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We are a gathering of believers united in our love for Christ, where all are welcome to come and join us for worship, where we hear the Word of God preached faithfully. We confess the Reformed Faith as outlined in the 1689 Baptist Confession, holding to holy scripture as the only certain rule of faith and practice and seeking to glorify God in the town of Ramsbottom.
IRBS UK Study Week : 23-27th Feb, 2026 | J. Ryan Davidson, PhD
Having established the theology of pastoring in PT605, this course will examine its practical applications to areas of the pastoral ministry. This includes an overview of preaching, pastoral oversight, the proper administration of the sacraments, the practice of church discipline, the relationship between the Elders and Deacons in the local church, the proper protocol for moderating the meetings of the officers as well as the congregation, weddings, funerals, constitutions, church building use, and other practical matters which may arise. In all these practical areas, the biblical pastoral decorum will be variously applied.
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Pray For MERF!
AUGUSTINE PROGRAMME - Praise God for equipping hundreds of South Sudanese and other East African spiritual leaders in the intensive basic biblical training course at MERF's Centre in Lokichoggio, Kenya for the past 23 years and for over 10 years of regional training gatherings in Ethiopia. Pray for the Swahili language Augustine Programme beginning its fourth year in Mwanza, Tanzania and for the first year teaching the programme in Makassar, Indonesia to effectively equip church leaders with Bible knowledge to serve faithfully.
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How the Gospel Enables Us to Keep God’s Good Law
The Bible teaches that Christians are not under the law as a way of salvation. Christ has set us free from the guilt and condemnation of sin by His bloody death and resurrection. But that does not mean believers are free to live licentious lives. In fact, the grace of God in the gospel enables us to keep His good law, summarized in the Ten Commandments, as an expression of love to God and others. Reformed confessions of faith teach that the law and the gospel “do sweetly comply” (2LCF 19.7).
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William Tyndale: The Necessity Of The Bible
William Tyndale risked everything to translate the Bible into English. Five hundred years ago, the Lord used his faithfulness to place his word into the hands of his people. Only because he did the hard and sacrificial work of translating the Bible into the language of the common people, was the Reformation established and the work of the gospel prospered amongst the English-speaking people. We need the same commitment from modern-day Tyndales if the word of God is to reach all the peoples of the world, which is God's revealed will and purpose. Let this short film, produced by Missionary.com, ignite your zeal for the work of the gospel into all the corners of the world.
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Standing Firm When the World Shifts Under Your Feet
The world is changing fast. Ideas that once seemed solid are crumbling. Morality is treated like soft clay, molded and reshaped to fit the mood of the moment. In such times, Christians can feel pressure to either blend in or stay silent. But Scripture doesn’t call believers to blend in. It calls us to stand firm. It calls us to build on the rock, not on sand (Matt. 7:24–27).
The church has always lived in changing times, even if today’s changes might feel more aggressive and chaotic than before. But our hope has never rested in the stability of society. It rests in the stability of God: “I the Lord do not change” (Mal. 3:6). The world may reinvent itself every decade, but God does not evolve, and His truth does not expire. It does not need updating. It does not need rebranding. Truth that shifts with the culture isn’t truth at all—it’s marketing.
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Reforming World Missions With Jerry Slate
In the latest Broken Wharfe podcast, Jerry Slate joins John-Mark and benedict to discuss his new book "Reforming World Missions: Recovering a Biblical and Confessional Missiology".
In the work of world missions, those who send missionaries are just as essential as those who are sent. William Carey famously described missionaries as those who descend into an unexplored pit, while those who support them “hold the ropes.” But if we are to hold the ropes well, we must also know the ropes. Sending churches and cross-cultural church planters alike must be grounded in a missiology that is biblically sound and confessionally robust.
Jerry's book was written to equip churches and missionaries with exactly that kind of theological clarity.
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House of Ants February 2026
Many of the children that come to Casa das Formigas on a daily basis receive all their basic
needs, food, education, medicine, and bible teaching. They return home each day to very poor
conditions and broken homes. But some of the children are severe cases and have been
referred to us by government agencies precisely to safeguard their best interests, and actually
need to live here at Casa das Formigas.
It was in this context that we received two girls in May 2025. They are
sisters, Carmen, aged 8, and Tereza, aged 7, abandoned by their mother,
who emigrated to a neighbouring country, leaving them alone. The
neighbours called the police and they were welcomed to live at Casa das
Formigas. Carmen and Teresa are being cared for with love and affection
and are already enrolled in the school here.
We also welcomed seven-year-old Albertina, whose parents are
separated. Her mother is unable to provide for her daughter on her own,
and when she leaves home to sell vegetables at the market, her daughter
is left vulnerable and in need.
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Defining Modesty God’s Way
Pull out a dictionary and flip to (or type in the search box) the word “modesty.”[2] You will find that definitions include two major categories, an external and an internal. The external relates to our clothing. Shocker. Modest attire is 1) proper, suitable, and acceptable to the social situation and 2) without sexual implications. What is the second major emphasis, you ask? These lexicons describe the internal manifestation of modesty as not having a prideful or boastful demeanor but rather expressing and carrying yourself with a proper and low estimation.
What single word could we use to describe this? Humility.
Now let’s take that word to the Bible. What does God say about humility? Though the word modesty appears only once in Scripture, humility or humble appears nearly 100 times. If modesty equals humility, studying those passages will help us develop a good idea of what biblical modesty should look like.
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I Don’t Have an LGBTQ Neighbour – And Neither Do You
Amy and Julie live next door. They have a golden retriever, a backyard flock of chickens, two adult children from previous heterosexual marriages, and extensive PRIDE paraphernalia perennially decorating the front porch. Ten years ago, they were living in a celibate gay partnership, but when it became legal, they got “gay married.” The church they go to embraces gay Christianity. They agree with Wes Hill that “homosexual orientation [is a ] doorway to blessing and grace.” When Bible-believing Christians make homosexuality analogous to sins like lying, adultery, or addiction, Amy and Julie are dismayed and cry foul, claiming such a comparison is untrue and unChristian. After all, being gay is who they are, not how they feel, and as lesbians, they bear the image of God.
So here’s the question: Do you have lesbian neighbors?
No.
You have neighbors. These beloved image-bearers of a Holy God have fallen into lusts of the flesh that wage war against God’s created order. But they are not a different kind of man or woman.
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Church leader released after 11 years in prison in North Korea
In good news from North Korea, a church leader from China has been released after more than a decade in prison.
Deacon Jang* – also known by his Chinese name, Zhang Wen Si – is an ethnic Korean Chinese citizen from Changbai, a town on the Chinese side of the border with North Korea. Before his arrest, he was known for providing humanitarian assistance to North Koreans who crossed into China in search of food, medicine and temporary shelter. He also shared his Christian faith with those who returned repeatedly for help and teaching.
Jang was last seen in November 2014. After receiving phone calls from North Koreans requesting assistance, he went to the border river to meet them, but he never returned. Jang was abducted from Chinese territory and taken into North Korea.
He was later sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges including ‘defaming the regime’ and ‘attempting to incite subversion’ – accusations linked to his Christian work among North Korean visitors.
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Keith & Priscilla Underhill February 2026
Keith writes: By God’s will I have attained to 80 years of age. I recently read a prayer of John Newton
written in his diary 6 years before he actually died. May this be true of me, and please pray
that it may be so. “Oh for grace to meet the approach of death with a humble, thankful,
resigned spirit becoming my profession. That I may not stain my character by impatience,
jealousy, or any hateful temper but may be prepared and permitted to depart in peace and
hope and be enabled, if I can speak, to bear my testimony to thy faithfulness and goodness
with my past breath. Amen.”
The Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689)
In 2011 we made the decision to officially adopt the Second London Baptist Confession (1689) as our confession of faith. We exhort you to read it.
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