Christian Heritage London Podcast

J H. Bavinck, nephew of Herman Bavinck, is respected as the man who took Bavinck’s rich, practical, God-centred theology, and applied it in the context of missions. His great book Personality and Worldview – originally lectures to students – has now been translated by James Eglinton. (The Foreword was the last thing that Tim Keller published in his lifetime.) We had the privilege of hosting the la...

Mary Mohler (Mrs Albert Mohler) has written a lovely book about Susannah Spurgeon (Mrs Charles Spurgeon). It was a delight and privilege to sit down with her and talk about the Spurgeons, to reflect on their example, and to hear some of her own stories! Her new book Susannah Spurgeon: Lessons for a Life of Joyful Eagerness in Christ is published by Christian Focus.

We had the privilege recently of sitting down with John Woods, author of God is in the House. John is the founder of the Dead Preachers Society conference. Having been a pastor for decades John now teaches on preaching internationally and was a wise, fascinating and helpful guest.

We had a fascinating, vividly colourful time reflecting with Alastair Roberts about his testimony, salvation, serving the church and ways to read the bible.

Randy Newman, author of the acclaimed Questioning Evangelism (Third Edition recently published) is Senior Fellow for Apologetics and Evangelism at the C.S. Lewis Institute. We had a wonderful time talking with him about his own story and his influences.

It was a superb privilege to sit down with Collin Hansen (Editor in Chief of The Gospel Coalition) and to reflect on his friend Tim Keller, a man whose gracious influence - as we discussed - was established on eternal truth, luminous grace and was a vivid and compelling gospel example.

Since 1955 Open Doors, begun by Brother Andrew (God's Smuggler), has been supporting persecuted Christians. It was an extraordinary privilege to talk with Sam about the worth of Christ, the persecuted church and rejoicing in suffering.

George Verwer (1938-2023)'s life has influenced the lives of millions: in 1957 he began Operation Mobilisation which has seen 200,000 people sent as missionaries. At least 110 countries have been served by OM and over 45 million visitors have boarded their ships, from which they distribute gospel literature. We had a golden time talking about his own story and hearing his memories.

Jonathan Aitken is interested in people - he's written biographies of John Newton, Charles Colson, Richard Nixon and others. His own life has taken fascinating turns, a dive into humiliation and regret, and the wakening of grace - and has developed into a new purpose which, as he says, he would never have expected. A biographer of John Newton (John Newton From Disgrace to Amazing Grace - Continuum...

Craig is International Training Director for Christianity Explored, a course that churches use internationally to welcome people and tell them the gospel of Jesus Christ. He came into the role after 20 years' experience as pastor of a local church and saw the benefit of CE first from the context of church ministry. We had a great time talking with him about his own story and the people who've insp...

Glen Scrivener has written The Air We Breathe - How We All Came to Believe in Freedom, Kindness, Progress, and Equality. Engaging with history and contemporary thinkers he proposes that the influence of the Christian gospel is behind massive contributions that have established and stabilised the world as we know it. However, while his claims are encouraging and stimulating to the Christian believe...

Ian Galloway studied Medicine at Newcastle and started following Jesus in his first year, "after discovering that the resurrection was true, Jesus was alive and was inviting Ian to be his friend." Ian and his wife Heather started a new church in Byker with four friends. This became what is now City Church. Ian served as lead pastor for thirty-three years and an influential church grew. He now teac...

Bill Edgar, who we have previously interviewed on the Christian Heritage London podcast, taught Apologetics at Westminster Theological Seminary from 1989 until summer 2022, and has now written a book on a subject dear to his heart: jazz. In A Supreme Love, Edgar considers the context from which this unique art form came in American history, the pioneers who defined it and the transcendent nature o...

Allen McClymont is a typical Londoner: born in Malaysia he grew up in New Zealand and has taught New Testament Greek in Malaysia! For nearly twenty years he's worked with OMF, the missionary society begun by J Hudson Taylor. We had a great time talking about the potential and opportunity of international mission and how the roots of his passion to serve and establish people in the gospel were fed.

Tim Dieppe is someone of whom you’ve likely heard but would like to learn more: he is Head of Public Policy at Christian Concern, and is engaging - boldly, wisely and articulately - with many of the great challenges which Christians are finding in the work place, schools and wider society at the present time. It was excellent to sit down with him and hear his own story and stories of people who’ve...

Dean Inserra planted City Church Tallahassee 15 years ago and is passionate about reaching the city of Tallahassee with the Gospel, to see a *worldwide* impact made for Jesus. The congregation frequently sees thousands in attendance and is known for its emphasis on local equipping and ministry.

Chris Larson is President and CEO of Ligonier Ministries, which began as the ministry of R C Sproul. R C's ministry has established and inspired believers internationally for generations - his great book The Holiness of God being a watershed text for many. Ligonier established a number of teaching fellowships such as Sinclair Ferguson and Stephen Nichols, and has continued to serve the church inte...

While he was assistant to Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones at Westminster Chapel in London, Iain Murray was asked by the Doctor to give some lectures on church history. And so began a fascination with church history which would flourish into a ministry which would bless the body of Christ internationally: the Banner of Truth publishing house. If you have heard of Charles Spurgeon, Jonathan Edwards, John Owen...

Alun Ebenezer is the founding headmaster of Fulham Boys School, a centre of excellence in central London. Here boys are taught from an ethos of resilience, kindness and a can do attitude - an ethos that is geared towards boys, which nurtures enterprise - business, social and personal - and is built upon the Christian Faith. It's an ethos which relies on strong leadership, is committed to firm disc...

Mez McConnell is senior pastor of Niddrie Community Church in Edinburgh, Scotland, founder of the 20 Schemes church planting network, and author of several books, most recently The Least, The Last and The Lost. It was a great privilege to sit with him, hear his story, talk about his influences and be inspired by his example of faithful, bible-established, gospel-inspired obedience.

Sharon James studied history at Cambridge and theology in Toronto and Wales, and now brings piercing, prophetic insight to the extraordinary challenges of our culture through her work at The Christian Institute. Sharon has lately written The Lies We Are Told, The Truth We Must Hold, in which she looks at the thought behind the cultural challenges of our moment and how they are answered in the gosp...

James Eglinton has done outstanding work in our time drawing attention to the work of Herman Bavinck. The author of the acclaimed Bavinck: A Critical Biography, he has introduced a generation to the life and times of a luminous thinker whose God-centred theology, only recently made available in English, is now stimulating, provoking and encouraging believers outside of Holland for the first time....

Michael McMullen, Professor of Church History at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Editor of the Midwestern Journal of Theology, is behind previously unpublished works by Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Jonathan Edwards and now the previously unpublished Spiritual Journals of William Wilberforce. This most recent book has been described as one of the most important publications from the last ten...

You’re not sure what you think about God. You’re not an atheist – you’re not that confident of his non-existence. You’re not a Christian or a Muslim, though you’ve got nothing against either of them. You prefer to identify as a humble agnostic. Some would say you’re sitting on the fence, but why not? It’s a comfortable enough place to be. Why can’t we all just admit we don’t know? Yet sometimes yo...

Where are the leaders? WE NEED LEADERS. Chris Green knows a few things about leadership: former Vice Principal of Oak Hill Theological College, vicar of St James, Muswell Hill, a large London church and a teacher of teachers. He's lately written The Gift, How Your Leadership Can Serve Your Church. We had a superb time talking about leadership, leaders who've inspired him and about *serving* as a l...