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We are a gathering of believers united in our love for Christ, where all are welcome to come and join us for worship, where we hear the Word of God preached faithfully. We confess the Reformed Faith as outlined in the 1689 Baptist Confession, holding to holy scripture as the only certain rule of faith and practice and seeking to glorify God in the town of Ramsbottom.
IRBS UK Study Week, Doctrine of God with James Dolezal, May 2024
IRBS UK is pleased to have Dr James Dolezal, associate professor of theology in the School of Divinity at Cairn University in Langhorne, PA teach Doctrine of God in May 2024.
This course will consider the doctrine of God (theology proper) by examining God’s existence and
attributes, his triunity, and his acts of decree, creation, and providence. The contrast between classical Christian theism and its modern alternatives will be given special attention.
Spaces are limited in order to facilitate discussion and personal engagement in the classes, so be sure to make your booking as soon as possible to secure your place.
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Featured Updates
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A Biblical View Of The End Times
Chaos and moral confusion abound in our fallen world, causing many Christians to wonder if we are living in the end times. Ligonier Ministries recently streamed a conversation on eschatology with Drs. Robert Godfrey, Burk Parsons, and Cornelis Venema. There is so much confusion and error surrounding these things, and it is vital that we understand what the Bible teaches! We need to grasp the whole counsel of God, and view the biblical material on the end times in the context of its whole message. These men consider vital matters with helpful clarity, calling believers to understand the Bible's call to persevere faithfully to the last of all days, when Christ will surely return in glory.
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Prominent Anglican Evangelist Leaves The C of E
Evangelist Rico Tice has split with the Church of England, saying it has abandoned its biblical views on sexuality and he needed to “demonstrate some clear separation” from it.
The Anglican clergyman, who is perhaps best known for co-writing the evangelism course Christianity Explored, said he still considered himself a “cradle-to-grave Anglican”, and found the current situation utterly heartbreaking. However, he said he could not remain while the church’s views about same sex marriage and repentance clash with his.
The 57-year-old, who has now started attending an International Presbyterian Church near where his sons go to school, said “the church’s onward trajectory toward affirming same-sex marriage, specifically the new Prayers of Love and Faith” had left him and others with a heavy heart, and he needed to do something about it.
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PM told ‘pervasive influence of gender ideology’ demands inquiry
Rishi Sunak has been urged to launch a public inquiry into the harm caused to children in the name of radical gender ideology.
Writing to the Prime Minister, over 140 prominent individuals from a wide range of backgrounds and professions said the inquiry was necessary for the “future safety and wellbeing of our children”.
Signatories to the letter include parliamentarians, clinicians, medics, campaigners, lawyers and detransitioners.
The letter stated that “gender identity ideology” – the idea that “everyone has a ‘gender identity’ that may differ from, and overrides, their birth sex” – had caused untold damage to children.
It described the teaching of gender ideology in schools and medical interventions known as ‘gender-affirming transition’ as “a major scandal that requires a Public Inquiry”.
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Christian Convert Receives Two Year Prison Sentence In Iran
Your prayers are earnestly sought for
Laleh Saati, an Iranian Christian convert
from Islam, who has been sentenced
to two years’ imprisonment for “acting
against national security by connecting
with ‘Zionist’ Christian organisations”.
Farsi (Persian)-speaking Christians
are converts from Islam and therefore
punishable as apostates according
to Islamic law. Unlike the historic
Armenian- and Assyrian-speaking
Christian communities they are not
permitted to hold church services or
worship freely.
On 13 February, Laleh, 45, was
arrested at her father’s home in Ekbatan,
Tehran, and interrogated for three
weeks at the notorious Evin Prison. After
searching the house, intelligence agents
confiscated her mobile phone, laptop
and several Christian books. During her
detention photographs and videos of her
baptism in Malaysia and other Christian
activities were identified as evidence of
her “crime”.
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Where To Look In Dark Times
“Then I saw in my dream, that the Interpreter took Christian by the hand, and led him into a place where was a Fire burning against the wall, and one standing by it, always casting much water upon it, to quench it; yet did the Fire burn higher and hotter.”
There are times when theology can be very practical, times when what we believe and what we preach to ourselves can have a profound impact on our spiritual wellbeing. Nowhere is this more true than when we face times of darkness—suffering, persecution, trials and temptations—times when we are doubting, distressed and unsure how to press on. John Bunyan offers a vivid illustration of this in his allegory The Pilgrim’s Progress.
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Richard Dawkins & “Cultural Christianity”
Media reports have recently highlighted Richard Dawkins’ comments that he considers himself to be a cultural Christian. This was in a London Broadcasting Company (LBC) radio interview over the Easter weekend (1 April 2024), with Rachel Johnson, sister of former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Good news you may think, but it doesn’t mean that he has given up on his belief in atheism and evolution, or his attacks on biblical creationism which he referred to as “pernicious nonsense” in the interview. It is of course good that he has moved to find Christianity appealing culturally, but what about the deeper reality of faith, and what does it mean to be a cultural Christian?
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Week Of Prayer For Our Nation
Let's join with the Christian Institute in their week of prayer for the nation, April 28th to May 4th. Each day we are invited to pray for an aspect of our national life: our leaders, society, the sanctity of life, education, free speech, conversion laws and the work of the Institue in the midst of all this. See the full prayer diary below.
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Budapest Church Newsletter April 2024
We appreciate your prayers with and for us as we seek to serve the Lord in our church.
Much has happened in the past few months, with several trials but much to be thankful for.
This year we have elected and appointed two new
deacons. This was prompted by the untimely stepping
down of our former deacon after many years of faithful
service to the church.
We rejoice in having had four candidates baptized on
the 7th of April and brought into membership! All
available members met ahead of time and volunteered
or were assigned specific roles and worked well in
setting up cleaning up afterwards, with a sufficient
lunch enjoyed by all on the day.
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Keith Underhill Prayer Letter April 2024
Joshua Sitet, a pastor from Kasei in Pokot, Kenya, writes: Glory to God for the special donation towards the Kasei Bible College. Pray for God to enable us complete the now started construction work of this long awaited Bible School. Materials for construction of the 4 rooms of the Bible School are on the way. It is our prayer
that we will be able to complete the work up to the ring beam soon amid this rainy season.
Pray for serious students and a workable syllabus. Praise God for the new people joining our Sunday services in Kasei. 4 are requesting for membership and 2 joined our membership on 17/3/24. Now our membership is 45, though sadly one of our members is to undergo church discipline after adding a
second wife. The Gospel of Luke, which I am preaching through and now on Lk. 10:1-
24, is marching well with The URGENCY OF THE GOSPEL. No business is as sweet as being
part of the Church Militant.
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Ruin, Redemption & Regeneration
Recently, in my regular reading of Spurgeon’s sermons, I have discovered an excellent and pithy approach to the Gospel, one that is fully biblical and establishes well both man’s universal dilemma and God’s antidote in Christ: Spurgeon’s “Three R’s,” Ruin, Redemption and Regeneration. This past weekend, I taught this to my people to help them understand the entire scope of the biblical story of God’s redeeming love for sinners in Christ. I commend it to our readers for evangelism and to fellow pastors as realities that must permeate their preaching.
Spurgeon called them “three doctrines that must be preached above all else” and he drew as his text for them “Three third chapters (of Scripture) which deal with the things in the fullest manner:” Genesis 3:14-15 (Ruin), Romans 3:21-26 (Redemption), John 3:1-8 (Regeneration).
The Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689)
In 2011 we made the decision to officially adopt the Second London Baptist Confession (1689) as our confession of faith. We exhort you to read it.
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