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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 : 13-17th October - Biblical Theology - Dr Richard Barcellos
In this study the student is introduced to the discipline of biblical theology, covering its place and function in the encyclopedia of theology, a brief history, a working definition, various models and practitioners, and the relationship between hermeneutics and biblical theology. It also provides a brief overview of redemptive history from creation to consummation, focusing on the progressive, organic, Christ-centered unfolding of Special Revelation in light of the entire canon of Scripture. The course concludes with examples of biblical-theological exegesis with the goal of preaching. This course is required for MA, MDiV and BDiV students. Listeners are welcome to attend.
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Featured Updates
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A Smouldering Ember
Les Yates writes: My reason for writing this article is to encourage Christians who, due to changes in circumstances, can no longer actively serve the Lord, particularly the elderly and infirm, from a burning ember among burning embers to an ember that has fallen out of the fire and is losing heat.
In 2016, after 48 years of serving as an elder in the same fellowship, I reluctantly retired from the eldership to give more time to caring for my wife, who suffers from multiple sclerosis. From being actively involved in the general organisation of church activities, elders’ meetings, the preaching ministry, counselling, missionary work, etc., to laying aside all these responsibilities was not easy.
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Be Kind To One Another
A 2023 poll revealed that 84% of Americans are angrier than a generation ago, with 42% of those polled admitting to feeling angrier themselves. A recent Pew Research Center survey shows nearly half (47%) of US adults believe public behavior is ruder than before the Covid-19 pandemic. Surveys are not everything, but they are not nothing either. It seems that Americans have the general impression that the country is becoming angrier. This situation has created an opportunity for the church, and we had better take advantage of it. But how?
Ephesians 4:32 shows up at the end of a long string of admonitions for the church. It reads, “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.” Remember this is written to the church. So, no matter what the world looks like the church is supposed to embody this verse and demonstrate a visible difference from the behavior of the world. At the very least, we are to be kind to one another.
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Christian Institute Week Of Prayer Oct 19th to 25th
We encourage all members to join with our friends at the Christian Institute to pray for our nation. We can all see most readily that ungodliness and immorality have overtaken our national institutions and structures. Let us join together and pray for national repentance and a return to God’s laws and righteous ways.
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Joao Domingos Newsletter October 2025
To our brothers and sisters at TGC-Rambottom. Thank you for your
faithful partnership. Your unwavering commitment to support my studies
at IRBS means a lot to us.
Many things have been happening in our family and my studies and
ministry. It has been a long time since we have sent an update to the
church. Studying at IRBS has been a great blessing for my ministry preparation
and for my family. The classes are theologically and practically robust. I
recently completed Greek I. This course was challenging but very fruitful
for my understanding of the biblical language and helpful in my
exegetical work as I do my personal Bible studies and sermon
preparation.
I am currently taking OT501: Pentateuch class and enrolled for
ET601:
Biblical Theology UK &
ST602: Doctrine of God. Zambia is on
loadshedding, and that has made my studies at IRBS a great challenge,
especially attending the live classes, and I have challenges getting
required books for the OT501: Pentateuch.
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Church leaders unite against proposed ‘conversion practices’ law
Over 1,000 church leaders (including Trinity Grace) across Great Britain have urged Westminster to ditch plans for a “full, trans-inclusive ban on conversion practices”.
In an open letter organised by The Christian Institute’s Let Us Pray campaign, the church workers told Equalities Minister Olivia Bailey MP that such a law could “criminalise mainstream, historic Christian teaching on marriage and sexual ethics, and make sharing the Gospel with some people illegal”. In addition, over 4,000 other Christians have co-signed the letter.
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IRBS UK Newsletter October 2025
IRBS UK director, Enoch Adekoya, writes: With the resumption of this new semester, we give thanks to God for His blessing upon the work
of International Reformed Baptist Seminary UK and the prayerful support of you all, our dear
friends and partner-churches.
In his first epistle to Timothy, Paul wrote what is among the most glorious depictions of the
church of Christ as we find in the pages of Scripture.
The purpose for which Paul exhorts young Timothy in his calling as an under-shepherd of Christ’s
church is that Timothy “may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the
church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth." Undoubtedly, the ongoing cultural fractures
we are witnessing in our age are symptoms of
a dying world, a world in need of divine truth.
A world that has rejected the revelation of
God in pursuit of broken cisterns.
Paul’s exhortation thus reassures us of the
glory and the solemnity of the work and
calling of the church of Christ.
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Martin Luther: Salvation Is ALL Of God
Martin Luther looked upon The Bondage of the Will and his Shorter Catechism as his most significant writings. The first of these, The Bondage of the Will, was Luther’s exposition of the monergism that characterized the Reformation. Monergism is the view that when a soul passes from death to life, from unbelief to faith, the sole “energizing” power that accomplishes this is the power of God. Monergism is contrasted with synergism, the view that divine and human power freely cooperate in the soul’s regeneration. Luther and the other Reformers derived their monergism from the Bible, read through the lens of the theology of Augustine, the greatest of the Western church fathers.
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Pray For Gospel Fruit In Kisumu, Kenya
Tonny Karwa writes from Kisumu: A new academic year has begun at Maseno
University, and first-year students are quickly settling
in. It is an opportune season for the various ‘faith groups’
to lower their fishing nets for a catch. The scramble is
generally driven by the quest to ‘recruit’ naïve followers
or adherents. One can immediately witness how
vulnerable the first years are to the religious predators,
especially the beguilement of the cults. Yet amidst all this
we too have undertaken to pitch a tent there every Friday
afternoon if God would perhaps visit His saving grace
upon some of them. The Epistle of Romans is the material
we have selected for this mission as it reminds us that the
gospel is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes.
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Priscilla & Aquilla: Working Together With Him
When we dedicate our lives to the Lord, we find that He is able to do far more with them than we can ever do with them. Like the young lad who gave his lunch of five loaves and two fish to the Lord, He is able to take our apparently meagre means and multiply them beyond our imagination for His glory and the blessing of others. Priscilla and Aquila were, humanly speaking, nothing special. But they devoted themselves to God in response to His saving grace, and God worked wonders through them. Every Christian is enjoined to do likewise – where we are, with what we have, to the glory of God. ‘I appeal to you therefore brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship’ (Romans 12:1).
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Anti-conversion law prompts wave of attacks on Christians in India
Christians in India’s northwestern Rajasthan state have come under increased pressure from Hindu militants since the recent passing of an ‘anti-conversion law’.
Although the bill has yet to receive governor assent it has emboldened nationalist groups in their aggressive and sustained opposition to Christians, church leaders claim.
‘As if on cue, attacks on Christians have escalated dramatically following passage of Rajasthan’s anti-conversion bill, mirroring patterns we’ve witnessed in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Jharkhand after similar legislation,’ said the Rev Vijayesh Lal, general secretary of The Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI).
The Rev. Lal told Morning Star News: ‘These laws consistently embolden vigilante groups who feel licensed to target Christian communities under the guise of preventing [forced or fraudulent] conversion.’
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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