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Is small-town ministry a stepping stone—or a calling worth ambitious investment?
Today, Rev. Stephen Witmer joins us to unpack the unique dynamics, opportunities, and tensions of rural church life.
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We’re delighted to welcome former Free Church of Scotland Moderator Rev. David Robertson to the podcast this week. David is an author, formerly minister of St Peter’s Free Church in Dundee and now serving at the Scots Kirk in Newcastle, Australia.
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We’re delighted to welcome Christian author and experienced church leader Chic Lidstone to the podcast, sharing insights from his life in ministry and his thoughtful new book Take My Yoke on discovering the rest and grace Jesus promises.
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This week we welcome Rhiannon MacKintosh and Alasdair Macleod to the podcast to discuss the new initiative from the Mission Board of the Free Church of Scotland called "Engage2026."
Its purpose is to encourage Christians to pray for ten people they know who are not followers of Jesus yet. If everyone in the denomination prayed that would be over 100,000 prayed for over the next year.
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Should churches blend in or stand out? Our guest this week, Derek Lamont, unpacks what it means for a church to reflect — or reshape — the community it serves.
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This week, we’re joined by Rev. Dr. Cory Brock, minister at St. Columba’s Free Church in Edinburgh, as he shares his story from Mississippi to the Royal Mile, reflecting on faith, theology, and what makes a Healthy Gospel Church in today’s culture.
Cory discusses his journey from a Southern Baptist upbringing to Reformed ministry, the marks of a healthy church, and the importance of cultivating prayerful, gospel-centred, and welcoming communities in a pluralistic world. He also explores how ancient truths and confessional theology continue to speak powerfully to a new generation seeking depth, transcendence, and meaning.
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This week, we’re joined by Rev. Joe Barnard, minister of the newly renamed Holyrood Church in Edinburgh and founder of XTrainingMinistries, an organisation dedicated to forming mature, godly men in a spiritually distracted age.
Joe reflects on the landscape of discipleship today, the unique pressures men face in modern culture, and why intentional, rigorous spiritual formation is essential for the health of the church. From daily habits to long-term vision, Joe offers practical wisdom for cultivating Christlike maturity in ourselves and in those we lead.
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This week, we’re joined by Robin Silson, Free Church of Scotland minister and church planter in Winchburgh, as he shares his journey into ministry and the vision behind planting a gospel-centred church in one of Scotland’s fastest-growing new towns.
Robin speaks about the opportunities and challenges of church planting in a rapidly developing community, the importance of relational ministry, and how the gospel shapes every aspect of church life from the ground up.
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This week, we’re joined by Esther Dickson, Scotland Team Leader for UCCF (Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship), an organisation committed to giving every student the opportunity to hear and respond to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Esther shares her passion for student mission, the unique challenges and opportunities facing university ministries today, and how local churches can partner more meaningfully with students and CU leaders. Esther calls the church to see students not as a separate mission field, but as vital members of the church now.
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This week, we’re joined by Dr. Diane Langberg, internationally renowned psychologist, speaker, and author of Redeeming Power: Understanding Authority and Abuse in the Church.
Dr. Langberg brings decades of wisdom and pastoral insight to a deeply important conversation about power, trauma, and the witness of the Church. With grace and clarity, she challenges us to consider how we use power in our churches and how true gospel ministry must reflect the character of Christ.
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Our guest this week is Mairi Murchison. Mairi is a Gospel Worker in Merkinch Free Church, Inverness. In this episode she shares her story and why she felt called to support church planting in one of Scotland's most deprived areas. And for the first time you can now watch the episode as well on YouTube! 📺 --freechurch.org #church #christian #freechurch
Paul grew up in Wales and worked as a dentist for ten years before studying theology at Moore College in Sydney. Married to Shiona they have four children.
After leading a church in the US they moved back to the UK in 2009 and now live in Edinburgh where he is Lead Pastor at Charlotte Chapel. Paul is an enthusiastic supporter of Welsh rugby, Scottish dancing, live music and eco-houses.
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In this episode of the Healthy Gospel Church podcast, we’re joined by Rev. Dr Lee Gatiss, Director of Church Society and a leading voice in evangelical Anglicanism. We explore key issues shaping the Church of England today — from the impact of liberal theology on church life, to the structures that define Anglicanism, and the vital role of systematic theology. Dr Gatiss also reflects on the evolution of preaching and what it means to live a life pleasing to God. Whether you're inside or outside the Anglican tradition, this wide-ranging conversation offers insight, clarity, and challenge.
Rev. Dr Lee Gatiss is a theologian, author, and Director of Church Society. He lectures and writes extensively on Anglican history, theology, and biblical exegesis.
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This week, we welcome David's brother, Rev. Dr Ian Meredith, to the podcast. Ian is currently the vicar of St Mary's in Portchester, which is part of the Church of England.
Topics this week:
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The Evolution of the Free Church of Scotland
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Reflections on the Charismatic Movement
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The Role of Worship
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The Concept of Parish in a Modern Context
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Keys to Church Growth
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Class and Church Dynamics
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Our guest this week, Rev. Ivor Macdonald, has recently been appointed as the Director of the Centre of Rural Ministry. Ivor unpacks some of the vision for the Centre and his hopes for rural ministry in Scotland.
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The Centre for Rural Ministry
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Challenges and Opportunities in Rural Scotland
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The Future of Rural Churches and Communities Engagement
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This week's Healthy Gospel Church Podcast guest is Rev. David Moore. David is a minister in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland and currently serves in Belfast. Topics Include: ➡ Celtic Heritage and Language➡ The Benefits of Being Presbyterian➡ William Still and Gilcomston➡ Ministry in Northern Ireland➡ Engaging with Different Communities➡ Building Relationships Across Divides https://www.freechurch.org #fcos #freechurch #freechurchofscotland #healthygospelchurch
Our guest today is Tim Clemens, the lead pastor of Grace City Church in Sydney, Australia.
This episode's topics include:
- Pathway to Minister and Church Planting
- City Ministry in Australia
- Evangelism Strategies
- Prayer Culture and Community Engagement
- Vision and Philosophy of Preaching
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We are delighted to have Kathy Keller as our first guest in this new series.
Kathy formerly served as assistant Communications Director for Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City. She is the author of Jesus, Justice, and Gender Roles: A Case for Gender Roles in Ministry and co-author with her late husband, Tim Keller, of The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God.
- Navigating Grief and Mourning
- Facing the Reality of Death
- The Role of Memory and Reminiscing
- The Dynamics of Ministry Partnership
- The Journey of Faith and Calling
- Reflections of Tim Keller's Legacy
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We are delighted to welcome Canon J. John to the Health Gospel Church podcast this week.
J.John is an Evangelist, minister, speaker, broadcaster and writer. He has been in ministry for four decades. He has spoken in towns, cities and universities in 69 countries.
J.John lives near London in England. He is married to Killy and is a father and grandfather.
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Our guest this week is Rev. Dr Paul Blackham.
Leading since the summer of 2021, Jonathan, and the Blackham family, has been a part of Church plants around the country for the past decade. But at the centre of this life and current ministry is a love of Jesus, throughout all the bible!
Ordained in 1997, Paul served at All Souls Langham Place as Associate Minister for theology until 2008, and has since led church plants in both Lancashire and South Wales.
Writer of the Book by Book study guides and series co-presenter, Paul was one of the original trustees of Biblical Frameworks, the charity that administers and funds the series. He is also author of ‘The Great Unknown’ by Christian Focus publications.
Paul's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@prblackham
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Our guest this week is Graeme Shanks.
Originally hailing from Glasgow, Graeme is married to Alex and they have 3 girls Chloe, Grace and Eve. Having qualified as a solicitor and worked in Commercial Property for a few years upon graduation he joined Bruntsfield Evangelical Church staff team back in 2012 and has been our Pastor since 2017. He has studied at both the Cornhill Training Course and latterly at Edinburgh Theological Seminary. In his spare time he enjoys most sports and is a long suffering fan of Airdrieonians and West Ham United.
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Our guest today is Hannah Nation.
Hannah Nation is a writer, editor, and content strategist. She currently serves as the Managing Director of the Center for House Church Theology and as the Content Director for China Partnership. She has published in Christianity Today, the Gospel Coalition, Comment, and Plough. Her topics of interest are: urban Chinese house church movements; print and digital textual communities; historic global Christianity; and the history of women and the church.
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Chris Smart joins us this week on the Health Gospel Church Podcast.
Chris was born and grew up in the Scottish Highlands. Chris' family didn't grow up in the church, but when he was 18 he went to study Chemistry in the city of Aberdeen and there through the witness of a fellow student, came to faith in Christ. After about a year he began to sense God’s call to ministry finishing his Chemistry degree and worked briefly in an oil laboratory. This was followed with six months teaching English in Peru, before returning to Scotland where he studied for a further three years in Edinburgh at the Free Church of Scotland College.
Chris spent his first years of ministry working mainly in a deprived area of Inverness, the capital of the Highlands, where many people with addictions came to faith in Christ. During his time in the north of Scotland Chris was also a chaplain to the local prison and served on the financial, strategic and missions boards of the Free Church of Scotland. Chris is married to Yazmin from Columbia and they have two sons, Joshua and Matthew.
In July 2017 Chris and his family moved to Tampa. The opportunities for the Gospel in the north of Tampa is huge with a fast-growing population and along with a really committed group of believers in Hope Church.
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Our first guest of the new season is Derek Lamont.
Derek has ben a minister for 33 years spending 22 of them in the centre of Edinburgh as minister of St Columba's Free Church. During his time there St Columba's planted four new churches and now Derek has decided to get stuck in himself and plant a new church in Leith.
Derek is married to Catriona with four grown-up kids – two of whom live in America, the other two are married and work for churches in Edinburgh.
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This week's guest is Rev. Alex MacDonald. Alex was brought up in the Highlands of Scotland and is a former Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland, having served as minister in Bishopbirggs Free Church, Bon Accord Free Church and Buccleuch Free Church. This week's theme is "A Life in Ministry" Topics include: Highland Clearances Tackling Social Issues in Preaching Right to Life Christians in Politics Official Site: https://www.freechurch.org/
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This week's guest is Confex Makhalira. Confex Makhalira is an ordained minister and a missionary of Mission to the World (MTW). Currently, he is serving as a pastor and church planter of Christ Presbyterian Church in Blantyre, Malawi. He is married to Mwai, and together they have two amazing daughters. This week's theme is "The Church in Africa" Topics include: African Presbyterianism David Livingstone Prosperity Gospel African Perspectives on Theology Official Site: https://www.freechurch.org/
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This week's guest is Anne MacDonald. Anne is the Student and Young Adults Worker at Bon Accord Free Church in Aberdeen. This week's theme is "Students and Young People" Topics include: Women in ministry When to employ a youth worker Issues facing young people today How do we make disciples? Finding a balance between church service and family life Official Site: https://www.freechurch.org/
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This week's guest is Thomas Davis.
Thomas Davis is a minister in the Free Church of Scotland who has served as an assistant at St Columba’s Free Church in Edinburgh and is now minister of Carloway Free Church on the Isle of Lewis. He is also a visiting lecturer in Systematic Theology and Church History at Edinburgh Theological Seminary. He is married to Una, and they have three children: Tom, John and Annie.
This week's theme is "Training and Equipping"
Topics include: How important is training in the church? Is an apprenticeship model appropriate? Can ministry really be taught? Are ministers professionals? Learning from other professional models
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This week's guest is Melissa Kruger.
Melissa serves as vice president of discipleship programming at The Gospel Coalition. She is the author of The Envy of Eve: Finding Contentment in a Covetous World, Walking with God in the Season of Motherhood, In All Things: A Nine-Week Devotional Bible Study on Unshakeable Joy, Growing Together: Taking Mentoring Beyond Small Talk and Prayer Requests, Wherever You Go, I Want You to Know, and His Grace Is Enough. Her husband, Mike, is the president of Reformed Theological Seminary, and they have three children.
She writes at Wits End, hosted by The Gospel Coalition.
You can follow her on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter.
This week's theme is "Mentoring"
Topics include: Coaching vs Mentoring Mentoring and the local church Mentoring generations and genders Becoming a mentor Developing a church prayer culture
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Join us on this week's episode as we welcome Rev. Callum Macleod.
Callum is the minister of Shawbost Free Church in the Isle of Lewis and the Principal Clerk of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland.
This week's theme is "Ministry Life"
Topics include: Entering ministry later in life Confirming the call to ministry Community ministry Maintaining our identity in Christ Can revival give a false sense of spiritual energy? Commitment to the Confessions
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Join us on this week's episode as we welcome Lewis and Sarah Allen.
Lewis pastored Gunnersbury Baptist Church in London for over twelve years, and in 2010 was called to plant what is now Hope Church Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, where he is now Senior Pastor.
Sarah read English at Cambridge and now works part-time as an English Teacher as well as being involved in ministry at Hope Church. She has written a children's book about Hannah More and contributes to EN and Solas, as well as speaking at women's conferences.
This week's theme is "Couples in Ministry"
Topics include: Discerning ministry as a couple Complementarianism and Egalitarianism Women in Ministry Ministry pressures on a minister and his wife Pastoral care Managing expectations as a husband and wife
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Ivor has been minister of Hope Church since July 2012. He trained for the ministry at Aberdeen University and Westminster Theological Seminary and served congregations in Lewis and Skye before coming to Coatbridge.
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Steve graduated in History and Politics from the University of Liverpool, where he met his wife Rachel. After this, he completed a Religious Studies & Philosophy PGCE and embarked on a short-lived career as a secondary school teacher. Steve then completed an MA in Theology before becoming a self-employed researcher serving the recruitment sector. He was called to be Pastor at Oldham Bethel Church in 2014.
Steve and Rachel have two children, and outside of church, he enjoys discussing philosophy, politics and current affairs over “proper” freshly ground coffee.
Steve regularly blogs on issues related to church, theology, politics, society and Oldham at Building Jerusalem.
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Robert Cunningham joins us today from Christ for Kentucky to discuss what he saw and experienced at Asbury University's extended worship service. Is it a revival? An awakening? Or something else?
Robert is the founder and director of Christ for Kentucky. Robert is the former Senior Pastor of Tates Creek Presbyterian Church, where he served for seventeen years.
He is a graduate of Covenant Theological Seminary and a current Ph.D. candidate at the University of Leicester, researching the role of religion in America's founding era.
He has been a regular contributor for the Lexington Herald-Leader and the religion and culture commentator for Kentucky Sports Radio.
His writings and work have been featured in Christianity Today, WORLD Magazine, and the New York Times. Robert and his wife Abby have four sons—Holt, Charlie, Owen, and Henry. He is a native Kentuckian, and Christ for Kentucky was born out of an undying love for his home.
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Dr. Michael J. Kruger serves as the President and Samuel C. Patterson Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the Charlotte campus of Reformed Theological Seminary.
Dr. Kruger regularly speaks, lectures, and teaches throughout the United States and the world—including conferences such as The Gospel Coalition, Together for the Gospel, the Ligonier Conference, and the Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology. In addition to his academic publications, his popular-level articles have appeared in places like Desiring God, Reformation 21, Modern Reformation, Tabletalk Magazine, and The Gospel Coalition. He also blogs regularly on his own website, Canon Fodder (www.michaeljkruger.com).
He is married to Melissa Kruger, Director of Women’s Initiatives for The Gospel Coalition and author of numerous books, including most recently, Growing Together: Taking Mentoring Beyond Small Talk and Prayer Requests(Crossway, 2020). They have three children, Emma, John, and Kate.
Joe Hall is the minister of Bon Accord Free Church in Aberdeen.
Joe was born and raised in Romford, Essex, and came to a personal Christian faith as a teenager. He moved to Edinburgh in 2012 at the age of 18 to study Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. There, he became a member of Grace Church Leith.
His growing love for God and desire to serve him and his people led to a ministry apprenticeship at Grace Church Leith after he graduated. Over these 2 years he studied at the Cornhill Training Course in Glasgow, which deepened his knowledge and love of the Bible, and laid a foundation for future study and ministry.
After three years of subsequent study at Edinburgh Theological Seminary, Joe was licensed last week by the Presbytery of Edinburgh and Perth.
Joe’s wife, Susy, grew up in Derbyshire, where her father was the pastor in a local church. She went on to study medicine at the University of Bristol, before moving to Edinburgh where she eventually worked in paediatric emergency medicine. It was at Grace Church Leith that Susy and Joe met. They are expecting their first child in December this year.
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Ken Wright is the President of British Youth For Christ and is involved in a group called Biblical Frameworks which produces bible study resources. Ken was also formerly a Managing Director in Royal Mail, responsible for the operation of the UK’s postal service. He and his wife Jan live in London and are active members of All Souls Church, Langham Place.
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Alistair Begg is the senior pastor of Cleveland's Parkside Church, a position he has held since 1983. He is the voice behind the Truth For Life Christian radio preaching and teaching ministry, which broadcasts his sermons daily to stations across North America through over 1,800 radio outlets.
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Dr Harvey Kwiyani is a Malawian mission theologian with twenty years of mission and theological education experience in Europe and the United States. Harvey is also the CEO of Global Connections, a network of agencies and churches working together to help the UK church engage in world mission in contemporary and appropriate ways.
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This week we return to an interview David did with the late Dr Helen Roseveare.
Helen was a Christian missionary who served in the Belgian Congo (later Zaire, now DRC). Have a listen to her amazing story.
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Rev. Dr Nathan McConnell is the minister of Downfield Mains Church in Dundee. Originally from the States, Nathan and his family moved to Scotland in 2015 to fill the vacancy at the church. He has a PhD from the University of Aberdeen in Theological Ethics, which focuses on Asylum-Seeking, Refugees, Migration, and Political Theology.
Nathan and his wife Courtney have four children, Shanley, Faith, Tiarnan and Ellie.
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Dr. David Strain was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He holds degrees from Duncan Jordanstone College of Art, Trinity College Glasgow/School of Divinity, Edinburgh Theological Seminary in Edinburgh, and Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson.
He was ordained to the gospel ministry in the Free Church of Scotland in September 2003, and has held pastoral charges in London, England, and Columbus, MS.
Since May 2013, David has served on the pastoral staff of First Presbyterian Church in Jackson and was installed as Senior Minister in May 2014. He was awarded a Doctor of Ministry degree from Reformed Theological Seminary (Jackson) in 2016.
David and his wife, Sheena, have two teenage boys.
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Rev. Ian Watson joins us on the podcast today to discuss ministry and gospel integrity.
Ian is the minister of Hope Church Blackwood and Kirkmuirhill.
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Jonathan is the Chief Executive Officer of 10ofthose.com, a Christian book company. He and his wife have two sons, Rufus and Billy. They are currently living and working to establish 10ofthose.com in the USA.
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Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, a former professor of English and women’s studies at Syracuse University, converted to Christ in 1999 in what she describes as a train wreck. Her memoir The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert chronicles that difficult journey. Rosaria is married to Kent Butterfield, a Reformed Presbyterian pastor in North Carolina, and is a home school mother, author, and speaker.
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Rev. Dr Fergus Macdonald is a retired minister and former Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland. He served as the General Secretary of the National Bible Society of Scotland and then of the United Bible Societies.
A Fellow of the Spencer Center for Global Engagement at Taylor University in Indiana, he serves as chair of the Scottish Evangelical Theology Society, and as Chair Emeritus of the Forum of Bible Agencies International.
From 1994-98, he was the Executive Chair of the Lausanne Movement and continues as one of the Honorary Chairmen. He is a regular contributor to Scripture Union Bible reading notes and is the author of “Word Evangelism,” “Yours Very Sincerely,” and “The Challenge of Nominality” in They Call Themselves Christian, and various journal articles.
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Aleksander Saško Nezamutdinov, or Sashko, is a church planter in Krakow, Poland. Sashko, along with his wife Ania, made Krakow their home after hearing about the desperate need for the gospel in Poland.
Out of this desire to spread the good news of Jesus Christ, Sashko and a small team of young adults planted Christ the Saviour Presbyterian Church in 2015. Most of these members came from churches where charismatic and prosperity gospel teachings were prevalent. Among these new members there was a desire to be a part of a Reformed church.
The group began to hold English club outreaches and started a Heidelberg Catechism discussion group. In 2019, the fledgling church rented a small storefront in the cultural capital of Poland, which serves as both the worship space for Sunday and a Christian library during the week.
Sashko has also been busy with a publishing ministry, and with the help of Come Over & Help, solid Reformed literature has now been translated into the Polish language.
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Our guest today is Lewis Allen pastor of Hope Church in Huddersfield.
Lewis, his wife Sarah and their five children moved to Huddersfield in 2010 after 12 years’ pastoral ministry at Gunnersbury Baptist Church, West London. Lewis is a keen student of Theology, and in his spare time is researching for a doctoral degree at Oxford University.
The Allens love living in the town, and enjoy walking in the hills with their dog, and Lewis loves running and fly-fishing.
Lewis has published several books on Christian living and ministry: https://www.10ofthose.com/uk/products?q=lewis+allen
Presented by David Meredith.
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Matt and Maria Lingard are mission partners being sent out from Kilmallie & Ardnamurchan Free Church of Scotland to serve in Greece.
At the beginning of February they fly to Athens where they will be serving with second evangelical church as they seek to share the gospel across the many peoples who are coming to the city.
We caught up with them to find out a little more.
Presented by Martin Paterson.
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Rico is a Langham Scholar and author who teaches at a seminary in Manila helping equip a new generation of Filipino pastors to faithfully preach and apply God’s Word.
Books authored by Rico: shorturl.at/cxDGS
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Jonathan Hoglund lives in Vietnam and serves as lecturer in theology at Hanoi Bible College. Before that, he also taught at Kremenchuk Bible College in Ukraine. He is invested in understanding other cultures and languages, and especially how the church expresses faith in Christ around the world.
Jon earned his PhD in Systematic Theology at Wheaton College in 2015 and is the author of Called by Triune Grace (IVP, 2016). His academic interests include Biblical studies, historical theology, and contemporary theology—that is, understanding the story of the world in relation to the Christian God.
He lives in Hanoi with his wife and four children, where they enjoy phở, mango smoothies, Vietnamese coffee, and getting around by motorbike.
Taining Leaders International: httphttps://trainingleadersinternational.org
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Stirling Free Church elder Kenneth Ferguson joins us today on the podcast. Kenneth is experienced in leading not for profit organisations, especially in Grant Making. He also has experience of Social Enterprise, Management Finance, Strategic Planning, and Accounting.
A former Director of Robertson Trust, a tribunal found he was unfairly dismissed him because of his Christian beliefs. The Trust has since apologised unreservedly and been ordered to pay substantial legal costs.
Full Story: https://www.christian.org.uk/news/multimillion-pound-trust-admits-religious-discrimination-against-church-groups/
Presented by David Meredith.
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Rev. Dr Liam Jerrold Fraser is Minister of St Michael’s Parish Church, Linlithgow. He was the first person to be ordained to a Pioneer Ministry role in the Church of Scotland, and he previously served as Campus Minister at the University of Edinburgh.
He discusses his new book "Mission in Contemporary Scotland" with David in today's episode.
His other works include Atheism, Fundamentalism and the Protestant Reformation (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Presented by David Meredith
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Dan is currently college director and tutor in culture, religion, and public theology at Oak Hill College, London. From autumn 2021 he will become the Director of a new centre for cultural engagement and mission called Crosslands Forum.
Dan is co-chair of The Southgate Fellowship and serves as a Trustee of Tyndale House, Cambridge. He is a Contributing Editor for Themelios and serves as an elder at East Finchley Baptist Church.
His book, Their Rock is Not Like Our Rock: A Theology of Religions (Zondervan, 2015), received an Award of Merit for Theology/Ethics in the Christianity Today 2016 Book Awards. His most recent books are Plugged In: Connecting Your Faith with What You Watch, Read, and Play (2019), and Making Faith Magnetic (2021).
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Our guest today is Dr Alistair Wilson, Mission and New Testament lecturer at Edinburgh Theological Seminary. Alistair has a PhD in New Testament studies from the University of Aberdeen.
After graduating from the University of Edinburgh and the Free Church College (now Edinburgh Theological Seminary), Alistair was an Associate Pastor in Inverness before moving to Highland Theological College where he taught New Testament from 1996 to 2005. He was then appointed to Dumisani Theological Institute, King William’s Town, South Africa, becoming Principal in 2006. Alistair returned to Highland Theological College in January 2015, where he has taught until the present time.
As well as having written several published works, Alistair has been Editor of The Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology and New Testament Review Editor of Themelios. He is an Adjunct (‘Extraordinary’ in South African terminology) Professor of New Testament in the Research Unit for Reformed Theology, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the New Testament Society of South Africa.
Dr Wilson’s research interests include missionary thought and activity in early Christianity, ‘missional readings’ of Scripture, Matthew’s Gospel, Luke’s Gospel, Colossians and Philemon, eschatological views in early Christianity.
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Paul Caminiti has been a cultural innovator for the Bible for over two decades. As the Bible Publisher at Zondervan and Vice President of Bible Engagement at Biblica, he helped launch The Bible in 90 Days, The Story, and Community Bible Experience. His interviews have appeared in: Newsweek, The New Yorker, USA Today, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and NBC News.
Paul and several colleagues launched the "Institute for Bible Reading" over five years ago to address the Bible disengagement epidemic amongst Christians especially in the West.
Paul currently lives in Grand Rapids, MI.
Presented by David Meredith
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Each week we sit down with a guest to discuss Mission and Evangelism in Scotland and beyond.
A one-time Marxist and fervent political activist Rev. Tom Penman shares his fascinating journey to faith and how it eventually led to him entering Christian ministry and serving the people of South Uist and Benbecula.
Presented by David Meredith
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Karl and his wife Sun both are missionaries to Thailand. Sent by their home churches, they work under the auspices of OMF International (originally China Inland Mission founded by Hudson Taylor), an international, interdenominational evangelical Protestant mission organisation.
Karl and Sun live in downtown Bangkok where Karl teaches missions and church history at Bangkok Bible Seminary, assists with translation and editing at Kanok Bannasan (OMF Publishers Thailand), and is an elder at Grace City Bangkok church.
From 2017 to 2020, Karl and Sun were living in Scotland while Karl completed a PhD and the family is now in the United States, preparing to return to Thailand, hopefully mid-to-late 2021.
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Each week we sit down with a guest to discuss Mission and Evangelism in Scotland and beyond.
Mez McConnell, is one of the pastors of Niddrie Community Church, Edinburgh, Scotland. He is the founder of 20schemes and has been involved in full-time pastoral ministry, both church planting and revitalisation since 1999.
Mez also works closely with several Free Church of Scotland church planters as they continue to develop local ministries. He has worked in inner city areas in England, Scotland and Brazil and has a passion for training men and women for ministry in this context.
He has written several books:
Preparing for Baptism: A Personal Diary (Grace Publications Trust)
Is There Anybody Out There? (Christian Focus, Church in Hard Places (Crossway)
The Creaking on the Stairs (Christian Focus).
Mez studied Missiology at Moorland Bible College, England and Pastoral Theology at Bryntirion Bible College, Wales.
He is married to Miriam and has two lovely daughters, Keziah & Lydia.
Presented by David Meredith
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Our guest this week is ‘Rob’, who works in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq as a language consultant with the overall goal of helping plant Kurdish churches and get the Bible completed in Northern Kurdish.
Rob has found the Kurds, though they are mainly Muslim and some Yezidi, love the Psalms, and often out of instinct pull out their mobiles to start videoing him when he reads them a Psalm in their heart language! He often proclaims Christ from the book that speaks so movingly of his sufferings and victory, and longs to see Kurdish believers develop more Psalm-singing to help them, in Christ, to make sense of their sufferings and be strengthened with hope.
He shares from the remarkable history of Psalm-singing in the Punjab, 100 years after the death of Shahbaz the poet who put the Psalter into metrical form for the Punjabi churches. Might there be someone in your church who could help collect and annotate Kurdish folk tunes and use them with metrical forms of the Psalms?
He also explores the ethnic identity of the Kurds - one of the largest people groups in the world without a state of their own - who are spread across Turkey, Iraq, Iran & Syria. As inhabitants of the Zagros Mountains, they are descendants of the Medes, who feature in the OT and were at the Day of Pentecost. In troubled times for the Kurds, Rob makes the point that it is not secular nationalism that gives the Kurds a secure future, nor the Western powers who divided up the Middle East after WWI to serve their own interests, but God’s unbreakable covenant with Abraham, which ensures that all nations will receive God’s blessing. God will ensure that the Kurds, along with people of every tribe and language and people and nation, through Christ’s redeeming blood, will be part of his eternal kingdom.
You can watch www.bit.ly/plan4medes to explore this biblical theme further.
If you want to try singing Psalms in English, the Sing Psalms app is a great resource. A list of tunes Rob recommends can be found on tinyURL.com/easyPsalmtunes
Presented by David Meredith
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Each week we sit down with a guest to discuss Mission and Evangelism in Scotland and beyond.
Our guests this week are Steve and Anna Griffiths. Born in Mutare, Zimbabwe, Steve trained as a doctor. He met his English wife Anna in Harare (who came on holiday to Zim and never went home!) After learning Portuguese in Coimbra, Portugal, Steve & Anna served in northern Mozambique in medical and church work. They then joined OMF, learning the Khmer language and working in Cambodia where Steve was a technical advisor to the leprosy programme of the Cambodian Ministry of Health. Asked to move to OMF Headquarters in Singapore, Steve & Anna shared the role of Director for Personnel based in Singapore for the last twelve years. They have two children Joshua and Aimée, both in medical school at present. Steve and Anna moved to São Paulo in Brazil – and are busy getting the rust off their Portuguese.
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Each week we sit down with a guest to discuss Mission and Evangelism in Scotland and beyond.
Our guest this week is Kenny MacKenzie an elder in Back Free Church on the Isle of Lewis. Kenny tells of his journey to faith and his work in Uganda.
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Each week we sit down with a guest to discuss Mission and Evangelism in Scotland and beyond.
Our guest this week is Dr Riaz Mohammed a senior consultant surgeon who trained and worked in Scotland after emigrating from his native Pakistan. While he was born Muslim, he became a Christian after seeing Jesus in a vision at age sixteen. His Christian faith has helped him overcome numerous obstacles.
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Today's guest is Matthew Skirton, Chief Executive of Operation Mobilisation UK.
Matthew is from the UK but has spent more than half of his life serving in Eastern Europe. Together with his wife, Helen, he pioneered OM’s work in Moldova in the mid-1990s, handing over field leadership in March 2015. He also served as Regional Leader for OM in Eastern Europe for seven years.
Matthew took on the role of UK Chief Executive of OM in 2016.
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Each week we sit down with a guest to discuss Mission and Evangelism in Scotland and beyond.
Our guest this week is author John James.
James has recently released a book entitled "Renewal: Church Revitalisation Along the Way of the Cross"
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Each week we sit down with a guest to discuss Mission and Evangelism in Scotland and beyond.
Our guest this week is Word One-to-One Training Director John MacKinnon.
John is based in East Kilbride, Scotland, where he served as the Lead Pastor of Calderwood Baptist Church for more than 17 years. He previously served as an Evangelist and Bible Teacher in an itinerant capacity, with an emphasis on enabling churches to develop their members to make Jesus known amongst their friends.
John has been passionate about the ministry of The Word One to One since his first encounter with us, and as National Training Director, he rejoices in the privilege of drawing alongside local churches to encourage, equip and enable them to raise up an ever-increasing number of joyful bible sharers. He is married to Linda and they have three children, all adults, and he is Papa to four grandchildren who fill his life with so much fun.
https://www.theword121.com
https://www.apassionforlife.org.uk
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Dr Krish Kandiah is toady's guest on the Generation Podcast.
David chats with Krish about the new "Hong Kong Ready" initiative he is leading that aims to support migrants from Hong Kong to settle in the UK. The UK Government has opened a new route from 31st January for people in Hong Kong with a British National Overseas (BNO) passport to come and settle in the UK. A large proportion of those applying also identify as Christian, the initiative will also help those arriving plug into a local church.
Krish is the Founder and CEO of Home for Good – a charity seeking to make a real difference in the lives of vulnerable children by finding loving homes for children in the care system.
He is an advocate for fostering and adoption, has written several books and is a regular contributor to the Times, the Guardian and also a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 2.
Krish has expertise in the overlap between faith and development, faith literacy and communication. He is an ambassador for the UK aid and development charity: Tearfund.
Krish holds degrees in Chemistry, Missiology and Theology. His PhD is from Kings College, London. He currently holds faculty positions at Regent College, Vancouver and Regents Park College, Oxford University and is an honorary research Fellow at the National Centre for Post Qualifying Social Work at Bournemouth University and an honorary reader in theology at St Andrews University, Scotland.
Krish lives in Oxfordshire with his wife and 6 children (through birth, fostering and adoption).
Hong Kong Ready - https://ukhk.org
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Each week we sit down with a guest to discuss Mission and Evangelism in Scotland and beyond.
Our guest this week is author Fiona Christie.
Fiona has recently released a book called "A Strange Unmaking: Ten Years In Colombia."
A Strange Unmaking is a collection of blogs, poems, reflections, journal entries and short stories written by an ordinary Scottish woman during the ten years she lived in the extraordinary country of Colombia. When Fiona Christie first visited Colombia she was beguiled by the beauty of land and the courtesy of the people. A three-week holiday led to a ten-year commitment, first teaching English in a Bible seminary and later equipping churches in poor areas affected by conflict to work with children. Every day Fiona found something fascinating to write about or a beautiful picture to share. But beneath the shimmering surface, decades of conflict had left the land soaked with blood and the nation bitterly divided. The weight of second-hand trauma began to take its toll on Fiona before she realised that she was being unmade to be re-made. A Strange Unmaking takes the reader beyond the stereotypes to a tragic, magical place and tells a determinedly untriumphalistic missionary story.
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Our guest this week is Operation San Andres Executive Director David MacPherson.
David was born in Peru, where his parents served as missionaries with the Free Church of Scotland. He was a pupil at Colegio San Andrés in Lima before the family returned to Scotland, where David completed a masters’ degree in Economics and International Relations from the University of Aberdeen and a Diploma in Theology from the Edinburgh Theological Seminary. David served for 10 years as a Free Church missionary in the San Martín region of Peru. Prior to his position with Operación San Andrés, David served as Minister of Bon Accord Free Church in Aberdeen, Scotland. David holds dual citizenship (UK and Peru) and is thoroughly bicultural, having lived in Peru for much of his life. David’s wife Martha is a native of Peru, and they are proud parents of three grown sons.
https://www.operacionsanandres.org
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Sarah Hoskins has been involved in ministry in South East Asia for a number of years and has recently completed a masters looking at theology and mission at All Nations Christian College.
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Joseph is the CEO of International Mission to the Jewish People, formerly Christian Witness to Isreal.
Raised in a Jewish home in the United States, at the age of 14 Joseph came to faith in Jesus as Messiah. At 18, Joseph began his work in Jewish mission as a member of the Jews for Jesus music group ‘The Liberated Wailing Wall’, which gave him the opportunity to share Jesus in 49 out of the 50 US states.
After graduating from the Moody Bible Institute’s School of World Missions in Chicago, he served for three years as a missionary with CWI and for the last 25 years has worked with various churches and mission organisations in the UK.
Joseph is a graduate of Trinity College, Bristol and was ordained in the Church of England where he served as the minister of a parish church in London, UK. During that time he co-authored The Y Course and its companion book, The Book of Y – a seeker course used by over 6000 churches in the UK. He is also the author of Psalms: Cries from the Heart and the evangelistic booklet That’s Y Jesus came.
While UK director of Jews for Jesus, Joseph led several large evangelistic campaigns in both London and Manchester, during which hundreds of people made professions of faith. He has served as the Director for Mission Stewardship at the Church Mission Society (CMS), another role driven by his passion to see lives changed by the gospel.
Joseph is a gifted and inspirational communicator. He has preached and shared extensively across the UK, including at both the Oxford and Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Unions, as well as at numerous churches internationally, particularly across Europe, America and the Far East.
https://www.cwi.org.uk
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Each week we sit down with a guest to discuss Mission and Evangelism in Scotland and beyond. This week we welcome our good friend Levi Booth from OMF International.
Levi serves in Japan with OMF International and is the author of "Ultimate Grace".
https://www.10ofthose.com/uk/products/24893/ultimate-grace
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Our podcast today is presented by Martin Paterson, the OMF Rep for Scotland.
His guest is Andrew Goodman. Andrew has been involved in cross cultural ministry for many years in South East Asia and has a passion to see people come to know the love of Jesus.
He has recently taken the lead of a new team and developing ministry in South East Asia but is currently back in the UK with his family to learn the language for this new are of work.
Presented by Martin Paterson
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Robert MacNaughton is our first guest of 2021. Robert shares his fascinating story of serving God from Lewis to Casablanca.
Robert studied French at St Andrews and worked with the mission organisation OM during this time before heading to Aberdeen University for teacher training.
Robert later headed out to Morocco to teach English at a private school while sharing the Gospel to the local community.
Presented by David Meredith
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Dr. Andrew (Andy) M. Davis has been senior pastor at First Baptist Church of Durham, North Carolina since 1998, and he is the founder of Two Journeys Ministry. From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he obtained a bachelor's degree. He continued his education at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, earning a Master's of Divinity Deciding to continue his education, he obtained a Ph.D. in church history from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1998. In addition to pastoral ministry, Davis serves as a visiting professor of church history at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Davis is also an author, council member of the Gospel Coalition, and an executive trustee of the International Mission Board. He is married to Christi Davis, and together they have five children.
Presented by David Meredith
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Andrew Lytle works for the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Nantes, France. A son of the manse, Andrew was born in Belfast but spent most of his youth in Larne where his father was the local minister. The work of mission was never far away from the household. Many missionaries would visit and prayer meetings were often held for those serving around the world.
Andrew went on to study French and German at university in Belfast before taking a year out in Nantes as part of his studies.
Sensing a call to ministry, Andrew completed his theological studies and decided, after much evaluation and reflection, to move to France to share the Gospel. In today's podcast, Andrew shares some fascinating insights into French culture and the prevalent secular worldview.
Presented by David Meredith
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Susan Gnadou Zebo is currently a UFM Missionary in Paris working with international students.
Born in Scotland, Susan spent most of her childhood in the South of France with her missionary parents who worked for GLO (Gospel Literature Outreach) and Echoes International before moving back to Scotland were her family in 2009.
Susan studied Languages and Business at Napier University before moving back to Paris to work with GBU, the Christian Union equivalent in France.
Presented by David Meredith
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Sandra MacDonald was an OMF missionary in Thailand for 23 years. Today she shares some of her experiences and discusses what the challenges and encouragements were in communicating the Gospel within a culture starkly different to her own.
Presented by David Meredith
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An engineer, former minister of the Church of Scotland and Director of OMF International UK, David Ellis and his wife Adèle travelled widely together for more than fifty years of service. After caring for Adèle through her Alzheimer’s he now lives in Dundee and serves as an elder in St Peter's Free Church.
His new book "Through All The Changing Scenes" can be found at Free Church books: https://books.freechurch.org/posts/2020-10-12-through-all-the-changing-scenes.html
Presented by David Meredith
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Today's guest is UFM Worldwide Director Michael Prest.
Michael began his working life in pharmacy management with Boots and then, after time at Oak Hill College, London, he served as one of the ministers at Beeston Free Church, Nottingham.
Michael is married to Rachel and they are very grateful for their four children, Bethia, Jemima, Benjamin and Nathanael. They joined UFM in 2012 and served as missionaries in South East Asia where the focus of their work was on training and equipping local believers to reach out to those from the majority religion.
Michael serves as an elder at Emmanuel Marlborough and is a member of the FIEC Pastors’ Network.
https://www.ufm.org.uk
Presented by David Meredith
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Alex Nelson is the student leader for the Glasgow Navigators.
About The Navigators
The Navigators has grown out of one man’s pursuit of God. Dawson Trotman lived in America. As he sought God, the Lord promised to build him ‘a house’. At a time when the Christian world saw no ministry beyond evangelism, he was led to invest deeply in the lives of the few in order that they could reach the many. This began in the 1930s with US Navy personnel. It grew significantly through WWII. Following the war the Navigators spread out through the world, it is now in over 100 countries world wide.
The Navigators came to the UK through the Billy Graham crusades of the 1950s. Billy Graham, frustrated by the unwillingness of local Christians to help those who came forwards at his meetings, asked Dawson Trotman to develop what has since become known as “follow-up”. The Navigators therefore supported Dr Graham in all his crusades. During the Haringey crusades, Christians’ eyes were opened to the possibilities of discipleship, and asked the Navigators to minister in the UK. Initially Joyce Turner came to set up an office for materials and as she did this she also began a ministry among women. As interest developed, more Navigators came to set up ministries in communities and universities, which became the starting block for the current ministry.
https://navigators.co.uk/glasgow/
Presented by David Meredith
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Dr Siegfried Ngubane is the Serving in Mission's (SIM) Regional Director for Southern Africa. Siegfried is a well known African church leader and holds a PhD in Missiology and an MA in Missions. His passions are Discipleship, Leadership Development and Mentoring.
Serving in Mission - https://www.sim.org/home
Ruth Box works for Pioneers UK as their Mission Mentor for Scotland. Pioneers UK is an organisation that resources and equips missionaries to take the good news of Jesus Christ around the world. They have more than 3000 international missionary members, working in 324 missions teams, in 104 countries, among 202 unreached people groups, mobilised from 10 international missions bases.
https://www.pioneers-uk.org
Presented by David Meredith
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Dr David Kirk is Lecturer in New Testament Studies at Highland Theological College (HTC). He teaches modules on the Degree programmes dealing with New Testament texts and theology, as well as contributing to other modules. He began his academic career in January 2018 when he joined the faculty at HTC. He was awarded his PhD in New Testament from the University of Aberdeen in 2015, with his research and supervision undertaken through HTC. Prior to his doctoral studies, David graduated in 2010 from the Theological Studies programme with First Class Honours.
He holds Masters degrees in both Aeronautics and Transport from Imperial College, London and worked for several years on transport policy and planning for government bodies. He has been involved in Christian ministry for three decades, and is an ordained minister of the Free Church of Scotland. Before joining the faculty at HTC he served as an Assistant Minister, and as a member of the Free Church Mission Board.
Presented by David Meredith
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We talk all things mission today with Janet Murchison and Sarah Lytle from Women for Mission.
Women for Mission was established over 100 years ago to promote the growth of the Christian faith by encouraging interest in mission as well as giving practical support to the Church’s mission work in Scotland and around the globe.
Official Site: https://womenformission.org
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Paul Levy is married to Claire, father to Noah, Ellie and Phoebe. He has been the minister of International Presbyterian Church (IPC), Ealing in West London since 2003.
International Presbyterian Church
Paul's Blog - https://ealinglevy.wordpress.com
Topics:
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Are youth groups effective?
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Are buildings important?
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Reformed evangelism - where has it gone?
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Preaching - passion or rhetoric?
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Raising a child with Down's Syndrome
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Dealing with the temptation to compare your ministry with another
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Worship Philosophy
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Steve Levy is the senior Pastor at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Swansea. He is married to Clare and they have three children.
Today he chats with David about children's ministry, church leadership, revitalisation, local mission and evangelism.
http://www.mountpleasantchurch.org.uk
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Elijah and Jessie Brook are working with Cornerstone, a church plant in Edinburgh's Morningside, and a transatlantic missional partnership program called AT3.
Cornerstone - https://cornerstone-edinburgh.com
AT3 - http://at-3.org
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On the podcast today David sits down with Sleat and Strath Free Church minister Gordon Matheson.
They chat through what it's like to grow up as a 'pastor's kid', losing a parent, politics, rural ministry, mental health and mission.
Gordon also recently launched his own podcast called 'Free Voices' - https://www.podbean.com/eu/pb-ztkfy-e5b68e
Presented by David Meredith
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Malcolm McGregor is the associate director for pastoral care working through one aspect of the Langham Partnership.
Malcolm and his wife Liz have worked in the mission field around the world through the mission organisation Serving In Mission (SIM). Malcolm became the UK and North Europe Director for SIM in 1996 based in London. Then in 2003 he took up the position of International Director of SIM based on the edge of Charlotte in North Carolina.
Malcolm and his wife attend Carrubbers Christian Centre in the heart of Edinburgh on the Royal Mile.
(https://sim.co.uk)
Presented by David Meredith
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New Testament lecturer Rev. Dr Alistair Wilson joins us today to chat about local and international mission and theological famine relief.
Alistair has a PhD in New Testament studies from the University of Aberdeen. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh and the Free Church College, now Edinburgh Theological Seminary (ETS), Alistair was an Associate Pastor in Inverness before moving to Highland Theological College where he taught New Testament from 1996 to 2005. He was then appointed to Dumisani Theological Institute, King William’s Town, South Africa, becoming Principal in 2006. Alistair returned to Highland Theological College in January 2015 before taking up his current post as lecturer in New Testament and Mission at ETS.
As well as having written several published works, Alistair has been Editor of The Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology and New Testament Review Editor of Themelios. He is an Adjunct (‘Extraordinary’ in South African terminology) Professor of New Testament in the Research Unit for Reformed Theology, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the New Testament Society of South Africa.
Dr Wilson's research interests include missionary thought and activity in early Christianity, 'missional readings' of Scripture, Matthew’s Gospel, Luke’s Gospel, Colossians and Philemon, eschatological views in early Christianity.
Presented by David Meredith
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Today David talks to Andy Longwe about a variety of issues including life in ministry and current events which have unfolded around the death of George Floyd.
Andy Longwe is the current minister of Cumbernauld Free Church.
Born in Malawi, he moved to Scotland with his family when he was four and they settled into Kirkmuirhill in South Lanarkshire.
Having become a committed Christian as a teenager Andy eventually felt the call to ministry and attended Edinburgh Theological Seminary.
Presented by David Meredith
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Martin Paterson is a Scotland Area Representative for Overseas Missionary Fellowship OMF and is also a Free Church of Scotland minister.
Today we talk to Martin about local and international mission and discipleship.
OMF's Vision: Through God’s grace, we aim to see an indigenous, biblical church movement in each people group of East Asia, evangelising their own people and reaching out in mission to other peoples.
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Roger Carswell is a travelling evangelist and author. He leads evangelistic church and university missions as well as speaking at Christian conferences. He has written eleven books including "And Some Evangelists" and "Where is God in a Messed Up World?", and publishes numerous gospel tracts and booklets.
Roger is married to Dot, has four children and lives in Leeds.
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Covid-19 Response Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoQMg4-u-wU
Official Site - https://www.rogercarswell.net
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Alasdair is originally from the Isle of Lewis. He worked for two years in the oil fabrication yard in Stornoway before joining the BBC where he was employed as a journalist for 16 years working in Inverness and Stornoway.
He is married to Mairi and they have a family of four, Christina, Luke, Emma and Kate.
Having felt called to the ministry, they moved to Edinburgh in 2009 where Alasdair studied for 3 years before becoming the minister of Tain and Fearn Free Church in August 2012.
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Scott serves Cornerstone as a part of the preaching team and by overseeing leadership development, global ministries, and counselling/discipleship.
Scott's passion for the lost and for God’s work in and through the local church brought him to Los Angeles in 2005, and that same passion has allowed the city to truly become his family’s earthly home.
Scott is the husband to Lara and father to Harper, Addison, Lincoln, and Skylar.
Presented by David Meredith
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Today we chat with Andy Bannister about Ramadan and the Islamic worldview.
Andy is the current Director of the Solas Centre for Public Christianity, an organisation that equips Christians to talk confidently about their faith and engages culture with the good news of Jesus Christ.
Prior to working with Solas, Andy was Director and Lead Apologist at the Canada office of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries. Andy holds a PhD in Islamic studies and is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Islam and Other Faiths at Melbourne School of Theology.
Andy is the author of An Oral-Formulaic Study of the Qur’an and his latest book, The Atheist Who Didn’t Exist (or: The Terrible Consequences of Really Bad Arguments), is a humorous engagement with the New Atheism. When not travelling, speaking, or writing, Andy is a keen hiker, mountain climber, and photographer. He is married to Astrid; they have two children, Caitriona and Christopher.
SOLAS: https://www.solas-cpc.org/
See more about Andy's work here: andybannister.net
Presented by David Meredith
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Title Music and Production: Simon Kennedy
Today we chat with Sharon Dickens and Natasha Davidson from 20schemes.
20schemes is a ministry based in Scotland which aims to spread the gospel through church planting and revitalisation.
20schemes Website: https://20schemes.com
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Rico Tice is Senior Minister (Evangelism) at All Souls Church, Langham Place in London. Born in Chile before being educated in England, Rico spent a year working at a church in inner city Liverpool and then studied history at Bristol University (where he was captain of the rugby team). He went on to graduate from theological college at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. Rico is a passionate evangelist, and the Founder of Christianity Explored Ministries. He is a regular speaker at missions and evangelistic events around the world, and is the author of Honest Evangelism and Capturing God.
Presented by David Meredith
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Peter is a native of Newcastle and is married to Morag. They have five children (aged 9-2) and live in Burghead, Moray. Having previously worked the staff team at Christ Church Fulwood (Sheffield) Peter and the family moved to Morayshire in 2015 to be involved in the revitalisation of Burghead Free Church where Peter serves as an elder and church leader.
Presented by David Meredith
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Jeremy Marshall was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in 2013. He was 49 years old, happily married with three children. After undergoing surgery and a course of radiotherapy, Jeremy was declared cancer-free. But three years later he was diagnosed with cancer again, this time in a different form and was told it was incurable.
Beyond the Big C chronicles Jeremy’s extraordinary relationship with cancer and, more than anything, his extraordinary relationship with the person who promises life beyond the prognosis. The essence of Jeremy’s story is that despite the sickness and disease present in the world, a life lived in light of Christ’s death on the cross means there is hope for the future no matter what.
Jeremy Marshall is the former CEO of the UK’s oldest private bank, C. Hoare & Co. He was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2016.
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Elaine is the Chief Executive of the Scottish Bible Society. Elaine’s passion is to help people know God better through engaging with the Bible. Originally from Cumbria, Elaine now lives and works in Scotland. She love being outdoors, usually walking her pal’s two dogs.
https://scottishbiblesociety.org
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Fred is the Director of the Evangelical Alliance in Scotland. He has been an ordained minister of the Church of Scotland for more than 20 years. He has led both traditional and new churches and has a postgraduate degree in missional leadership and a diploma in pastoral theology. Fred is passionate about storytelling, the power of prayer, the gospel, and unity for extending the kingdom of God. He is an author and writer and has led conferences on new church in various countries. Fred seeks to give focus to the prayer support that is so vital to the work of the Evangelical Alliance.
Presented by David Meredith
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Tom Edwards moved from Australia to Scotland to study a masters in Missiology at Edinburgh Theological Seminary. He is planning to be involved in church planting in Australia and is particularly interested in missiology for a secular/post-Christian society.
Topics: Cultural Comparisons, Cultural Apathy, Secular Cultures, Church Planting, Evangelism, Revitalisation, Power of Story, Public Square Evangelism
Presented by David Meredith
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Dr Tim Lane is the founder and president of The Institute for Pastoral Care, a non-profit organisation that equips local churches to care for their people, and Tim Lane Associates, a counselling practice located in Peachtree City, Georgia.
He is a minister in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) and has a Master of Divinity and Doctorate in Pastoral Counselling.
Tim has authored:
- Unstuck: A Nine-Step Journey to Change That Lasts (2019)
And co-authored:
- How People Change and Relationships: A Mess Worth Making (2007)
Tim will also be speaking at the "Unstuck" conference in Edinburgh on the 28th February at St Catherine's Argyle as well as the Edinburgh City Mission conference, "Restless For Mission", on the 29th February. For more information please visit: https://thefree.church/53
Topics: Medical vs Psychological, Sufficiency of Scripture, Culture of Grace, Worry, Sanctification vs Personal Development, Mindfulness, Are the Reformed too cerebral?
Presented by David Meredith
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Title Music and Production: Simon Kennedy
Joe Barnard is the founder of Cross Training Ministries. He is a graduate of Baylor University and the University of St. Andrews. For eight years he pastored a church in the Highlands of Scotland before returning to his hometown in Louisiana.
https://www.xtrainingministries.com/
Topics: Cross Training Ministries, Characteristics of a Christian Man, Feminisation of the Church, Quest v Pilgrimage, Discipline, Self Awareness
Presented by David Meredith
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Andy Bannister is the current Director of the Solas Centre for Public Christianity, an organisation that equips Christians to talk confidently about their faith and engages culture with the good news of Jesus Christ.
Prior to working with Solas, Andy was Director and Lead Apologist at the Canada office of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries. Andy holds a PhD in Islamic studies and is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Islam and Other Faiths at Melbourne School of Theology.
Andy is the author of An Oral-Formulaic Study of the Qur’an and his latest book, The Atheist Who Didn’t Exist (or: The Terrible Consequences of Really Bad Arguments), is a humorous engagement with the New Atheism. When not travelling, speaking, or writing, Andy is a keen hiker, mountain climber, and photographer. He is married to Astrid; they have two children, Caitriona and Christopher.
SOLAS: https://www.solas-cpc.org/
See more about Andy's work here: andybannister.net
Topics: SOLAS, Apologetics, Islam, Quran, The Human Condition, Environmentalism, Creation, Greta Thunberg, Doubt
Presented by David Meredith
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Title Music and Production: Simon Kennedy
Mairi MacPherson has lived in Edinburgh for six years having moved from Northern Ireland to study French and German. Currently, Mairi is studying part-time for a Masters in Missiology at Edinburgh Theological Seminary while also providing maternity cover as the Mission Co-ordinator for the Free Church of Scotland.
Topics: Missiology, Connecting with Gen Z and Millenials, Young Christians Engaging with Mission, Digital Natives, Women Bible Teachers, Short Term Mission, Speaking Against Culture, Colonial Attitudes, Empowering the National Church, Contextual Theology
Presented by David Meredith
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Jim entered pastoral ministry after a career in engineering. He served in Culloden Baptist Church for 10 years before moving to Central Baptist, Dundee. He has particular responsibilities in the areas of teaching and leadership and is married to Janey who is a teacher. They have a son Alasdair.
Topics: Church Planting, Preaching, Gospel Transformed Lives, Denominations, Church Distinctives, Primary and Secondary Issues, American Church Culture
Presented by David Meredith
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Originally from Rancagua in Chile, Israel Guerrero is currently a PhD student studying Systematic Theology at the University of Edinburgh. Previously Israel completed his Masters of Theology at Edinburgh Theological Seminary. A member of St Columba's Free Church in Edinburgh, Israel is married to Camila and they have a little daughter.
Topics: Latin Evangelicalism, Decline of Catholicism, Prosperity Gospel, Feelings vs Truth, Godly Living, Chilean Church Culture, Mission by Locals, Nationalism, Liberation Theology, Reformed Mysticism
Presented by David Meredith
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Nancy Guthrie teaches the Bible at her home church, Cornerstone Presbyterian Church in Franklin, Tennessee, as well as at conferences around the country and internationally, including her Biblical Theology Workshops for Women. She is the author of numerous books including her most recent book, Even Better Than Eden: Nine Ways the Bible’s Story Changes Everything About Your Story, and is the host of the Help Me Teach the Bible podcast at The Gospel Coalition. She offers companionship and biblical insight to the grieving through Respite Retreats that she and her husband, David, host for couples who have faced the death of child, and through the GriefShare video series.
Topics: Women Teaching Women, Male and Female, Moralism, American Pragmatism, Our Greatest Need, Scriptures v Culture, Big Picture Theology, Grief
Presented by David Meredith
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Today our guest is Bob Akroyd, Chairman of the Free Church of Scotland Mission Board and a Systematic Theology lecturer at Edinburgh Theological Seminary (ETS).
Bob grew up in Lawrenceville, New Jersey and studied American History at the University of Virginia (founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819). Following two years of teaching English in Japan, he came to the University of Edinburgh to study Scottish History in 1990. Attending Buccleuch Free Church in Edinburgh and listening to tapes of the late Douglas MacMillan, Bob was converted in 1993. In 1996, he completed his PhD on “Lord Rosebery and Scottish Nationalism (1868 – 1896).” He continued his studies at the Free Church College from 1996 - 1999. In August 1999, Bob was ordained and inducted as Assistant Minister at Buccleuch Free Church in Edinburgh where he served with his friend and senior Minister Alex MacDonald for more than 13 years. Bob has also served as a Prison Chaplain at Saughton Prison, an honorary Chaplain at Edinburgh University and a volunteer at Bethany Christian Trust.
In 2012, Bob was appointed to the Chair of Systematic Theology at the Free Church College. In 2013, Bob completed an MTh at New College, Edinburgh on “Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (1851 – 1921) & the Essence of Christianity.” At ETS, Bob is the course organiser for Systematic Theology, Practical Theology and the Access to Theology Course.
Bob is married to Heather and they live in Edinburgh.
Topics: Mission, D.L. Moody, Confidence in Jesus, Elements of Good Preaching, Recruitment, Scottish Observations, Evangelists
Presented by David Meredith
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Today David chats with Louise MacMillan, a Christian counsellor and a visiting lecturer at Edinburgh Theological Seminary.
Louise is married to Neil MacMillan, a church planter in Edinburgh's Morningside, they have four children. Together they have planted three churches in Scotland, the latest of which is Cornerstone, Edinburgh.
You can learn more about Cornerstone Church here: www.cornerstone-edinburgh.com
Topics: Identity, biblical counselling, fatherhood, fixing vs giving advice, coaching and mentoring, good anger vs bad anger, can closure be achieved, dealing with bitterness
Presented by David Meredith
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Part of the work of Generation is to equip people to help others follow Jesus Christ. We want children to know and love Jesus, we want our young people to learn and live the gospel, we want all of our people to live on mission to make Jesus both famous and loved.
In today's podcast, David Meredith chats with Ali MacDonald and David Macleod.
Ali is a consultant to the Mission Board and a member of the Generation Equipping sub-committee.
David is the minister of North Harris Free Church, vice-chair of the Mission Board and Convenor of the Generation Equipping sub-committee.
Topics: Sunday school, changing culture, boot camp, discipleship, intergenerational cooperation, devotionals, highland/lowland divide, personal evangelism, leadership
Presented by David Meredith
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Title Music and Production: Simon Kennedy
Graham Daniels
Graham is the General Director of Christians in Sport and is also a director of Cambridge United FC and an associate staff member at St Andrew the Great church in Cambridge.
https://www.christiansinsport.org.uk/
Topics: What does "Christians In Sport" do? a personal journey of faith, ministering through disappointment, identity, winning and losing, performance v works, money, public status, evangelism, Christian celebrity, common grace
Presented by David Meredith
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This week David chats with blogger and writer Catriona Murray. Catriona is based in Lewis and regularly writes about life, the church and her own Christian faith. Catriona is also a regular contributor to The Record Magazine.
Post Tenebras Lux: https://posttenebraslux.co.uk/
Topics: grief, healing, complementarianism, feminism, dreams, politics and religion, supernaturalism, fairies
Presented by David Meredith
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Title Music and Production: Simon Kennedy
Scotty Smith, a native of Graham, North Carolina, is a graduate of The University of North Carolina, Westminster Theological Seminary, and Covenant Theological Seminary (D. Min).
After planting and pastoring Christ Community Church, Franklin, TN, for 26 years, Scotty assumed a position on the pastoral staff of West End Community Church, as Teacher in Residence. He also serves as adjunct faculty for Covenant Seminary, Westminster (Philadelphia), RTS, Orlando, and Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon.
Scotty has authored ten books, including, Unveiled Hope (with Michael Card), Objects of His Affection, Restoring Broken Things (with Steven Curtis Chapman), Everyday Prayers: 365 Days to Gospel Centered Faith, and most recently, Every Season Prayers: Gospel-Centered Prayers for the Whole of Life. Scotty also invests time mentoring, coaching, and encouraging leaders in many different contexts.
Among his hobbies, Scotty enjoys photography, fishing, cooking and exercise. Scotty, and his wife of almost 47 years, Darlene, continue to live in Franklin, TN. Darlene has two Masters from Covenant Seminary, one in counselling; has a huge mercy gift, great laugh, and big heart; and loves being a grandmother (DeDe) to Finn, Otis, and Otto.
Topics: What is grace? What is the Gospel? Dealing with conflict, ethnically and socially diverse congregations, ordinary means of grace.
Presented by David Meredith
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Title Music and Production: Simon Kennedy
Robin Syderff is the minister of Chalmers Church in Edinburgh and Chairman of The Bonar Trust.
Prior to coming to Edinburgh in 2009, Robin spent four years as Director of Ministry at The Proclamation Trust in London. Robin is married to Sally and they have three children - Lucy, David and William.
Topics: Work Experience, Training and Supporting Leaders, Training Churches to Train, Mental Health, Mission Strategies, Scotland's Spiritual State, Ministry Apprentices
Presented by David Meredith
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Title Music and Production: Simon Kennedy
Sam Allberry is an editor for The Gospel Coalition, a global speaker for Ravi Zacharias International Ministries, and a pastor based in Maidenhead, UK. He is the author of a number of books, including Is God Anti-Gay? (Good Book, 2013), James For You, and most recently Why Bother with Church. He is a founding editor of Living Out, a ministry for those struggling with same-sex attraction. You can follow him on Twitter.
Topics: Apologetics, Anointing vs Reason, Preaching and Teaching, Dealing with Controversy in the Church, Church of England, Same-Sex Attraction, What is love?, The West Wing.
Presented by David Meredith
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This week David chats with Donald Forsyth, the vice-chair of the Board of Trustees to the Free Church of Scotland, a Chartered Accountant and business director.
Topics: Personal Story - Life Coaching - Church and Business - Worship/Music - Board of Trustees - Conflict Resolution - Entrepreneurship - Revitalisation - Church Planting
Presented by David Meredith
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In this week's podcast, David chats with Andy Bathgate, the chief executive of Scripture Union Scotland.
Episode Topics:
- Bible knowledge amongst children - Sharing the Gospel in schools - Does SU manipulate children? - Can we tailor scripture to fit our needs? - What is the relationship between SU and the Church? - Equipping - Mission & Evangelism
About Andy Bathgate
Andy became CEO of SU Scotland in 2001 having worked with the Christian Unions in the Scottish Universities and Colleges for the previous 20 years. His first involvement with SU was when a friend invited him to the SU Group in Musselburgh Grammar School. Later, he became part of a team from the Grammar School that led the SU Group in a local primary. That was in the early 1970s, and he remains as committed to the ministry of SU now as then. He is particularly concerned that SU's ministry serves the local church and the disadvantaged and is done in partnership wherever possible. He is married to Alyson. Their elder daughter Fiona is married to David and they have two grandsons, Ellis and Brodie. Karyn, their younger daughter, attends a nearby day centre for people with additional needs. In their spare time, Andy and Alyson can often be found strolling around an art gallery.
Presented by David Meredith
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This week David Meredith welcomes Phil Stogner from Mission To The World to the podcast.
Episode Topics:
- Missionaries - Mission - Evangelism - Church Planting - Mormonism - Pastors Coaching Pastors - Revitalisation
About Phil and Wendy Stogner
To plant a church is the greatest way to bring new believers to Jesus. To encourage the heart of a church planter and his wife with Jesus’ gospel is the greatest way to encourage a church plant.
Phil and Wendy have served in the ministry of church planting for over 34 years. After having met during college in Charleston, South Carolina, they married and spent their honeymoon on the road to Covenant Seminary. Following the call to be a church planter has taken them from North Carolina to Florida to Utah and finally back to Charleston, South Carolina, as they began new congregations. With a passion for pastors and their wives, they feel gifted and called to come alongside them with the gospel to support them and their families in their ministry.
The Stogners are committed to the Generation’s vision to plant 30 new congregations by 2030 (30 x 30). They will be working with the Glasgow City Free Church to encourage pastors in this large and strategic city. Believing that “it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace,” Phil and Wendy will serve the national pastors and their wives who seek to grow gospel-centred churches for the glory of God in Glasgow. Their desire is to coach, counsel, and care for the Scottish shepherds who have a vision to see Christ’s wee little flock grow into healthy churches as the gospel grows outward in Glasgow.
Presented by David Meredith
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Title Music and Production: Simon Kennedy
Derek Lamont is the minister of St Columba's Free Church at the top of the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. Neil MacMillan is the minister of a church plant in Edinburgh's Morningside called Cornerstone.
Topic: "Church and the City"
How important is the city in God's missional plan?
(Church planting, urban town vs urban city, rural/urban division, city witness)
Presented by David Meredith
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In this episode, David Meredith sits down with Dr Stuart Weir, the National Director for CARE in Scotland.
CARE (Christian Action Research and Education) is a Christian charity seeking to uphold human dignity and to support the most vulnerable people in society, engaging with politicians in the UK Parliaments & Assemblies and promoting Christian community-based initiatives.
Presented by David Meredith
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Bootcamp has three components: intensive teaching in the morning, challenging physical activity in the afternoon, and interactive discussion sessions on theology, leadership and service in the evenings. We want the camp to stretch those who come mentally, physically and spiritually.
In this episode, church planter Neil Macmillan chats with Fergus Munro about his experience of the course.
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David Meredith sits down for a chat with Edinburgh City Mission CEO Duncan Cuthill.
Duncan previously worked as a UCCF Staff Worker in Central Scotland and trained at Cornhill in London before joining London City Mission in 2005 as Director of Ministries. He has a passion for the gospel and a heart for people who are marginalised to know the love and acceptance of Jesus Christ.
Presented by David Meredith
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Title Music and Production: Simon Kennedy
This week David Meredith chats with Andy Paterson, Mission Director of the FIEC and Pastor at Charlotte Chapel, Edinburgh.
Andy was raised and saved in London, and worked for Wandsworth Council for a number of years. He was lead pastor of Kensington Baptist Church, Bristol for 24 years before becoming FIEC Mission Director. He spends half his time working for Charlotte Chapel and the other half working for the FIEC. He is married to Kath. They have two adult children and four grandchildren.
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In today's podcast David Meredith chats with minister/blogger David Robertson about his new role in Australia, his 27 years ministering in Dundee, cultural evangelism, the Church in Scotland and what positives he takes from the Gospel work going on around the country.
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Today David Meredith chats with Iver Martin, the Principal of Edinburgh Theological Seminary, about theological education and training.
Generation Website - https://generation-mission.org/
ETS Website - https://www.ets.ac.uk/
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Welcome to our first episode!
Today David talks to Scottish church planter Neil Macmillan about evangelism and the new Generation 19 initiative taking place across Scotland in September.
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