Sam Hailes
Editor at Christianity Magazine
Editor of @christianitymag, the UK’s leading Christian magazine. Editorial Director for Premier. Personal views.
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2 weeks ago |
premierchristianity.com | Sam Hailes
The straight-talking evangelist whose conversations with strangers rack up millions of YouTube views is worried the Church is producing false converts. If you want to see people come to a lasting faith, stop starting with ‘Jesus loves you’, he says Thirty years before the invention of YouTube, Ray Comfort was pioneering a style of videotape evangelism that would take the future internet by storm.
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1 month ago |
premierchristianity.com | Sam Hailes
Joe Rigney has authored a much-discussed new book entitled The Sin of Empathy. He defends his thesis to Sam Hailes If I were to list the fifty biggest problems facing the Church today, I don’t think ‘too much empathy’ would make the cut. But Idaho-based pastor Joe Rigney disagrees. His provocative new book is entitled The Sin of Empathy (Canon Press) and claims empathy is “the greatest rhetorical tool of manipulation in the 21st century”.
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1 month ago |
premierchristianity.com | Sam Hailes
After a life-long battle with anxiety, worship leader Elle Limebear is showing fear the door. As she releases her boldest music to date, the daughter of Delirious? frontman Martin Smith opens up about prophetic words, how she accidentally rewrote her father’s classic worship song and what touring the world is really like Elle Limebear was destined to sing – and that isn’t journalistic hyperbole. In 1997, as then-Delirious?
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1 month ago |
premierchristianity.com | Sam Hailes
Inspired by the parable of the talents, Phil and Wendy Wall MBE distributed free cash at major Christian festivals. Twenty-five years on, they reflect on the many lives changed because of it With a twinkle in his eye, Phil Wall tells me about the life-changing words he said to his wife, Wendy, during a long-distance telephone call in April 1997. “I’ve fallen in love with another woman, can I bring her home, please?” The request wasn’t as offensive as it first appears.
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2 months ago |
premierchristianity.com | Sam Hailes
A Chosen People Ministries survey has claimed one third of British Christians endorse antisemitic tropes such as “The Jews talk too much about the Holocaust”. Sam Hailes looks at the research Source: REUTERS/Susannah Ireland The news has felt remarkably dark in recent days. Earlier this week a man admitted shooting dead his mother and two siblings in Luton. Last week 1,000 women shared their stories of being raped, abused and harassed while serving in the British military.
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