There has been a flow of information about Youcef Nadarkhani, who is facing execution in Iran for conversion to Christianity. He is routinely identified as an ‘evangelical Christian pastor’. This description may not mean what many of us would take it to mean. From a post on an Iranian Christian news website. Youcef Nadarkhani has …

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My article for the latest edition of mgpc’s monthly church newsletter, Connexions: Perhaps in the evenings lately you’ve been watching the show featuring over-weight people weeping a lot. Or perhaps you’ve been watching the one featuring over-weight minor celebrities weeping a lot. Those of you who don’t can imagine the sort of thing that goes …

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Alongside sermons which constantly refer to Bible centrality, while never actually explaining and applying a Bible text; the notion of multiple activities being Gospel centered while the actual Gospel is never presented and response called for annoy the living suitcase out of me. It’s like that old chestnut ‘Preach the Gospel at all times, and …

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