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.
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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Featured Updates
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Thailand Update January 2026
Nico van Zyl writes from Thailand: We hope to start preaching through the book
of Genesis soon, and we are also teaching
through the 1689 Confession during our kids'
Sunday School and Bible Hour every
Sunday. Pray that there will be much fruit
because of these. We plan to do 4 workshops
in Mae Ai this year and 4 in Chiang Rai. We
will work with the same group of pastors in
Mae Ai as last year, and the one in Chiang
Rai will be a new group of pastors from
Myanmar. Wichai will translate for us into
Lahu. Please pray for Matt and my
preparations for the workshop in Mae Ai.
We are teaching through Romans 1-8 in
February.
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Iran’s Christians Urge Prayer
Iranian church urges prayer as horror of crackdown emerges.
As the scale of horror caused by the authorities’ brutal clampdown on unrest in Iran continues to emerge, Christians from the country are urging their global family to remain in prayer. Since the protests began last month, at least 25,000 people have been killed.
“I managed to speak with my family after two weeks,” Majid* shares. “Praise God they are alive, but they are not well. Even their voices are different. I heard that my brother was kept in prison for ten days and beaten almost to death. They were afraid to share more details because of monitoring.”
“The church in Iran wants to be salt and light in this moment,” Ziba* adds. “We want to bring truth and hope to our nation. Please pray that God shows us how to love our community with the hope of Jesus.”
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Lessons In Marriage: “It’s Not About Me.”
In fifty years of marriage, I have learned many lessons. One lesson I’ve had to learn is that “It’s not about me.” Our Lord said: “It is more blessed to give than to receive” (Acts 20:35). I use this now to end every wedding ceremony. This is the call to self-denial in all of life for the benefit of those around us. It is part of “Love your neighbor as yourself.” It is the very epitome of Christ’s earthly life:
Philippians 2:3-5 says, “Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus.”
Our expectations of a happy marriage, whereby we are benefitted by the other, may seem to be rational and normal, but they are destructive to true happiness in marriage.
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Shepherding The Saints To Glory
The reality of death, especially for those who sense it’s nearness, is often terrifying. This is exactly why Satan wields the fear of death in enslaving untold countless souls and keeping them from Christ, who is the only Destroyer of death (Hebrews 2:14-15). But even for faithful Christians, approaching death is still often a frightening experience. John Bunyan vividly gets at this reality in his Pilgrim’s Progress when Christian, before entering into the Celestial City first needs to cross the river Jordan. But in abject fear he begins to panic, being swallowed up under the rivers cold waters and sinking down into its dark abyss; that is, until Christ reaches in and rescues his redeemed servant! I’ve never not cried when reading that portion of the story. It accurately describes the very real wavering many saints have when nearing that cold unknown.
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IRBS Newsletter February 2026
Dr James Renihan writes: In this semester, professors will be teaching courses such as Greek, Christology, Eschatology, Ethics, Puritanism, Symbolics and others. Most will be offered in Mansfield, TX, and others in Ramsbottom, UK, St. Jerome, PQ Canada, and Chilliwack, BC Canada. Students are gathering textbooks, preparing to listen and learn and to study with diligence. They know that each lecture hour is a step of preparation for the service of Jesus Christ and His people. Unlike the events in Punxsutawney, PA, these generally unseen and perhaps obscure moments are of significance in the Kingdom of God. Our classes won't receive publicity, but they are far more important than silly reports on the nightly news shows.
Since you are interested in the work of IRBS, you know how significant our labor is. Thank you for your loving support. Will you please continue to pray for us as we pursue the regular and ordinary tasks before us?
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Ukraine: January in fire and frost
Pastor Igor Bandura writes: “Ukrainians knew that this winter could be harsh. These days, our thoughts and prayers are with Kyiv, Sumy, Kherson, Dnipro, Kharkiv, and many other cities where people are enduring severe frost without electricity and heating. We also stand in prayer with the soldiers who must go out to their positions in such weather.
We do not have answers to how long our people will continue to suffer the cruelties of war. We have no optimistic short-term forecasts. Yet we do have hope—a hope in God that continues to live despite everything.
We sincerely thank you, our faithful partners—Ukraine’s present and future now depend on your support. We are grateful to all our brothers and sisters whose financial and humanitarian assistance enables Ukrainians to survive.”
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Worship Requires Discipline
Worship is possible only because God acts first. We do not approach him on the basis of sincerity, emotional intensity, or liturgical precision, but because guilt has been removed and sin atoned for. Under the new covenant, we come not with a coal from the altar but through the finished work of Christ, who has opened the way into God’s presence by his blood.
This truth guards us from making worship about ourselves. Francis Chan recounts a story of a churchgoer who told a pastor, “I didn’t really like the worship today,” to which the pastor replied, “That’s all right—we weren’t worshiping you.” While humorous, the point is serious. Worship is not primarily about what we receive but about whom we adore. We worship in spirit and in truth (John 4:24), according to God’s self-revelation, not our preferences.
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The Commonwealth Of Dominica
The Dominicans are a people tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine imaginable. Among the inhabitants of the island, over 90% profess some form of Christianity. More than 60% are Roman Catholic, and 12% of the population are Seventh Day Adventists. Despite these outward forms of Christendom, over 75% of the children born in Dominica are born out of wedlock. The island’s foremost historian, Lennox Honychurch, says of this: “The West Indian pattern of high illegitimacy and low percentage of marriages features prominently in Dominican society. The problems of paternal negligence and lack of the father figure has contributed to the complex nature of our modern social issues.”
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Increasing Opposition To Islamophobia Definition
The proposed government definition of ‘Islamophobia’, now re-worded as ‘Anti-Muslim hostility’, was leaked in December. Tim Dieppe of Christian Concern commented about it at the time, but more opposition to this newly proposed definition has now emerged.
Earlier this month, a new report from the Counter Extremism Group argued that the proposed definition is ‘unlawful’. The report argues that members of all faith groups have legal protection from discrimination or incitement. The point is that these protections apply to all equally. They protect the right to proselytise and practise a religion as well as the right for that same religion and its practices to be criticised without fear.
What the proposed definition of anti-Muslim hostility does is it goes beyond the law in giving Islam and Muslims special protection. In doing so it could constitute “unlawful discrimination towards members of other faith groups.”
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Supporting Secret Believers In North Korea
Open Doors has received several messages from secret believers in North Korea that reiterate their immense gratitude for your support amidst the hardships of daily life. Your support continues to be ‘an inexhaustible source of strength’ for secret believers in North Korea. That’s according to one of several new messages sent to you from the country which also give a deeply sobering glimpse into everyday life for North Koreans.
When the latest World Watch List was released earlier this month, it wasn’t a surprise to see North Korea again topping it. Life for North Korea’s secret believers remains extremely dangerous and it’s made harder by a devasting humanitarian crisis that continues to affect the wider population – one that is largely ignored by the regime as it seeks to strengthen its self-reliance as well as its strategic position on the world stage.
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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