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Greetings All! In today's mid-week episode of Into the Pray with Dave Brennan of Brephos , we continue our trailing conversation about IVF by spending time digging into Scripture. Listen to Dave, Nick and Mairi read through a key passage in Genesis (critically, the book of origins ) where the deception of the human heart is clear for all to see...or at least those who want to see. Here’s the...

Greetings All! This is the 20th part in our study of the book of 1 Corinthians entitled City of Temples . Today we dive in to chapter 7 vv 17-24 in what is something of a digression from Paul's thorough dealing of the issue of marriage, singleness etc. But what of this digression? What does Paul's repeated point in verses 17, 20 and 24 mean for our marriages/singleness today? We pray thi...

*Apologies that the  audio in this episode of Into the Pray is not as crisp as usual. We are in the process of decorating and we will be back to normal very soon* This is our normal Friday session with guests, friends and book reviews. See a related Instagram post on this issue of healing here. Today, still in this third season Life Together,  Nick meets with dear friend Seamus Bannon to discuss t...

This week on our mid-week session with Dave Brennan of Brephos, we begin a new mini-series discussing IVF and asking honestly whether this is ever OK for disciples of the coming Christ? Listen to Nick and Mairi explain their journey and the point at which they came face to face with the realities of IVF and the strong witness of the Holy Spirit that this was not the way forward. We will be taking...

In this week's teaching episode of Into the Pray, we come to vv10-16 of chapter 7 of 1 Corinthians.  We must think carefully about the disruptive impact of the gospel in marriages in Corinth but also marriages today. Who is this new Man, Jesus, Yeshua, Who is now calling the shots? What does the Lordship of Jesus really mean for our spousal relationships?  What was Paul's counsel then an...

This week's episode of Into the Pray   hosts our next instalment with Dave Brennan in our ongoing conversation about abortion. (They are, of course, normally every Wednesday ) We are having these conversations with Dave every single week because there is a great need for us to be thinking a lot more about these realities tolerated and normalised throughout the world. But Jesus is coming. Earl...

In this week's teaching episode of City of Temples , we come to an important juncture and one that is sufficiently important for us to pause before methodically going through the next section verse by verse. (7:10-17) Today, Nick and Mairi take time to discuss the general landscape of the Church as regards to marriage, divorce, remarriage and adultery. Should Christians get divorced? And, per...

In our weekly episode of Into the Pray with Dave Brennan of CBRUK , we continue to discuss the horrors of abortion and the complicity of the British evangelical Church towards the wholesale promotion of COVID-19 vaccines.  As you are going to hear, a recent video has been released of evangelical leaders, up and down the UK, bent on pedalling/spiritualising the very same "vaccine narrative&quo...

Having laid the biblical and theological foundation for marriage last week , this 17th episode of our City of Temples series now turns to Paul's teaching on marriage and singleness in more detail. We will spend at least two more weeks in this chapter because there is so much to get out of it! This week: - What did the Corinthians think of marriage and sex? - Why was Paul's teaching revol...

In this week's episode of Into the Pray with Dave Brennan of CBRUK , we discuss the foundation and epicentre of what it means to be actively opposed to abortion: the gift of the Holy Spirit of prophecy . We are all commanded to eagerly desire this gift of the Holy Spirit and our ongoing question on this podcast is: "If, as the Body of Christ, we are commanded by God to not only desire th...

In this week's teaching episode of Into the Pray, Nick takes a slight detour into the pages of Ephesians 5 before digging into our next chapter (7) next week. How poor is the professing church's understanding of marriage? How poor is the teaching? As Nick explains in this episode, referring back to experiences in a mega church in the UK, the general lay of the land is exceedingly poor an...

This episode of Into the Pray with Dave Brennan from CBRUK follows on from last week's session about whether or not we should be having the COVID-19 vaccines. If you've not listened to that one please do go back and listen to that first. It was during last week's recording that we became aware of the potentially huge pastoral issue unfolding here for those (principally over 70 years...

Welcome to the fifteenth episode of our slow, meditative, meandering study through the book of 1 Corinthians. This episode this week contains what I believe is the critical verse for this entire book as we finish chapter 6, by going through vv 12-20, and begin to touch on pivotal principles for marriage and all our living next week in chapter 7. The glory of God and our bodies were not irrelevant,...

This week on Into the Pray , we talk again with Dave Brennan of CBRUK to hear his thoughts on the important and pressing question, "Should I have the COVID vaccine?". As you will hear, this question can't really be considered without referencing the wider COVID-19 context and, at the very least, being prepared to question the narratives that are being spewed out by the likes of the...

This week on Into the Pray,  we wanted to give some time to an area of conversation that we think will be becoming more and more common as the lockdown of the COVID pandemic slowly lifts. As we pray and as we seek to be faithfully surrendered to Him in all of life (see 1 Corinthians 6:19-20), The Holy Spirit has covenanted to orchestrate the closing of the gaps in our personal/corporate lives, bet...

This week we are resuming our study series, City of Temples, working our way through the book of 1 Corinthians. (If you've not listened to the previous episodes, we'd encourage you to go ahead and do that). Chapter 6 verses 1-11 are the focus of this week's session, looking at the serious issues of: - What does it really mean to be a brother? (To bear the name brother). - How is the...

This week on Into the Pray, we zoom in on Dietrich Bonhoeffer's classic work, Life Together, in order to start the ball rolling as we examine more closely what Christian community is supposed to look like. Last week we talked about when we would draw a line and actually break fellowship so we hope this will be a natural tonic for the difficulty in even thinking about this reality. We continue...

Greetings, Everyone! This brief episode of Into the Pray is an update regarding our methodical teaching through the book of 1 Corinthians. Suffice to say, an 8 week-old yellow Labrador called Barley has interrupted my plans for today, hence this shorter-than-normal session. Sincere apologies to all for not being able to make the first session in chapter 6 happen in time for today. However, there a...

Greetings All, This is a difficult question to think about, a harder question to raise publicly and, of course, a painful question to try and answer. However, it is also a vital question that we believe we all need to wrestle with as the Church stands at a crossroads of unparalleled opportunity. Are you aware of the urgent need for division - the kind of division found in the pages of the New Test...

Welcome to the third season of the Into the Pray podcast! Mairi and I needed a wee break from the frenetic activity surrounding podcasting as season two drew to a close just a few days before Christmas. (There are more than 40 other episodes over seasons 1&2 that you can go ahead and listen to, including solid teaching through the book of 1 Corinthians). 2021 has started with an intense sense...

In this final episode of the second season of Into the Pray, we're joined by our Mum & Dad, Ant and Pam Franks. We can't think of anyone on the planet who we'd rather talk to at the end of this year as regards to what on Earth is going on with the Church. Don't miss Mum and Dad sharing their own personal testimony, not only over the course of the 2020 mayhem, but, as import...

In this week's episode of Into the Pray we meet with Dave Brennan for the last time of 2020. (This is the 4th part of a mini-series introducing the gargantuan issue of abortion.) Shining a spotlight onto this subject - forcing it into the front of our consciousness - rather than leaving it buried in numbness and complicity of our minds, Nick and Dave discuss the root of the problem: idolatry....

In this week's teaching episode of the Into the Pray series through 1 Corinthians, City of Temples , we dive into the last few verses of chapter 5. What is God saying as 2020 closes? Exactly what He was saying as it opened... If you would like to help support this podcast and the wider work we're pioneering, we would be very grateful as we increasingly find ourselves at capacity in more...

In this week's episode of Into the Pray , we come to our next conversation about the abhorrence of abortion. Words are important and we need to keep using specific words that are vital for us to "get" in our hearts. Abortion is abhorrent and yet we don't feel the abhorrence of it; to us it is just normal. This is where we really need to pray for the power of the Spirit, that th...

In this week's teaching session in 1 Corinthians, we dive into chapter 5 and Paul's shocking command to excommunicate the brother from among the Corinthians. However, the shocking reality is that the damage this gross sexual immorality was causing was not only affecting one or two people but, rather, the whole church. When we begin to think about implications for this today - i.e. the co...