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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 : 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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Roman Catholicism & The Gospel
With very few exceptions, anywhere the church goes in the world it will encounter Roman Catholics and Roman Catholicism. Is your church committed to sending? Are you considering being sent yourself? In sending and going, and with approximately 1.4 billion Roman Catholics worldwide, you will most likely encounter Roman Catholicism. If the church is not prepared to encounter Roman Catholicism, its mission can get quickly sidetracked. Consider this: Both evangelicals and Roman Catholics can affirm that we are sinners saved by grace through faith in Christ. That is a very disarming affirmation. If we can agree on this, surely any differences we have are secondary and can be set aside for the sake of reaching a lost world with the gospel. The missionary task is too urgent to be sidelined with theological quibbles.
What the church must understand, however, is that behind every word in that sentence lies a theological reality that presents a very different gospel. They are the same words, but they represent different worlds.
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Law and Gospel in Moral Reasoning
Tom Ascol writes: One of great failures of modern evangelical Christians that has been undeniably made manifest over the last few years is the lack of moral reasoning that plagues so many of our number—even those regarded as leaders. I have commented on this and written about it in relation to racial tensions and abortion and politics. At the bottom of this deficiency, I have argued, is a failure to recognize and think deeply about the teaching of God’s Word on law and gospel. Many of our leaders have rightly encouraged us to keep “the gospel above all” but have done so in ways that suggest there is no place for the law.
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“People amazed at love shown by Christians” – Myanmar earthquake one year on
It’s a year since an earthquake brought unspeakable devastation to parts of Myanmar. Thousands were killed, wounded and displaced, as a country riddled by civil war – which has exacerbated the persecution of Christians – was dealt another wretched blow. We caught up with a pastor who is seeing God work powerfully and unexpectedly through your support for our emergency appeal.
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Why Is Life Hard?
There are discouraging events, trials, tribulations, and difficult people. It isn’t my calling to paste a smile over those realities. As Christians, we shouldn’t whitewash difficulty. We call evil evil (Isa. 5:20), and we acknowledge pain and loss for what they are. We do not pretend all is well when it is not. We are not Stoics trying to rise above suffering by sheer resolve. Life in a fallen world is often hard (John 16:33). There is real suffering. As Christians, we acknowledge it, grieve it (Rom. 12:15), and sometimes feel deeply discouraged by it (2 Cor. 1:8). Yet we neither wallow in it nor deny it (1 Thess. 4:13).
God’s people suffer because we live in a world marked by affliction. Sin entered through one man (Rom. 5:12). The devil prowls (1 Peter 5:8). Creation groans (Rom. 8:20–22). Death remains an enemy (1 Cor. 15:26). In fact, Christians should not be surprised by hardship. This world is not our home (Heb. 13:14). As our Lord was persecuted, so His people will be persecuted (John 15:20).
Yet our affliction unfolds under the sovereign eye of God. He sets its boundaries (Job 1:12; 2:6). Suffering is not endless; it has an expiration date. There is a determined measure of affliction the church must endure before Christ returns (Acts 14:22; Rev. 7:14).
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Peers vote through extreme abortion measure
The House of Lords has voted to allow women in England and Wales to kill their unborn babies at any stage of pregnancy without sanction.
During a debate on the Crime and Policing Bill, Peers voted by 185 votes to 148 to reject Baroness Monckton’s amendment to remove Antonia Antoniazzi MP’s controversial Clause 208 which decriminalises abortion up to birth for the mother.
They also voted to reject an amendment by Baroness Stroud to reinstate in-person consultations with a doctor in order to receive abortion pills by 191 votes to 119. A return to such appointments, removed during lockdown, would have better protected against women taking the pills after the ten-week limit which they are designed for.
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Marriage worth less than a stamp to the Government
The Coalition For Marriage write: Family breakdown costs the British taxpayer at least £51 billion a year – more than the entire defence budget. That works out at £1,809 per household, every year, whether your own family is intact or not. Meanwhile, 45% of teenagers in Britain now live apart from one of their natural parents – a fivefold increase since 1974. Dr Michael Schluter CBE has spent four decades arguing that none of this is inevitable. He is an economist, social entrepreneur, and founder of the Jubilee Centre and the Relationships Foundation, and I was delighted to sit down with him to talk about what a government that took families seriously would actually do. You can see the interview by clicking below. His policy proposals deserve the closest attention. Schluter is the thinker behind the concept of “relational proximity” – the idea, expounded in the book ‘The Relational Lens’ published by Cambridge University Press, that strong relationships depend on face-to-face contact, continuity over time, and shared values. His phrase “time is the currency of relationships” runs through everything he does. He recalls how his wife insisted they take half an hour alone together every evening while raising three teenagers – “so that the kids could not drive a wedge between us”. He admits he used to prepare for corporate board meetings but never once thought about what to discuss around the dinner table. “The family mealtime and the bringing up of my children has far greater long-term consequences than any board meeting, then why didn’t I prepare for it?”
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The 1526 Revolution: William Tyndale and His English New Testament
In the latest Broken Wharfe podcast, John-Mark is joined by Stephane Simonnin and Oliver Allmand-Smith to explore the extraordinary story of William Tyndale and his groundbreaking English translation of the New Testament. Published in 1526, Tyndale's work defied the religious authorities of his day and forever changed the course of the English language, the Christian faith, and Western civilization.
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What the BBC should have told you on Mother’s Day
The Coalition For Marriage reports: Shortly before Mother’s Day, the Centre for Social Justice released a report that should have dominated the news. ‘Baby Bust’ projects that 600,000 British women today will miss out on the motherhood they actually wanted. Nine-in-ten young women still hope to become mothers. Yet the birth rate has fallen to a record low of 1.41. The gap between what women want and what they get is widening every year.
You probably did not hear about it. The BBC did not cover it. Instead, on the same day, it published a feature headlined “‘Like a trap you can’t escape’: The women who regret being mothers”. On the eve of Mother’s Day. You could not make it up.
But it is the CSJ’s own data that should command the attention of every C4M supporter. The report is explicit: the baby bust is not about family size. Mothers in the UK still average around 2.3 children. What has changed is the number of women who never become mothers at all. The childlessness rate has risen from 5 per cent in 1970 to 18 per cent today, and the CSJ projects it could reach 30 per cent.
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How Can God Accept Our Inadequate Service?
In one of his psalms, David expresses his longing to be upright, and free even from secret faults. But perhaps when we try to pray the same thing, it seems too much to ask, when our inadequacies and deficiencies are so many and so varied and so obvious. Obadiah Sedgwick, who contributed to the Westminster Assembly, was aware of this concern and offered various pieces of advice in response. In the following updated extract he goes into some detail on the thought that God accepts the weak services of His people because of His graciousness. The opposite of making us lax about serving Him, His readiness to accept our feeble efforts inspires the believer to greater dedication and diligence in His service.
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The Taliban’s tightening grip on women in Afghanistan
On Sunday 8 March, many around the world celebrated International Women’s Day, a day serving to advocate for women’s rights worldwide. But along with it comes news of the Taliban’s increasing restrictions on the lives of Afghan people, especially women. Please pray for our sisters in Afghanistan. In August 2021, the Taliban reclaimed power over Afghanistan and has since ruled with a harshening iron fist. Its latest penal code demonstrates the ruling extremist group’s aim to tighten its grip on the lives of the nation’s people, particularly women, with legislation detailing punishments for a variety of so-called crimes. “The provisions contained in this penal code raise serious concerns for the protection of women and girls in Afghanistan,” an Open Doors spokesperson explains. “When the law permits violence in the home, it leaves already vulnerable communities with even less protection.”
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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