Science a personal view from St Helen’s Church on Vimeo.
St Helen’s Bishopsgate have produced a series of videos with a number of of Christians who are scientists explaining how their faith makes sense of science.
Watch the video above for an overview or click here for a full list of all of the videos in the series.
Peter Hitchens has had a couple of excellent articles on the state of Christianity in the UK recently on his blog. Here is the most recent one, written in the light of the European Court ruling against 3 Christians, and here is an article Peter wrote a few months back on how 20+ years of socialist propaganda has done it’s job in changing the moral and religious culture within the UK.
A few years back John Piper wrote a book on Christian ministry entitled, Brothers, we are not professionals. It’s well worth a read if you’ve not done so. For those who have, Piper has added a collection of 10 pleas to pastors, in a new addition of the book. The new chapters, from a collection of contributors, can be downloaded for free as a separate ebook here.

The newspapers have been full of comment this week on how there has been nothing to support families in the government mid-term review, something that the Christian Institute highlight here.
However the majority of UK Christians have not woke up to the fact that our secular establishment are actively seeking to ensure they do anything but support the family unit, as it’s a huge threat to their own agenda.
The latest move to decrease or remove child-benefits while at the same time increasing the childcare tax allowances to support working mothers by providing for nursery care, is a prime example of this in action.
The government has no interest in seeing parents raise their own children – they may end up becoming free-thinking enough to oppose the very worldview the secular government is frantically preaching.
Far better to reward parents for indoctrinating their children from infancy with the message that the state is their god who provides for their every need, than allow godly parents to nurture young plants that will in time, become the Lord’s oak trees.
With most free electronic versions of the NIV you have to be connected to the internet to view them. During the month of January, You Version are providing the NIV to download so that you can read it whilst offline.
It’s available for iPhone/ iPad / Android / Symbian / Kindle / Windows Phone / 8 and a few other platforms so it’s likely you’ll be able to run it on your device. You can go about doing that by clicking here.

In words that might be addressed to so much of 21st century Western Evangelicalism, Ortlund Jr.comments on Old Testament Israel’s spiritual adultery as found in the book of Hosea,
The people failed to make meaningful connections between their theology, history and worship, on the one hand, and their real-life problems, on the other hand. They put God, his covenant, his power, his wisdom, into a limiting category of thought – they could not bring themselves really to believe the assurance of Deuteronomy 28:1-14 – while ‘the real world’ was another category altogether with its own rules and its own resources. They acted as though faith in Yahweh alone were an impracticable policy for life. As a result, they dishonoured him even as they thought they continued to honour him.
Moreover, unalloyed, classical Yahwism was losing its compelling power among the people. It was being redefined with fewer sharp edges and more open doors as a broadly inclusive religion, increasingly tolerant of elements of paganism.
(Ortlund Jr, Whoredom: God’s Unfaithful Wife in Biblical Theology, 48)
What am I to you, that you should command me to love you and, if I do not, you should be angry with me and threaten great miseries?
Augustine, Confessions, I.5