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Conversations between Nick and Mairi Franks and
Dave Brennan in a new series on abortion
24 November 2021
Season 4 | Episode 56
A world of windows: peering through Jeremiah 7
Looking together through the window of Scripture into eternity beyond.
"Stand at the gate of the Lord’s house and there proclaim this message..." (Jeremiah 7:1)
Nick and Mairi Franks
3 November 2021
Season 4 | Episode 46
Climate change: the real emergency?
Pt 1
Following COP26, is all of this harmless or is there something more nefarious lurking behind the scenes?
How should we think about the importance of creation?
How should we both steward and worship?
Nick and Mairi Franks
29 September 2021
Season 4 | Episode 35
Intimidated by transgenderism?
Live audio of Dave speaking with Laurie Penny, re. abortion and related feminist/transgender ideologies.
How does 'pro-choice' thinking connect with other ideologies that are aggressively trampling conscience, common sense and freedom of thought/ speech?
Nick and Mairi Franks
1 September 2021
Season 4 | Episode 24
Clarifying Catholicism - pt 2
What are evangelical leaders saying about what's happening in the Church today?
And what about the blurred lines between Evangelicals and Catholics?
Nick and Mairi Franks
28 July 2021
Season 4 | Episode 9
Clarifying contraception - pt 3
Testimony:
The joys and sorrows of Anandi and Dave's personal testimony, and their concluding position on contraception.
Nick and Mairi Franks
08 July 2021
Season 4 | Episode 2
Podcasts to help end abortion
Recap about our conversations on abortion thus far:
What have we already talked about and, looking to the coming Lord Jesus, where are we planning to go?
Nick and Mairi Franks
11 May 2021
Season 3 | Episode 33
Three Families: Satan's lullaby [part 1]
We respond to part 1 of the new BBC 1 drama 'Three Families', available to watch on BBC iPlayer if you missed it here.
What of the abortion laws of Northern Ireland and the tumultuous changes of 2019?
What is the BBC's agenda here?
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4 December 2020
Season 2 | Episode 30
Abortion's tiny little doses of arsenic
William Wilberforce said of slavery to Prime Minister, William Pitt, "It's like arsenic: each new tiny dose doubles its effect."
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9 November 2021
Season 4 | Episode 49
A world of windows: peering through Psalm 139
Listen or watch Nick, Mairi and Dave read Psalm 139 and begin the sometimes foreign process for all of us of lifting our thinking.
"Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth." (Colossians 3:2)
Nick and Mairi Franks
13 October 2021
Season 4 | Episode 41
Covid-19 vaccines: aren't other meds also wrong then?
If we take a stand regarding the Covid-19 vaccines, won't that mean that we also have to take a similar stand regarding a wide range of other medications?
Nick and Mairi Franks
22 September 2021
Season 4 | Episode 32
Transgender ideology, predestination & the need to offend
"From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and the violent take it by force..." (Matthew 11:12)
Nick and Mairi Franks
25 August 2021
Season 4 | Episode 20
Clarifying Catholicism - pt 1
As we pivot somewhat from our focus on contraception, we come to the critical issue of the Roman Catholic Church.
Is a move to Catholicism an acceptable solution to the gross unfaithfulness rife within Protestantism?
Nick and Mairi Franks
21 July 2021
Season 4 | Episode 6
Clarifying contraception - pt 2
The culture:
What are the ideas, attitudes, dreams, and fears that fuel our assumptions and decisions when it comes to contraception?
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24 March 2021
Season 3 | Episode 17
IVF: Is it ever
okay?
Nick and Mairi share their journey, and the point at which they came face to face with the realities of IVF and the strong witness of the Holy Spirit that IVF was not the way forward.
We listen to Mairi's testimony as a woman of God who longs to be a Mummy but who recognises something very profound about the heart of God on this (and related) issue.
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17 December 2020
Season 2 | Episode 34
Shining a spotlight onto this subject - forcing it into the front of our consciousness - rather than leaving it buried in numbness and complicity of our minds, Nick and Dave discuss the root of the problem: idolatry.
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27 November 2020 | Season 2 | Episode 28
The second podcast in a long, trailing conversation about the abhorrence of abortion.
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5 November 2021
Season 4 | Episode 47
Climate change: the real emergency?
Pt 2
Friday special!
Turn off the TV, sit back and listen to Dave, Nick and Mairi read J.C.Ryle's 19th Century classic, A Call to Pray.
Our conclusion: The real emergency threatening the world is the "prayerless Church".
Nick and Mairi Franks
6 October 2021
Season 4 | Episode 38
Why is Jordan Peterson correct?
Nick and Dave continue to discuss the intimate interconnectedness of abortion and transgender ideology.
Nick and Mairi Franks
15 September 2021
Season 4 | Episode 29
If NOT Catholics, then who are we?
This final episode in our focus on contraception is a very helpful look at Scripture to enable us all to continue to think carefully and biblically about the things that we say we believe.
Nick and Mairi Franks
18 August 2021
Season 4 | Episode 17
Clarifying contraception - pt 4
Ft. Joanna Chandler:
In conversation with Joanna who has done a lot of thinking and studying in this area, starting with her High School thesis a decade ago!
Nick and Mairi Franks
14 July 2021
Season 4 | Episode 3
Clarifying contraception - pt 1
The facts:
Which "contraceptives" have the potential to end human life that's already begun?
Nick and Mairi Franks
12 May 2021
Season 3 | Episode 34
Three Families: Satan's lullaby [part 2]
We conclude our response to part 2 of BBC 1's 'Three Families', (available to watch here).
Who is the real enemy?
"O our God, will you not execute judgment on them? For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you.” (2 Chronicles 20:12)
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21 April 2021
Season 3 | Episode 24
The church and vaccine passports
Nick and Dave pause this week to discuss the general posture of the Church with regard to things like vaccine passports.
First and foremost, we are all people of God, sons and daughters of the Coming King, not abortion activists.
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19 March 2021
Season 3 | Episode 15
Vaccines: do not be deceived
Should disciples of Jesus Christ be taking the Covid-19 vaccine?
Discussion of the recent debate between Dave Brennan and Prof. John Wyatt, Emeritus Professor of Neonatal Paediatrics at University College London and President of the Christian Medical Fellowship.
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24 February 2021
Season 3 | Episode 9
What if I've already been vaccinated?
Nick and Dave prayerfully navigate (as sensitively as possible) through this difficult situation, offering not just commentary on the big, media-pedalled narratives that are pressing the decision to be made, but speaking words of profound comfort, especially for those who feel conflicted having had the vaccine already.
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11 December 2020 Season 2 | Episode 32
Abortion is abhorrent and yet we don't feel the abhorrence of it; to us it is just normal.
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12 November 2020
Season 2 | Episode 23
How many people were killed during WW1 and WW2, combined? Do you know? Do you know how many people were killed in the last century through the abhorrence of abortion?
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