Healthy Gospel Church

Our guest this week is Graeme Shanks. Originally hailing from Glasgow, Graeme is married to Alex and they have 3 girls Chloe, Grace and Eve. Having qualified as a solicitor and worked in Commercial Property for a few years upon graduation he joined Bruntsfield Evangelical Church staff team back in 2012 and has been our Pastor since 2017. He has studied at both the Cornhill Training Course and latt...

Our guest today is Hannah Nation. Hannah Nation is a writer, editor, and content strategist. She currently serves as the Managing Director of the Center for House Church Theology and as the Content Director for China Partnership. She has published in Christianity Today, the Gospel Coalition, Comment, and Plough. ​Her topics of interest are: urban Chinese house church movements; print and digital t...

Chris Smart joins us this week on the Health Gospel Church Podcast. Chris was born and grew up in the Scottish Highlands. Chris' family didn't grow up in the church, but when he was 18 he went to study Chemistry in the city of Aberdeen and there through the witness of a fellow student, came to faith in Christ. After about a year he began to sense God’s call to ministry finishing his Chemistry degr...

Our first guest of the new season is Derek Lamont.   Derek has ben a minister for 33 years spending 22 of them in the centre of Edinburgh as minister of St Columba's Free Church. During his time there St Columba's planted four new churches and now Derek has decided to get stuck in himself and plant a new church in Leith. Derek is married to Catriona with four grown-up kids – two of whom live in Am...

This week's guest is Rev. Alex MacDonald.   Alex was brought up in the Highlands of Scotland and is a former Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland, having served as minister in Bishopbirggs Free Church, Bon Accord Free Church and Buccleuch Free Church.   This week's theme is "A Life in Ministry"   Topics include: Highland Clearances  Tackling Social Issues in Preaching  Right to Life  Christian...

This week's guest is Confex Makhalira.   Confex Makhalira is an ordained minister and a missionary of Mission to the World (MTW). Currently, he is serving as a pastor and church planter of Christ Presbyterian Church in Blantyre, Malawi. He is married to Mwai, and together they have two amazing daughters.   This week's theme is "The Church in Africa"   Topics include: African Presbyterianism  David...

This week's guest is Anne MacDonald.   Anne is the Student and Young Adults Worker at Bon Accord Free Church in Aberdeen.    This week's theme is "Students and Young People"   Topics include:  Women in ministry  When to employ a youth worker   Issues facing young people today  How do we make disciples?   Finding a balance between church service and family life   Official Site: https://www.freechur...

This week's guest is Thomas Davis.   Thomas Davis is a minister in the Free Church of Scotland who has served as an assistant at St Columba’s Free Church in Edinburgh and is now minister of  Carloway Free Church on the Isle of Lewis.   He is also a visiting lecturer in Systematic Theology and Church History at Edinburgh Theological Seminary. He is married to Una, and they have three children: Tom,...

This week's guest is Melissa Kruger.   Melissa serves as vice president of discipleship programming at The Gospel Coalition. She is the author of The Envy of Eve: Finding Contentment in a Covetous World , Walking with God in the Season of Motherhood , In All Things: A Nine-Week Devotional Bible Study on Unshakeable Joy , Growing Together: Taking Mentoring Beyond Small Talk and Prayer Requests , Wh...

Join us on this week's episode as we welcome Rev. Callum Macleod.     Callum is the minister of Shawbost Free Church in the Isle of Lewis and the Principal Clerk of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland.   This week's theme is "Ministry Life"   Topics include:  Entering ministry later in life  Confirming the call to ministry  Community ministry  Maintaining our identity in Christ  Ca...

Join us on this week's episode as we welcome Lewis and Sarah Allen.   Lewis pastored Gunnersbury Baptist Church in London for over twelve years, and in 2010 was called to plant what is now Hope Church Huddersfield , West Yorkshire, where he is now Senior Pastor.   Sarah read English at Cambridge and now works part-time as an English Teacher as well as being involved in ministry at Hope Church. She...

Ivor has been minister of Hope Church since July 2012. He trained for the ministry at Aberdeen University and Westminster Theological Seminary and served congregations in Lewis and Skye before coming to Coatbridge. Official Site: https://www.freechurch.org/ Healthy Gospel Church Vision:  https://freechurch.org/healthy-gospel-church/

Steve graduated in History and Politics from the University of Liverpool, where he met his wife Rachel. After this, he completed a Religious Studies & Philosophy PGCE and embarked on a short-lived career as a secondary school teacher. Steve then completed an MA in Theology before becoming a self-employed researcher serving the recruitment sector. He was called to be Pastor at Oldham Bethel Church...

Robert Cunningham joins us today from Christ for Kentucky to discuss what he saw and experienced at Asbury University 's extended worship service. Is it a revival? An awakening? Or something else?  Robert is the founder and director of Christ for Kentucky. Robert is the former Senior Pastor of Tates Creek Presbyterian Church, where he served for seventeen years. He is a graduate of Covenant Theolo...

Dr. Michael J. Kruger serves as the President and Samuel C. Patterson Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the Charlotte campus of Reformed Theological Seminary. Dr. Kruger regularly speaks, lectures, and teaches throughout the United States and the world—including conferences such as The Gospel Coalition, Together for the Gospel, the Ligonier Conference, and the Philadelphia Confe...

Joe Hall is the minister of Bon Accord Free Church in Aberdeen.  Joe was born and raised in Romford, Essex, and came to a personal Christian faith as a teenager. He moved to Edinburgh in 2012 at the age of 18 to study Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. There, he became a member of Grace Church Leith. His growing love for God and desire to serve him and his people led to a ministry...

Ken Wright is the President of British Youth For Christ and is involved in a group called Biblical Frameworks which produces bible study resources. Ken was also formerly a Managing Director in Royal Mail, responsible for the operation of the UK’s postal service. He and his wife Jan live in London and are active members of All Souls Church, Langham Place.    Official Site: https://www.freechurch.or...

Alistair Begg is the senior pastor of Cleveland's Parkside Church , a position he has held since 1983. He is the voice behind the Truth For Life Christian radio preaching and teaching ministry, which broadcasts his sermons daily to stations across North America through over 1,800 radio outlets.   Official Site: https://www.freechurch.org/ Healthy Gospel Church Vision:  https://freechurch.org/healt...

Dr Harvey Kwiyani is a Malawian mission theologian with twenty years of mission and theological education experience in Europe and the United States. Harvey is also the CEO of Global Connections, a network of agencies and churches working together to help the UK church engage in world mission in contemporary and appropriate ways.   Official Site: https://www.freechurch.org/ Healthy Gospel Church V...

This week we return to an interview David did with the late Dr Helen Roseveare. Helen was a Christian missionary who served in the Belgian Congo (later Zaire, now DRC). Have a listen to her amazing story.  Official Site: https://www.freechurch.org/ Healthy Gospel Church Vision: https://freechurch.org/healthy-gospel-church/   #healthygospelchurch #christianity #faith

Dr. David Strain was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He holds degrees from Duncan Jordanstone College of Art, Trinity College Glasgow/School of Divinity, Edinburgh Theological Seminary in Edinburgh, and Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson. He was ordained to the gospel ministry in the Free Church of Scotland in September 2003, and has held pastoral charges in London, England, and Columbus, MS. Sin...

Rev. Ian Watson joins us on the podcast today to discuss ministry and gospel integrity. Ian is the minister of Hope Church Blackwood and Kirkmuirhill.   Official Site: https://www.freechurch.org/ Healthy Gospel Church Vision: https://freechurch.org/healthy-gospel-church/ #healthygospelchurch #christianity #faith

Jonathan is the Chief Executive Officer of 10ofthose.com, a Christian book company.  He and his wife have two sons, Rufus and Billy.  They are currently living and working to establish 10ofthose.com in the USA.   Official Site: https://www.freechurch.org/ Healthy Gospel Church Vision: https://freechurch.org/healthy-gospel-church/ #healthygospelchurch #christianity #faith

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, a former professor of English and women’s studies at Syracuse University, converted to Christ in 1999 in what she describes as a train wreck. Her memoir The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert chronicles that difficult journey. Rosaria is married to Kent Butterfield, a Reformed Presbyterian pastor in North Carolina, and is a home school mother, author, and speaker...

Rev. Dr Fergus Macdonald is a retired minister and former Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland. He served as the General Secretary of the National Bible Society of Scotland and then of the United Bible Societies. A Fellow of the Spencer Center for Global Engagement at Taylor University in Indiana, he serves as chair of the Scottish Evangelical Theology Society, and as Chair Emeritus of the For...