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Steve Uppal - rousing the church for revival

27 Oct 2018
53:13

Steve Uppal is the pastor of All Nations, a growing multicultural church in Wolverhampton, and the author of ‘Rousing The Warriors’. He tells Justin Brierley the story of his parents’ radical conversion from a Sikh background to Christian faith and h...

Hillsong London's Gary Clarke: How we've grown our church

20 Oct 2018
01:09:44

When Hillsong first started in the UK, they attracted around 100 people to their Sunday services. Now a whopping 14,000 people turn up every week at the church's campuses across the UK. In this in-depth interview with Premier Christianity's editor Sa...

Bishop Joseph D'souza: The Dalit Freedom Network founder who is standing up for India's outcastes

13 Oct 2018
55:09

Bishop Joseph D'souza is the leader of the largest growing church movement in India, the Good Shepherd Church. He's also a human rights activist for the poor and marginalised people called Dalits, also referred to as untouchables. Premier Christianit...

Rev Dr Inderjit Bhogal: From Sikhism to Christianity

6 Oct 2018
52:50

Inderjit Singh Bhogal is a leading theologian and a former President of the Methodist Conference. Originally from an Indian Sikh background, he was just 11 years old when his family moved from Nairobi to the West Midlands. There were only two Sikh te...

Baroness Cox: A voice for the voiceless

29 Sep 2018
55:35

Spurred on by her Christian faith, Baroness Caroline Cox has spent most of her political career drawing attention to the plight of persecuted people both at home and around the world. And she hasn’t been afraid to court controversy in the process. Mo...

John Stevens: The former lawyer is now helping 600 independent evangelical churches flourish

22 Sep 2018
57:50

John Stevens is the national director of the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches (FIEC), a family of 600 local churches who are "united by the gospel and by a common purpose". In this in-depth interview with Premier Christianity'...

Rachel Gardner: The sassy youth worker talks candidly about sex, adoption and feminism

15 Sep 2018
01:01:22

Some of Rachel Gardner’s first words during this one-hour conversation were a warning. “I’m going to bring plenty of sass to this interview.” She didn’t disappoint. Adjectives such as ‘bubbly’, ‘gregarious’ or ‘extroverted’ somehow feel insufficient...

Sarah Corbett: Meet the Craftivist campaigning for gentle protests

8 Sep 2018
59:11

Sarah Corbett is a professional activist, author and the founder of Craftivist Collective, a social enterprise which combines craft and activism to engage people in social justice issues "in a quiet, non-confrontational manner." The pioneer...

Tim Cheshire: Music, Mission and The Message Scotland // The Filling Station's Richard Fothergill: Creating a new expression of Christianity

1 Sep 2018
57:07

We're in Scotland for this week's episiode! Sam Hailes travelled to Refuel! - a new Christian festival in the Highlands run by The Filling Station. In the first part of the show he meets Tim Cheshire, the frontman of Christian band Superhero who is n...

Bazil Meade: The founder of the London Community Gospel Choir

25 Aug 2018
50:55

Bazil Meade has been working in the music industry for over two decades. He is the founder and principal of the world famous London Community Gospel Choir. Under his direction and tuition some of the industry’s finest gospel and RnB singers have blos...

John Kirkby: From near-bankruptcy to founding debt advice charity Christians Against Poverty

18 Aug 2018
48:00

In 1992 John Kirkby lost virtually everything he had. Finding himself with debts of £78,000 and nowhere to turn he had hit rock bottom. But fast forward to today and the Yorkshireman's life has changed dramatically. Not only did he turn his finances...

JB Gill: The JLS popstar turned Songs of Praise presenter opens up about faith and farming

11 Aug 2018
53:14

JLS were one of the biggest boybands of their day. The group rose to fame after reaching second place on ITV's X Factor and went on to sell over 10 million records. In this in depth interview with Premier Christianity's Sam Hailes, JB Gill recounts t...

Emma Heath: From alcoholism to Christ // Youth for Christ's Neil O'Boyle on evangelism

4 Aug 2018
01:00:38

After many years of alcohol abuse, Emma Heath was desperately lost. A decision to go into treatment and rediscover her faith led to healing and a role helping others in recovery. Sam Hailes hears the full story. In part two, we talk to Neil O'Boyle -...

Ken Fish: Miracle healing stories, training under John Wimber & praying for Nabeel Qureshi

28 Jul 2018
56:24

Ken Fish, founder of Kingdom Fire Ministries tells Justin Brierley about his life story and training in supernatural healing ministry under John Wimber, the founder of the Vineyard Church. Ken now ministers around the world and says he sees supernatu...

Petr Jasek: The persecuted Christian who shared a cell with Islamic State fighters // Lois Tverberg: Why discovering the Hebraic background to the Bible will enrich your faith

21 Jul 2018
55:37

On the first part of today's show, Alex Williams meets Petr Jasek, a Christian worker who spent 450 days in prison in Sudan for offences including spying and inciting violence against the state. Petr always denied any wrongdoing, insisting he was in...

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