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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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IRBS Newsletter April 2026
Dr James Renihan writes: Dear Christian Brothers and Sisters,
Greetings in Christ. In a few days, believers around the world will celebrate the joy of the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. While we know that every Lord's Day commemorates His rising from the dead, it's still a good thing to have a special day to celebrate this joyous event. Speaking about the righteousness of Christ, the Word of God reminds us that "it shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification" (Romans 4:24-25). When we believe in Jesus, we receive the benefits of his righteous life, his sacrifical death and his resurrection from the tomb. The resurrection is God's demonstration to us that all who place their faith in Jesus Christ receive the gift of justification. Glory be to God!
May the wonder of God's work through Jesus Christ fill your hearts with joy and peace.
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Hymns and Our Stewardship of Time
God is above time, He created time, and He delights in taking time to make known His glory. At creation God did not speak the world into existence all at once. He took time to delight in the act of creating. For six days He worked and then rested on the seventh day. When God gave His Word, He did not give it all at once. He took time revealing His Word to prophets and apostles through many ages. And when Adam fell and God promised the coming Savior, the Seed of the woman who would crush the head of the serpent (Genesis 3:15), He did not send Him right away. God took time to prepare the way. Jesus came “at the right time” to die for the ungodly (Romans 5:6).
God is sovereign over time. He is intentional in crafting time for His own glory. And He calls on us to be good stewards of time. All our moments and days are gifts from Him. We are to value time and use the time we have wisely. Moses prays in Psalm 90:
So teach us to number our days
that we may get a heart of wisdom.
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Ladies Meetings — Revised Schedule
The ladies meetings here at Trinity Grace are a warm, welcoming place where we seek to grow in our faith and in our love for God and each other as we study the word of God together. We usually meet once a month on Saturdays, 10am to 12pm. The format we is: tea, coffee and a chance for a quick catch up as we arrive; we then begin with a study from the Scripture lead by one of the ladies; this is followed by a time of informal discussion on the issues raised by the passage studied; and we finish with a time of open prayer informed by what we have learned and by the needs around us. We encourage all ladies to join with us and share in the great blessing these meetings have been to us.
The theme for 2025-2026 is “A Proverbs Driven Life”, based on the book by Anthony Selvaggio. The date of the next meeting has been changed to April 25th. You can find the full schedule below.
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Christ Our Passover Lamb
Of all the Old Testament images that foreshadow Jesus, the Passover lamb was perhaps the clearest in foreshadowing Jesus’ saving work at Calvary. According to God’s own appointment, God promised to remove His judgment from His people when He saw the substitutionary blood of a spotless lamb painted on the doorposts of the Israelites’ homes in Egypt. The Passover was a sign of God’s covenant with His people in the Old Testament, indicating the way in which He would one day satisfy His wrath through the sacrifice of Christ.
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Finnish Christian MP convicted of ‘crimes against humanity’ for church booklet on marriage
A Christian politician in Finland has been convicted of “hate speech” for expressing her views on sexual ethics in a pamphlet she published for her church in 2004.
In the Finnish Supreme Court’s narrow 3-2 decision, Päivi Räsänen was found guilty of publicly making and keeping available “opinions that insult homosexuals as a group on the basis of their sexual orientation”. This offence is listed under a chapter of criminal code entitled “war crimes and crimes against humanity”.
But the Court unanimously vindicated her for sharing similar views in a 2019 tweet. Two lower courts have previously acquitted her on all charges, and she hopes to appeal her conviction at the European Court of Human Rights.
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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.
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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Overseas / Missions
Trinity Grace Church has supported overseas missionary ministries for many years. We first began our involvement in the early 1970s and since then have expanded our gospel outreach to a needy world. We believe it is the responsibility of local churches to engage in this ministry, and we have rejoiced to play our part in the building of God’s kingdom throughout the world.
