Evangelical Magazine

03/06/2024

The greatest of these is love by Pete Roberts https://www.evangelicalmagazine.com/article/the-greatest-of-these-is-love/

31/05/2024

Engaging with politics by Peter Harris https://www.evangelicalmagazine.com/article/engaging-with-politics/

16/05/2024

Books that changed me by Paul Spear https://www.evangelicalmagazine.com/article/basic-christianity-by-john-stott/

11/05/2024

Book review - Weakness our strength https://www.evangelicalmagazine.com/review/weakness-our-strength-learning-from-christ-crucified/

10/05/2024

Book review - Scattering seeds of hope https://www.evangelicalmagazine.com/review/scattering-seeds-of-hope/

09/05/2024

Review of Welsh Awakenings https://www.evangelicalmagazine.com/review/welsh-awakenings/

08/05/2024

Book review Hopeward by Dai Hankey https://www.evangelicalmagazine.com/review/hopeward/

19/04/2024

William Wilberforce and the abolition of salvery by Ian Shaw

Human trafficking and modern slavery remain terrible and persistent problems. In 2010, a United Kingdom Act of Parliament introduced a national day to raise awareness of the need to eradicate all forms of slavery, human trafficking and exploitation. Awareness of the seriousness of this issue was rai...

15/04/2024

Apocalyptic Literature by Maurice McCracken

When I was growing up, all the Christians I knew who loved apocalyptic literature were, well, weird. At the very least they became weird when they were talking about it! In this article I’m going to try and give you some tools to help you read and understand the apocalyptic literature in the Bible...

12/04/2024

Why don't you go on a short term mission trip? By Kathryn Bowen

I have spent the last ten years living and serving in South East Asia. Based in North Thailand I am responsible for receiving short-term workers who come and serve alongside our long-term team members living in the Mekong Region of South East Asia. Short-term in my case means anyone looking to come....

04/04/2024

Who is Jesus? By Luke Williams

Who is Jesus? This is the most important question that anyone can ask because discovering the truth declared about Jesus in the Spirit-inspired Scriptures brings life, joy and peace with God our Father. It is also the question that occupied the church in the earliest centuries of its history. This i...

30/03/2024

The resurrection applied by John Funnell

When your unbelieving friends find out that you are a Christian, what do you think their first thoughts would be in regard to what you believe in? Would it be your views on abortion or marriage? Does your political persuasion take centre stage in your conversations with them? Would they initially th...

29/03/2024

Why the cross? By JP Earnest

Someone dying on a Roman cross almost two thousand years ago to get people to heaven? A brutal crucifixion in my place? The whole idea is ridiculous to some and repulsive to others. Yet the cross of Jesus continues to be at the heart of Christian belief. Surely, we can find a less gruesome way to re...

29/03/2024

Cracking the Easter Code by Elzbieta Plociennik

With the arrival of spring and the renewal of nature around us, Easter brings hope and joy along with its festivities. Yet Easter eggs and bunnies continue to overshadow the true giver of the promise of abundance, renewal and joy: Jesus Christ. Can we crack the Easter code and make the biblical East...

25/03/2024

Making Decisions Gods Way by Tim Gill

Churches have to make decisions on a whole host of things. ‘Who should we appoint as a pastor or elder or deacon?’ ‘Should we spend money on this building project?’ ‘Does it have to be a man who is doing this?’ How does God want us to make such decisions? The starting point is that the c...

23/03/2024

Pressing on by Jim Grindell

I am not a runner. I will take a bike over running every time, but I appreciate the effort and determination of those that love to punish themselves by running marathons. It is astonishing that anyone can run the full marathon distance in a little over two hours. Far more interesting are the stories...

21/03/2024

Shining a light on the steps by Annmarie Miles

When I worked in a call centre for a local authority, I regularly spoke to customers about streetlights. If the one outside their house was not working, it made life very difficult. Steps or pathways they would normally take without too much thought would become suddenly terrifying and potentially d...

21/03/2024

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05/03/2024

Book review

What does it mean to be a man? For another generation this question would either not need to be asked, or if asked, easily answered. Yet this simple question currently brings confusion as we navigate the chaos of gender opinions in society. This little book from Matt Fuller will certainly help bring...

04/03/2024

Book review

This is a precious little book packed full of good things. Based on the words of Paul’s second and third chapter to Colossians it is a simple study of what it is to be ‘heavenly minded’. The author asks the questions, ‘Why?’, ‘What?’ and ‘How?’ Here is a quote that illustrates what...

01/03/2024

Review by Jonathan Hodgins

Like the film Life, Die, Repeat in which the protagonist fights the same battle every day, gets killed and respawns back at the beginning, culture wars repeat themselves. They can be stressful but also fun and they can generate a sense of camaraderie. Unfortunately in an attempt to win a battle and....

29/02/2024

The Letters by Gary McKee

A large proportion of the New Testament contains letters from Paul, and there are also letters from James, Peter, John and Jude. It’s good to remember that God has divinely inspired the biblical authors to use forms of writing that were current and understandable in the time in which they were wri...

26/02/2024

Heaven - Consolation prize or the real deal? by Michael Ots

I was a bit late getting into the Harry Potter books. When most of my friends had finished them, I was only just getting going. This meant that I was in continual danger of plot spoilers. Warning: this article will contain some too! Sure enough, a friend did let slip some rather significant informat...

22/02/2024

Understanding Youth Culture in Wales by Catrin Trollope

Over the summer we asked young people who attended the Evangelical Movement of Wales (EMW) camps to fill in a questionnaire about what it’s like to be a young person. We were able to find out what questions young people have about Christianity, the struggles they face and what they find difficult ...

19/02/2024

Why don't you talk about the sermon by Jonathan Hodgins

This is what I find odd. Evangelicals invest huge amounts of capital into sermons. We spend large sums of money training people to preach and then pay them an annual salary to do it as a fulltime job. We set aside at least fifty percent of our weekly church services to sermons and we invest huge amo...

16/02/2024

Book review - The friends and the traveller

A colourful book with the text in rhyme, this book is a re-telling of the Easter story with a focus on the encounter with Jesus on the Emmaus Road. It is lovely to read to little ones and good for primary children to read by themselves. A great Easter present (alongside a chocolate egg, of course) a...

16/02/2024

Book review - Finding mercy on the way of sorrow

This devotional covers the period of Lent but even if you don’t follow the church calendar there is plenty to learn from this book at any time of the year. It is 40 daily reflections from the book of Lamentations. I confess to a love/hate relationship with Lamentations as it seems miserable but th...

16/02/2024

Book review - 12 things you probably didn't know about Easter

At only 68 pages, this little book lives up to its title. I didn’t know that Cadbury manufactures 500 million Crème Eggs each year or that making hot cross buns was once a criminal offence! Seriously though, alongside a lot of fun facts, this book packs an apologetical and biblical punch. The acc...

15/02/2024

Books that changed me by Steve Levy

I was a fourteen-year-old boy. I had received a terrible school report which I had hidden from my parents. Even though I had been a Christian for three years my Christian life was a disappointment. Church was boring. I read the Bible every day, a chapter a day, but if you asked me what I had read I....

12/02/2024

The Life Beyond by Jonny Raine

Last summer, I was treated to a surprise trip. Though it was a surprise, I had to ask questions beforehand so that I knew what clothes to pack, what shoes to wear and what else to take with me. With the life beyond this one, heaven and the new creation, there are many unknowns. I have often asked qu...