. This is episode 35 and today we finish chapter 11 by focusing on vv 27-34.
The David Prior quote from today's session:
“...this marks the beginning of a separation between the love-feast and the eucharist. This…is a timely reminder that the Christian worship in Corinth was of a more informal nature, took place in private homes, incorporated both liturgical and spontaneous elements, and was not confined to one hour’s devotions in a specially-constructed building which remained virtually unused for the rest of the week.”
**Do you have any thoughts?
How has the last session been in your heart/mind/prayers?
Do you have any questions?
Do you have any disagreements?
Do you have any testimony?
Please do get in touch here**!
This coming Wednesday, don't miss our preview of what's to come in our mid-week sessions over the next 3 months before the end of the year and we finish season 4.
We will be talking about transgender ideology, predestination, intercession and activism combined as well as posing some difficult questions for all of us as we survey the general landscape of the Church.
You can watch Wednesday's discussion with Dave Brennan via YouTube here where you can also subscribe for our new VLOG series examining Christianity Today's podcast series, The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill.
In a couple of weeks from now we meet again with Ann Widdecombe regarding the life of Isaiah and next month we have Christopher Ash helping us with our season series on "All the Prophets". Author of umpteen books, including one of our faves, Bible Delight, Christopher is something of an authority on the Psalms. Finally, please would you help us with 3 things:
1) Consider becoming a supporter of this podcast here to help us develop this media further;
2) Forward this episode to your networks and, if you haven't already,
3) Rate & review Into the Pray on whatever platform you get your podcasts on. **Many thanks.
Maranatha!
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Hello!
Thank you all for listening to our podcast...we're grateful for all of you.
For this week's Friday episode of Into the Pray, we want to bring your attention to our forthcoming YouTube videos related to Christianity Today's podcast series, The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill.
We will be doing our best to adopt our own version of long-form/story-telling to respond to CT's podcasts by comparing and contrasting them with another epic podcast series from the BBC.
Please sit back with a brew and listen to us explain this in more detail today.
As part of our "All the Prophets" season (finishing in December 2021), we will be rooting this VLOG series in Paul's words in 2 Corinthians 2:11:
"...so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs."If you're interested in these VLOGs, please subscribe to our YouTube channel here.You can contact us here.
Look out for our conversation about Isaiah with Ann Widdecombe next Friday.
Finally, with this kind of production in mind, please would you help us with 3 things?
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2) Forward this episode to your networks and, if you haven't already,
3) Rate Into the Pray and leave a review on whatever platform you get your podcasts on. **Love, N&M xx
Maranatha!**
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Thanks to all for listening to Into the Pray!
Please take a moment to rate and leave a review for us...each one of you who does that for us makes a big difference!
Also, you might like to become one of our Patreon supporters? You can do that here.
This final episode in our focus on contraception is a very helpful look at Scripture to enable us all to continue to think carefully and biblically about the things that we say we believe. Thanks as ever to Dave Brennan of Brephos for joining us each week.
Next week don't miss our preview of what's to come in our Wednesday sessions over the next 3 months before we finish season 4. We will be talking about transgender ideology, predestination, intercession and activism as well as posing some difficult questions for all of us as we survey the general landscape of the Church.
You can watch the YouTube version of this week's conversation here.
In a couple of weeks from now we meet again with Ann Widdecombe regarding the life of Isaiah and next month we have Christopher Ash helping us with our season series on "All the Prophets". Author of umpteen books, including one of our faves, Bible Delight, Christopher is something of an authority on the Psalms. Finally, please would you help us with 3 things:
1) Consider becoming a supporter of this podcast here to help us develop this media further;
2) Forward this episode to your networks and, if you haven't already,
3) Rate Into the Pray and leave a review on whatever platform you get your podcasts on. **Many thanks.
Maranatha!**
Hello!
Thank you all for listening again to this podcast!
This morning I briefly pick up a point from the conversation with Gavin Ashenden on Friday regarding demonic visitations.
**City of Temples will resume next Sunday.
“**Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you…” (James 4:7-8)
“And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12)
“…at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth…” (Philippians 2:10)
“As he said these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts at which you nursed!” But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!” (Luke 11:27-28)
I trust that this brief podcast this morning will strongly clarify and bring a sense of comfort to anyone who may have been disturbed by what was shared in Gavin’s testimony about demonic visitations.
Finally, please would you help us with 3 things:
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Today we have a pause in our "All the Prophets" focused season as we welcome Gavin Ashenden, former Chaplain to the Queen and now British Catholic layman who converted from evangelicalism in 2019.
Here is the article we discuss in today's episode.
We also discuss Justin Welby, apostasy, HTB seeker-sensitive progressive spirituality, demonic visitations, homosexuality, feminism, weak bladders etc etc etc.
What do you think?
“As He said these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, ‘Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts at which you nursed!’ But He said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!” (Luke 11:27-28)
Many thanks indeed to Gavin for recording with us today. Look out for future episodes with him soon.
You can watch the YouTube version of this conversation here.
Next month we have Christopher Ash helping us with our season series on "All the Prophets". Author of umpteen books, including one of our faves, Bible Delight, Christopher is something of an authority on the Psalms. Finally, please would you help us with 3 things:
1) Consider becoming a supporter of this podcast here,
2) Forward this episode to your networks and, if you haven't already,
3) Rate Into the Pray and leave a review on whatever platform you get your podcasts on. **Many thanks.
Maranatha!**
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Thank you all for listening to this episode today.
If you’d like to take communion please prepare some bread and wine to be ready at the end 🍞 🍷
WARNING: Some of you will find it harder to listen to this week's episode than others but please try and stick with it until the end. I am aiming for both honesty and integrity, fearing God and not man.
I generally try and keep things as succinct as possible but some matters are sufficiently important that they require more time so as not to gloss over the realities we're reading. This session is slightly longer than normal because I read an except from Body Zero at the end.
Our passage today (11:17-26) includes two verses (11:17, 20) that are sufficiently staggering to our church sensibilities and carnal minds (or they should be!) that they are scarcely believable.
"You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons." (10:21)
As I say, my honest view regarding where we collectively find ourselves may be very difficult to hear but please hear me out to the end when I tie things up as we approach the bread and the wine.
FOR YOUR DIARIES:
This coming Friday I will be speaking with Gavin Ashenden, former Chaplain to the Queen, about his 2019 conversion to Catholicism. In readiness for this you might want to listen to our Wednesday conversations with Dave Brennan (this week and last) entitled, Clarifying Catholicism. Next month we have Christopher Ash helping us with our season series on "All the Prophets". Author of umpteen books, including one of our faves, Bible Delight, Christopher is something of an authority on the Psalms. Finally, please would you help us with 3 things:
1) Consider becoming a supporter here,
2) Forward this episode to your networks and, if you haven't already,
3) Rate Into the Pray and leave a review on whatever platform you get your podcasts on. **Many thanks.
Maranatha!
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Greetings and thanks again for listening to Into the Pray!
Today we're glad to be able to introduce you to Andy Harker, one of Nick's closest friends all the way back from university days!
After three years on a church pastoral team, Andy moved with his family to Kenya to spend almost 7 years working alongside iServe Africa, an indigenous ministry helping to raise up gospel workers through ministry apprenticeships.
Andy is now the Director of 9:38 and we're all the better for our friendship with him and regular times on the phone talking, reading and praying.
You can watch the very short 9:38 promo video that Andy refers to at the beginning here.
Today we turn to the middle of our Bibles and the wonderful book of Psalms.
With our forming view of "all the prophets" (Luke 24:27) slowly pulling into focus, we begin to consider the multifaceted type of Christ that is King David, the man who was raised on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel (2 Samuel 23:1).
Many thanks to Andy for helping us this week as we consider the many unique ways in which David was a foreshadowing forerunner of Jesus the Messiah.
Christopher Ash will be joining us next month to help us with our second part of this focus on the Psalms. Christopher has written umpteen books including one of our favourites, Bible Delight, as a brilliant study of Psalm 119. Please don't miss that!
Gavin Ashenden, former chaplain to the Queen, is joining us next Friday.
We're looking to develop both financial and prayer/relational support for this podcast and our wider work. If you would like to help, you can become a Patron here... we'd be very grateful.
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Please also take a minute or two to rate and review Into the Pray on whatever podcast platform you listen from - this is really important to help the podcast in general and also silence the bad apples who think we're bigots for teaching the Bible!Many thanks to everyone.
Maranatha!
Love,
N&M xx
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Thank you for tuning in again to Into the Pray. There are more than 100 episodes of this podcast to listen to now including a wide range of guests spanning the period before lockdown to the current day, weekly episodes with Dave Brennan of Brephos (just like today's) as well as 33 teaching episodes in the book of 1 Corinthians.
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What are evangelical leaders saying about what's happening in the Church today? Are they saying anything that's worth listening to? And what about this critical issue of the blurred lines between Evangelicals and Catholics?
This podcast is seeking to at least clear-up some of that blur.
We're grateful as always for our friend, Dave Brennan of Brephos, featuring on this podcast every Wednesday.
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Maranatha!
Love,
N&M xx
Hello!
Thank you for listening again to Into the Pray.
Today we have a bit of an announcement that will be best understood and heard by listening to this brief episode.
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Love,
N&M xx
Hello!
Thank you for joining us again on Into the Pray.
I'll be returning to Hamlet’s soliloquy next week.
Suffice to say for this 33rd episode in 1 Corinthians, we now broach one of the most important theological errors of our day:- "progressive" "christian" liberalism.
What of head coverings? Are egalitarians correct when they maintain that there is no longer male and female in Christ and that, therefore, "Why shouldn't women lead a church?!" (Galatians 3:28). What might be the result if they’re not?
Is it inconsistent to follow Paul's teaching in 1 Timothy 2 (that God has said that eldership is for men only) but not follow suit in 1 Corinthians 11? If women shouldn’t lead churches today why aren't women wearing head coverings today?
What are our modern church practices actually based on? Rock or sand?
Our rock-solid belief is that the reason we're seeing the shocking abhorrences in secular society today (including the abuse of our precious children) is as a result of this kind of male/female error ruining the Body of Christ. When we ignore God’s Word, we are rendered impotent, vulnerable and, ultimately, irrelevant to the world who so desperately need faithful Christian witness.
We have decapitated our Head, Christ. (See this image)
Next week we come to the Lord's Supper. Perhaps you would get some bread and wine to take communion. Yes, we come to remember Him, to thank and praise and worship Him but also to pray for mercy and forgiveness and to plead for His vision - and His headship - for the way forward.
Would you join us? Let us know what you're thinking.
Essential Reading:
1) Benjamin Merkle article. (Please take time to read this where I have imperfectly communicated the answer to the 1 Corinthians 11 cf. 1 Timothy 2 issue).
2) The Death & Dearth of Spiritual Authority.
3) John Piper visits a mainstream “progressive” “church”.
4) Progressive christianity sites mentioned in the podcast.
This thrice-weekly podcast is essentially a faith-based ministry so if you would like to support it (and our wider work), please consider doing so here. (Would you also consider take a few minutes to leave us a review?). Thank you 🙏
If you would like to watch our latest YouTube video - The Terror of the LORD - you can do so here**.
Our flagship 2021 content is here**.
Until next week, let's be found praying, "Come, Lord Jesus!"
Love,
N&M xx
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Our Friday session this week continues with our season focus of "All the Prophets" and we're delighted to be joined by former Bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali.
Michael served as the Anglican Bishop of Rochester between 1994-2009 whereupon he began working with the Oxford Centre of Research, Training, Advocacy and Dialogue (OXTRAD). His work with OXTRAD today is perhaps especially pertinent in our world at the moment with the unstable situation in Afghanistan resurfacing.
OXTRAD seeks to support the Church in situations wherever it is under pressure. You can find out more here.
If you would prefer to watch the Youtube version of this podcast, you can do so here.
Michael was born and raised in Pakistan in the 1950s during which time his Father (a Shia Muslim) converted from Islam to faith in Jesus Christ. It was during Michael's teenage years at University in Karachi that he received the gospel himself. This was, in part, thanks to an Anglican Chaplain who, entirely incognito, had registered as a 'mature student' in order to spread the gospel among the students - where there's a will there's a way!
Many thanks to Michael and his team for helping us with the episode this week.
This thrice-weekly podcast is essentially a faith-based ministry so if you would like to support it (and our wider work) in an ongoing way, please consider doing so here.
If you would like to watch our latest YouTube video - The Terror of the LORD - you can do so here**.
Our flagship 2021 content is here**.
Until next week, let's be found praying, "Come, Lord Jesus!"
Love,
N&M xx
Hello!
Thank you for joining us again on Into the Pray!
Our Wednesday session this week spans Midlothian to Cornwall as we resume our weekly conversations with Dave Brennan of Brephos.
As we pivot somewhat from our focus on contraception, we come to the critical issue of the Roman Catholic Church, the largest religious denomination on the planet with approximately 1.3 billion Catholics worldwide (as of 2019).
Is the decision of evangelical Christians like Gavin Ashenden, Ann Widdecombe and Francis Chan, to move towards Catholicism, wise? Is this an acceptable solution to the gross unfaithfulness rife within Protestantism?We'll be going into this more next week but please do listen to our initial thoughts as this question emerges today.
If you would like to watch our latest YouTube video - The Terror of the LORD - you can do so here.
Please don't miss our superb conversation with Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali this coming Friday as our season focus on All the Prophets continues. This week's focus is on Elisha.
This thrice-weekly podcast is essentially a faith-based ministry so if you would like to support it (and our wider work) in an ongoing way, please consider doing so here.
Until next week, let's be found praying, "Come, Lord Jesus!"
Love,
N&M xx
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Thank you all for listening to this podcast and for sharing to your networks.
Today on City of Temples (our study through 1 Corinthians) we come to chapter 11 verse 1 and Paul's earnest longing for the Corinthians to imitate him just as he imitated Jesus.
So far, from chapters 1-10, what would the Corinthians have reasonably imitated of Paul had they been faithful? And what of us today if we are to be faithful in this anti-Christ world?By way of review of the teaching series thus far, today’s podcast explores 12 elements of Paul's life and leadership that we should all be endeavouring to imitate today.
With eternity and 2 Corinthians 5 very much in mind, we love William Booth's quote,
“Most Christians would like to send their recruits to Bible college for five years. I would like to send them to hell for five minutes. That would do more than anything else to prepare them for a lifetime of compassionate ministry.”
If you would like to watch our latest YouTube video - The Terror of the LORD - you can do so here.
If you would like to support our work, please check this out here.
Until next week, let's be found praying, "Come, Lord Jesus!"
Love,
N&M xx
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Thank you for listening to this episode of Into the Pray. Please do consider sharing to your networks for us.
Many thanks to David Robertson for joining us again this week to complete our time looking at the Prophet Elijah.
This second instalment really is quality...a timely conversation for any serious disciple of Christ who's prepared to hearken to the voice of the LORD at this time in history.
You can listen to the first part from last week here.
Next Friday we're also excited to be joined by Michael Nazir-Ali who will be helping us to focus on the Prophet Elisha. This too will be a timely conversation given the instability in Afghanistan and Michael's extensive work within the world of 'radical' Islam.
If you haven’t watched our flagship 2021 film, Calling YESHUA, yet, you can do so here; you can also download the song for free here.
Have you seen, "The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience"? This film is a two-hour conversation about the future of the Church and that closes with an opportunity to take communion. The Draft was recorded before COVID-19 was public and prophetically called for every church in the UK to close its doors. Tragically, much of the Church today still callously bewail its doors ever having been forcibly closed.
You can buy copies of our "manifesto of preparation", Body Zero, here.
Finally, a new YouTube video is available this week entitled, The Terror of the LORD (an Ode to William Booth). You can watch it here.
If you would like to support this podcast and/or our wider work, you can do so here.
Maranatha!
N&M xx
Hello!
Apologies for the slightly below-par audio quality in this podcast todayWe're delighted to welcome Joanna Chandler to the podcast this week!
Joanna is a colleague of Dave Brennan of Brephos and who has recently made the move from working in the CBR-US team to over here with CBR in the UK.
Our mid-week focus of contraception in recent weeks continues today with Joanna who has done a lot of thinking and studying in this area, starting with her High School thesis a decade ago!
Please do pray for Joanna as she continues to settle into British culture and that her work for CBR-UK will be fruitful, provoking the global Church to faithfulness.
“The real damage is done by those millions who want to 'survive.' The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonising their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves—or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.”
— Sophie Scholl
This coming Friday, DON'T MISS the second part of our conversation with David Robertson about the Prophet Elijah and his showdown with Jezebel at Mount Carmel. This really is a quality conversation.
You can listen to the first part here and please do consider sharing to your social networks for us.
Next Friday we are joined by Michael Nazir-Ali who will be helping us to focus on the prophet Elisha.
If you haven’t watched Calling YESHUA yet, you can do so here; you can also download the song for free here.
Finally, we've also got a new film out today - an Ode to William Booth - entitled, The Terror of the LORD. You can watch it here.
If you would like to support this podcast and/or our wider work, you can do so here.
Maranatha!
N&M xx
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Thank you for taking the time to listen to this podcast.
This week the podcast is slightly longer than usual because, at the end, Nick gives testimony regarding a difficult and very relevant area of health struggle.
This week we finish chapter 10 of our study through the book of 1 Corinthians and focus on Paul's overarching passion in all of life to live for the glory of God.
This centrally includes what we put into our mouths and therefore what happens in our hearts.
How does the tricky issue of conscience relate to this?
Are we really supposed to please men in all things?
What demonic/idolatrous strongholds have infiltrated our Christian living? There is a blog article to accompany this podcast and you can read/engage with that here.If you haven’t watched Calling YESHUA yet, you can do so here.
You can also download the song for free here.
If you would like to support this podcast and/or our wider work, you can do so here.
Maranatha!
N&M xx
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Thank you for listening to our podcast! (The second part of the study on Elijah is available from 20/8/21)
This week's Friday session is continuing our season focus on the Prophets as per Luke's record of Jesus' conversation with the two disciples on the road to Emmaus. (Please see Luke 24:27).
Many thanks to David Robertson for joining us again on Into the Pray and for his session on Elijah.
You can check out David's work in Australia here and his blog here.
You might like to read 1 Kings 17 before listening to this episode.
What significance does Elijah hold for us today as Bible-reading disciples of Jesus Christ, the Messiah?
David has kindly agreed to join us again next Friday for a second session on Elijah.
In two weeks's time we'll be joined by Michael Nazir-Ali who will be bridging for us into the life of Elisha.
If you haven’t watched Calling YESHUA yet, you can do so here.
You can also download the song for free here.
If you would like to support this podcast and/or our wider work, you can do so here.
Maranatha!
N&M xx
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UPDATE: you can listen to the song of praise we wrote after this two-part podcast* here*
Today's midweek episode of Into the Pray finishes an impromptu 15 minute devotional that Nick posted on Sunday morning. If you've not listened to that you can do so for context here.
Psalm 106 and Psalm 107 relate very closely by helping us to understand the timeless way that the LORD works in the personal and corporate lives of His covenant people.
Remember Moses who turned aside to see the burning bush? Remember that it was only then that the LORD spoke? (Read Exodus 3)
Therefore, what is this heart-cry of these Psalms that the LORD is looking for from His people at this time? What is the nature of this cry?
Indeed, where is this cry?
We'd encourage you to sing a new song to Jesus. Perhaps you could compose something new? Perhaps you could be spontaneous? Perhaps you might be brave enough to actually allow the thankfulness of your heart to convert into actual singing in a public way?
A recently written song of worship that was part of our Calling YESHUA project reflects more of the lament of this Psalm's cry. Mairi and I will post another song in the forthcoming weeks that conveys more of its hope-filled joy.
If you haven’t watched Calling YESHUA yet, you can do so here.
You can also download the song for free here.
If you would like to support this podcast and/or our wider work, you can do so here.
Maranatha!
N&M xx
Hello everyone!
Welcome to this unplanned, impromptu version of Into the Pray. (Apologies about the seagulls!)
This episode is a brief devotional from Psalm 106 and, regarding our current juncture in church history, poses a vital question of the utmost importance at the end.
Related content here.
If you haven’t watched Calling YESHUA yet, you can do so here.
You can also download the song for free here.
If you would like to support this podcast and/or our wider work, you can do so here.
Maranatha
N&M
Hello everyone!
Thank you as always for taking the time to listen to this podcast. Please do consider sharing it to your networks for us.
Today we are joined by Brian Gray who, along with his wife Cathy, is serving as a Missionary in Honduras. We spoke a couple of months back about Critical Race Theory and, if you missed that, you can take a listen here.
To give you an idea of Brian's context, the recording of this podcast was actually slightly delayed due to their house being struck by lightening and consequently losing power!
Our focus this week is the prophet Samuel and, although barely scratching the surface, we at least begin to look at the exemplary life of this biblical stalwart.
What role did Samuel play in the biblical narrative? Why would Jesus have highlighted this specific man? What does he teach us today? What would he reasonably say to the Church today?
If you would like more info on Brian and Cathy Gray, and ways to support them, please see here.
If you haven't seen our new film yet, Calling YESHUA, (or heard the accompanying song of worship), you can do so here. Perhaps you could share this film to your networks for us?If you would like to support this podcast and/or our wider work, please see here.
Until next week, may we be found praying maranatha.
Love
N&M xx
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N.B. we’ll be resuming our Sunday sessions on August 15th.
In this 30th episode of our teaching series, City of Temples,studyingthrough the book of 1 Corinthians,we'll go through vv 15-22 of chapter 10.Suffice to say, none of us need merely a transaction of information as we study the Bible; we all desperately need the awakening north and south winds of the Spirit of God. (See Song of Solomon 4:16).
If you haven't yet had a chance to prayerfully absorb our latest project, Calling YESHUA, you can do so here. On Friday we released a new music video for the worship song and you can watch/listen to that here.
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Until next week, may we be found praying maranatha!
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Thank you for taking the time to listen to this podcast - we're grateful for everyone who listens every week.
With Luke's words in Luke 24:27 very much in mind, today we go through a rapid overview of the life of the prophet Moses.
Moses was in many ways unique among the prophets. Both Mediator, Deliverer and an exemplar as a man of prayer, he knew deep friendship with Yahweh and was used mightily to redeem the Hebrews from Egyptian slavery.
Ultimately, Moses points us towards a greater exodus that is yet to happen and one that will cause the former to pale into relative insignificance.
“Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when it shall no longer be said, ‘As the LORD lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’but ‘As the LORD lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them.’ For I will bring them back to their own land that I gave to their fathers." (Jeremiah 16:14-15).
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If you haven't seen our new film, Calling YESHUA, yet (or heard the accompanying song of worship), you can do so here. Perhaps you could share this to your networks for us?If you would like to support this podcast and/or our wider work, please see here.
Until next week, may we be found praying maranatha.
Love
N&M xx
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Our mid-week session with Dave Brennan of Brephos this week is the third part of our mini-series looking at contraception. We’ll resume these posts with Dave on August 18th.
Today we are all privileged to listen to Dave & Anandi Brennan's testimony that addresses beautifully the highs and lows - the joys and sorrows - of one central aspect of married life as regards to childbirth.
Thank you once again to Dave for joining us on Into the Pray and, especially this week, for sharing your personal testimony and position on contraception.
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Calling YESHUA (a new film and song of worship calling for national repentance) is now available! - more info here.
Love & maranatha!
N&M xx
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Thank you all very much for listening to this podcast!
In this 29th episode of our meandering teaching series/walk through the city of Corinth, taking the weight off our feet, we come to a moment of quiet reflection by stopping to sit on a stone wall in the warmth of the Greek sunshine and to draw some water from a well we've been welcomed to use.
We’re going to spend some time thinking about what we have already seen in our recent travels last week.
Our three verses for this week are vv12-14 of chapter 10.
*What does it mean for each of us individually to 'take heed' and, indeed, what does it mean for all of us to do this as the Church...as His beloved Bride? What does it mean for us to flee from idols? What will this look like in your life and in our lives all together?
Can I submit every injustice to His capable care? What does Israel’s history with idolatry do to my heart?Consider Jude’s doxology: “Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, to the only God, our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.” (Jude:24-25)*
Today we release a new film and song of worship - Calling YESHUA - and you can find this here.
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Until next week, Maranatha!
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We're delighted this week to introduce our first Friday guest of this new season as our focus on "all of the prophets" unfolds.
Gregg Cunningham is the Executive Director of the Centre of Bio-Ethical Reform based in California, USA. Greg is a former two-term Member of The Pennsylvania House of Representatives where he introduced legislation which ended public funding for abortion. He was also a prime sponsor of the Abortion Control Act. He is a retired U.S. Air Force Reserve Colonel with six years of active duty service and twenty-five years in the ready reserve. He is also a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War. Read Gregg's full bio here.
In this guest session looking at the prophets, Greg steers us through Abraham Heschel's classic work of the same title. Read Gregg's full, 45-bullet-point excerpt here.
We wanted to explore something of Heschel at this stage because of the importance he’s made in our own understanding about the gift of prophecy in the Old and New Testaments. Nick's book, Body Zero, gives a whole chapter to one of Heschel's main insights - divine pathos.
Here's what Heschel says in his opening chapter,
"Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics . To us a single act of injustice--cheating in business, exploitation of the poor - is slight; to the prophets, a disaster. To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world."Please consider sharing this podcast to your networks for us!
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Calling YESHUA (a new film and song of worship calling for national repentance) will be available at the end of July 2021 - more info here.
Love & maranatha!
N&M xx
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Thank you very much for listening to our podcast.
Our mid-week session today with Dave Brennan of Brephos is continuing our conversation about contraception and, specifically this week, to examine the world/church cultures into which we have all be born.
How is it that the people of God are generally silent about abortion? Isn't it more than likely that we are all unwittingly imbibing the godless cultures of this world that all too often leave us gullible and undiscerning? What does this have to do with contraception?
Today, Nick, Mairi and Dave read Psalm 94 out loud and then explore some of these questions together with reference to Scripture.
Do you have any thoughts/comments/questions? Please do get in touch via Firebrand Notes and we'll include these in a forthcoming episode in a few weeks time when we'll be joined by Dave's colleague, Joanna, who has done a lot of work in this area of contraception.
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Calling YESHUA (a new film and song of worship calling for national repentance) will be available at the end of July 2021 - more info here.
Love & maranatha!
N&M xx
Hello everyone!
Welcome back to the resumption of City of Temples, our teaching series through the book of 1 Corinthians.
Last time we concluded chapter 9 and today we will go through the first 11 verses of chapter 10.
(Please excuse the pigeons in today's recording. We're experiencing a "heat wave" here in Scotland so I needed the window open!)
What is the nature of idolatry beyond the cliche? What's going on when we prefer our cars to our Bibles? What's going on when we prefer food to prayer? What's going on when we're more devoted to people than Yahweh?
What's going on when we are more enamoured with church than the coming of the Lord Jesus?
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Calling YESHUA (a new film and song of worship) will be available at the end of July 2021 - more info here.
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N&M xx
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We hope this podcast finds you well; thank you for listening along!
This is the first episode of season 4 where we record together on the sprawling theme of "All the Prophets". If you've missed the season preview, you can go ahead and listen to it here.
Looking at Acts 3 and Luke 24, we spend this session thinking about why it would be wise and helpful for us all individually - and for the Church as a whole - to spend an entire season looking at the prophets of old.
Are some prophets more important to us now than others? What's the difference between the Old Testament Prophets and the prophetic, Spirit-filled Church today? (Recommended reading on this here) What can we hope to glean from an extended focus on Moses to Malachi....? ...and beyond? Do our hearts burn within us?
Throughout this season, we will be welcoming guests to teach/discuss about "all the prophets" with a view of applying specific biblical insight into our current juncture in world/Church history.
Part of this will also be focusing on the book of Revelation.
We hope that you enjoy this season and that your testimony, along with ours, will be,
“Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?”Please consider sharing this podcast to your networks for us!
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Calling YESHUA (a new film and song of worship) will be available at the end of July 2021 - more info here.
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N&M xx
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As our fourth season of Into the Pray gets going, we join with Dave Brennan of Brephos for our weekly conversation about abortion.
Today we begin our mini-series about contraception.
Like with our conversations about IVF, with Bibles at the ready, we are looking to the leading of the Holy Spirit as we join minds, hearts and prayers to come to His "position" on these infinitely important issues.
Here is a rough outline of where we're going over the next three weeks:
Episode 1: Contraception: The Facts - Which "contraceptives" have the potential to end human life that's already begun?
Episode 2: Contraception: The Culture - What are the ideas, attitudes, dreams, and fears that fuel our assumptions and decisions when it comes to contraception?
Episode 3: Contraception: Where Do We Stand?
As usual, we welcome questions/comments that we will include in future episodes, so please do get in touch!
With some unforeseen factors delaying release, Calling Yeshua will be ready at the end of July - more info here.
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Thanks so much and, once again, for listening!
Maranatha,
Love
N&M x
Hello Everyone!
This is an impromptu episode ofInto the Pray as we get ready to re-start our 4th season next week when we'll be resuming our normal schedule of episodes on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.
Today we recap with Dave Brennan of Brephos about our conversations on abortion thus far: what have we already talked about and, looking to the coming Lord Jesus, where are we planning to go?
With some unforeseen factors delaying release, Calling Yeshua will be ready at the end of July. More info here.
Please do consider forwarding to your networks for us and supporting our work here.
Thanks so much and, once again, for listening!
Maranatha,
Love
N&M x
Hello everyone!
Thank you for listening to this podcast!
We've missed our regular podcasting sessions with you all while we've been working on a new film and song of worship entitled, Calling YESHUA. You can find out about this forthcoming release - and how to support production - by clicking here.
Today we are previewing our fourth season on Into the Pray and the focus that has dropped into our hearts as we've paused, prayed and waited for His help.
"All the prophets" is one of Peter's phrases from Acts 3:24 as he makes his speech in Solomon's Portico. Remember Peter's woeful denial of Jesus and his restoration in John 21? This is now a different man emerging as a newly emboldened witness, full of the fear of God.
It is our prayer as we study and linger and learn and wrestle with the prophets of old in this season that we will know something more of the fear of the Lord in our midst.
It is our prayer that the ensnaring fear of man will be smashed to smithereens as the compelled, prophetic people of God, like Peter, lift their voices in Spirit-wrought gospel proclamation..in and out of the Church.
God knows we need freedom from the fear of man inside the Church as well as in the highways and byways.
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Thank you again.
Love & maranatha,
Nick & Mairi xx
Hello Everyone,
[Quick notice: We have a new film in the pipeline, a piece of content that we have no doubt is extremely important for the Body of Christ at large. We're needing some help with the practicalities/financial costs associated, so if you would like to help with this, to make it happen, and get more info ahead of release, please feel free to drop us a line. We very much value your interest/support.]This week in City of Temples we finish 1 Corinthians chapter 9 by focusing on verses 15-27.
What does Paul's defence of his apostleship teach us today? What can we learn from one of the most famous passages in the New Testament?
Thank you for praying for us as we seek Him in the next few weeks. Please pray especially for Nick's health (a needed touch of healing), for the film/worship project we’re producing, (Calling Yeshua), and for wisdom concerning our future as we anticipate what may be ahead.
Please do consider sharing this podcast to your networks.
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N&M x**
Greetings All,
[Quick notice: We have a new film in the pipeline, a piece of content that we have no doubt is extremely important for the Body of Christ at large. We're needing some help with the practicalities/financial costs associated, so if you would like to help with this, to make it happen, and get more info ahead of release, please feel free to drop us a line. We very much value your interest/support.]This is our penultimate episode of season 3 and a follow-up conversation around Critical Race Theory after Nick's conversation with David Robertson in episode 35. (Don't miss our final session in 1 Corinthians 9 on Sunday).
Thanks again to our friend, Brian Gray, all the way from Honduras where he and his wife, Cathy, serve as missionaries.
We're really grateful for Brian bringing extra meat to our forming understanding about critical race theory (CRT), its origin, its intention and its insidious author.
Please find more information on Brian here and also an article he's written here that you may want to read before or after listening to this podcast.
We hope this episode helps you to think and pray more clearly about these issues that we simply can not afford to ignore.
Please also see here for essential reading.
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**Come, Lord Jesus!
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Greetings Everyone!
[Quick notice: We have a new film in the pipeline, a piece of content that we have no doubt is extremely important for the Body of Christ at large. We're needing some help with the practicalities/financial costs associated, so if you would like to help with this, to make it happen, and get more info ahead of release, please feel free to drop us a line. We very much value your interest/support.]This morning's teaching episode of Into the Pray moves deeper into Paul's jolting thinking in 1 Corinthians chapter 9 and continues to provoke us to reconsider how it is that we conduct ourselves as disciples - do we have the same selfless attitude of Paul or are we perhaps dogged more by the type of thinking akin to the dysfunctional Corinthians?
Three questions for us:
- **What does Paul's defence of his apostleship teach us today?
- How/when are we like the Corinthians who obsessed over claiming their rights?
- What about British society and the Church in this regard?**
Please tune-in next Sunday for the conclusion of this chapter with this summary in mind:
Paul’s defence of his apostleship is to lay the reasonableness of his rights as an apostle as the top soil BUT his inner freedom to forgo such rights as the bedrock on which this soil sits.This is what made Paul such an exemplary lover and follower of Christ. "What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as theLord assigned to each. I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building." (1 Corinthians 3: 5-9)Please do consider sharing this podcast to your networks.
Also if you would like to help support this podcast and the wider work we're pioneering, including efforts to improve our podcast videos, we would be very grateful as we increasingly find ourselves at capacity in more ways than one. You can give here. **Lots of love,
N&M x**
Greetings All!
[Quick notice: We have a new film in the pipeline, a piece of content that we have no doubt is extremely important for the Body of Christ at large. We're needing some help with the practicalities/financial costs associated, so if you would like to help with this, to make it happen, and get more info ahead of release, please feel free to drop us a line. We very much value your interest/support.]This episode includes some important announcements regarding the next couple of weeks on Into the Pray, the end of this season and the beginning of the next.
Please stay tuned for some important information about our forthcoming film/music project and please do pray for us as we embark on this undertaking!
We hope this episode is a blessing to you as Nick approaches the question, "What have I learnt in the last year?".
You can see this episode of Into the Pray on YouTube here.
Please do consider sharing this podcast to your networks.
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N&M x**
Greetings All!
[Quick notice: We have a new film in the pipeline, a piece of content that we have no doubt is extremely important for the Body of Christ at large. We're needing some help with the practicalities/financial costs associated, so if you would like to help with this, to make it happen, and get more info ahead of release, please feel free to drop us a line. We very much value your interest/support.]This mid-week session with Dave Brennan from Brephos and Nick and Mairi Franks focuses on an Instagram post that Mairi posted on her channel just a couple of days ago.
You can see Mairi's Instagram post here.
You will notice that the post has drawn a lot of engagement including many revealing responses to our stance on IVF...indications as to the narcissistic state of the Church at large.
Within this session we talk about:
- The overall goal of all that we do
- The importance of disagreeing well
- What happens when respect/courtesy/honour isn't reciprocal?
- When is it OK to rumble?
- What are these narcissistic attitudes on Instagram revealing about the general health of our corporate discipleship across the West?
You can join in with a premiering YouTube version of this conversation here from 7:30pm this evening and a LIVE conversation between the three of us before that at 4:30pm here.
Please do consider sharing this podcast to your networks.
Also if you would like to help support this podcast and the wider work we're pioneering, including efforts to improve our podcast videos, we would be very grateful as we increasingly find ourselves at capacity in more ways than one. You can give here. **Lots of love,
N&M x**
Greetings Everyone!
[Quick notice: We have a new film in the pipeline, a piece of content that we have no doubt is extremely important for the Body of Christ at large. We're needing some help with the practicalities/financial costs associated, so if you would like to help with this, to make it happen, and get more info ahead of release, please feel free to drop us a line. We very much value your interest/support.]This morning in our teaching series, City of Temples, we move into chapter 9 and continue to get into the head and heart of Paul as we walk the streets of Corinth with him, passing groups of anxious souls stood outside meat markets as well as proud, strutting individuals who, on every street corner, rejected Paul's very obvious fruitfulness in Yeshua.
We are commanded to imitate Paul's example in Jesus that culminates with the necessity to not only preach the gospel but to worship the Lamb of God, the perfect temple Sacrifice.
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Greetings Everyone!
[Quick notice: We have a new film in the pipeline, a piece of content that we have no doubt is extremely important for the Body of Christ at large. We're needing some help with the practicalities/financial costs associated, so if you would like to help with this, to make it happen, and get more info ahead of release, please feel free to drop us a line. We very much value your interest/support.]
For our normal Friday episode of Into the Pray this week, we're grateful to have spoken again to our friend, David Robertson, (aka. The Wee Flea).
Today we talk about the disgraceful conduct of Premier Christianity in March of this year when an article David had been asked to write by their editor, Sam Hailes, was ignominiously removed and "repented" for by the wokerati of the mainstream christian magazine.
Supported by the wider UK evangelical "church", this indiscriminate penchant for Black Lives Matter - irrespective of their demonic roots in pro-choice, anti-Christ propaganda - is surely a profound symptom of very serious spiritual sickness.
This treatment of David as a faithful writer for Premier Christianity over years is further evidence of the gross lack of prophetic unction within the mainstream evangelical "church" and a sure pointer of the godless trajectory that many evangelical churches are on.
You can read David's article about this incident here.
You can read my response to the limp-wristedness of Premier Christianity and my own disagreement with the same editor, here and here.
You can watch this episode of Into the Pray via YouTube here.
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**Come, Lord Jesus!
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Greetings Everyone!
[Quick notice: We have a new film in the pipeline, a piece of content that we have no doubt is extremely important for the Body of Christ at large. We're needing some help with the practicalities/financial costs associated, so if you would like to help with this, to make it happen, and get more info ahead of release, please feel free to drop us a line. We very much value your interest/support.]This is our second mid-week session with Dave Brennan of Brephos this week.
Did you see the conclusion to the new BBC 1 drama, Three Families, last night? Both episodes are on the BBC iPlayer if you missed them and we have recorded a podcast episode for each.
This episode of Into the Pray is the conclusion to our response (Satan's Lullaby - part 2).
At the end of this episode, we create space/time for an extended time of prayer.
What of the abortion laws of Northern Ireland and the tumultuous changes of 2019? What is the BBC's agenda here? Who is the real enemy? What should our response be?
"O our God, will you not execute judgment on them? For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”(2 Chronicles 20:12)
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**Come, Lord Jesus!
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Greetings Everyone!
[Quick notice: We have a new film in the pipeline, a piece of content that we have no doubt is extremely important for the Body of Christ at large. We're needing some help with the practicalities/financial costs associated, so if you would like to help with this, to make it happen, and get more info ahead of release, please feel free to drop us a line. We very much value your interest/support.]This is our mid-week session with Dave Brennan of Brephos in which, every single week, we prayerfully discuss the sensitive but abhorrent issue of abortion. Make no mistake, under the Lord Jesus, this is our priority for the long haul.
Did you see the new BBC 1 drama, Three Families, that started last night? The conclusion is airing tonight at 9pm and you can see both episodes on the BBC iPlayer.
This episode of Into the Pray is our initial response (Satan's Lullaby) to the programme having seen the first episode last night. We will record again tomorrow and give a more comprehensive overview having watched the conclusion.
Therefore there will be two podcasts with Dave this week.
At the end of tomorrow's podcast, we will also be hosting an extended time of prayer following the conclusion of the programme tomorrow evening.
"But Joseph said to them, 'Do not fear, for am I in the place of God? As for you, you meant evil against me, but iGodmeant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today. So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones.' Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them." (Genesis 50:19-21)
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**Come, Lord Jesus!
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Greetings All!
[Quick notice: We have a new film in the pipeline, a piece of content that we have no doubt is extremely important for the Body of Christ at large. We're needing some help with the practicalities/financial costs associated, so if you would like to help with this, to make it happen, and get more info ahead of release, please feel free to drop us a line. We very much value your interest/support.]
This is the next instalment in our study through the book of 1 Corinthians and moving through vv4-13 of chapter 8.
What was the big deal about food offered to idols? What was really happening behind the scenes in Corinth with regard to food, idols, demons and consciences? What of the glorious Father for whom we exist?Here’s the link to the Piper sermon dealing with the importance of our corporate “amen”.Related reading here.
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Greetings All!
[Quick notice: We have a new film in the pipeline, a piece of content that we have no doubt is extremely important for the Body of Christ at large. We're needing some help with the practicalities/financial costs associated, so if you would like to help with this, to make it happen, and get more info ahead of release, please feel free to drop us a line. We very much value your interest/support.]
We return this week to our ongoing conversations with Dave Brennan of Brephos and the sensitive issue of IVF. As we have asked in our previous two episodes, (no. 17 & 20 in this season), is IVF ever OK?
You can also watch this conversation via YouTube here as a Premiere at 9pm GMT this evening. (Thank you for your patience while we're in the process of improving our videos).
This week, having introduced the subject of IVF and having spent some time in Scripture last time, we consolidate our "position" on this difficult issue. We will also be responding to the BBC's new two-part drama revolving around the changing fertility landscape in Northern Ireland, Three Families, that starts a week today.
Listen to Dave Brennan and Nick and Mairi Franks discuss the general lay of the land of the Church in which this infinitely important question of IVF is being - or indeed not being - considered from a genuine biblical perspective:
- How are our Christian lives distinct from others who also would naturally want children?
- How do IVF and the abortion genocide relate to each other?
Here’s the Chris Richards article cited and this week's impromptu episode recorded with Richard Lucas, leader of the Scottish Family Party, in which we discuss related issues concerning children and young people and our responsibilities as mature disciples of Christ to use our voices to defend them.
Please do get in touch with your thoughts unless the basic courtesy/respect/tone that we've laboured to ensure in these podcasts isn't honoured/reciprocated. Thank you for the vast majority of folk who have done that with us.
If you would like to help support this podcast and the wider work we're pioneering, including efforts to improve our podcast videos, we would be very grateful as we increasingly find ourselves at capacity in more ways than one. You can give here.
**Come, Lord Jesus!
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Greetings everyone!
[Quick notice: We have a new film in the pipeline, a piece of content that we have no doubt is extremely important for the Body of Christ at large. We're needing some help with the practicalities/financial costs associated, so if you would like to help with this, to make it happen, and get more info ahead of release, please feel free to drop us a line. We very much value your interest/support.]
This is an additional, impromptu episode of Into the Pray this week because The 2021 Scottish Parliament election will be held on 6 May 2021 with voting starting from 7am on Thursday morning.
You may have heard of the disgraceful state of affairs with regard to not only the Scottish Nationalist Party's (SNP) ineptitude regarding education in general - and, specifically, numeracy and literacy levels - but also the appalling "sex education" that is given to our children as young as 5-11 years of age in Scottish primary schools. The likes of Derek Mackay's symptomatic and tolerated behaviour is arguably the tip of a very dark, demonic iceberg.
Ergo, we wanted to do what we can to help The Scottish Family Party who are a blazing torch of biblical morality (and for those of no faith, ie just basic common sense) amidst a very dark (political) world. Hence, it was great to meet in this episode with their leader, Richard Lucas.
You can see their policies here and ways to get involved here.
Before listening/watching this episode of Into the Pray, please spend a few minutes looking at the SFP's website and, in particular, the bewilderingly bad "sex education" given to our children. See what we mean here.
John Knox would turn in his grave if that was a thing.
Thank you again to Richard for your time, sir.
You can watch this episode of the podcast here on YouTube.
If you would like to help support this podcast and the wider work we're pioneering, including efforts to improve our podcast videos, we would be very grateful as we increasingly find ourselves at capacity in more ways than one. You can give here.
**Come, Lord Jesus!
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Greetings Everyone!
[Quick notice: We have a new film in the pipeline, a piece of content that we have no doubt is extremely important for the Body of Christ at large. We're needing some help with the practicalities/financial costs associated, so if you would like to help with this, to make it happen, and get more info ahead of release, please feel free to drop us a line. We very much value your interest/support.]
This is the next instalment in our study through the book of 1 Corinthians.
Having finished chapter 7 last week, we come now to the next significant section beginning at chapter 8 and going on for the next 3 chapters.
How is Paul's main priority of the Church being 'built up in love' put at risk by the issue of eating food sacrificed to idols?
Why are vv1-3 important to focus on before vv4-13?
How are you growing in this kind of knowledge of love that builds up rather than puffs up?
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Greetings Everyone!
[Quick notice: We have a new film in the pipeline, a piece of content that we have no doubt is extremely important for the Body of Christ at large. We're needing some help with the practicalities/financial costs associated, so if you would like to help with this, to make it happen, and get more info ahead of release, please feel free to drop us a line. We very much value your interest/support.]This week we're delighted to meet with Joshua Lewis from Remnant Radio who, as an independent podcast/YouTube channel, publish three weekly episodes of their cross-denominational content to a growing audience of hungry theology-minded fellows.
We asked if Joshua would come onto Into the Pray to discuss the merits of ecumenicalism which, as they put it, is intended to "destabilise theological echo chambers" unto both learning and faithfulness.
We love what they say in their blurb.
"We do not endorse all the various guests we have on the show. However, we do believe a healthy dialogue with those whom we disagree with is a necessary Christian virtue that is not displayed often enough."
In and amongst all of this is the radical preparation of a faithful Bride and, as an integral part of this, we must all take responsibility for our discernment as to what is biblical, objectively true and that which is not. We are surely at a critical juncture in church history!
Next Friday we'll be starting a new mini-series entitled, "The Church in the Home".
So, sit back with a coffee and listen to Nick and Joshua chatting about the Church.
You can also watch this episode of Into the Pray via YouTube here.
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Greetings All,
[Quick notice: We have a new film in the pipeline, a piece of content that we have no doubt is extremely important for the Body of Christ at large. We're needing some help with the practicalities/financial costs associated, so if you would like to help with this, to make it happen, and get more info ahead of release, please feel free to drop us a line. We very much value your interest/support.]
Normally at this stage of the week we would be joined by Dave Brennan of Brephos for our regular weekly podcast regarding abortion and other subjects relating to fertility.
However, today we wanted to enter in to an extended time of prayer as we have mentioned several times that we would! Our plan is to do this more frequently in the months ahead so look out for more times of prayer coming up.
We trust that this episode of Into the Pray will serve to fuel your own growing fire of prayer at this critical juncture in Church history.
Here is a short and very basic video that we put together 7 years go not long after we married.
Look out for Nick's conversation with Joshua Lewis from Remnant Radio this coming Friday. You can also watch this via our YouTube Channel here.
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**Come, Lord Jesus!
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Good morning, everyone!
[Quick notice: We have a new film in the pipeline, a piece of content that we have no doubt is extremely important for the Body of Christ at large. We're needing some help with the practicalities/financial costs associated, so if you would like to help with this, to make it happen, and get more info ahead of release, please feel free to drop us a line. We very much value your interest/support.]
Welcome to the next episode of Into the Pray and our series in 1 Corinthians called City of Temples.
This week we finish up in chapter 7 by focusing on vv 32-40 with reference back to last week's session and vv 29-31(a).
Do you ever experience anxiety? Or do you ever find it difficult to trust God with issues of your heart? We all do.
Paul had a loving burden for the Corinthians to be free from anxiety and, positively put, to know the deep, abiding shalom of God.
Please see here for our four-part film series on mental health and faith (The Bothy Sessions) and, specifically, here for Nick's own testimony relating to anxiety. You can find more info on this project here.
May this bless you all deeply in Jesus' Name.
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Finally, here is a medley of songs (all written before 1980) that we have been comforted by in recent days. **Come, Lord Jesus!
Love
N&M x**
Hello Everyone!
This week on Into the Pray, we're starting to broach the sensitive subject of nurturing Christian community.
Next Friday we'll be starting to look more closely at a book together, "Creating Community", by David Prior.
We want to give a number of weeks to this important area because of the ongoing crossroads that many people find themselves at in terms of not knowing what to do - and how to resolve - the sense of compromise where they live & worship and the absence of a faithful community option to move for.
We'll be dealing with these realities as wisely and sensitively as we can throughout the month of May 2021.
You can find out more about the JesusCome! online community here.
You can watch the YouTube version of this podcast here.
If you would like to help support this podcast and the wider work we're pioneering, we would be very grateful as we increasingly find ourselves at capacity in more ways than one. You can give here.
Finally, here is a medley of songs (all written before 1980) that we have been comforted by in recent days. **Come, Lord Jesus!
Love
N&M x**
Greetings All!
This week's mid-week session of Into the Pray with Dave Brennan of Brephos is a momentary pause in our ongoing conversation about abortion and IVF.
We'll be returning to IVF next week and then the issue of contraception after that but, for this week, Nick and Dave discuss the general posture of the Church with regard to things like vaccine passports.
Please sit back with a coffee and a prayerful heart as we endeavour to hear a true prophetic voice at this hour.
First and foremost, we are all people of God, sons and daughters of the Coming King, not abortion activists.
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Finally, here is a medley of songs (all written before 1980) that we have been comforted by in recent days. **Come, Lord Jesus!
Love
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Greetings, All!
This is our next session in the book of 1 Corinthians and one that strikes us as being particularly poignant as we resume our journey and come now to virtually the halfway point of this book.
While dealing with engaged couples and widows, is there any wonder that Paul injects this radical "eschatological awareness" at this point in his letter? Of course not!
In the words of David Prior,
“Perhaps it is more than time for Christians to ask themselves questions which demand even more radical answers on the basis of Paul’s teaching in this chapter.”
If this was true in 1985, how much more true is this today?
Beloved Church, we must watch and pray and be prepared to make radical changes to our lives, in His wisdom and grace.
You can see some footage of the power kite I mention today in this video here. (This is my showreel for my tent-making work so please forward it to anyone who may be interested!).
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Finally, here is a medley of songs (all written before 1980) that we have been comforted by in recent days. **Come, Lord Jesus!
Love
N&M x**
This morning on Into the Pray - this Easter Sunday morning - I wanted to drop a quick word of testimony about how Easter morning often feels to me, based, in part, on what I see in the Church at large.
In Luke 24, Mary Magdalene, Joanna and Mary were met by an angelic vision and were encouraged to remember. Remember what? Jesus' words in Luke 19 about His suffering and death on a cross. What joy in remembering the words spoken by Jesus.
Later on in the same chapter, Cleopas and his friend were told by Jesus to remember. Remember what? The words of all the prophets throughout the ages.
For us all this morning, if our hearts are truly set on pilgrimage, we may not initially wake and 'feel' brimming resurrection joy as these women did, as Peter did running to the tomb (Luke 24:12) or as the disciples did on the road to Emmaus. (Luke 24:13-35).
If only we had an encounter with some angels! If only we could run to see His neatly folded linen cloths! If only we could go for a Sunday walk/Bible study with Jesus!
But, just like the women in this 24th chapter of Luke, we do have Jesus' perfectly prophetic words to remember! We do have an empty tomb to go and see, we do have solid prophetic hope.
This is why Luke 21 is so important to remember as we go into another day, month and year.
As John Chyrsostom said, "For the Christian it is always Christmas, always Easter, always Penetecost."
I hope this is an encouragement to you this morning. You can watch the video here.
WE WILL BE HAVING A BREAK OVER THE NEXT TWO WEEKS AND WILL BE BACK ON APRIL 21ST 2020.
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Finally, here is a medley of songs (all written before 1980) that we have been comforted by in recent days. **Come, Lord Jesus!
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Greetings, Compadres!
In this week's special Good Friday episode of Into the Pray, you're about to listen to the recorded audio from our Friday Night LIVE community session together from last week.
If you would like to be involved in our JesusCome! community, please see here.
Mairi and I have been due to make a film about what I shared on Friday and, Lord willing, we'll still be able to do that into the summer.
However, we felt it was right to make public at this stage what we had become overwhelmed by as 2020 drew to a close and as 2021 began in earnest - i.e. the proliferation in the Church of the doctrines of demons. (1 Timothy 4:1-2).
Please sit back and listen to what is my very best to convey what I am persuaded (personally and corporately) is the emphasis of the Lord's heart for this year and beyond.
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Finally, here is a medley of songs (all written before 1980) that we have been comforted by in recent days. **Come, Lord Jesus!
Love
N&M x**
Greetings All!
In today's mid-week episode of Into the Pray with Dave Brennan of Brephos, we continue our trailing conversation about IVF by spending time digging into Scripture.
Listen to Dave, Nick and Mairi read through a key passage in Genesis (critically, the book of origins) where the deception of the human heart is clear for all to see...or at least those who want to see.
Here’s the Chris Richards article cited.
Please do get in touch with your thoughts unless the basic courtesy/respect/tone that we've laboured to ensure in these podcasts isn't honoured/reciprocated. Thank you for the vast majority of folk who have done that with us.
We'll be picking this conversation back up on April 21st.
In the meantime, if you would like to help support this podcast and the wider work we're pioneering, we would be very grateful as we increasingly find ourselves at capacity in more ways than one. You can give here.
Finally, here is a medley of songs (all written before 1980) that we have been comforted by in recent days. **Come, Lord Jesus!
Love
N&M x**
Greetings All!
This is the 20th part in our study of the book of 1 Corinthians entitled City of Temples.
Today we dive in to chapter 7 vv 17-24 in what is something of a digression from Paul's thorough dealing of the issue of marriage, singleness etc.
But what of this digression? What does Paul's repeated point in verses 17, 20 and 24 mean for our marriages/singleness today?
We pray this episode blesses you guys listening; please get in touch with any thoughts/questions.
You can follow along with our Instagram channel here where the 3 episodes every week and related conversation/stories.
If you would like to help support this podcast and the wider work we're pioneering, we would be very grateful as we increasingly find ourselves at capacity in more ways than one. You can give here.
Finally, here is a medley of songs (all written before 1980) that we have been comforted by in recent days. **Come, Lord Jesus!
Love
N&M x**
Apologies that the audio in this episode of* Into the Pray is not as crisp as usual. We are in the process of decorating and we will be back to normal very soon***This is our normal Friday session with guests, friends and book reviews.
See a related Instagram post on this issue of healing here.
Today, still in this third season Life Together, Nick meets with dear friend Seamus Bannon to discuss the sensitive issue of chronic pain and healing.
We are at a time in history where the Church is being shaken, arguably more than it ever has been. Faithfulness to Scripture and the Spirit of God is like a rare commodity or jewel.
As such, it is becoming increasingly clear to the witness of the Church on the earth that doctrines of demons (1 Timothy 4:1) are running rampant throughout the undulating terrain of the Body of Christ.
"Word of faith" cults posture everywhere as legitimate Christian communities and yet, as you're about to hear, many, many people are waking up to the deeply dark and demonic deceptions that often manifest in dodgy doctrines concerning healing.
Before you think for a second that we are cessationists, we are certainly not! (Cessationism is also a doctrine of demons).We believe very much in the charisms - the gifts - of the Holy Spirit; we are eagerly desiring the gift of prophecy from the Spirit of God Who is our Precious Paraclete.
However, there are false doctrines that strut around as though they were truly "words of faith" when actually they are profoundly fraudulent forms of Christian orthodoxy.
Listen to Seamus' testimony having formerly been part of a "word of faith" mentality and listen to the wisdom - and freedom - that he is now able to testify from.
Whether you are seriously ill yourself, perhaps struggling with something more minor or whether you know people who are literally dying, this testimony from Seamus is deeply encouraging and honouring of the incomparable Name of Jesus.
If you would like to help support this podcast and the wider work we're pioneering, we would be very grateful as we increasingly find ourselves at capacity in more ways than one. You can give here.
Finally, here is a medley of songs (all written before 1980) that we have been comforted by in recent days. **Come, Lord Jesus!
Love
N&M x**
This week on our mid-week session with Dave Brennan of Brephos, we begin a new mini-series discussing IVF and asking honestly whether this is ever OK for disciples of the coming Christ?
Listen to Nick and Mairi explain their journey and the point at which they came face to face with the realities of IVF and the strong witness of the Holy Spirit that this was not the way forward.
We will be taking several weeks to explore this neglected area, to dig into the Bible, to listen to Mairi's testimony as a woman of God who longs to be a Mummy but who recognises something very profound about the heart of God on this (and related) issue.
Thank you again, Mairi, for being willing to share your heart in public especially when what you will share in forthcoming weeks will likely be rejected by many.
Jesus sees you; Jesus sees us; Jesus sees all.
You can see Mairi's very neat handwriting here!
If you would like to help support this podcast and the wider work we're pioneering, we would be very grateful as we increasingly find ourselves at capacity in more ways than one. You can give here. You can also view this podcast on YouTube here and our review of 2020 in vlog form by clicking here.
Finally, here is a medley of songs (all written before 1980) that we have been comforted by in recent days. **Come, Lord Jesus!
Love
N&M x**
In this week's teaching episode of Into the Pray, we come to vv10-16 of chapter 7 of 1 Corinthians.
We must think carefully about the disruptive impact of the gospel in marriages in Corinth but also marriages today.
Who is this new Man, Jesus, Yeshua, Who is now calling the shots? What does the Lordship of Jesus really mean for our spousal relationships?
What was Paul's counsel then and now?
And what of the main "push-back" against our teaching last week that remarriage (apart form death) is adultery?
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Finally, here is a song that we have been comforted by in recent stormy days. **Come, Lord Jesus!
Love
N&M x**
This week's episode of Into the Pray hosts our next instalment with Dave Brennan in our ongoing conversation about abortion. (They are, of course, normally every Wednesday)
We are having these conversations with Dave every single week because there is a great need for us to be thinking a lot more about these realities tolerated and normalised throughout the world.
But Jesus is coming.
Earlier this week via Christian Concern, Dave debated with Professor John Wyatt, Emeritus Professor of Neonatal Paediatrics at University College London and President of the Christian Medical Fellowship, regarding the ethical question of "whether or not disciples of Jesus Christ should be taking the COVID-19 vaccine?"
This episode of Into the Pray is reflecting on how that debate unfolded. If you would like to, you can watch the debate here first.
Before listening to this episode, please also consider Galatians 6:7-10:
"Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith."If you would like to help support this podcast and the wider work we're pioneering, we would be very grateful as we increasingly find ourselves at capacity in more ways than one. You can give here. You can also view our review of 2020 in vlog form by clicking here.
Finally, here is a song that we have been comforted by in recent stormy days. **Come, Lord Jesus!
Love
N&M x**
In this week's teaching episode of City of Temples, we come to an important juncture and one that is sufficiently important for us to pause before methodically going through the next section verse by verse. (7:10-17)
Today, Nick and Mairi take time to discuss the general landscape of the Church as regards to marriage, divorce, remarriage and adultery.
Should Christians get divorced? And, perhaps more to the point, should Christians ever remarry?
How low is the bar? And what will it look like for the bar to be lifted unto our corporate preparation for the return of Christ?
Repentance! But regarding what?
If you would like to help support this podcast and the wider work we're pioneering, we would be very grateful as we increasingly find ourselves at capacity in more ways than one. You can give here. You can also view our review of 2020 in vlog form by clicking here.
Finally, here is a song that we have been comforted by in recent stormy days. **Come, Lord Jesus!
Love
N&M x**
In our weekly episode of Into the Pray with Dave Brennan of CBRUK, we continue to discuss the horrors of abortion and the complicity of the British evangelical Church towards the wholesale promotion of COVID-19 vaccines.
As you are going to hear, a recent video has been released of evangelical leaders, up and down the UK, bent on pedalling/spiritualising the very same "vaccine narrative" as the UK Government, NHS and 10 Downing Street.
The video is disturbing to watch, difficult to process and shockingly bad on a number of levels, not least the total absence that it showcases of any prophetic sensitivity in the Church to the gravity of the hour. You can view the video here.
We believe that a direct and pointed tone - a foghorn - is required to cut through this stunted prophetic haze of the comatose Church.
As such, please listen and share this episode as Nick & Mairi Franks and Dave Brennan of CBRUK continue to discuss the prophetic foundation of any activism or gospel-work towards seeing the abolition of abortion.
In 1930s Nazi Germany, many evangelical churches tolerated Nazi flags flying outside their buildings, such was the complicity between the evangelical Church and the diabolical Nazi state.
As the Body of Christ today, it is time to think very differently regarding what's unfolding before our eyes.
If you would like to help support this podcast and the wider work we're pioneering, we would be very grateful as we increasingly find ourselves at capacity in more ways than one. You can give here. You can also view our review of 2020 in vlog form by clicking here.
Finally, here is a song that we have been comforted by in recent stormy days. **Come, Lord Jesus!
Love
N&M x**
Having laid the biblical and theological foundation for marriage last week, this 17th episode of our City of Temples series now turns to Paul's teaching on marriage and singleness in more detail.
We will spend at least two more weeks in this chapter because there is so much to get out of it!
This week:
- What did the Corinthians think of marriage and sex?
- Why was Paul's teaching revolutionary not only for the wider Jewish/Roman culture but for the immature church?
- What of sexual intimacy and prayer?
- What primary strategy does Satan use to destroy marriages?
- How would it be good to examine our marriages?
- Whether married or single, what verse is the critical verse in understanding how Jesus wants us to be living at the end of the age.
If you would like to help support this podcast and the wider work we're pioneering, we would be very grateful as we increasingly find ourselves at capacity in more ways than one. You can give here. You can also view our review of 2020 in vlog form by clicking here.
Finally, here is a song that we have been comforted by in recent stormy days. **Come, Lord Jesus!
Love
N&M x**
In this week's episode of Into the Pray with Dave Brennan of CBRUK, we discuss the foundation and epicentre of what it means to be actively opposed to abortion: the gift of the Holy Spirit of prophecy.
We are all commanded to eagerly desire this gift of the Holy Spirit and our ongoing question on this podcast is: "If, as the Body of Christ, we are commanded by God to not only desire this gift but to desire it eagerly, what is the net result for us all if we disobey?"
What happens when the gift of prophecy is either neglected or abused or both?
In this context, we believe that part of the multifaceted answer to this question is that the Church will say (relatively) nothing about the horror of abortion and that, for instance, 'popular' church leaders will clamour to support the UK Government's agenda for us all to have the COVID-19 vaccine that is derived from aborted foetus cell lines (HEK293).
The answer for the Church to this urgent dilemma - as with the general landscape as a whole - is to be willing to repent and face the corporate chaos we're in and, then, to ask the Holy Spirit to give us His heart and His mind so as to live on this earth as we are meant to (prophecy).
Have you asked the Holy Spirit for the gift of prophecy? Did you know that you are commanded to? (See 1 Corinthians 14:1)
You can watch the YouTube version of this podcast here.
Please see "A Call for the UK to Repent" here.
If you would like to help support this podcast and the wider work we're pioneering, we would be very grateful as we increasingly find ourselves at capacity in more ways than one. You can give here. You can also view our review of 2020 in vlog form by clicking here.
Finally, here is a song that we have been comforted by in recent stormy days. **Come, Lord Jesus!
Love
N&M x**
In this week's teaching episode of Into the Pray, Nick takes a slight detour into the pages of Ephesians 5 before digging into our next chapter (7) next week.
How poor is the professing church's understanding of marriage? How poor is the teaching?
As Nick explains in this episode, referring back to experiences in a mega church in the UK, the general lay of the land is exceedingly poor and it wouldn't be right to dive straight into chapter 7 of 1 Corinthians without first setting out our stall on this signature part of our callings, as those who are heralding the preparation of the Bride for the coming Bridegroom King.
What is the role of the media in normalising that which is anti-God?... that which is anti-Jesus?
What is the theological answer?
Have you softened on some of this stuff when actually what God is calling you to be is sharpened and prophetically so?
We would do well to ponder these realities before going through the door of 1 Corinthians 7.
You can find Piper's book, This Momentary Marriage, here.
You can read Nick's primary blog post on marriage from 2013 here.
If you would like to help support this podcast and the wider work we're pioneering, we would be very grateful as we increasingly find ourselves at capacity in more ways than one. You can give here. You can also view our review of 2020 in vlog form by clicking here.
Finally, here is a song that we have been comforted by in recent stormy days. **Come, Lord Jesus!
Love
N&M x**
This episode of Into the Pray with Dave Brennan from CBRUK follows on from last week's session about whether or not we should be having the COVID-19 vaccines. If you've not listened to that one please do go back and listen to that first.
It was during last week's recording that we became aware of the potentially huge pastoral issue unfolding here for those (principally over 70 years of age) who have been "fast-tracked" into having the COVID-19 vaccine.
The oldest members in our society are not only most vulnerable physically (hence their being vaccinated first) but also potentially on the emotional and spiritual levels level of life. (We're not saying that spiritual health is always analogous with physical health!).
However, it is true that it is the oldest members of our society who have been "offered" the vaccine first and, therefore, in the context of having had least time to think and pray and seek counsel about the issue, especially from the place of community "group think".
Therefore, we see a potentially large number of people who may come to a place of regret having had the vaccine and hence this episode to hopefully cater for them.
In this episode, Nick and Dave prayerfully navigate (as sensitively as possible) through this difficult situation, offering not just commentary on the big, media-pedalled narratives that are pressing the decision to be made, and highlighting implications either way, but also some scripturally-based words for profound pastoral comfort, especially for those who feel conflicted having had the vaccine already.
You can watch this podcast via YouTube here if you prefer.
If you would like to help support this podcast and the wider work we're pioneering, we would be very grateful as we increasingly find ourselves at capacity in more ways than one as we produce there podcasts every week. You can give here. You can also view our review of 2020 in vlog form by clicking here.
Finally, here is a song that we have been comforted by in recent stormy days. **Come, Lord Jesus!
Love
N&M x**
Welcome to the fifteenth episode of our slow, meditative, meandering study through the book of 1 Corinthians.
This episode this week contains what I believe is the critical verse for this entire book as we finish chapter 6, by going through vv 12-20, and begin to touch on pivotal principles for marriage and all our living next week in chapter 7.
The glory of God and our bodies were not irrelevant, mutually exclusive realities as the antinomian Corinthians thought. Quite the opposite. Let us be glorifying God with our bodies...the temples of the Holy Spirit.
If you would like to help support this podcast and the wider work we're pioneering, we would be very grateful as we increasingly find ourselves at capacity in more ways than one. You can give here. You can also view our review of 2020 in vlog form by clicking here.
Finally, here is a song that we have been comforted by in recent stormy days. **Come, Lord Jesus!
Love
N&M x**
This week on Into the Pray, we talk again with Dave Brennan of CBRUK to hear his thoughts on the important and pressing question, "Should I have the COVID vaccine?".
As you will hear, this question can't really be considered without referencing the wider COVID-19 context and, at the very least, being prepared to question the narratives that are being spewed out by the likes of the BBC.
- What role is propaganda playing in this?
- What ethical questions should you consider when thinking about the vaccine?
- What facts should we have firmly in mind as Christians?
- How do the vaccines relate to abortion and fertility issues?
- Will the vaccine become mandatory?
Of great concern to myself and Mairi, as those who have not yet been offered the vaccine and haven't had sufficient time to think about it, are those who have already received the vaccine but who also feel like they were pressured into making a decision.
Mairi, Nick and Dave will be discussing/praying about this in next week's episode - i.e. the potentially huge pastoral issue that there is unfolding for the most vulnerable in our society (the eldest among us) who have had the least amount of time to research/think/pray about the vaccines.
The older generations are not only most vulnerable in physical terms (hence the first to be offered the vaccine) but potentially also in other ways such as in spiritual terms. What if you've taken the vaccine but subsequently wished you hadn't?
We will be hosting a podcast every week to cater for these kinds of question.
You can watch a video version of this conversation here.
Related reading to this episode:
At least for consideration, our friend Steve Buckley's podcast re the general COVID situation here:
For critical reading see Malcolm Duncan on the conscience issue of the vaccine here:
Further reading on this issue can be found on Dave Brennan's website here.
If you would like to help support this podcast and the wider work we're pioneering, we would be very grateful as we increasingly find ourselves at capacity in more ways than one. You can give here. You can also view our review of 2020 in vlog form by clicking here.
Finally, here is a song that we have been comforted by in recent stormy days. **Come, Lord Jesus!
Love
N&M x**
This week on Into the Pray, we wanted to give some time to an area of conversation that we think will be becoming more and more common as the lockdown of the COVID pandemic slowly lifts.
As we pray and as we seek to be faithfully surrendered to Him in all of life (see 1 Corinthians 6:19-20), The Holy Spirit has covenanted to orchestrate the closing of the gaps in our personal/corporate lives, between the confessions of our mouths and the way that we actually choose to live.
In short, God doesn't just want the professions of faith of our lives to be merely professions; He wants them to be the very ways that we choose to live in every practical sense.
We think that the issue of where we live and with whom we are living has never been so important and indeed, as this episode covers, how it is that God will often use trauma to unsettle us sufficiently to give us what we really want and what we really do need: genuine communities and testimonies of "Life Together".
We pray for you for wisdom to 1) Discern God-given trauma in order for facilitating relocation, as opposed to “running away”, avoidance or escapism 2) For courage to relocate if that’s what He is doing in your life and 3) Generosity to accommodate relocation if that is your part in what's happening.
When all is said and done, we need each other and this issue of remaining apart, when we need to be together, we believe, is hot on God's agenda as the Bride is prepared (is preparing herself) for the Bridegroom to come.
CORRECTION: God touched Jacob’s hip precisely to dislocate it rather than heal it. (See Genesis 32).
Please see a related video here regarding the danger of digital media in "enchanting" towards this kind of relocation when it is not right. And, to be clear, it isn't always right to move...but neither is it right to always remain.
If you would like to help support this podcast and the wider work we're pioneering, we would be very grateful as we increasingly find ourselves at capacity in more ways than one. You can give here. You can view Friday’s podcast with Seamus Bannon in video form here**.
You can also view our review of 2020 in vlog form by clicking here.**
Finally, here is a song that we have been comforted by in recent stormy days.
Until next week,
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love, N&M x
This week we are resuming our study series, City of Temples, working our way through the book of 1 Corinthians. (If you've not listened to the previous episodes, we'd encourage you to go ahead and do that).
Chapter 6 verses 1-11 are the focus of this week's session, looking at the serious issues of:
- What does it really mean to be a brother? (To bear the name brother).
- How is the end of the age supposed to feature in our thinking in how we relate to our brethren?
- How do the errors that the Corinthians were making help us today?
- How else might the general cross-referencing of the words of Paul and the words of Jesus help you to study the Bible?
- What else can you learn from the referencing of Matthew 7 and Luke 21 with this chapter in 1 Corinthians?
Here is the link to the Todd White interview that I refer to.
If you would like to help support this podcast and the wider work we're pioneering, we would be very grateful as we increasingly find ourselves at capacity in more ways than one. You can give here. You can view Friday’s podcast with Seamus Bannon in video form here**.
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Finally, here is a song that we have been comforted by in recent stormy days.
Until next week,
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love, N&M x
This week on Into the Pray, we zoom in on Dietrich Bonhoeffer's classic work, Life Together, in order to start the ball rolling as we examine more closely what Christian community is supposed to look like.
Last week we talked about when we would draw a line and actually break fellowship so we hope this will be a natural tonic for the difficulty in even thinking about this reality.
We continue to be encouraged from the Word of God that, at times, division is required for very good reason and this episode of the podcast emphasises one of the critical points: we will never realise the glory - and safety - of Christian fellowship (revolving around truth) unless we are intentional about doing so.
Kindredness isn't enough; we have to work to build relationships; we have to be gracious and willing to be inconvenienced.
Most of us will have experienced bad relationships that might have made us "shy" from perusing the real deal. We think this has been a major tactic of the enemy in the instituted monoliths currently understood to be "church", where the glory - and safety - of covenant has been replaced with duty and arm's length shallowness.
Like for Bonhoeffer's seminarians, the Lord is preparing His people for a time to come where we will need both the contagion of these kinds of kingdom relationship but also their deep rootedness to stabilise our sanity during the enemy blitzkrieg {German: “lightning war”} that's approaching. As though in the 1940s, we would do well to ask ourselves, "What if (so and so) isn't here with us next Sunday?"
The exact quote from Bonhoeffer's book that we were discussing today is as follows:
"But God has put this Word into the mouth of men in order that it may be communicated to other men. When one person is struck by the Word, he speaks it to others. God has willed that we should seek him and find his living Word in the witness of a brother, in the mouth of a man. Therefore, a Christian needs another Christian who speaks God's Word to him again and again when he becomes uncertain and discouraged, for by himself he cannot help himself without belying the truth. He needs his brother man as a bearer and proclaimer of the divine word of salvation. He needs his brother solely because of Jesus Christ. The Christ in his own heart is weaker than the Christ in the word of his brother; his own heart is uncertain, his brother's is sure."
If you would like to help support this podcast and the wider work we're pioneering, we would be very grateful as we increasingly find ourselves at capacity in more ways than one. You can give here. You can view this podcast in video form here**.
You can also view our review of 2020 in vlog form by clicking here.**
Finally, here is a song that we have been comforted by in recent stormy days.
Until next week,
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love, N&M x
Greetings, Everyone!
This brief episode of Into the Pray is an update regarding our methodical teaching through the book of 1 Corinthians.
Suffice to say, an 8 week-old yellow Labrador called Barley has interrupted my plans for today, hence this shorter-than-normal session. Sincere apologies to all for not being able to make the first session in chapter 6 happen in time for today.
However, there are a couple of important notices in this episode (also partly regarding our next teaching session) that relate to "the prophetic", a proliferation of which we are witnessing emerge at the moment as the world reels and writhes.
Please read our blog post about wise/foolish "prophecy" here.
Please also look out for our forthcoming film that will deliver a sobering warning that will be difficult for many of you to hear - and watch - however, it is precisely what He has shown us in this first month of 2021.
Some of this is personal for just ourselves but it also bleeds into our responsibility to communicate publicly. We consider this public communication to be a key part of our calling in order to see the Body of Christ 'built up in love'.
If you would like to help support this podcast and the wider work we're pioneering, we would be very grateful as we increasingly find ourselves at capacity in more ways than one. You can give here. You can also view our review of 2020 in vlog form by clicking here.
Finally, here is a song that we have been comforted by in recent stormy days.
Until next week,
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love, N&M x
Greetings All,
This is a difficult question to think about, a harder question to raise publicly and, of course, a painful question to try and answer.
However, it is also a vital question that we believe we all need to wrestle with as the Church stands at a crossroads of unparalleled opportunity.
Are you aware of the urgent need for division - the kind of division found in the pages of the New Testament and that moves us all toward truth and faithfulness?
Of course, pain, division, separation and drama aren't the end goals of breaking fellowship; rather, truth, salvation and sanctification are what we're all longing for.
But enough is enough of agreeing to disagree.
We trust that you also see the profoundly urgent need of discernment regarding who it is that’s in right standing with God - who is genuine - and who is not.
Who is it that’s speaking truth? We can’t all be.
Make no mistake, Christian discipleship is being profoundly clarified on our watch.
Questions for Reflection:
- Does it stand to reason, let alone biblical study, that Christians have theological beliefs that are diametrically opposed?
- Does it ever matter? Or should we just agree to disagree? What might the consequences of this commonplace “solution” be?
- What do Paul’s words in 1 Corinthians 11:18-19 say to you about the national church of Great Britain, the international context AND your own personal context?
- Why do you think it is that division/separation is such a touchy issue for many Christians when it is so clear that Jesus is coming at the end of the age precisely to divide?
- Is “Christian unity” really “Christian unity” when these serious differences are tolerated? Will God really bless that which is not genuine?
"For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part, for there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognised." (1 Corinthians 11:18-19).
Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity! It is like the precious oil on the head, running down on the beard, on the beard of Aaron, running down on the collar of his robes! It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the LORD has commanded the blessing, life forevermore." (Psalm 133).
If you would like to help support this podcast and the wider work we're pioneering, we would be very grateful as we increasingly find ourselves at capacity in more ways than one. You can give here. You can also view our review of 2020 in vlog form by clicking here.
Finally, here is a song that we have been comforted by in recent stormy days.
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love,
N&M xx
Welcome to the third season of the Into the Pray podcast!
Mairi and I needed a wee break from the frenetic activity surrounding podcasting as season two drew to a close just a few days before Christmas. (There are more than 40 other episodes over seasons 1&2 that you can go ahead and listen to, including solid teaching through the book of 1 Corinthians).
2021 has started with an intense sense of spiritual activity surrounding a one day fast as we gratefully said goodbye to 2020. (How much do we have to be grateful for in such an unparalleled year?!).
Suffice to say, 12 months ago (before COVID was a thing), the Lord asked us to call every single church in the UK to close its doors. 12 months on we are now recognising more and more why He wanted this to happen and, indeed, why it shouldn't be a reality that we are resisting.
Lord willing, we will be producing a short/hard-hitting/provocative film in the early part of February that communicates strongly about where we ourselves have been feeling overwhelmed with the scale and magnitude of what He's been showing us....and we trust that He will also have been showing you too.
Look out for this film, our ongoing weekly sessions with Dave Brennan, our continuing Sunday teaching through 1 Corinthians and a new audio book version of Body Zero.
We need your help! Please consider supporting this podcast and the wider work that we're pioneering by giving here**.
You are also more than welcome (especially if you're sick of Facebook) on our free community app, as part of our fledgling JesusCome! community, and you can find out more here****, including the community values and etiquette documents that we make no apology for.
Come, Lord Jesus!
Love
N&M**
In this final episode of the second season of Into the Pray, we're joined by our Mum & Dad, Ant and Pam Franks.
We can't think of anyone on the planet who we'd rather talk to at the end of this year as regards to what on Earth is going on with the Church.
Don't miss Mum and Dad sharing their own personal testimony, not only over the course of the 2020 mayhem, but, as importantly, over the course of the last 53 years as they've held hands together through the undulating terrains of the Christian "church".
Please share this conversation on with others.
We pray that this landmark testimony will enable you to also come to the place of recognising what the Lord is surely saying to His people at this time in history: we must adopt a new posture before Him - of long-term, historic repentance and prayer; and, in so doing, look forward to all that would then happen in our lives personally and as a corporate whole.
We must repent of wanting revival without repenting.
In Great Britain and the West at large, we would also do well to take our lead from ancient Jewish culture that both honours and respects their elders enough to stop and listen carefully to what they're saying.
Dear Mum & Dad, we honour you, we love you, we value and trust you. And this Christmas we will miss being with you. To repeat the dedication message in the front of Body Zero: "For Mum & Dad who showed us the way to go."If you would like to help support this podcast and the wider work we're pioneering, we would be very grateful as we increasingly find ourselves at capacity in more ways than one. You can give here. You can also view our review of 2020 in vlog form by clicking here.
In this week's episode of Into the Pray we meet with Dave Brennan for the last time of 2020.
(This is the 4th part of a mini-series introducing the gargantuan issue of abortion.)
Shining a spotlight onto this subject - forcing it into the front of our consciousness - rather than leaving it buried in numbness and complicity of our minds, Nick and Dave discuss the root of the problem: idolatry.
As you come to listen, be prepared for some straight talk especially regarding much that is acceptable within the Church.
The truth is that abortion and related fertility practices such as IVF, are far from acceptable.
With thousands of babies aborted every week in the UK, with DIY "pills by post" abortions readily and indiscriminately available, with little babies flushed down the toilet like faeces into the rat-infested sewers below, what else can we pray? Oh, come Lord!
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Come, Lord!
Love,
N&M x
In this week's teaching episode of the Into the Pray series through 1 Corinthians, City of Temples, we dive into the last few verses of chapter 5.
What is God saying as 2020 closes? Exactly what He was saying as it opened...
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CORRECTION: Luther, of course, as legend has it, threw his ink pot at the devil (not the LORD!)
In this week's episode of Into the Pray, we come to our next conversation about the abhorrence of abortion. Words are important and we need to keep using specific words that are vital for us to "get" in our hearts.
Abortion is abhorrent and yet we don't feel the abhorrence of it; to us it is just normal.
This is where we really need to pray for the power of the Spirit, that the hearts and minds of the redeemed of the Lord (who should "say so") would be set free from this callousing normalisation of child sacrifice and hope again in the power of God.
Oftentimes mountains seem immovable to us but we must remember that God is the only One who can shape a mountain, the only One who can move them and the only One who will surely crush the enemy.
How will this ever happen?
By coming to Him, by acknowledging that we don't really know Him and that, therefore, we don't really love Him as we should.
We must remember his beauty and power. Churches must remember, church leaders intimidated into silence by the power of Satan...must remember.
This week Nick, Mairi and Dave dive into Psalm 106 at the beginning of the podcast. Please listen prayerfully to the conversation that follows until the end where there is an extended time of prayer.
Please consider sharing this with others who need to hear.
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Come, Lord Jesus!
Love in Jesus,
Nick & Mairi xx
In this week's teaching session in 1 Corinthians, we dive into chapter 5 and Paul's shocking command to excommunicate the brother from among the Corinthians.
However, the shocking reality is that the damage this gross sexual immorality was causing was not only affecting one or two people but, rather, the whole church.
When we begin to think about implications for this today - i.e. the consequences of casualness regarding sexual sin on the whole Body - we might start to realise how far away from our distinct witness and testimony we currently are.
The Lord wants us to be distinct, just like Moses prayed the Israelites would be in leaving the clutches of Egypt. Is there a "leaving of Egypt" that needs to happen in the Body of Christ today?
We think certainly that there is.
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Until next week: Come, Lord!
N
p.s. The book by Brant Pier that I refer to - Jesus the Bridegroom - can be found here
In this week's episode of Into the Pray, we deliberately expose ourselves to another dose of abortion's abhorrent arsenic.
Since last week's episode, we sat back and watched Amazing Grace, the 2006 film adaptation of William Wilberforce's long-term campaign towards the eventual abolition of the slave trade in Great Britain.
The film opens with this text:
"By the late 18th century, over 11 million African men, women and children had been taken from Africa to be used as slaves in the West Indies and the American colonies. The slave trade was considered acceptable by all but a few. Of these, even fewer were brave enough to speak against it."
It was William Wilberforce who said (of slavery) to Prime Minister, William Pitt, "It's like arsenic: each new tiny dose doubles its effect."
Let's keep this very simple:- unless the Lord reveals to our hearts by His Spirit what He sees and feels about abortion (and, most fundamentally, about the Church and the world), then we will waste our time on this planet in varying degrees of apathy and prayerlessness.
Rather, let us pray every day that we will see the 'wonderful things' of His heart and His word, (Psalm 119: 18) and that we can be in genuine faith for social reform as part of our "Work for Reformers".
Thanks again to Dave Brennan for joining us.
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In this week's stage through the book of 1 Corinthians, we reach the end of chapter 4 and begin to consider what it means to be an imitation-worthy father of the powerful kingdom of God.
COVID is a pandemic of little significance compared with the pandemic disaster of absent fathers.
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In this week's episode of Into the Pray, Mairi and Nick are joined again by Dave Brennan for the second podcast in a long, trailing conversation about the abhorrence of abortion.
Please listen to these podcasts with an open heart and a willingness for the Lord to bring you into a new realm of sensitivity to His heart regarding such matters.
If you don't follow Mairi's Instagram account - My Heart Notes - you can do so here. We'd encourage you, especially, to prayerfully read the related collection of Bible verses that will cut us to the core...if we will allow them to.
This is what this is all about, guys! We're calling this season on the podcast, as you'll know, "Work for Reformers", and this issue of the gift of prophecy is so pivotal for us to not waste our lives in the arrhythmias of "church business as usual".
May we all think, speak and feel an awful lot more about these hard realities.
Thank you to Dave Brennan of Brephos and CBR UK for partnering with us on these podcasts.
If you would like to help support this podcast and the wider work we're pioneering, we would be very grateful as we increasingly find ourselves at capacity in more ways than one. You can give here.
Until next week, let's continue to pray, "Come, Lord!".
in Jesus' Name,
Love
N&M xx
Hello everyone!
[CORRECTION: At the end of the episode Nick refers to a Messianic Psalm... this is Psalm 22 not Psalm 24. Also, the prophetic passage describing Jesus’ suffering is in Isaiah 52 & 53]
This is a special episode of the Into the Pray podcastspecifically with our Edinburgh neighbours in mind!
Thank you for making the effort to come through to listen to this episode and we hope that we've managed to strike the right balance in both how and what we discuss. Thanks also to Gareth Hides for joining Nick to make this episode happen.
Our priority in this podcast as a whole is to address the "chaos of the Church" - and the Church is more chaotic that any of us are currently able to see. (We've discussed this at length in the early parts of season 1).
This chaotic landscape, (ie one church saying one thing, another church saying something very different, a lack of unity around the things that Jesus actually said), probably means that you're not interested in attending any of the 300+ churches in the city of Edinburgh.
We completely understand that.
We understand that there is often hypocrisy, contradiction, confusion and compromise regarding what the Church stands for (and doesn't stand for); we understand that there is often no real substance or power to what is currently understood to be "the Church".
We are so sorry that this is the way it has become, especially in recent decades in Britain. As such, as part of the Church ourselves, we apologise unreservedly on behalf of the Church.
However, there also remains spectacularly, (incomparably!) good news that will never spoil or fade...
What is the core of the gospel message, really?
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That Jesus Christ, the Messiah, lived, was crucified, was resurrected to life on the third day and is returning to redeem a people who willbe ready for Him... just as a Bride is made ready for a Bridegroom. Once again, the gospel integrally includes the urgency of the Second Coming firmly, daily, in mind.
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That forgiveness for sin - any sin, absolutely any sin, once and for all - is immediately available by trusting in the name of Jesus, by believing in His "atoning" sacrifice on the cross, by believing in your heart that He is Lord and by confessing with your mouth that, by faith, He is yours.
Why is this different from any other message on the earth?
Grace is uniquely Christian. Only Jesus offers eternal salvation as a gift and that to receive this gift we need not do anything other than believe. Grace is the "unmerited favour" of God and there is nothing that any of us can do to make God love us more or less than He already does.
This is very, very good news!
We don't have all the answers but we do want to boldly give the most important answer of all:
"For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." (John 3:16).
In what is arguably the most uncertain period of modern history, it is our obligation (and privilege!) to point you clearly in the right direction - to Jesus Christ, "...the way, the truth and the life..." and "...the only way to the Father".
Please take our word for it: the Church is the problem, not God!
Please feel free to drop us any questions or knock on our front door; we'd love to hear from you.
in Jesus' Name,
Nick & Mairi xx
This is the tenth session in our biblical study through the book of 1 Corinthians. Today Nick spends some time in chapter 4 vv 7-13.
Who are the real Kings? Who are the real paupers?
The city of Corinth was a city of temples but not the primarily kind that Satan wanted - not so much a city filled with the shrine temples of Apollo or Aphrodite, not so much a city dominated by the colossal features of the Acrocorinth; but a city permeated by disruptive, holy, maturing temples of Yahweh, disciples filled with the gracious Holy Spirit of God.
As we'll come to next week, "...the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power."
God knows that His people need to experience more power.
As we continue to embark on this "Work for Reformers" we are increasingly finding ourselves out of our depth in terms of space, capacity and time.
Therefore, if you're interested in helping to regularly support what we're doing, please consider regular giving here. https://firebrandnotes.com/give
Thank you!
Come, Lord!
Nick & Mairi xx
This week on Into the Pray, we are delighted to be joined from the very beautiful Dartmoor in Devon by Ann Widdecombe (MEP).
You may know of Ann from her time in government, from her leadership with Nigel Farage of the Brexit Party in recent years or even from her appearances in Strictly Come Dancing!
It was a privilege to talk with Ann this week as, together, we broached the subject of what it really means to be a Christian with responsibility to witness to others in an increasingly cowardly church scene.
What responsibility do we have to speak out, to intercede and, as Ann says, to take regular risks?
We very much appreciate Ann's willingness to lift her voice and say it as it is!
Ann's book, Sackcloth and Ashes, can be found here.
Ann, if you're reading/listening, thank you very much again for your time.
You can also watch the video recording of this podcast via Nick's YouTube channel here.
And for everyone else listening and tracking with this podcast each week, thank you very much for doing so! Please consider sending a link to someone who you think might appreciate listening to our guest conversations or, indeed, the teaching series - City of Temples - on Sunday mornings.
Until next week, "Come, Lord Jesus!"
Love
N&M xx
In this week's study episode of Into the Pray, we're fast approaching the 1/3rd way point of the book of 1 Corinthians, dealing with the fist section in chapter 4.
- How should we view Christian leaders?
- What is the place of conscience within our peace?
- What did Plato and Seneca say about this; what does Paul say about this?
- Are we "judgmental" when we speak boldly about the disgrace in the Church?
Please find discussion on our Instagram channel here, as well on our JesusCome! community app here.
As we continue to embark on this "Work for Reformers" we are increasingly finding ourselves out of our depth in terms of space, capacity and time. Therefore, if you're interested in helping to regularly support what we're doing, please consider regular giving here. Thank you!
Come, Lord!
Amen?
Love
N&M xx
In this week's episode of Into the Pray, we speak with Dave Brennan of Brephos, a Christian (not Catholic) organisation heralding the plight of unborn babies. (Correction to the podcast: “Brephos” is the Greek word for “baby” not “breath”).
“They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons; they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood. ..Then the anger of the LORD was kindled against his people, and he abhorred his heritage.” (Psalm 106: 37-38, 40).
Dave helps us with the conviction that we all need be having conversations about this in an ongoing, increasing way and, as such, a new weekly episode of this podcast will now be dedicated to this worthy conversation. (More info to follow).
Suffice to say, we need much more Christian action and much less Christian apathy/ignorance.
How many people were killed during WW1 and WW2, combined? Do you know? Do you know how many people were killed in the last century through the abhorrence of abortion?
As Dave begins to help us all to understand, this issue of babies being killed on an industrial scale is nothing short of "normalised" genocide and yet tantamount to many, many in our sick society today with merely personal hygiene choices - after all, "It's MY body!", right?
We will all very soon stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ with this incomparable injustice firmly in His view - what will He say to us; what will we say to Him?
More information regarding Dave Brennan & Brephos here, as well as the wider work of CBRUK here.
As well as our regular Friday episodes (featuring guests/book reviews etc) we also have a dedicated Sunday morning session for solid biblical teaching.As we continue to embark on this "Work for Reformers" we are increasingly finding ourselves out of our depth in terms of space, capacity and time. Therefore, if you're interested in helping to regularly support what we're doing, please consider regular giving here. Thank you.
Come, Lord!
in Jesus
Nick & Mairi xx
This is the eighth part of our study through the book of 1 Corinthians.
This week, Nick finishes chapter 3. By exploring the title of this study series, “City of Temples”, we look at the significance of verse 16 cf. chapter 6 verse 19...arguably the two key verses in the entire book!
Catch up on all episodes and please share with someone who you think will benefit.
Thank you for listening.
Come, Lord!
love
N&M xx
This week on Into the Pray, we are joined by Melvin Tinker, author of multiple books including a recent updated version of That Hideous Strength, a work based on C.S.Lewis' work of the same title.
Melvin was a church minister in the Church of England for over twenty years but, in recent months, has set up a new network of churches separate to the Church of England. Melvin is a good example of a church leader with a God-given "conscription of conscience". Please see here for more info on what we mean by that.
Sit back and listen to Melvin who helps us delve into and understand the dark, demonic cultural agendas that we are living in. In short, by the end of this podcast, you will have an understanding of cultural marxism and how this is something we should be resisting and exposing with every fibre (and prayer) of our being.
Because this is a longer conversation this week, Mairi and I only have a short introduction at the beginning but an important one nonetheless. Please check out our friend, Steve Buckley's, podcast that he published yesterday. Personally speaking (Nick), it made me realise how easily compliant we can become with things that we shouldn't be. You can listen to Steve's podcast here.
Don't miss the eighth part of our study through the book of 1 Corinthians (The City of Temples) this coming Sunday - we'll be completing chapter 3.
As ever, please get in touch, including via Instagram, tell a friend and consider supporting this podcast (and the other content we produce) but seeing our website here.
Until next week, Come, Lord Jesus!
Love
N&M x
This is the seventh part of our study through the extremely relevant book of 1 Corinthians.
The focus of this week is chapter 3 with specific attention to the defining issue of Christian maturity.
Please be in touch via our instagram account here or via our brand-new community app here.
Come, Lord.
Love in Jesus,
N&M xx
*Apologies that there was a slight technical problem with the podcast recording this morning. This is now sorted and you can download the track again directly from http://podcast.firebrandnotes.com/
This week on Into the Pray we are very grateful to talk with David Robertson (aka The Wee Flea), former senior minister of St. Peter's Church in Dundee and now Director of Third Space in Australia.
David and Nick produced some videos a couple of years back about some critically important issues relating to both the Church and the socio-cultural disintegration that we are all witnessing today. (You can find those via Nick's YouTube channel).
In today's podcast, David says, "Scotland has descended and secularised quicker than any nation in history."
If this is true - and it may well be - the British Church need to recognise that a proportional response of humility, repentance and prayer is the gracious, God-given order of the day, not harking back to previous times in our history where a genuine call to repentance may or may not have been issued or nationally observed.
During the reign of King George 73 years ago, marriage still meant in British law what God says it means, millions of people hadn't been torn limb from limb via the horrors of abortion and our children weren't being told that they could select their gender or experiment safely with pornography - we have to get real!
David and Nick may not quite see eye to eye on the place and responsibility of the Church in this particular conversation but they do both agree that until we corporately "come to the end of ourselves" (the exact focus of the book, Body Zero) there can be no hope for reformation, renewal or revival.
You can read David's blog here: https://theweeflea.com
You can find our more about Third Space here: https://thirdspace.org.au/third-space/about-us
Please let us know what you think!
Until next week,
Come, Lord!
Love in Jesus,
N&M x
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p.p.s. Don't miss part 7 of our study through 1 Corinthians this Sunday morning.
This week we finish chapter two of 1 Corinthians.
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We'll be away next week but excited to return as normal on November 1st with tag-teaming through some of the teaching sessions (Mairi and Nick discussing the passages). The implications of Paul’s estimation of the Corinthian church in the opening verses of our next session (chapter 3) should be alarming for us today.
Please make sure that you listen to Nick’s conversation with Andrea Williams, CEO of Christian Concern, and please also consider sharing with someone who might be encouraged.
For further reading, please find Matthew Henry’s commentary here: https://www.biblegateway.com/resources/matthew-henry/toc/
Thank you for listening.
Come, Lord!
Love in Jesus,
N&M x
P.s. One afterthought re the teaching point in this episode regarding 2:15: our being spiritual (cf. the unspiritual person) is not something to feel superior about but, rather, quite the opposite. This reality of our knowing the secret wisdom of God, and the Person of Jesus, should make us meek and mild, bearing with those who do not understand and ultimately making us pray, “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do...”
This week on Into the Pray, we're delighted to be joined by Andrea Williams, founder/CEO of Christian Concern.
The Christian Concern team are arguably the sharpest point of the primary spearhead of the kingdom of heaven in British society today.
Please take some time to review their great work by visiting their website https://christianconcern.com
It was a real privilege to chat with Andrea about the Church, the ones that, in Psalm 16, David describes as, "...the saints who are in the earth...the majestic ones in whom is all my delight." (NASB).
Like a mouth thawing after dentistry, the solemn, dawning reality is that there are many in the land who claim love, affection and allegiance to Jesus but who also want to argue with what He says. This isn't love; this is idolatry.
Do you love Jesus? If you do, He’ll compel you.
Faithfulness today will sound shrill to an anti-Christ world. But that’s OK. Political correctness and prophetic correctness will never be compatible this side of His return.
Please sit back and listen with a heart that's prepared to "do whatever it takes....".
More free resources, including information about a new community app as an alternative to Facebook, here: https://firebrandnotes.com
We salute and pray for you, Christian Concern.
Thank you again, Andrea; it was a joy.
Maranatha,
N&M x
Here we are continuing in our study series through the book of 1 Corinthians. This is the fifth part looking closely at chapter 2 verses 6-10.
Next Sunday, we'll pick back up from verse 10 to the end of the chapter and get ready for chapter 3!
Please let us know your thoughts. You can find our Instagram account here: https://www.instagram.com/intothepray/
Come, Lord Jesus
Love in Jesus,
N&M x
In this week’s episode of Into the Pray, we confront one of the biggest problems in all of our lives and surely a worthy area for our work in reformation: dysfunctional attitudes and practices on social media.
How often does our behaviour on social media platforms like Instagram reveal our heart towards the people we say we love?
Listen to Mairi’s story of how she came to say goodbye to Instagram following increasing concerns about its culture and the impact on her heart, before experiencing a powerful renewal in her personal devotions and a redeemed account that now helps thousands of people around the world.
You can read Mairi’s blog about why she chose to leave and rejoin Instagram, below, and if you’d like to connect with her there, just look for @myheartnotes
Don’t miss our conversation next week with Andrea Williams, Director of Christian Concern!
Thank you very much for rating/reviewing/sharing the podcast 😊
https://firebrandnotes.com/2017/08/06/social-media-voyeurism-why-i-quit-instagram/
In this week's teaching episode of Into the Pray, we continue our epic voyage through the book of 1 Corinthians.
Now in chapter 2, vv1-5 might seem like a short passage but there is much to say.
Please don't be put off by the length of these podcasts; we will typically sit through one two-hour film a week and we believe our appetites must change.
I (Nick) am certainly being blessed by thinking much more deeply about Paul and, specifically, his time in Corinth. I can recommend John Pollock's book on Paul if you are interested in 'walking a mile in his shoes'.
Please share the podcast with friends/family and let us know what you're thinking.
Until next week: Come, Lord!
Love in Jesus,
N&M x
In this week’s episode of Into the Pray, Nick speaks with Paul Thompson, senior leader of an independent evangelical church in Henbury, Bristol.
Nick and Paul connected several months ago following the release of Body Zero and, since then, have been chatting regularly about the process of radical change within the Church.
See more info about Emmanuel Chapel, Henbury here: https://emmanuelhenbury.com/
Paul is an encouraging example of a church leader who is prepared to lead from conviction, regardless of how ‘popular’ that may or may not be, and describes the current COVID pandemic as a “miracle” from the Lord.
Look out for the 4th episode of our teaching series in 1 Corinthians this coming Sunday.
Until then... come, Lord!
love in Jesus,
N&M x
p.s. Here is the link to the “Ambush Satan with song” story https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ask-pastor-john/id618132843?i=1000493077452
Hello!
This is the third of our teaching sessions in the book of 1 Corinthians. This week, we conclude chapter 1 by going through vv 18-31, mainly referring to Isaiah 29, and getting ready for chapter 2 next Sunday.
Keep in mind that these sessions are barely scratching the surface and, for the sake of time, are relatively basic.
What else are you learning? What are you discovering? How does Paul’s shying away from eloquence and ‘lofty speech’ relate to the demonstration of the Spirit’s power?
How does ‘the word of the Cross’ compel you today?
Until next week: Come, Lord!
Love in Jesus,
N&M x
Hello!
Thank you so much to all of you who take the time to listen to this podcast and who generously share it on for us with others. We'd be glad to hear from more of you, so please reach out if you'd like to have your questions answered or even a specific focus or suggestion for guests to be considered for feature.
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We have a new community app that is just a week or two away from launching. If you'd like more info, and especially if you're fed up of the negative, controlling aspects of Facebook, please visithttps://firebrandnotes.comand click on Invest.
This week, we take some time to talk about the "core values" of our new online community and trust that it will be helpful to hear our voices about this rather than just having a document to read when you download the app.
The JesusCome! app will be available to download for free from both Apple and Google; please pray that the tech issues are resolved swiftly!
Look out for our third teaching session in 1 Corinthians dropping this coming Sunday! (Into the Pray will now be coming out twice a week, with teaching every Sunday).
Come, Lord!
Love in Jesus
N&M x
p.s. the verse that Nick refers to during this episode, where his mind goes blank, is 1 Corinthians 3:6-7
In this week's episode of Into the Pray, we talk again with friend and compadre, Steve Buckley. Everything we say is with David's prayer of Psalm 139 firmly in mind.
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What do we do, and how do we prayerfully process, when other believers whom we have trusted prove themselves not to be trustworthy?
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What of misdemeanours and cover-ups? What of organisational complicity?
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What of the spirit of gentleness (Galatians 6:1) articulating with the Spirit's fiery yearning inside (James 4:5)?
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What do we then say when those we have considered worthy of trust are proven not to be? What we say is important.
Beware! This issue of trust is far from cliche: Aquila and Priscilla trusted Paul enough to relocate both their livelihood and their very personal home..their oikos.
Regardless of what an organisation's digital influence or presence may be, it is foolish to even consider this kind of life upheaval without proven, demonstrable integrity and trust. The leading of the Spirit will always have this front and centre.
We are calling for a new ecclesiology and therefore a new (but ancient) level of integrity; there can be no comprise. Let's sow the seeds and watch them grow under His hand.
We will be picking back up with our next teaching session in 1 Corinthians very soon, but stay tuned for our episode next week for more conversation on this important element of trust within our work as reformers...we didn't quite manage to get to it all!
Until next week: come, Lord Jesus!
N&M x
(Please drop us a line and let is know what you're thinking!)
This week on Into the Pray, we pick back up where we left off last time in the book of 1 Corinthians chapter 1.
Lingering for a while in vv 10-17, we begin to think more about the behaviour of the church in Corinth and the specific point of contention revolving around so-called "unity".
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According to Paul, what divisions in the Church are acceptable and even essential?
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And how does this relate to his stated desire that there be zero divisions?
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Is this contradictory?
Please see here for related film content from The Bothy Sessions: https://firebrandnotes.com/2018/10/11/joy-misunderstood/
Please see here for the statement we very sadly had to make last weekend:
https://firebrandnotes.com/2020/09/04/a-statement-concerning-frontier-alliance-international-fai/
With this in mind this week, let's memorise Romans 15:5-6:
"May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you a spirit of unity among yourselves as you follow Christ Jesus, so that with one heart and one mouth you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ."Please drop us a line and let is know what you're thinking! **Maranatha,
N&M**
This week on Into the Pray, we begin looking more closely at the book of 1 Corinthians in a new teaching series as part of this season, Work for Reformers.
The parallels between Corinth and the West today are very strong.
We should have said in this week's episode, we are reading Wayne Grudem's book (referenced a week or so ago) in a critical way; critical reading is important to help us sift truth from error and to deepen convictions based on the study of the Word and how it is that He meets and relates to us in intimacy by His Spirit!
We don't agree with all of Grudem's conclusions and we'll cover this in soon-to-come episodes of the podcast.
For this week, you'll need your Bible - ideally a study version - a coffee, a pen and an open heart!
This week we focus on 1:1-10 with reference to Acts 18.
May He come soon.
N&M x
This week on Into the Pray we have a four-way conversation with our dear friends, Seamus and Sarah Bannon.
The Bannons are mighty. They have two beautiful little girls and value being real and honest. They’re the kind of people who you know will always be there.
Above all they long for Jesus.
Why not listen in to our conversation and share with a friend?
We talk about:
- the trauma of “leaving church”;
- the beauty of obeying the voice and leadership of the Spirit;
- the loneliness associated with ‘the prophetic’;
- the joy of genuine Christian family;
- the emerging Church that currently is barely even recognised as such;
- the inevitability of ‘small’
- the opposing influence of the common understanding of church to kingdom relationships
- the signpost to the existence of God that these kinds of relationships are meant to be...
Please excuse the roadworks and the Amazon delivery.
Love/maranatha,
N&M x
This week we were due to have our publicised four-way convo with our dear and high quality friends, Seamus and Sarah Bannon. (We will be recording this weekend and might throw out a bonus episode when you're not expecting it!)The reason that we're not posting that this weekend is because Nick had a very strong prompting today to record a vlog addressing some very serious concerns that form the title for this episode of the Into the Pray podcast.
You can view the vlog here: https://youtu.be/rs3I2LGzojk
Suffice to say, please have your Bible to hand and 20 minutes to think/listen without distraction.
As ever, Mairi and I trust that this leads us all into the place of prayer....for our friends, our compadres, our national leaders and, of course, those leading others in the ekklesia.
We trust that this helps us all to guard our hearts, above all else, just as we should.
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Past, present, future - He knows your postcode.
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Do not wish you were somewhere else; rather, rejoice in where you are and, in so doing, reach out for Him.
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If you’ve buried sin hoping it will go away, it won’t. Bring it into the light and if you’re struggling to do that, ask the Holy Spirit to help you honour Jesus.
Love & maranatha,
N&M x
p.s. approximately 13:19 minutes into the vlog, Nick refers to Acts 7 when in fact he was meaning Joshua 7!
This week on Into the Pray, we’re delighted to welcome dear friend Christopher Mantei.
Christopher serves as pastor in his local church in Delaware, USA, is the author of “Flee to the Mountains - The Church’s Responsibility to Israel in the last 7 Years of the Age”, as well as leading the ministry Wings of the Eagle and the End Time Church community/app.
Nick has had the joy of being friends with Christopher for several years, is often in touch online and even met in Israel earlier this year to sup over-priced Israeli beer in a hotel bar.
We wanted to hear Christopher’s heart this week not only because he's leading the way with online discipleship, but also because he has a beautiful sensitivity to the Lord - and boldness to stand out - that we trust and admire.
Regarding all the uncertainty of the present and the future, we say a hearty "amen" with Christopher as he prays, "You're there at the end and You're here with us now."
We hope you enjoy the conversation this week! Please let us know, subscribe, and tell a friend.
Our own JesusCome! app will be launched, God willing, in October. Full details, including how you can get involved are here:
https://mailchi.mp/8e1c9c2dc56e/jesuscome-community-app
Marantha (may we feel the full weight of that word, in Jesus' Name).
N&M
p.s. Note for 52:25 - The book of Daniel (especially 7:21) makes it abundantly clear (despite triumphalist "christian" nonsense) that, at the end, Satan WILL be permitted to give the anti-Christ power not only over the world but over the true Church (ekklesia). As friend Dalton Thomas says, "The Church are called to endure not escape". This is what we are all preparing for...
Catch up on the centrality of Israel during the end of the age. You can buy Christopher's phenomenal book via Amazon...in paperback and for Kindle versions.
Greetings, Everyone!
This week on Into the Pray, in what is a slight detour from our plan from last week, we have a special announcement to make!
When you've listened to this episode, please do share with a couple of friends and also subscribe to our mailing list here to get all of the associated info about the announcement!
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Thank you to all of you who support this podcast and please do consider being part of this moving forwards.
Online Christian community must stop being wholly synonymous with Facebook. There is far too much wasted time, nonsense and control. (Here’s a case in point from the Scottish Government: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/could-possession-of-the-bible-become-an-offence-in-scotland )
The world will not be prepared for the return of Christ until the people of God are prepared for the return of Christ.
Maranatha!
When we say that, "The no.1 collateral damage for the prophetic messenger is relationship"....what do we mean?
We thought the best way to answer this is to give a bit of insight into the first 8 years of our married lives/public ministry together.
On our wedding day, it was prophesied over us that we would "live loud" for God, and that we would be reformers in the spirit of Jeremiah 33.
This is the calling of all of us today, in one form or another.
We talk about marriage quite a bit in this episode - mainly because it's preeminently important as a socio-cultural issue in our disintegrating world - but we will also be doing more specific content on marriage later in this season... biblical illiteracy is rife.
If the redefinition of marriage in 2014 was the litmus test to gauge the prophetic eagerness of the Church, God knows that we urgently need a new Reformation. COVID-19 is surely a rousing, coffee-smelling gift to the Body of Christ.
It's our longing that as we have given just a little glimpse into the path that we have travelled, including a little detail about the collateral damage in relationship that we've experienced, we trust that you will be provoked into more wholeheartedness in prioritising, loving and following Jesus.
He's coming; we must get ready.
Please share this for us! Please also get in touch with questions and thoughts and suggestions for guests you'd like to hear on the show.
Next week we'll be poring more over 1 Corinthians and Ephesians, so why not tell a mate?
Until next week...
Maranatha/love
N&M
In this week's episode of Into the Pray, at the beginning of this new season we've called "Work for Reformers", we begin to think and talk about the gift of prophecy.
In 1 Corinthians 14:1, Paul tells us all to "Follow the way of love and eagerly desire gifts of the Spirit, especially prophecy."
So what happens when the Church don't do that? What happens when we don't eagerly desire, receive or move in the gift of prophecy?
Central to the work of all reformers in breaching the chaos of the Church is this much-maligned gift of the Spirit of God....oh, how we need His unction as we go about the rest of our lives.
Broadly speaking, this week's episode is split into 4 sections, with the fourth section dropping next week.
Please don't believe that the gift of prophecy is for someone else. What if He is wanting to give you the gift of prophecy right now? Mightn't that change everything?
We pray that you would give Your gift, precious Spirit...oh, compel us, urge us, "unction us" as we yearn for Jesus to come.
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What Prophecy is and isn't.
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What's the big deal with dispensation?
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The landscape of the Church now.
NEXT week
- The No.1 Collateral Damage of Prophetic Messengers (Nick and Mairi's testimony)
Corrections:
Hezekiah King of Judah NOT Israel
Hezekiah's prayer - 2 Kings 19
Jesus spoke of John the Baptist in Matthew 11 NOT Matthew 12
Order your copies of Body Zero via: https://www.bodyzerobook.com
Into the Pray is back with Season 2!
This is the intro episode for the brand-new season that we're calling, "Work for Reformers".
The prophetic people of God are often paralysed by a fear of youth and inexperience and a political spirit that wants us safe, controlled, predictable, quiet, silent, impotent and lukewarm.
But our Bible tells us to eagerly desire the gifts that the Spirit gives (still He does this: present, continuous), especially the specific gift of prophecy.
Guys, this is for all of us, not just one sinewy figure of mystery who approaches a king or queen occasionally.
Think about the prophetic people of God assembling for a new thrust of reformation! A new, historic receiving of the gift of prophecy, en masse, that would be capable of uprooting the rotten roots of theology and of ecclesiology etc that destabilises the whole Bride.
Apologies because we forgot to read out Mairi’s very neat writing from her notebook for the areas we’ll be covering over this season, so here they are:
- forgiveness and reconciliation are not the same thing
- The damage of Christians calling for forgiveness while obstructing reconciliation
- Jesus puts dialogue at the centre of reconciliation. What makes good dialogue?
- False notion that some relationship is better than none
- Family relationships
- Romantic relationships
- Knowing that you need to forgive someone but not sure how
- Marriage - when a new union is made changes happen in relationships. The principle of leaving and cleaving
- Resisting forgiveness and the result of prayerlessness
- God knowing your heart vs people seeing your life
Please let us know if there are any other areas that you’d like us to dig into!
Check back for episode one next Friday (6am), oh, and please leave us a review and tell a friend.
Maranatha
p.s. For the full teaching session on Jeremiah 1:1-10, please go to www.firebrandnotes.com/blog
In this final "outro" episode of the first series of Into the Pray, Nick Franks summarises 7 of the main prayers that he and Mairi pray on a daily basis.
As the COVID-19 lockdown lifts across the West, as summer begins to pop, please don't confuse the changing natural seasons with the activity of the spiritual realm - the heavenlies - and what's really unfolding beyond our natural senses of ear and eye and nose and mouth.
Instead, let us be like weak and imperfect fishermen who are able to look at the skies and understand what's to come next...let us be like the Berean Jews who take their cues from Scripture only.
Season 2 of Into the Pray will resume in 4 weeks time. In the meantime, please catch up on all episodes, guests and testimonies that have dropped.
Why not tell your mates about this podcast right now?
You can buy your copies of "Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ" by visiting the Body Zero book shop (www.bodyzerobook.com) or by simply clicking here.
You can also watch the two-hour film "The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience" by googling "Vimeo", "Nicholas Paul Franks" and "The Draft" or by simply clicking here. You can also follow Mairi's "My Heart Notes" by jumping onto Instagram here. **Love/maranatha
N&M xx**
On the Into the Pray #podcast this week, we’re joined by Ryan Kondo, a bro from t’other side of the large, oceanic mass (we did say that we don’t like overused, meaningless cliche!).
Bringing with him a mighty wealth of experience leading worship and pastoring teams around the world, we’re so pumped to host him in this convo.
All of us tracking with these podcasts over the last 2.5 months have had an earful about the chaos in the Body, the ensuing chaos unfolding in the world and the double-minded Church that would prefer to sing songs of blessing at this time rather than bow the knee.
Seriously.
The emerging division within the Body of Christ - even concerning this one solitary issue of repentance - is only going to accelerate and accumulate, until finally the Bride is fully prepared in corporate harmony, singing “Come, Lord Jesus!”
So we’ve focused enough (for now) on the chaos and now we’re pivoting into more of a hopeful sense of what Father God is planning.
This preparation of the Body of Christ for His return is impossible without this prescribed prophetic polemic, but is also a very hard gig for anyone who is faithful in responding to it.
This is why we talk this week to Ryan who is very qualified indeed to help us all in learning that the oiliness of anointed, lingering, prayerful worship is to be found at the very epicentre of a radical preparation for the return of Christ - the very heartbeat of “Maranatha!”
Despite the warfare, the rebuke, the admonition, and because of the pressure and pressing and breaking, we need to understand that singing and musicianship and corporate worship are just beginning to really find their place on Earth.
Beloved, He is en route and, although some of us might think that we understand how to worship, we actually think we’re only just starting.
Ryans’s song that he mentions at the end is found here:
https://music.amazon.co.uk/albums/B07MCLFMWV?do=play&trackAsin=B07M7XT2Z7&ref=dm_sh_hb7Y722ExqN3X9D2mnrp5eIzn
Please get in touch and let us know what kind of content/emphases you’d like us to explore with guests moving into Summer 2020.
Love and maranatha,
N&M xx
In this week’s episode of Into the Pray we are massively blessed to speak with Jonathan Boegl from Arizona, USA.
Jonathan brings the weight 20+ years of experience in pastoral ministry, including a decade of involvement with the International House of Prayer in Kansas City.
We connected with Jonathan recently because of our profound agreement regarding what the Lord is saying and emphasising to the Church at this point of history.
Jonathan is a father who is postured in tender-heartedness towards the sons and in agreement with what we believe God is saying in this hour.
This very much includes the rebuke of the response of the fathers (and the sons) at this hour who attack and even mock the word of the Lord that calls for repentance.
You can find out more about Jonathan and Kathy Boegl by googling https://allnationshopsw.org/
Maranatha
In this eighth episode of Into the Pray, and our mini-series Chaos, we take our social media lives into our hands by challenging whether God's voice for us at this time is really heard by listening to the UK Blessing video that has now had more than 2 million views on YouTube.
Isn’t it profoundly naive to think that the spiritual narratives that are receiving awards from tabloids and Prime Ministers are even close to what God is saying?
Instead, imagine if BoJo saw a viral Christian video calling the U.K. Church to repent over the “redefinition of marriage”, the calamity of abortion and the incomprehensibly tragic gender disaster.
Go ahead!
Imagine if our national leaders today saw a Church truly uniting in holy accord and agreement around the things that God says about God and our repentance of the fact that we have spent centuries not doing this.
IMAGINE THAT!
Rather, as we argue, isn't it the case that the pop video in question has proven to be a viral distraction for a national U.K. landscape that is very much lacking either the clarity or courage of leadership to pave the way for us all to go where we really need to be?
Please think carefully - and biblically - before commenting or getting in touch: what is your conviction about this specific issue actually based on?
The remarkable, life-changing message that we cite from Ugandan leader John Mulinde can be seen here Maranatha
In this seventh episode of the mini-series Chaos, Nick and Mairi Franks remind us all that there are very specific realities that we should all be prepared to point to for anyone who is genuinely having their eyes opened to the urgent work of Spirit-led reform underway within the Body of Christ.
But not everyone who asks a question (or leaves a comment) is genuinely in a place of humility to hear the answers that the Coming King would have us hear.
There are always token gestures to the things of God but, for those who are willing to hear, there remains a proportional response of repentance. Repent from what?The glaringly obvious - and heinous - realities in the Church and in the world that the Body of Christ are being awoken to but who are also largely ignorant of.
The key question is, "Are we prepared, are we willing to come into new places of humility before God that are open to see sin as He sees sin, and feel about sin as He feels about sin?"
Anything less than this is child's play. God knows we need more men and women who will be fit and able to parent the next generation of Holy Reformers as His coming draws nearer.
For more information about the public, four-hour-long reading of the book of Jeremiah, please see a new vision film by Googling "Vimeo" and "Nicholas Paul Franks".
Maranatha
This week on Into the Pray we get a bit more gutsy with Steve Buckley in discussing the following:
- The unique history that Britain has as regards to Israel and the Jewish people
- The unique role that Britain may again play as the bride is prepared for His coming
- Forms of leadership in the “church” that simply will no longer cut it moving into the brave new, post COVID-19 world
- Two main types of Father in the days ahead (btw, interesting fact: in Aramaic, Maranatha is pronounced like Father in English... ie like posh Steve Buckley...I stand corrected)
-Nick’s illness in Israel and why this might even be a prophetic sign in and of itself
Until next week,
Maranatha
N&M
p.s. click here for the video interview from Galilee (that Steve alluded to) with brother Chaim
In this fifth episode of Into the Pray, we hover, we pore, we linger over a well-known/not-well-known word that we have no doubt is 'the' word and what the living, returning Christ is bellowing to His sleepy, arrogant, bewitched body on Earth.
Drawing briefly on the pop 'wisdom' soundbites of some leading experts in their field, (philosophy and parenting), we take a direct 'in the mirror' look at two of the common responses to COVID-19, one of which is particularly foolish and that all-too uncannily reflects the folly of the Church as we grapple with the questions, "What is God saying?" and "What should we be doing?".The fact that the Church is in widespread chaos, especially in the West, warrants an unhurried, meandering stroll - if you like - through the ruins of the ancient ways that Jeremiah banged on about.
We love Jeremiah, especially the tears he was known for shedding.
We need more tears.
Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll be picking back up where we left off with Steve Buckley and John Hampton.
For more info on the features in this week’s episode, please check:
1) Two of the recent episodes of Russel Brand's podcast Under the Skin here
2) A.W.Tozer's book, "Man - The Dwelling Place of God" here
3) The central answer for the Church in this point in history here
We're also launching a give-away this week to win one of the extremely limited editions of Nick's debut book, Body Zero. Please check our Instagram feed for all the info hereand to browse the shop here: www.bodyzerobook.comAlso, special thanks to the insanely talented and generous Ross Thomson for partnering with us...Ross' music will be featuring throughout this and forthcoming seasons.
Please check his Soundcloud channel here**.
Maranatha**
“Seeker-sensitive Shambles” and “The British Burden for an Israeli Ignorance" were also strong contenders as titles for this week's episode of Into the Pray, featuring my posh Mancunian mate, Steve Buckley.
Continuing our mini-series “Chaos” (looking around the mess of the Church), what place does Israel have within what God’s doing? Have you even asked that question before?
Steve and I actually met in Israel at an Israeli bar drinking very expensive Israeli beer (not on the quietly lapping shores of the Sea of Galilee, eating some freshly roasted peanuts).
It was cool, though.... it was Steve's round.
In this week's episode, Steve brings beefy authority and wisdom regarding one of the most chaotic aspects of the British "church".... ie the arrogant British ignorance regarding the land and people of Israel.
This will hopefully whet your appetite for part B next week and you can check out some of Steve's very helpful vlogs by clicking here.
If you also share our passion to prayerfully see the chaos of the Church breached, please help us out by subscribing, reviewing and sharing this podcast.
“Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ” (paperback or ebook) available here.
Thank you and maranatha,
N & M
This week we're excited to introduce you to an English author called John Hampton in the third part of our mini-series simply entitled "Chaos".
We wanted to feature John on Into the Pray as quickly as possible because his book Mere Churchianity is THAT important...we like to think of it as a manifesto of the kingdom and certainly a book that should be at the very top of everyone's reading list during quarantine. [That and Body Zero ;)]
What's the big issue? What's the problem, Franks? Well, let me tell you what the problem is: the disaster of discipleship that now exists due to the staggering reality that the way we have always understood the "church", (our ecclesiastical practices, our beliefs, our rhythms and theologies), are completely wrong because (much more often that we will want to admit) they do not reflect the Bible that we say we believe and love and, specifically, the power and glory - and suffering - of the New Testament that I think we all yearn for.
Should this bother you? Yes, you should be deeply disturbed and disrupted.
In Into the Pray S1E3, you'll learn about the all-important Greek word, ekklesia, that William Tyndale died for and that King Henry refused to include in the English translation of the Bible in the mid-sixteenth Century.
God is leadings us back to the ancient paths but, before we get there, we have to ask ourselves in postures of historic repentance, "When/How/Why have we ever got to where we are now?".John will feature again soon on Into the Pray but please mark my words: we will not have revival without repentance.
We're deeply grateful for John's work in this area that helps us all further along the road to Jesus Come.
Please get in touch and let us know your thoughts/comments/questions.
From the podcast:
You can order John's book hereYou can read a review of John's book here
You can order Nick's book, Body Zero, here
You can read a review of Nick's book here
The other phenomenal book that Nick and Mairi chat about at the beginning of this episode is called The Unseen Realm written by Michael Heiser. You can buy this here **and is particularly good as an audiobook.
Apologies for the intermittent audio problem at the very end of this week’s episode
This is the second part of our mini-series entitled, "Chaos".
What do King Théoden and Gandalf have to do with the ekklesia at this pivotal point in history?
In this week’s second episode of “Into the Pray”, we go through a list of the top 10 reasons that people commonly push back against the conscience-level decision of leaving the institutionalised “church” for the hope of something actually biblical.
There’s also an “essential read” feature from an American chap who’s written a shed-load of books.
We know that we haven't gone into heaps of info for each of these top ten objections, so please let us know your thoughts, questions, comments etc and please do take 2 mins to subscribe and write a wee review for us!
Maranatha.
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The Draft film: https://vimeo.com/399333114
Apologies as we had some tech issues with our GoPro for the visual feed. Will be sorted for next week!
(This is the first part of a multi-part mini-series [episodes TBC] called Chaos).
In this first full-length episode of Into the Pray - Breaching the Chaos of the Church, Nick and Mairi Franks jump more deeply into the chaos that is the Church - the Body of Christ on the earth.
Why do we consider the "church" to be chaotic? What is it more precisely that needs to be breached? What are the walls that need to be demolished? Why can't we see the wood for the trees?Drop your comments below and please subscribe and review this podcast on Apple/Android platforms.
Next week in S1/E2, we'll continue to get more specific about the chaos that we believe needs to be breached in order for us all to grow into what it really means to be a genuine disciple of Yeshua, a vital member of the true ekklesia.
One of our values, at all costs, is to avoid cliche. We want to be as clear and as specific and as precise as possible. We can't stand generic language and generalisations that don't help anyone.
We also want to be real and honest and transparent about the things that we have zero doubt are the things that we're on the planet to call forth.
Guys, we are on the cusp of eternity and the world will not be ready for the return of Christ until the ekklesia are ready for the return of Christ.
Maranatha... we pray with the Spirit, "Come, Lord Jesus"
Episode notes:
- You can buy ebook and paperback versions of Body Zero here: http://bodyzerobook.com
- The correct verse that Nick mentions from John's gospel around 33:19 is John 12:24
Welcome to the initial "intro" episode of Into the Pray, a new weekly podcast hosted by Nick and Mairi Franks.
Following on from the groundbreaking book of 2019, Body Zero (www.bodyzerobook.com), Into the Pray is our next step beyond the institution of denomination, past 'the point of no return' and specifically towards awakening the ancient prayer of Maranatha.
In this initial intro, find out where the title "Into the Pray" came from and what it has to do with Liam Neeson and a shed-load of monstrous wolves.
Please don't miss "The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience" - a new film for the chaos that is the Church.
Jesus is coming and the world will not be ready until the Body of Christ are ready.
No holds barred; no 'non-negotiables'.
Be glorified, Dear Father God.
Maranatha.