All Premier Christianity articles in January 2023
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Regular Columnists
Jeff Lucas: ‘A night intruder tried to break into my house’
Night intruders are usually experts in stealth. They silently tiptoe through the shadows, eager to break and enter without detection. But when an uninvited visitor recently stopped by our home at 3am, he loudly announced his arrival. I woke up with an adrenaline-fuelled start. Why on earth ...
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Reviews
KXC's Tom Eccleshall: My top 8 songs
Tom has overseen worship at KXC, an Anglican church in King’s Cross, London, for the past twelve years. KXC have released a number of recordings and their songs are sung internationally
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Reviews
The sexual reformation - Aimee Byrd
The Song of Songs is a controversial book. Erotic poem or allegory of Jesus’ love for the Church? Aimee Byrd’s latest offering sets out to explore this often-misunderstood portion of scripture, using it as a lens through which to explore the issue of male-female relationships. The Sexual ...
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Reviews
Faithful disobedience - Wang Yi and others
Faithful Disobedience is a series of written accounts from leaders inside the Chinese House Church Movement. It includes testimonies from six prominent Chinese voices, most notably the pastor of Early Rain Covenant Church, Wang Yi, who was sentenced to nine years in prison, charged with “inciting to ...
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Reviews
The Jehu Plan - Alvin Davies
Alvin Davies describes his eight-week daily reading plan as “Biblical wisdom for racers, speed-junkies, grease monkeys and pilgrims in a fast world”. The title of the book is taken from 2 Kings 9:20: “The driving is like that of Jehu son of Nimshi – he drives like ...
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Reviews
Subversive Mission - Craig Greenfield
Craig Greenfield’s Christian life has been a wild ride. After growing up in New Zealand, he lived in a Cambodian slum for seven years, where he and his wife raised two children. After that they moved their young family to Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, running an open house ...
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Regular Columnists
Why did God send angels to minister to Jesus?
In her debut column, Dr Lucy Peppiatt wonders why Jesus needed something more than the Holy Spirit to comfort him in the desert
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Testimonies
‘I was dabbling in paganism and taking cocaine. But then God called my name and I’ve never been the same’
A series of miraculous interventions while at university saw Jo Hargreaves turn her back on paganism and drug taking. At the same time, hundreds of miles away, God was working in her family
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Magazine Features
Deny yourself: How to bring your appetites and desires to order in 2023
By rekindling our rich tradition of self-denial, Christians in the West will reap an abundant spiritual harvest and learn to cope better with life’s painful losses, says Tony Wilson
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Interviews
Megachurch leader Jack Graham: ‘Being a pastor is the world’s worst profession…but the greatest calling’
Sam Hailes meets the pastor of one of America’s largest churches to talk Trump, trauma and how he guards himself from temptation
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Magazine Features
Wired for love: How your upbringing affects your relationship with God
What happens in your early years can have profound consequences on the way you connect with God, says Christian therapist Krispin Mayfield. But regardless of whether your childhood was happy or horrendous, we can all experience more of the love of a good Father
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Thank God it's Monday
God’s Undertakers: ‘We constantly pray that families encounter God’s peace in their grief’
The Church is made up of Christians from a myriad of different professions, and yet ordinary tales of God at work rarely get told. In this series, we bring you stories of faith on the frontline
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Regular Columnists
My new year's resolution: Stop trying to make church sound attractive
I have spent much of my career trying to improve the Church’s PR. As part of this, I wanted to write an article on why I still go to church and why you should, too. It was going to be one of those numbered lists: for the ...
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Interviews
Ram Gidoomal: How the Hindu turned Christian entrepreneur raised £5m for charity
The former mayor of London candidate speaks to Abi Thomas about arriving in England as a refugee, encountering Jesus in a pub and what motivated him to raise millions to help those in poverty
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Real Life
‘God told me to build a business worth millions’
Megan Landreth-Smith explains how a vision from God prompted her to start a soft drinks company that is helping to end sexual slavery
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Regular Columnists
As a single, working-class woman with a history of depression I tried to disqualify myself from leadership
In her her debut ‘Lessons in leadership’ column, Natalie Williams says God calls the unlikely
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Magazine Features
The robot revolution is coming…But are Christians ready?
Advances in technology mean intelligent machines are likely to play an increasingly important role in our future. But this raises serious ethical, philosophical and spiritual questions, says Dr John Wyatt
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Magazine Features
Why you should stop saying ‘God told me’ in 2023
RT Kendall explains why your New Year’s resolution should be to drop this common phrase
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Regular Columnists
No pain, no gain: Rend Collective’s ‘Coach Chris’ has a new year’s message for you…
Chris Llewellyn has noticed a fascinating similarity between the message of the cross and the science of resistance training
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News Analysis
2022’s biggest Christian news stories
As the year draws to a close, Tim Wyatt looks at the most significant stories for the UK Church and beyond