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Tuesday Nov 12, 2019
Tuesday Nov 12, 2019
Graham Daniels
Graham is the General Director of Christians in Sport and is also a director of Cambridge United FC and an associate staff member at St Andrew the Great church in Cambridge.
https://www.christiansinsport.org.uk/
Topics: What does "Christians In Sport" do? a personal journey of faith, ministering through disappointment, identity, winning and losing, performance v works, money, public status, evangelism, Christian celebrity, common grace
Presented by David Meredith
Title Music and Production: Simon Kennedy
Tuesday Nov 05, 2019
Tuesday Nov 05, 2019
This week David chats with blogger and writer Catriona Murray. Catriona is based in Lewis and regularly writes about life, the church and her own Christian faith. Catriona is also a regular contributor to The Record Magazine.
Post Tenebras Lux: https://posttenebraslux.co.uk/
Topics: grief, healing, complementarianism, feminism, dreams, politics and religion, supernaturalism, fairies
Presented by David Meredith
Title Music and Production: Simon Kennedy
Tuesday Oct 29, 2019
Tuesday Oct 29, 2019
Scotty Smith, a native of Graham, North Carolina, is a graduate of The University of North Carolina, Westminster Theological Seminary, and Covenant Theological Seminary (D. Min).
After planting and pastoring Christ Community Church, Franklin, TN, for 26 years, Scotty assumed a position on the pastoral staff of West End Community Church, as Teacher in Residence. He also serves as adjunct faculty for Covenant Seminary, Westminster (Philadelphia), RTS, Orlando, and Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon.
Scotty has authored ten books, including, Unveiled Hope (with Michael Card), Objects of His Affection, Restoring Broken Things (with Steven Curtis Chapman), Everyday Prayers: 365 Days to Gospel Centered Faith, and most recently, Every Season Prayers: Gospel-Centered Prayers for the Whole of Life. Scotty also invests time mentoring, coaching, and encouraging leaders in many different contexts.
Among his hobbies, Scotty enjoys photography, fishing, cooking and exercise. Scotty, and his wife of almost 47 years, Darlene, continue to live in Franklin, TN. Darlene has two Masters from Covenant Seminary, one in counselling; has a huge mercy gift, great laugh, and big heart; and loves being a grandmother (DeDe) to Finn, Otis, and Otto.
Topics: What is grace? What is the Gospel? Dealing with conflict, ethnically and socially diverse congregations, ordinary means of grace.
Presented by David Meredith
Title Music and Production: Simon Kennedy
Tuesday Oct 08, 2019
Tuesday Oct 08, 2019
Robin Syderff is the minister of Chalmers Church in Edinburgh and Chairman of The Bonar Trust.
Prior to coming to Edinburgh in 2009, Robin spent four years as Director of Ministry at The Proclamation Trust in London. Robin is married to Sally and they have three children - Lucy, David and William.
Topics: Work Experience, Training and Supporting Leaders, Training Churches to Train, Mental Health, Mission Strategies, Scotland's Spiritual State, Ministry Apprentices
Presented by David Meredith
Title Music and Production: Simon Kennedy
Thursday Oct 03, 2019
Thursday Oct 03, 2019
Sam Allberry is an editor for The Gospel Coalition, a global speaker for Ravi Zacharias International Ministries, and a pastor based in Maidenhead, UK. He is the author of a number of books, including Is God Anti-Gay? (Good Book, 2013), James For You, and most recently Why Bother with Church. He is a founding editor of Living Out, a ministry for those struggling with same-sex attraction. You can follow him on Twitter.
Topics: Apologetics, Anointing vs Reason, Preaching and Teaching, Dealing with Controversy in the Church, Church of England, Same-Sex Attraction, What is love?, The West Wing.
Presented by David Meredith
Title Music and Production: Simon Kennedy
Tuesday Sep 24, 2019
Tuesday Sep 24, 2019
This week David chats with Donald Forsyth, the vice-chair of the Board of Trustees to the Free Church of Scotland, a Chartered Accountant and business director.
Topics: Personal Story - Life Coaching - Church and Business - Worship/Music - Board of Trustees - Conflict Resolution - Entrepreneurship - Revitalisation - Church Planting
Presented by David Meredith
Title Music and Production: Simon Kennedy
Thursday Sep 19, 2019
Thursday Sep 19, 2019
In this week's podcast, David chats with Andy Bathgate, the chief executive of Scripture Union Scotland.
Episode Topics:
- Bible knowledge amongst children - Sharing the Gospel in schools - Does SU manipulate children? - Can we tailor scripture to fit our needs? - What is the relationship between SU and the Church? - Equipping - Mission & Evangelism
About Andy Bathgate
Andy became CEO of SU Scotland in 2001 having worked with the Christian Unions in the Scottish Universities and Colleges for the previous 20 years. His first involvement with SU was when a friend invited him to the SU Group in Musselburgh Grammar School. Later, he became part of a team from the Grammar School that led the SU Group in a local primary. That was in the early 1970s, and he remains as committed to the ministry of SU now as then. He is particularly concerned that SU's ministry serves the local church and the disadvantaged and is done in partnership wherever possible. He is married to Alyson. Their elder daughter Fiona is married to David and they have two grandsons, Ellis and Brodie. Karyn, their younger daughter, attends a nearby day centre for people with additional needs. In their spare time, Andy and Alyson can often be found strolling around an art gallery.
Presented by David Meredith
Title Music and Production: Simon Kennedy
Tuesday Sep 10, 2019
Tuesday Sep 10, 2019
This week David Meredith welcomes Phil Stogner from Mission To The World to the podcast.
Episode Topics:
- Missionaries - Mission - Evangelism - Church Planting - Mormonism - Pastors Coaching Pastors - Revitalisation
About Phil and Wendy Stogner
To plant a church is the greatest way to bring new believers to Jesus. To encourage the heart of a church planter and his wife with Jesus’ gospel is the greatest way to encourage a church plant.
Phil and Wendy have served in the ministry of church planting for over 34 years. After having met during college in Charleston, South Carolina, they married and spent their honeymoon on the road to Covenant Seminary. Following the call to be a church planter has taken them from North Carolina to Florida to Utah and finally back to Charleston, South Carolina, as they began new congregations. With a passion for pastors and their wives, they feel gifted and called to come alongside them with the gospel to support them and their families in their ministry.
The Stogners are committed to the Generation’s vision to plant 30 new congregations by 2030 (30 x 30). They will be working with the Glasgow City Free Church to encourage pastors in this large and strategic city. Believing that “it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace,” Phil and Wendy will serve the national pastors and their wives who seek to grow gospel-centred churches for the glory of God in Glasgow. Their desire is to coach, counsel, and care for the Scottish shepherds who have a vision to see Christ’s wee little flock grow into healthy churches as the gospel grows outward in Glasgow.
Presented by David Meredith
Title Music and Production: Simon Kennedy
Tuesday Sep 03, 2019
Tuesday Sep 03, 2019
Derek Lamont is the minister of St Columba's Free Church at the top of the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. Neil MacMillan is the minister of a church plant in Edinburgh's Morningside called Cornerstone.
Topic: "Church and the City"
How important is the city in God's missional plan?
(Church planting, urban town vs urban city, rural/urban division, city witness)
Presented by David Meredith
Title Music and Production: Simon Kennedy
Tuesday Aug 27, 2019
Tuesday Aug 27, 2019
In this episode, David Meredith sits down with Dr Stuart Weir, the National Director for CARE in Scotland.
CARE (Christian Action Research and Education) is a Christian charity seeking to uphold human dignity and to support the most vulnerable people in society, engaging with politicians in the UK Parliaments & Assemblies and promoting Christian community-based initiatives.
Presented by David Meredith
Title Music and Production: Simon Kennedy