Into the Pray Nick & Mairi Franks
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“Breaching the Chaos of the Church” is the phrase we use regarding the Body of Christ to acknowledge that there is both a problem - a gargantuan one - and a stunningly blessed Hope. If you’re fed up, sick and tired of “church” and “christian spirituality” - and we expect you are - and if you’re also gagging for the Coming King - and we hope you are - this podcast will be a timely prescription for you. Maranatha...Come, Lord Jesus!
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Maintaining the Evangelical Faith Today | An Address of Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1952)
Hello!
In this week’s episode of Into the Pray, I drive to a local quiet spot on the east coast of north Scotland to read for you a 1953 address of Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones that ultimately caused John Stott, British Theologian from Cambridge, to publicly rebuke him.
Lloyd-Jones disagreed with ecumenicalism and the socio-political gospel of Billy Graham so strongly that he chose to face the ignominy that resulted from distancing himself from them rather than falling into the reality of Galatians 1:7-8.
Think along with me — are the attitudes which are central to the ecumenical agenda — in the Church and within Christian homes — really the foundations of faithful Christian relationships that are true to the gospel of Jesus Christ? What really of these “agree to disagree” agendas that cast a very dark shadow over those who refuse to agree that some matters, and some behaviours, shouldn’t ever be expected to change?
Listen to what Lloyd-Jones warned the church about in 1953.
See info on our new film series here and here.
Maranatha?
MARANATHA!
Love, Nick & Mairi
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
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Examining Cessationist Theology (Follow-up) 🕊️ [feat. Nick & Mairi]
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**N.B. Our main giving page is here. We especially need help with a new filming project that is arguably the most important project we will ever produce. We need financial backing for venue-hire and the expertise from film-makers/editors.**
This important episode of Into the Pray provides the promised follow-up conversation to this YouTube video exposing the woefully weak arguments of Peter Master's book, The Charismatic Illusion.
As Nick and Mairi discuss together, on the one hand we should be all calling out the contradictory condition of the Church with heated indignation and the sharpness of the prophetic gifts of the Holy Spirit, (50% of the Church are in error to the dishonour of God), but we should also produce the bountiful fruit in keeping with His nature.
You can see the 2021 film Nick refers to at the end, Calling YESHUA, below.
Links:
See info on our new film series here and here.
Maranatha?
MARANATHA!
Love, Nick & Mairi
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
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Looking Back at Lausanne (1974-2024): 50 Years of False Covenant❤️🔥
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N.B. Our main giving page is here. We especially need help with a new filming project that is arguably the most important project we will ever produce. We need financial backing but also expertise from film-makers/editors.
This important episode of Into the Pray features the disturbing details (including lack thereof) of the Lausanne “Covenant” and Movement that’s followed since 1974.
The late Billy Graham and John Stott believed that “fundamentalists” were sinful in their “individualism”…but was this true and is this true today?
WATCH related vlog here.
Links:
Nick’s Bethel blog.
Lausanne Covenant
Piper’s 1989 Reflections
E.S. Williams Book
Maranatha?
Love, Nick & Mairi
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Support the Show.
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Our Podcast | From The Temple of Mammon (PodVlog#2) [w/ Nick & Mairi]
Hello!
The “Into the Pray” podcast lands this week in a new “on the run” vlog-form. Please let us know in the comments section if you like it!
The YouTube version of this podcast is here. Please don't forget to subscribe and click the bell for notifications.
Our main giving page is here. We especially need help with a new filming project that is arguably the most important project we will ever produce. We need financial backing but also expertise from film-makers/editors.
Episode #2 of these new PodVlogs is from a very busy shopping centre and coffee shop just yesterday on Good Friday, (we resisted the delicious cakes on Episode #2 of these new PodVlogs, discussing the Iranian church and the unchanging nature of biblical theology and doctrine, is from a very busy shopping centre and coffee shop on Good Friday, (we resisted the delicious cakes on offer).
Our conversation today followed a meeting that Nick had this week and that once again brought into distressing focus the chaos of the Church. Suffice to say, featuring Jesus' words in John 8, "Let’s Agree to Disagree” is the demonic inscription chiselled over millennia deeply into our altars of self. But Jesus dismantles all by the blast of His merciful Word…
Maranatha?
Love, Nick & Mairi
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
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Our Podcast | From A Beach Cafe (PodVlog#1) [w/ Nick & Mairi]
Hello!
The “Into the Pray” podcast lands this week in a new “on the run” vlog-form. Please let us know in the comments section if you like it!
The YouTube version of this podcast is here. Please don't forget to subscribe and click the bell for notifications.
Our main giving page is here.
Episode #1 is from a very blustery Scottish beach in bright sunshine and taking shelter together in a warm cafe with excellent coffee, (we resisted the delicious cakes on offer).
Our conversation this week is to get us all to think about the spiritual climate that we’re all living within — ie that the multiplicity of different Christian doctrines and denominations that are tolerated (and even celebrated) equate to nothing other than deep spiritual sickness and spawning false gospels.
We also provide an update regarding my intense work in the background and invite you to support what we can not do on our own.
Maranatha?
Love, Nick & Mairi
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Support the Show.
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Why Have We Stopped Eating McDonald's & Shopping w/ Amazon? (feat. Nick & Mairi)
Greetings All!
[Apologies that the sound isn't as good as we would like it to be while we're trying to make the most of our current set-up].
Nick recently had a significant conversation with a dairy farmer, Edward, while he milked his cows. Edward opened up about the inordinate pressures that he and his family are being put under by the godless government of the land which now means that a bottle of water is more expensive (of more worth) than a bottle of milk. But what does this have to do with eating at McDonald's and shopping with Amazon?
In today's episode of Into the Pray we explain why we've recently stopped eating McDonald's and shopping with Amazon.
What are ultra-processed foods (UPFs)?
Is Amazon's customer service really as good as we're all led to believe that it is?
Is McDonald's OK to eat?
Podcast title music can be listened to here.
Would you consider supporting our work? Neither of us now have salaries and the work we are doing in the background to produce all that we do is significant. You can support us here. Thank you!
Also of note:
Back in the spring of this I year, I published the seminal work, "The Glorious Few: Redeeming Radicalisation in the Kingdom of God." In the period of 2 weeks following publishing, several major things happened all at once that could have happened at any point in the previous 9 years. The disruption of the Lord culminated in Mairi resigning from her role as a Teacher of French in a large secondary school in Edinburgh and was a disruption that I wrote about prophetically in the book's epilogue. This episode of the Into the Pray podcast is Mairi's testimony and, as the final podcast in our home where the podcast began, please let me encourage you to listen with a prayerful heart. Perhaps you'd also share the episode to your networks.
Finally, what would Nick say to your local church and leadership? The 1% Church.
Thank you for listening. Maranatha! Nick & Mairi
Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come
Support the Show.
If you would like to support this podcast, you can do so here.
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Thanks Nick & Mairi, your podcast has been really helpful to me in the past year. I have found the episodes re: abortion especially eye opening. I have always had a pro-life view, but my eyes have been opened to the evil behind abortion, how scientists/doctors/clinics are profiting from it and perpetuating it and how other parts of medical practice that’s never considered, are using abortion. I’ve also been challenged & encouraged to passionately pursue Gods Word, accurately understanding & rightly applying it to my life, as we wait & prepare with great anticipation for Christ’s return.