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Ted Tull: Cussing, drinking, ex Army born and bred Brightonian blown away by Jesus

I was born in Brighton on the 11th of September 1931. I was born within a 100 yards of the clock tower. At that time, it was a very old and very derelict Brighton. I lived in Moulsecoomb when the war came along. They weren’t sure what was going to happen and expected Germans to come over. I remember one Sunday the sirens went off,  my father barricaded the window and we sat with our gas marks on. 20 minutes later the ‘all clear’ went off. It was one of our planes coming back and so  a false alarm!

They got all the evacuees out of London – school children, young people to Brighton. We had 3 evacuees living with us for 2 years. We had a few bombs in Brighton but nothing like they had in London.

I remember on Boxing Day they dropped a few bombs next to us. It happened whilst we were eating our dinner and my father and uncles left the dinner table and ran out to put the fire out.

When the war finished I got a job as an electrician. I was 14 then. When I was 15, I took up cycle racing on a velodrome as a sport. I was in a cycle team called The Brighton and Hove Wheelers and we won the Sussex championship!

At 21, I was conscripted and went into the army for 2 years into the Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers. I learnt to drive there and used to drive army trucks. I drove the CO’s car once! I got into trouble once for not securing the load down! The canon I was transporting slid down across the truck, hit the side and went over. Fortunately there was no car on the opposite side. I got 14 days for that incident.

I got married whilst I was in the army and my wife and I got a basement flat on Richmond street. It was a bit of a hole, damp and with mice. I got a job as an electrician with Otis.

I was brought up in a family that was on the booze and every weekend there was party in our house.  I was brought up to go to church. It was like that in those days, but there was no substance to my going to church. So when I got married, my natural tendency to wind down was to get a drink. My vent from the pressure of work and being married was to go down with the boys and have a drink. Drink became hard to control. I was always having ‘one for the road’. I kept getting home late and that caused friction between my wife and I.

One day, a man called Alan Guthridge joined Otis. He was a former wrestler and he started talking to me about Jesus. I would say it was a load of rubbish. I was pressed to be an atheist. I couldn’t trust something written down 2000 years. Alan used to write scriptures out for me like John 3:16 and I used to read these scriptures. They had a bit of a meaning to me but I couldn’t get to grips with it. Alan used to tell me about the end of the world, as written in the Bible. The last chapter of the book of Malachi in the Bible talks about the earth ending with fervent heat. They had just let the atom bomb off and videos of Hiroshima getting flattened were all over the TV. I never thought the earth would get melted, but I began to see that if this atom bomb was possible, anything could happen! This triggered of an interest in the Bible. When Alan would say to me why don’t you accept Jesus as your Saviour, I didn’t know what he was talking about. I used to say, you’ve become religious. He was a tough, quick tempered guy and I knew why he would be religious. Once in a fit of rage at his wife he had thrown down the door of his house. He had needed religion to calm down! But I couldn’t see my weakness.

Anyway, I went home and studied the gospel of John and when I read the trial of Christ I couldn’t say honestly that He was a madman and it was rubbish. I wanted to. I wanted to say it was like Alice in Wonderland, a story – all fabricated. But as I read it, I couldn’t dismiss it and I’d challenge anyone to read it openly and then rip it out and say it was rubbish. I couldn’t call Christ a liar. I couldn’t say I’d rather enjoy my pints than follow Jesus.

It said Jesus rose from the dead and I asked God to reveal this truth to me. I wanted to know whether there was anything more to life otherwise I may as well eat, drink and be merry. I went down on my knees and said “God please would you show me. I don’t want to be religious”. If there is truth, if a man rose from the dead, forget religion, that’s ground breaking! A man rose from the dead! I had no time for religion. I was a hypocrite myself. This resurrection blew me away.

I either had to accept that Jesus had risen again or there was no truth to Christianity ultimately. As I considered the events, I came to the conclusion that the best explanation of what is recorded had to be that they really took place. As a result I was able to joyfully put my trust in Jesus and become a Christian.

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Roy and Isabella Davey: From Peru to Brighton

Roy and Isabella Davey live in Brighton and regularly attend Church of Christ the King. Roy has recently written a commentary on the book of Romans in Spanish based on the Dr. Martin Lloyd Jones’ interpretation. Prior to that he served the churches in the jungles and hills of Peru. It was whilst he was in Peru that he met Isabella. They share their stories..

Roy: In Feb 1980, I had a break down. Before that I found that my mind was closing down and my performance at work was decreasing drastically. Yet in April that year, I met Jesus in the street! At 9:30 one night, I heard an audible voice saying “you could die tomorrow”. I knew that was true because of the drugs and alcohol that I was regularly consuming. I panicked but suddenly remembered something I had heard in Sunday School about hell. In my panic I phoned up a local pastor and asked if I could see him. It was 10:30 by then and he asked if it was a matter of life and death! Yes!…I met him and he spoke to me about Jesus Christ for an hour. I left his house and was walking home. It was like I was walking with a blanket draped around my head touching the ground when suddenly a great divine hand came down and lifted the blanket off. It was extraordinary! In that moment, I went from extreme depression to extreme elation. I was so excited I was helping old ladies cross the road, whether or not she wanted to!

I went to Bible college then. I was 37! I studied a lot there, about 15 hours a day and I loved it. Whilst at Bible College, a Peruvian lady missionary spoke about Peru needing Bible teachers and her talk stuck out to me. I used to find missionaries talks boring, but this was different. So I asked God whether he wanted me to do this and I felt lead to read a verse that was written on the inside cover of my missionary principles notebook. It was Acts 7:23, “When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his fellow Israelites.” Well I was 40 and I knew that the Christians in Peru were my brothers and sisters so this gave me an inclining to go to Peru. It was 7 years before the doors finally opened for me to go. I didn’t know why though, but when I got to Peru I realised my God had delayed my trip so that He could use the time to work in my heart. I would have collapsed and come home in disobedience that first year if I hadn’t had those 7 years of preparation.

I went to Peru in 1993 and lived there for 14 years. I spent 6 years in the mountains and 8 years on the coast training people to be pastors. Most people don’t have money to go to Bible college, so the church I was linked to had its own Bible college. Pastors would come down from the mountains or up from the jungles and they would be looked after for 2 years. I would be one of their teachers. I taught from the Bible and also by living out a Christian life to them. I loved it.

I came back to England in 2007. I came back to work on the book, but we now feel that God has closed the door for us to go back to South America and stay on in England. Just a couple of weeks ago we got a visa for Isabella to stay here. I felt the Lord say ‘mission accomplished’ which is a lovely thing to hear at the end.
For young people thinking of pursuing mission overseas, don’t go unless you’re certain God has told you to go. The missions turned me down because of my age so I went out as an independent missionary. I had a lot of discouragement but I trusted God and knew it was His plan for me to be in Peru.

Isabella (Roy translating): I lead a very empty life before I became a follower of Jesus. I was a very religious catholic and went to all the masses but my life was empty and aimless. I used to read the Bible but I did not understand it. During my teenage years, my parents separated and I had to assume parental responsibility for my siblings. Around that time, some of my friends became Christians and I noticed a difference in their lives. Their faces changed, they looked happy! They invited me to go to their church. At their church, people received me with a great deal of love. It was like stepping into another world all together! When the meeting started the words of the songs spoke to my heart and when the pastor preached, he stripped my life bare. It was as if someone had told the pastor about me! I didn’t think I was a sinner in comparison to others but that night I felt like a sinner. That night I saw my life like a film and I saw my rebellious personality in even the smallest of things.

That night I chose to follow Jesus.

I had an extraordinary joy in my heart after that and my life changed completely. I asked for lots of miracles to show people God’s grace and glorify Him and I have loads of stories of God’s provision.

One evening not too long after I became a Christian, I went to a village. A mother of 8 children had died that morning. I couldn’t accept that this was God’s will to take away a mother from her 8 children. So I prayed and the mother came back to life! That resulted in many people putting their trust in Jesus.

It wasn’t always easy for me though. I was thrown out of my house when I became a Christian. I had to hide and read my Bible under streetlights in the dead of the night but God was always there to strengthen me.

He lead me to marry Roy in a very special way even though I had to wait many years before we met.

I love it here at CCK. God has used me to encourage some of the younger Spanish speaking women at CCK. My English is very poor but I want to stay on in England more than Roy!

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Doug and Alison Davis – CCK Pioneers

Doug: We became Christians when we were very young. I was brought up in a Christian home. My father was a soldier in the Navy during World War 2. He wasn’t a Christian but when he was 20, he met a Scottish guy who led him to Jesus. That had an effect when he came home after the war. He was very excited and enthusiastic about what Jesus had done for him. He would go to the docks and share. After the war, he joined the police and was involved with Police Christian Association.

I learnt a lot of things about God but never experienced God till I was 15. I was in a Baptist church in Purley. At a youth weekend, someone shared their story about how they discovered Jesus as their God and suddenly I knew Jesus was God. My life changed. And then Alison arrived!

Alison: I wasn’t brought up in a Christian home. My father was in the Air Force and was killed during the war. When she was 40, my mother became a Christian and I was dragged along to church which I found thoroughly boring! A few years later, God spoke to me at a Billy Graham crusade meeting and a year later I became a Christian. At the same time a close friend of mine became a Christian too! So we decided to find a church together and that’s how we ended up at Purley Baptist church and I met Doug!

We went out for 5 years before we got married. Doug started walking me home after church every week. It was a chemical thing! I was 16 and getting interested in guys and I saw this guy and went “Wow! He’s a Christian guy, he must be good!” (laughs) and there was no turning back!

Doug: When I first saw Alison, she had a very nice skirt on! When I told my mother she said, “Not that girl with the short skirt.” (laughs) “Afraid so mum!.” I was a lively guy. Alison’s parents were from a higher class than us, but they learned to love me.

We were 21 when we got married. I was working with British Telecom. I worked with BT all my professional life – 40 years. Before we were married, we’d ride down to Brighton every weekend on my scooter, lie on the beach, have tanned bodies for the rest of the week and then come back the next weekend! We always loved Brighton and so we decided that when we were married we’d move down. We bought a bungalow in Portslade and we had Matt and Stephanie there.

Alison: When we first moved to Brighton, we weren’t too plugged in to a church. There wasn’t a sense of community there and we didn’t feel very settled or happy. So one day, we decided to pack up and move to Australia. We lived there for two and a half years

Doug: My advice to anyone considering a move is to really pray about it and seek God first. We didn’t do that. The environment we were in wasn’t too good. The church we were in wasn’t teaching us how to live our lives and we weren’t enthusiastic about searching the Bible on how to either. I think we missed out on something over there.

We came back to Brighton and went to a church called Gloucester Place Baptist Church on London Road. Something extraordinary happened whilst we were there. A young girl had a liver problem and was on dialysis 3 times a week for a number of weeks. She had become seriously ill was about to be hospitalized. She went to pray with the Pastor and as she spoke to him, she said suddenly the Holy Spirit came on her and she was healed! The next day, she went in to Sussex Hospital was completely fine. Where earlier her face and skin were yellow and filled with marks from the injections, her skin was now clear and pink. The doctors decided to x-ray her and the doctors were stunned! The x-ray showed that she had 2 new kidneys and her notes were filed away with the heading ‘healed through prayer’. I still get emotional when I share this story 30 years after it happened.

I felt God say to me, “So what do you reckon of that then?”

She told people in church. Some were sceptical, but many shared her joy. This experience was a catalyst and a turning point for us. We decided to figure out what was going on. So we met a guy called Henry Tyler and joined up with him. And that was the beginning of CCK.

Terry Virgo then came over and we saw huge growth. Regularly, people were becoming followers of Jesus and growing in their knowledge of God. We’ve been so blessed to have been involved right from the beginning. We got totally involved. We’ve done house groups, area groups and every other kind of group. I was involved in leadership for a while. Terry guided us well and we’ve benefited so much from his wisdom over the years.

Watching our son Matt being set aside as an Elder was a special moment. We’re really for him and what he’s doing. He’s the fruit of prayer gone into his life. We’re just so happy for him and very, very proud.

I like how our church is setup with leaders who really look out for you, who are there to guide and instruct you. If you get into trouble you can always see them and they’ll try to help you out. It’s encouraging seeing young people who’ve grown in God in such a short period of time. When you’ve been around for a while, you go “Wow! Look how God’s growing them and bringing them along.” We have this young guy preaching, Joel, who I remember seeing first as a child at CCK! We’re really benefiting along with other people in the autumn of our life through how God’s developing him as our leader. These are guys God has chosen to lead us. There are always the smaller things we may not understand, but I like to look at the larger picture and see how God’s is touching and impacting people’s lives every week now.

Alison: A few years ago, I felt that I wanted to bring friends to a church that we were proud of. We’ve never felt like that about other churches we’ve been part of. We felt it wouldn’t be relevant or that religion was being preached. But CCK is so relevant to our neighbours, friends, family – it’s got everything we wouldn’t be ashamed of and would love them to be a part of. We’re so glad with what God is doing here and are so glad we have a part to play in such an exciting time as this!

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CCK is proud to announce the arrival of the CCK iPhone app! In development for the last few months and pioneered and designed by Brightec, (a Brighton based company run by a CCK church member) it is now available in the iTunes app store.

This free application is the latest facility for people the world over to get hold of the preaching that happens every Sunday at CCK. If you are one of the 37 million people worldwide that owns either an iPhone or iPod touch, this app will enable you to access the whole media backlog as well as audio and video downloads of the very latest messages. This features preaching from Joel Virgo, Terry Virgo, John Hosier and others.

With this app you can also read our three CCK blogs; The CCK Blog, The CCK Life Blog and the CCK Reason Blog, as well as the Worship School Blog, right from the screen of your device. As well as all that the church calendar will be available, showing what’s happening in the life of the church during the week. The free CCK bus service route and timetable will be available as well as some information about Sunday services and how to find us.

As far as we are aware we’re the first church in the UK to have their own app, a fact which has been picked up by a few local media outlets including an excellent article in The Argus newspaper.

Download it now and let us know what you think!

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David and Gillian Moss – Trust and Triumph through Tragedy and Tribulation

David, 77, and Gillian Moss, 70, have been worshiping Jesus at CCK since 1994. David loves coming to church in his Sunday best and you always see him dressed in a suit complete with a tie and a trilby! Gillian has been involved in cleaning and maintaining the Clarendon Centre (where CCK meets on a Sunday) for the past 7 years but retires this year, much to the dismay of the Centre manager, Dan Sweetman!

David and Gillian share their remarkable stories of how they’ve coped with tragedy always trusting in the plans that God has for them.

David Moss:

I became a Christian in 1940. It was a time when Brighton beach was mined and covered with barbed wires. The arrival of the Axis forces on the beach was imminent. A preacher from Africa had come to our church and he’d brought along with him a long wooden drum. Using his wooden drum, he demonstrated how messages were communicated across the jungles. After drumming a few times, he proceeded to share the good news of Jesus Christ to us. I was suddenly aware that I was a sinner who needed a Saviour. I put my trust in Jesus that day and have never changed that since.

From my first marriage, I had 4 children. One day, my wife came to me with words that I never wanted to hear, “I don’t love you anymore. I love someone else.” I was devastated. I didn’t believe that divorce was a right thing to do, but she moved away and I finally consented only on the condition that our children would not get involved with this divorce process. So, I was left with my four children. Through the pain of it all, I trusted that God had a plan for me and that I wasn’t separated from His love.

I fell in love again and married in the early 1970’s. My wife bore us twin boys. I remember standing outside a supermarket with my twin boys when an elderly gentleman came up to me and said, “what more could a man ask for.” I thanked God in that moment for giving me such a lovely wife and my children. But just over a year after we were married, my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer and died. I was left with two little boys to bring up. In 1974, I quit my job to look after my children full time. God was faithful during that time and I have many stories of how He looked after me through those very difficult times.

It was then that I met my Gillian!

Gillian Moss:

I had trained to be a nurse and worked in London. I was married to a man 5 years younger than me, but that ended in a bitter divorce. I had been sexually abused by my father for 8 years as a child and struggled to be sexually intimate with my first husband. He blamed that for the divorce. From my first husband, I had two lovely boys, Robin and Adrian.

Just after the divorce, we went away for a Bible week. It was my first one ever. It was at the Bible Week that my 2 sons and I became followers of Jesus. My oldest son, Robin, seemed especially excited about what had happened.

A few months later, the three of us went on a holiday to the sea. My friend had been kind enough to let us use her cottage. On the way there, we stopped over to take a break and whilst there, my oldest son Robin asked me three questions I’ll never forget. The first one was, “Mummy, does God tell you when you’re going to die?” Being a nurse I had come across dying people who would say that they were about to die before they did. I know this is not always the case, but I had seen it happen from time to time. So I told Robin this. The second one was, “Mummy, does Jesus come to take me up to Heaven when I die?” I wasn’t too sure! So I told him that people died all over the world, so Jesus sends His angels but He’d be there in Heaven to meet me. The third one was, “Mummy, what’s it like to die?” I replied that I didn’t know as I hadn’t ever died! But I did tell him that the Bible says that there would be no pain or suffering in Heaven and he had nothing to be afraid of.

A few days later I watched him drown in the sea.

As I saw my boy drown, I felt an amazing sense of comfort, almost as if the Lord had wrapped His arms around me. I did cry buckets and mourn and I was angry and hurt, which I think are all a part of the grieving process, but through it all, I knew the love and comfort of Jesus. It was as if my son had changed his address and was in a safe place. One day I will see him again.

A few years later, I was kneeling and praying, when my younger son Adrian knelt next to me and said, “Mummy, why doesn’t God provide us with a family?” So I asked Him to do that. A few days later, I met David and his family of six children! After developing a friendship and a lot of prayer and trusting in God, David asked me to marry him, and I said yes! In 1978 we were married, and we’ve been together for 32 years now rejoicing in how good God has been to us.

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In over 30 years CCK has grown from an original group of 40 adults & children with a passion to see the authentic church restored into what is now a city centre based church regularly gathering approximately 1200 people most Sundays. Some of those original pioneers (and many others since) have stayed at CCK and helped establish and build this church on a bedrock of stability on which many generations can now stand and grow further.

To honour these hardy pioneers we’ve launched a series of interviews on this blog titled ‘Men and Women of Honour’. As we interview some of these long-standing, committed church members we hope to glean from them some of their wisdom, experience and personal challenges as they have sought to honour Jesus with their lives.

Take the time to absorb the passion and purpose that has characterised the lives of these early CCK pioneers. Be inspired and challenged…

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Nigel Ring has lived in Brighton and Hove for over 25 years now. He heads up the newfrontiers administration team and serves as Terry Virgo’s Administrator. Nigel served as one of the leaders of CCK for over 25 years. Nigel writes..

The recent Gift Day has included the needs of Kenya as they face severe drought. Let me give you a bit of background about our involvement there.

We first met Edward and Fridah Buria at the Downs Bible Week in 1985. This Bible week, hosted by newfrontiers on the Plumpton Racecourse near Lewes, then had about 7000 people attending. A few years later they brought their 100 or so churches into the family of newfrontiers.

Edward and Fridah are a remarkable couple. He is a visionary, evangelist, and entrepreneur who also has an apostolic ministry. Fridah is a very able business woman and wonderful support to Edward. He grew up in very poor circumstances (little better than slum life); she came from a well-to-do farming family. They met when he preached about Jesus in her school as a young adult (having been healed from a terminal illness). Several months after he first saw her he prayed for a wife for a considerable period and God told him she was the one.

After their wedding and first child they moved to Meru, a sizable town at the foot of Mount Kenya. They lived in a very rough area where there was high crime. After much prayer, they were able to start a church ‘Miracle in the Village’, now numbering nearly 1000 people. It is now the most peaceful area of Meru.

They began starting churches all over Kenya. Edward now oversees about 160 churches.

The drought they now face is the 3^rd this millennium, and by far the worst. I have visited during the previous two droughts (we have raised funds to help) and have been greatly impressed by their protocols and the highly effective and efficient ways in which they get help to the places of greatest need.

I have now just received (Nov 27^th) the following email about the current situation (only extracts reproduced here):

We have just returned back from Samburu (tribal area) where we have been for a few days carrying out relief andmedical operations … From what we have seen and heard … the situation on the ground and deep interior is so grave and not even captured on the National radar. It has emerged that we have whole ‘manyattas’ (i.e. Samburu homesteads) where on top of everyone being in dire need of relief food and other humanitarian supports, they have lost all their animals that succumbed to the drought … their only source of livelihood has been cut off.  In other areas, tension remains so high as communities fight and kill each other over cattle rustling and / or over the scarce either available vegetation and water. These intertribal skirmishes are so bad as they create a state of insecurity even on the roads in the affected areas.  It is also very clear that many people are dying as a result of the famine and through bandit-related incidents, and that such deaths go un-noticed or not recorded with the authorities.

The situation has even been complicated further by the continued failure of the much awaited rains … the weather people had predicted would be El-Nino Rains (i.e. torrential rains).

To our friends outside of Kenya, keep on praying for and with us and where it is possible to help in giving a smile and hope to a family in Samburu over this Christmas, please do so!

Like all other times in the past years, I and my able team remain so committed to standing and supporting our friends in Samburu and areas that have been affected by the on-going famine.

With every blessing.

Edward Buria

Thank you for giving sacrificially through the Gift Day. Please pray for them as the situation comes to mind.

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CCKY, CCK’s youth group for 11-14 year olds, kicks back into action this Friday with an awesome night of beach volleyball and football at Yellowave on the Brighton seafront, along with a beach BBQ! It’s going to be an incredible night and a great way to start off the year! Youth are asked to bring a donation of £3 to help cover the cost of the night. Don’t worry if money is tight, we’d still love your young person to come (just let a member of our team know). We’ll be meeting at 7pm at Yellowave on Madiera Drive with pickup at the same place at 9:30pm. Click here for a map.

Even if your young person has never been to CCKY, please encourage them to come along! Each week we welcome new people to the youth group and we’ll make every effort to ensure your young person has a great time.

What’s CCKY all about?
CCKY stands for Church of Christ the King Youth. We exists to:

As part of CCK, CCKY serve youth aged 11-14 from our church and across Brighton & Hove. We operates under the supervision of the CCK Leadership team and youth pastor Stephen Dawson. From week to week, we are lead by Rich and Lisa Miles who oversee our team of approximately 20 youth leaders.

We make every effort to ensure our youth’s parents/guardians are aware of what is happening at CCKY. This is done via a weekly email and text (SMS) message. To add yourself to one or both of these lists, please email your details to contact@ccky.co.uk

What’s happening at CCKY this year?

Lots! Things start with a night at Yellowave on Friday 11th September, followed by a Snapshot Challenge on the 18th. On the 25th we’ve got the CCKY House Party and then we’re off to Woking for the CCKY Weekend Away from 2-4 October… and that’s just the first 4 weeks! Our full schedule for the term is available at www.ccky.co.uk.

Want to find out more?
The CCKY website is your best starting point. There you’ll find the full term schedule, information for parents including information about the team that will be serving your youth and loads more. If you’d prefer to speak to Rich and Lisa Miles who lead the CCKY team, please email contact@ccky.co.uk with your number and they’ll get in touch.

Thanks for reading! We hope to see your young person on Friday night at Yellowave!

Big love

The CCKY Team

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blog.cck.org.uk – Features all the latest as well as past videos of preaching series done at Church of Christ the King by preachers such as Terry Virgo, Joel Virgo and John Hosier.

Joel Virgo’s latest series, Titus

Titus was a Greek who accompanied the apostle Paul on some of his travelling. He would have had to cross cultural boundaries for the sake of mission and stand bravely in a tough and sometimes hostile environment.

The letter from Paul to Titus (which has become the new testament book Titus) handles some gritty issues of church building and mission in the real world.

• Titus 2:1-15 Part 4 – Gospel Women
  
• Titus 2 Part 5 – Gospel Workers

ccklife.cck.org.uk - News, reviews and interviews, all that’s happening in the life of Church of Christ the King

Live at Together On A Mission 09

• Day 1 ; Day 2 ; Day 3 ; Day 4
• Recommended books by Terry Virgo

CCK Interviews: Scott Thomas, The Impacters and Annie Waller

Scott Thomas: “being a preacher is a privilege, not a right. And before you can be a preacher you have to be a pastor. And that takes a lot of work. A lot of young men have this idolatrous idea of being a preacher because they want to preach to thousands of people and they don’t realize what goes on behind it.”

The Impacters: “Perhaps the best parts of this year have been when someone says something outrageous when not thinking in the office!”

Annie Waller: “I spent the next few years in a troubled and unhappy marriage. Nigel and I were both seeking legal advice regarding a pending divorce. One Sunday evening, Nigel was invited to go along to church and God broke in on his life! To cut a very long and complicated story, we began an amazing journey to restore our marriage. This year we celebrate 25 years together.. woohoo!”

CCK on BBC Radio

Matt Simmonds and Yohaan Philip were interviewed by BBC Radio host Gavin Ashenden

reason.cck.org.uk - Answers to challenging questions put forward on the CCK alpha course

Does becoming a Christian mean trading in a life of fun for holy living?

Isn’t your experience of ‘God’ just a psychological crutch?

blog.worshipschool.com – To keep you up to date with Worship School news, a hub for theological discussion, a few songwriting thoughts and any resources that will hopefully inspire, encourage and challenge you.

Does it matter what we sing? (Part 3)

So it’s important that lyrics are true and reliable if people are going to sing them and allow them to feed truth into their daily lives. So does that mean we should restrict our song content to Scripture quotations?

Graphic by Steve Rowland

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Excerpts from the article:

“We want young people to enjoy church. That might seem a weird thing to some people, but we’re seeing more and more young people from teenagers into their 20s wanting to get closer to God,” he added.

Thousands of young people from Norfolk and across the UK are expected to descend upon Norwich for the six day festival, with highlights including music and preaching from Simon Bradling, Lou Fellingham, Adrian Holloway, Phatfish and Matt Redman.

Newday was set up by preacher Joel Virgo with a vision to restore the Church to a worldwide audience through the eyes of young people.

To read the complete article, please click here.

Yohaan Philip will be live blogging during Newday on the ccklife blog.

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