About us
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.
Christmas Period Service Times
Over the Christmas period, service times will be slightly changed to the following:
Saturday 20th December — 4:30pm Traditional Carol Service
Sunday 21st December — 10:30am Morning Worship
Sunday 21st December — 3:00pm Afternoon Worship
Wednesday 24th December — 7:45pm Bible Study
Thursday 25th December — 10:30am Christmas Day Service
Sunday 28th December — 10:30am Morning Worship
Sunday 28th December — 5:30pm Evening Worship with Communion
Wednesday 31st December — No Bible Study
IRBS UK Study Week : 23-27th Feb, 2026 | J. Ryan Davidson, PhD
Having established the theology of pastoring in PT605, this course will examine its practical applications to areas of the pastoral ministry. This includes an overview of preaching, pastoral oversight, the proper administration of the sacraments, the practice of church discipline, the relationship between the Elders and Deacons in the local church, the proper protocol for moderating the meetings of the officers as well as the congregation, weddings, funerals, constitutions, church building use, and other practical matters which may arise. In all these practical areas, the biblical pastoral decorum will be variously applied.
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Christmas Period Service Times
Saturday 20th December — 4:30pm Traditional Carol Service.
Sunday 21st December — 10:30am Morning Worship.
Sunday 21st December — 3:00pm Afternoon Worship.
Wednesday 24th December — 7:45pm Bible Study.
Thursday 25th December — 10:30am Christmas Day Service.
Sunday 28th December — 10:30am Morning Worship.
Sunday 28th December — 5:30pm Evening Worship with Communion.
Wednesday 31st December — No Bible Study.
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Repeat The Sounding Joy: Advent Devotional With Christopher Ash
In this four-part series for Advent, Tony Watkins talks to Christopher Ash, Writer in Residence at Tyndale House, Cambridge, about Luke chapters 1 and 2. These chapters are the focus of Christopher’s book of Advent devotions, Repeat the Sounding Joy . The following questions are addressed, amongst others: Why is it important to know that Luke is historically accurate? How do the childless Zechariah and Elizabeth find hope? Why does Luke give so much attention to John the Baptist? Is Gabriel a bit harsh on Zechariah? Is Zechariah being struck dumb a sign rather than a punishment? How does the story of Zechariah and Elizabeth help us to think about Advent being about Jesus' second coming as well as his first?
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TASTE Nigeria Christmas Appeal
The recent spate of attacks and kidnappings in Nigeria has thrown a spotlight on the daily heartbreaking challenges that Christians face. However, Christmas is a time of heightened risk as Christians gather for church services, travel back to their villages or just travel to the local stream, river or other water sources or even just go to the market to buy food for the family.
TASTE and our partners in Nigeria have been working to help some of the most vulnerable communities which have suffered and continue to suffer attacks.
We have chosen 2 of these communities and want to encourage them with a Christmas gift in the form of a solar powered borehole where the excess energy generated by the solar panels will be used for light and power. Our partners will help holistically including with food distribution.
We have chosen the Glo Village Rakubelleng and the Kim Vwei Communities in Jos South Local Government Area (LGA), Plateau State.
A total of approximately 1,550 people will be impacted by our intervention at a cost of approximately £13,200.
Please help us get this gift to them in time for Christmas.
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Thailand Update November 2025
Nico van Zyl writes: Since our church was formally planted only in August we added two more members at our church. We plan to do a carol singing service in December with another church. Matt was gone in October and two weeks of November which afforded me more time to preach. I finished Matthew 24 and taking on Matthew 25 now. We also finished a course on the attributes of God during our Bible hour. Matt is still doing a series in Titus. Roxanne and Courtney are teaching the young ones during our Sunday School. Next year we want to start a new series in Genesis and during our Bible hour we want to go through the 1689 Baptist Confession. We hope to develop workshops on the book of Genesis, Romans and the 1689 Confession this year. We also plan to start with evangelistic outreaches next year. We also had our first members meeting in October.
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IRBS Newsletter December 2025
Dr. James Renihan writes, Greetings from our IRBS trustees, faculty, administrators and students. We give thanks to God for your steadfast love to Christ and to our Seminary. Humanly speaking, we could not fulfill our mission to train servants of Christ without you.
December is always a month for reflection. We remember the incarnation of our Savior with wonder and amazement. To think that the Second Person of the Holy Trinity assumed a true human nature in order to procure our redemption is astounding. I hope that in the busyness of the season you will stop to worship and adore Him.
Additionally, during the month many of us look backward in review and forward in anticipation. We think about the things the Lord has done over the past months and we look forward with anticipation to the things He will do in 2026. Will you join me in praising Him for His wondrous works completed in 2025, and asking Him to show forth His glory throughout the New Year?
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Future Justification? Future Judgment According to Works
The overwhelming biblical data on the place of works at the final judgment is not something we can afford to ignore (see Rom. 2:13; 2 Cor. 5:10; Matt. 16:27; Jn. 5:28-29; Gal. 6:7-9; Rev. 20:13; 22:12). The final judgment and future justification are matters of extreme importance and it will be theological suicide to deny either of those realities. I mean, if our works, are going to be judged, should we not try to understand in what sense they will be judged?
As far as “future justification” is concerned, the Westminster documents speak of believers being “openly acknowledged and acquitted” (WLC 90; WSC 38). The verdict will be publicly passed on believers, which will be “not guilty.”
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SGA In Ukraine: Keep On Praying!
SGA-sponsored missionary, Yuri Maslov, from Ukraine, tells of the difficulties faced by men in street evangelism due to the risk of being taken from the streets and sent to military training and then the war frontline.
On one occasion, when Yuri and his team of evangelists tried to distribute New Testaments in a village people even ran away, thinking they were from the military recruitment office. Yuri and his team are praying and seeking new ways to reach people outside the church. Join them in prayer about ways to overcome this barrier to evangelism.
The attacks on Ukraine seem relentless. Pray for God’s intervention in this conflict, and for His protection of His people.
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315 girls and teachers kidnapped from school in Nigeria
Your prayers are needed after 303 girls and 12 teachers were kidnapped from a Christian school in Niger State, north west Nigeria, in one of the largest ever mass abductions in the country.
It happened in the early hours of Friday (21 November) at St Mary’s in Agwara Local Government Area (LGA). Over the weekend, 50 escaped. It’s believed that 253 students and 12 teachers remain held. St Mary’s is a Catholic school, though it’s unknown what percentage of those taken are Christians.
It’s the latest in a sudden escalation of kidnappings in Nigeria and there are concerns that more will follow. Insecurity in the north has left more than 10,000 schools closed, exposing millions of children to illiteracy, early marriage and poverty. This vulnerability makes it easier for Islamist militant groups to recruit them, worsening the spiral of violence and oppression.
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Christian Ethics In A Secular World (2)
Ever since Augustine’s The City of God Western political thought has kept some kind of separation – in lesser or greater degrees – between heavenly politics and earthly politics. Oliver O’Donovan clarifies this truth when he writes that “the opposition in Western theology between the City of God and the earthly city has enabled political thought to avoid theocratic conceptions of government, which, by claiming to express the rule of heaven and earth, must unify the earthly and the heavenly into a single totalitarian political claim. Western theology starts from the assertion that the kingdoms of the world are not the kingdom of our God and of his Christ, not, at any rate, until God intervenes to make them so at the end.”
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Pray For Pakistan
Release International write: One of our partners in Pakistan supports Christians in communities who are often enslaved in brick kiln work and who are constantly vulnerable to abuse, because they are Christians.
Support groups provide biblical discipling, as well as collaboration to deal with specific social problems faced by Christian families. The groups run savings programmes to enable members to start self-supporting businesses. Pray for those in the groups with health issues. Please pray also for those seeking healing from past drug addition. Pray for real spiritual growth.
Pray for those in the support groups who are now out of work: for God’s provision for them and that they might know God’s peace when burdened with loans. Pray for younger family members, to be guided and blessed by the Lord in their futures.
Pray for the nation of Pakistan: that its government and law enforcement agencies will have the courage and wisdom to implement justice and protect its citizens. Pray particularly for the rights of Christians and that they would stand strong in their faith in the midst of persecution and hardship.
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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