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Sam Hailes

Crystal Palace, England, London

Editor of @christianitymag, the UK’s leading Christian magazine. Editorial Director for Premier. Personal views.

Articles

  • 1 week ago | premierchristianity.com | Sam Hailes

    With reports of renewal gathering pace, Christian leaders from a variety of churches and locations across the UK report on what they’re witnessingFor years, almost every study into religious affiliation and church attendance in the UK has told the same story. Fewer people are going to church. Secularisation is on the rise. Young people aren’t interested. Not anymore, it seems.

  • 1 week ago | premierchristianity.com | Sam Hailes

    The man who had a front row seat to the Asbury Outpouring talks humility, the kindness of God and how the death of his daughter reshaped his relationship with Jesus Zach Meerkreebs had that sinking feeling most preachers can identify with. You’ve prayed, planned and prepared but, for whatever reason, the message you’ve delivered just hasn’t connected the way you hoped it would.

  • 1 month 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.

  • 2 months 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”.

  • 2 months 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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