GRUKology

Speak Life did a helpful podcast on “10 neglected Bible verses” that you can listen to here or watch here, the list is in the YouTube comments. We commend it to you.

Josh Rieger and Darren Moore thought of a whole load more and are quite happy to add some competition to Glen Scrivener and Paul Feesey at Speak Life to out do us, it’s a bit close to Christmas now, perhaps we can resume this next year.

The texts discussed in this podcast are:

·         Titus 2:11-14     

·         Titus 3:3-5

·         Romans 1:3

·         Romans 5:12-21

·         1 John 1:1-4

·         1 John 4:9-10

·         An advent series on Jesus as the bride groom: Genesis 3, Song of Sons 4, Psalm 45 and Ephesians 5:22-33

·         Then Josh got carried away and mentioned more than we could jot down, most of the OT basically

Over the last several months, Phil Haines, the minister of Ely Presbyterian Church in Cardiff, has written several blog posts on the book of 1 Peter, as he’s been preaching through that book. Andy and Josh have a discussion with Phil about the book of 1 Peter. We hope you find this helpful. 

Here are links to his 1 Peter blog posts:

Encouragements in Difficult Days, Part 1: https://www.gr-uk.org/vlogs/encouragement-in-difficult-days-part-1

Encouragements in Difficult Days, Part 2: https://www.gr-uk.org/vlogs/encouragement-in-difficult-days-part-2

Encouragements in Difficult Days, Part 3: https://www.gr-uk.org/vlogs/encouragement-in-difficult-days-part-3

Encouragements in Difficult Days, Part 4: https://www.gr-uk.org/vlogs/encouragement-in-difficult-days-part-4

Encouragements in Difficult Days, Part 5: https://www.gr-uk.org/vlogs/encouragement-in-difficult-days-part-5

Andy and Josh speak with Stephen Dancer. Stephen is the minister of Solihull Presbyterian Church. To begin, Stephen, a former engineer, tells us about how he came to change careers and enter the ministry, but then Stephen, Josh and Andy discuss church planting. Stephen is a veteran church planter in the EPCEW. They discuss what church planting is, how one plants a church, what is the role of preaching in church planting and evangelism, and many more topics.

Recorded several weeks ago, in this episode Darren sat down with two friends, Matthew Roberts, the minister of Trinity Church York, and Andrew Grey, the minister of Immanuel Church Brentwood. Darren, Matthew and Andrew all came up in, trained in, or ministered in the Church of England, but none of them are in the Church of England today. All three of them are now ministers in congregations where they subscribe to the Westminster Confession of Faith. They discuss their journeys and the biblical and confessional commitments that led them to be where they are now.

Michael and Darren have the chance for a conversation with Crawford Gribben. Crawford is a professor of history at Queen’s University in Belfast.

He has a new book out last month from Crossway, An Introduction to John Owen: A Christian Vision for Every Stage of Life.

You may have seen our GRUK emphasis on this book and on John Owen a few weeks ago in relation to this book’s release. Michael, Darren and Crawford have a fascinating discussion on John Owen and his life here.

Andy, Darren, Michael, and Josh discuss the process of emerging from Lockdown. What has that looked like? How should we think about this process.

Over the last several weeks there has been a lot of discussion of race. The murder of George Floyd in Minnesota in the US, but it has sparked conversations all around the world. We wanted to be able to have more informed conversations ourselves, and to help inform you, our listeners.

In today’s episode Darren and Andy get the chance to discuss this topic with two of our friends from Charleston, South Carolina.

Revd Dr Jon Payne is the minister of Christ Church Presbyterian in Charleston and he’s the Executive Coordinator for the Gospel Reformation Network in the US. Jon did a masters degree here in the UK at the University of Edinburgh, and he and the churches he has ministered in have a long history of supporting church planting and missions in the UK and on the continent.

Professor Gabriel Williams is a member of Jon’s congregation in Charleston. Dr. Williams is a professor in Physics and Meteorology at the College of Charleston. These two men have given much thought to these issues and have a fair amount of personal experience that informs their views. We hope you’ll find this to be a helpful discussion.

Gospel Reformation Network: https://gospelreformation.net/

Christ Church Charleston: https://www.christchurchcharleston.org/

Jon and Gabe’s Podcast, Between the Times: https://apple.co/3i1yoYB

Professor Gabriel Williams: http://williamsgj.people.cofc.edu/