This is a sermon preached by my grandfather I believe in the 1960s. He was a tent preacher with the Counties Evangelists, based in Suffolk working with the Brethren. He has a large heritage of Christian descendants. You can hear his sermon here or read more about him: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/adrianwarnock/2008/05/edwin-millington-warnock-founder-of/
Both presidential candidates are routinely described by the other party as being a threat to the existence of democracy. Why are we surprised that someone took it upon themselves to try and remove one of them? It is time for the political temperature in the USA to be turned down. The level of hatred and division on both sides of the political divide is way too high at the moment. The attempt on Trump's life has demonstrated just how febrile the situation is. Some of the reaction to Trump's survi...
Adrian talks with John Stevens , a leading UK christian. We spoke about servant leadership, a phrase used by Sir Keir Starmer but which ought to be deeply rooted in Church leadership. The mature Christian or pastor ought not to be remote, strong, entrepreneurial and untouchable but rather someone who knows what it is to have human weaknesses and go through human sufferings, and yet to find Christ in the midst. If you are a pastor or church member who is struggling with feeling you are failing to...
Barnabas Piper grew up as a son of John Piper and with that surname came many expectations. Divorce wasn't one of them. But God wasn't finished with him, now he is remarried and a pastor. Video also available on Facebook YouTube and Patheos.com where there is also a transcript. https://www.patheos.com/blogs/adrianwarnock/2024/06/barnabas-piper-pastors-kid-divorcee-and-minister/...
The response to my series on divorce and remarriage and Dave Bish's sermon have been hugely encouraging. We thought it might be interesting to have a podcast style conversation about it. I hope this will be helpful for you if you are going through divorce right now, if you did so years ago, or if you would like to learn how to better support others. What does the Bible say about divorce and remarriage and how can Christians help reduce the stigma associated with it....
We explore issues related to our risk of infections including COVD-19. Some of the issues we discuss are controversial and others would have different opinions. Each of us have to make our own decisions in consultation with our own doctors.
Worried about omnicrom? Listen to this update on our four step plan to keep blood cancer patients and others with imnmune compromise safe: Warn, Test, Protect, Treat. Monoclonal antibodies and antivirals rapidly becoming available. Find out how YOU can get them. LEARN MORE AT https://bloodcanceruncensored.com/?s=COVID
Adrian interviews El who spent the COVID19 pandemic being treated for Hodgkin Lymphoma.
Ebisidor Rasaki Nabena and Adrian Warnock talk about what it is like to be helping Nathaniel Nabena prepare for his forthcoming life saving stem cell transplant. His faith and hope are tangible but also based in the reality of the challenges they still face as a family. The many miracles to date inspire confidence in the future. I trust this will also inspire your hope in whatever challenges you are facing. It is OK to also have tears at times.
Join the celebration as Adrian Warnock is joined by dad Ebisidor Rasaki Nabena and the family’s first supporter Sharyn MJ who is the driving force behind Nathaniel’s Angels and a publicity guru. Thank you to every single one of you who have donated, liked and shared. Don’t stop now. We do need to make sure that there is a buffer (in case he needs more treatment than hoped) and I know the family is keen to be able to also bless others. We will keep following this story as we pray Nathaniel has a ...
Nathaniel Nabena who is a nine year old who found himself in the right place at the right time when a very rare and very aggressive form of blood cancer attacked him. Just 100 children a year are diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) a year in the UK. Imagine the odds that one of them should be a young boy who just happened to be in the country visiting to get a prosthetic eye fitted for a different condition. Without modern medical treatment of chemotherapy, venetoclax and a stem cell tra...
The challenges, the pitfalls, the lessons learnt from over 20 years of a personal journey and learning from others through her work Patient Power Join me as I interview Esther Schorr who is married to Andrew Schorr. Video is available at https://bloodcanceruncensored.com/how-can-patients-and-their-partners-or-carers-best-approach-a-blood-cancer-diagnosis-together/...
Right now 1 in 30 Londoners are infective for COVID19 and the NHS here is in crisis. What do we know about how the body fights this disease. Why do some people end up in hospital? How can a blood saturation monitor help you? What do we know about antibodies?How anti Covid spike protein antibodies are key to understanding the vaccine, monoclonal antibodies and also why some people with impaired immune systems such blood cancer don’t make antibodies and so tend to have more severe illness. I also ...
This second discussion with our friendly physicist atheist was still not a slugfest (you can also see part one) . We both intended to show that we can disagree agreeably. By the end I felt that in Billy Whizz I had a new friend. We spoke about absolute truth, morality, hope, and suffering. So covered loads of grounds. I feel I understood his perspective and I hope he understood mine. It is sad how rarely something like this happens, and if it inspires you to have a similar conversation, perhaps ...
This episode is a discussion with a new friend I have met as a result of my recent COVID19 article. Billy Whizz (Richard Harvey) is an atheist with a physics degree described by a mutual facebook friend as a seeker after truth. Billy asked a couple of questions in the comments section including whether I was really implying only Christians could be scientists (I wasn't of course!) And it seemed to me that this would be a great person to have a conversation with. This video mostly focussed on wha...
This episode is about Christians and truth-telling about COVID19. The response has been very encouraging. It seems that many people share my concerns about how some Christians have been sharing things that are simply not true about COVID19 conspiracy theories. One point of clarification - I have since learnt that this is not an American-only problem. There are indeed some UK Christians sharing such things also, I just haven't noticed them in my feed. And there are also of course many USA Christi...
A very difficult childhood. Bereaved of her father at the age of nine. Taken into care. A teenage rebel. Bereaved again of her beloved sister when a young mum. Ten years of severe chronic pain due to a degenerative back condition requring multiple operations. Damaged beyond repair? Lost her faith? Absolutely not! Listen to this interview and prepare to be inspired as you face your own emotional challenges. Video also available: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/adrianwarnock/2020/07/coping-with-life...
Join me as I interview leading Christian thinker and author Prof John Lennox. What does human and artificial intelligence tell us about the existance of God and our place in the universe? We mention Dr. Jordan B. Peterson several times during this discussion as well as Timothy Keller . Few people are really challenging the roots of our defective modern culture more than Peterson, Keller, and Lennox. The goal is to stimulate people to really think. This discussion is not hard to follow, we do not...
Something special is happening here in Britain. Similar reports are coming in from around the world. I never imagined I would be able to type the next sentence: Since lock down 1 in 4 British people have attended an online service. That is an astonishing figure. And if you look at young adults the proportion is even higher at one in three! All this was reported in The Guardian which is not exactly known for being pro-church. And in breaking news this morning, 70% of church leaders report a rise ...
Listen to this if you need a bit of hope from one of the World's Leading Experts in CLL. Just how risky is catching COVID19 for blood cancer patients? Should we be stuck indoors alone for many more months? Can we begin to cautiously emerge? How do we wiegh the very real risk from COVID-19, against the very real costs of shielding which include risks to people's health and even life. Prof Peter Hillmen urges people who get sick to come to hospital as normal and explains how doctors and nurses are...
Watch this friendly and easy to understand two part interview with one of the top specialist doctors in the World on this form of blood cancer. Prof Hillmen explained why treatment is often not offered initially, how that can be very worrying for patients, and how they decide when it is time to consider treatment. He explained that there are currently two strategies: to try and aim to get rid of the disease as much as possible or even cure CLL (FCR or venetoclax containing combinations) , the se...
Put this on repeat and relax.
Grabbed some time with Andrew Schorr from Patient Power. Was great to hear about how he was one of the first cohort of patients to be treated with FCR chemotherapy for CLL, a form of blood cancer, a couple of decades ago. He hadn't expected to survive his Blood Cancer this long, nor to get a second one and be successfully treated for that too. This is a story of hope. And a story of a man convinced that the Universe spared him for a purpose and a mission. As he said doctors better listen to him ...
Dr Brian Koffman is a modern day pioneer, married to Patty who is the co-founder with him of perhaps one of the most remarkable patient groups around CLL Society Inc.. It is an absolute privilege to have both of them frequenting our little corner of the web, and even more so that he agreed to be interviewed (often Brian is the one doing the interviewing). The conversation was deep and rich and you can see it right here on this page. We spoke about matters of faith, altruism and how actually putt...
Is my prayer a shopping list, worrying out loud, or “Let your kingdom come, let your will be done IN AND THROUGH ME as it is in heaven”? Ask not what God can do for you but what you can do for God. Video and text available: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/adrianwarnock/2020/05/pray-for-gods-kingdom/
Here is Bible saturated wisdom in the form of meditations which will help you calm your heart and focus on the presence of Jesus. Today I interviewed Naomi Trenier and Mark Wagner both from the Soultime app. We spoke about calming your heart, dealing with feeling like you are in a mess, and an explanation of why its time we reclaim meditation as an originally Christian concept . I have calmed and quieted my soul (Psalm 131:2) Isaac went out to meditate in the field toward evening. (Genesis 24:63...
This is how we ended the much longer version of my interview on Christian Meditation with Naomi and Mark from SoulTime. Full interview video and audio available: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/adrianwarnock/2020/04/do-you-need-some-soul-time/
How do we handle it when we can't achieve what we wanted to? This morning my friend Keno Ogbo the founder of Tiny Life Moments wrote here on Facebook about how to handle the being in the moment during lockdown rather than rushing to the next to do list and stressing about tomorrow. Many of us can't achieve what we want to right now, and of course Covid19 confronts all of us with our frailty and mortality. I was inspired by her comments which I include below, and decided it would be fun to interv...
Interview with my friend Julio Abraham the CEO of Derby City Mission. They have been housing 40 homeless people in a hotel on behalf of the government during this Coronavirus lockdown. We chatted about demonstrating the love of God during this time. Watch the Video https://www.patheos.com/blogs/adrianwarnock/2020/04/caring-for-the-homeless-in-lockdown/
We chatted about their new hymn “ Christ our Hope in Life and Death ” and their hymn singing livestream as a family now they are isolated due to coronavirus. Video : https://www.patheos.com/blogs/adrianwarnock/2020/04/interview-with-keith-getty/
