Into the Pray

Hello! Thank you for listening to this week's teaching session through 1 Corinthians. Today we're looking at chapter 13 and especially the first three verses. **Just to clarify about the point concerning Bar Mitzvah and chapter 13 having 13 verses: obviously these are man-made constructions (the original manuscripts didn’t have chapter or verse divisions) but in Paul’s forensically order...

Hello! Thank you for listening to Into the Pray! We would be very surprised if there was another podcast available today offering an overview of the prophet Hosea as an antidote to the madnesses of Black Friday. As a balm for our materialistically bombarding world, sit back in your favourite chair with a coffee or in the car or on the move with your favourite podcast and listen to Nick read part o...

Hello! Thank you all for listening to this episode of Into the Pray . You can watch our conversation with Dave Brennan here if you'd prefer. First of all we'd like to honour the memory of our good friend, Melvin Tinker, who very sadly passed away earlier yesterday morning. We feel very grateful for the times we had with Melvin, albeit briefly, and will miss calling on him for input and t...

Hello! Thank you for listening to these City of Temples sessions through 1 Corinthians. (This is episode 42 and all previous episodes are here ). You might like to watch/share our flagship 2021 film here . You can also watch Friday’s session with Alisa Childers here via YouTube. Finally, you can also watch our new YouTube series, featuring 15 leaders, regarding the state of the Church. View/subscr...

Hello! This week on the Into the Pray podcast we're grateful to be joined by Alisa Childers ...author, worship leader and Christian apologist from the USA. You can also watch this conversation here via YouTube if you'd prefer. Please remember to subscribe to the channel and share to your networks! You can also watch our new YouTube series, featuring 15 church leaders, regarding the chaos...

Hello! Thank you for joining us for our mid-week session of Into the Pray - you can find all episodes here . You might like to watch/share our flagship 2021 film here . This week we continue peering through the God-given window of Scripture to discover how abnormal our secularised world is, let alone our secularised Church. The main audio in this episode is from a meeting Nick had been invited to...

Greetings All! Have you had a difficult weekend? Is Monday proving to be more of a struggle than usual? Perhaps as you’ve watched TV, heard the news or even visited a church, maybe your heart has been ‘stirred with a noble theme’ (Psalm 45:1) and you’re not sure what to do next or, even, who you might talk with? Spend some time drawing aside with the Lord, lift your heart and mind to Jesus and ask...

Hello! Thanks as ever for joining us on Into the Pray and our teaching series, City of Temples, through the book of 1 Corinthians. You can watch this podcast on YouTube here . For related reading, you can buy Nick's book, Body Zero, here . In today's session, we spend time looking at vv 14-27 of chapter 12. Because of his immense suffering for the sake of Jesus’  Name, Paul's own bo...

Hello! Thank you for listening to Into the Pray . Next Friday we are being joined by Alisa Childers so we thought it would be fun this Friday to have a relatively light hearted wind down to the weekend. Listen to us discuss the top ten most common questions for first dates and you might just chuckle...you'll certainly hear some stories that were new to us! Here's the film , "Paul -...

Hello! Welcome to Into the Pray and thank you for listening along. You can also watch along here . Today's midweek session with Dave Brennan of Brephos begins to lift our thinking above the realm of the natural and normal into the transcendent and eternal. “A world without windows” is how sociologist Peter Berger describes the secularized view of the world.  He also calls it the “prison of mo...

Hello! Thank you for listening to this episode of Into the Pray! Today we continue our passage through the book of 1 Corinthians in our teaching series, City of Temples (this is the 40th episode!). You can watch this teaching session on YouTube here . The focus of our time together today are vv12-13 of chapter 12 in what is effectively a mini-series called The Present & Continuous Holy Spirit....

Hello! Thank you for listening to Into the Pray ! This week's Friday session is special! Turn off the TV, sit back and listen to Dave, Nick and Mairi read J.C.Ryle's 19th Century classic, A Call to Pray . This is our answer to the question regarding climate change: No! The real emergency threatening the world is the " prayerless Church " . Please follow our new vlog series over...

Greetings All,  This is part 1 of a 2-part podcast. **Tune in to Into the Pray this Friday to hear J C Ryle's "A Call to Pray" read in full by Mairi, Nick & Dave.** You can watch this podcast via basic YouTube video here . Look out for our conversation with Alisa Childers next week. Thank you very much for your prayers for healing as we have sought to return to full capacity thi...

Hello! Thank you for listening to this episode of Into the Pray. Our schedule of podcasts this coming week (as well as VLOGs etc) has been delayed for a week or two due to Nick’s ill health. Please do pray for us and, especially, for pain management and good, uninterrupted, healing sleep. Here’s a related prayer. In the meantime, you might enjoy a glimpse into our half-term break and Scotland’s ja...

Hello! Thank you for listening to our podcast and hope that you are growing in a love for the Bible through this weekly teaching series, City of Temples. In a couple of weeks we welcome Alisa Childers to the podcast, so please look out for that. Today, approaching the UK's autumn half-term week, perhaps you would spend some time thinking about the previous 3 episodes, (The Present Continuous...

Greetings All, Please forgive this unplanned, impromptu additional podcast this week, but I believe this is very important. You can find the blog article from this episode here . “Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics. To us a single act of...

Hello! Thank you for listening to Into the Pray. In a couple of weeks we welcome Alisa Childers to the podcast, so please look out for that. Did you know that there are approaching 40 teaching episodes in the book of 1 Corinthians available in our series, City of Temples? We're currently in a mini-series as part of that entitled, The Present & Continuous Holy Spirit . This week we're...

Hello! Thank you once again for listening to Into the Pray. In a couple of weeks we welcome Alisa Childers to the podcast, so please look out for that. Our mid-week session this week sees Nick and Dave picking up a question that has been quite  commonly asked in the last few months: If we take a stand regarding the COVID-19 vaccines, won't that mean that we also have to take a similar stand r...

Hello! Thank you for listening to our podcast and trust that you are finding these weekly sessions in 1 Corinthians helpful? This is the third episode in a mini-series (within the overall City of Temples series), entitled, The Present & Continuous Holy Spirit. Episode one is here . Episode two is here . Today our focus is on vv8-11 of chapter 12. If you haven't see the beginning of our ne...

Hello! Thank you very much to you all for listening and especially those who track with us regularly and support our work. If you would like to join our small group of patrons, you can do so here . Our Friday session this week is the audio version of our new vlog/video series that starts today over on YouTube.  Entitled, 'To The Church In Great Britain', you can subscribe to see the vide...

Hello! Thank you all for listening to Into the Pray. In our Wednesday session this week, Nick and Dave continue to discuss the intimate interconnectedness of abortion and transgender ideology. **CORRECTION: Reference to the conversation with Laurie Penny - “morally reprehensible” was, of course, addressing the position of being pro-life rather than being pro-abortion.** Why would we do well to lis...

Hello! Thank you for listening to Into the Pray . Today's teaching focus is on vv 4-7 of 1 Corinthians 12. Why should we resist spirituality? "...having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people." (2 Timothy 3:5) What should the common good look like in our churches? To help us develop this media, please would you consider helping us with 3 things: 1) Con...

Hello! Thank you for listening to Into the Pray. What you will hear in this week's Friday session is the full audio from a video call with Melvin Tinker in which Nick asks some important questions for our new video series over on YouTube. Melvin's contribution is important, bold, clear and helpful so we wanted you to hear it in its fullness! What is the root problem in the Church today?...

Hello! Thank you for listening to Into the Pray . Today's episode contains ten minutes of audio from a Facebook LIVE video in which Dave Brennan speaks with Laurie Penny at Parliament Square, London, regarding abortion and related feminist/transgender ideologies. We begin this week to discuss the interconnectedness of "pro-choice" thinking, the abortion industry and other ideologies...

Hello! Thank you for listening to our teaching series through the book of 1 Corinthians. You can watch today's episode - including the Narnia clip - on YouTube here . Today we focus on the first three verses of chapter 12 as we begin a period of study concerning the Holy Spirit. Does the Holy Spirit give spiritual gifts today or not? Does it really matter? Can’t we just agree to disagree? Fin...