Off Grid Christianity is a podcast for Christians who feel disconnected from Church…whether they attend one or not! Hosted by Martin Purnell, former ‘Drivetime’ presenter on the UK’s first FM Christian Radio station, ‘Cross Rhythms City’, in Stoke-on-Trent. Martin also pioneered the legendary lunchtime discussion programme ‘The Soapbox’ on national Christian radio station ‘UCB’.
In recent years, Martin took a step back from direct involvement in broadcasting to focus on family life in his adopted home of Northern Ireland. However, throughout that time, the concept behind OGC has been developing on the ‘back burner’ and we’re excited to bring that to fruition, through this regular podcast.
However, I have been really pleased with such positive feedback for last week’s special edition podcast (#59) with Jeannie Kendall. If you haven’t heard Jesus And Women In The Gospels – Let’s Get Beyond The Soundbites, please have a listen and let me know what you think. You can also find this episode on our […]
Jeannie Kendall, Minister and Lecturer at Spurgeon’s College, returns for this special stand alone podcast. What do we know about the women Jesus spent time with? What was a woman’s role 2,000 years ago? Were some of them disciples? What does the word Disciple mean? What does the word Apostle mean? What do we really
Richard is the Missions Director for ICS. What is ICS and what does a Missions Director do? Is it anything to do with NASA? What did Richard learn from all his years in British Youth For Christ? What does he mean by investing in yourself? Richard also discusses why he co-authored in 2006 Young People
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What a lovely lady Jeannie is. She shares her thoughts on previous job roles including being a teacher and rising through the Baptist ranks before becoming a minister herself. Jeannie founded an award winning Counselling Service and she is now in the early years of retirement. Jeannie is a successful author and her third book
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Paul,until a few years ago, was the Anglican Archdeacon for North West Europe. His main focus now is Christilience. But what is Christilience and why set up training courses to help you on your ‘journey’? Why is encouragement so important to us all? Did God create busy? In this absorbing podcast, Paul shares in perfect
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Brendan had a very successful career in I.T. so why did he end up at a Benedictine Monastery on the Isle of Wight? A love of hiking and pilgrimage emerged and in 1994 Brendan and a friend begged their way across Northern Spain but why? In 2011, in memory of his brother Donal who had
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I thought this interview would be about Michael and his book Unlocking The Growth – You Will Be Amazed At Your Church’s Potential, plus his school’s project God And The Big Bang. However, this episode is more than just the above., much more. What was it like being brought up by your Grandmother? Why? The
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Wow! Bishop Richard is genuinely funny and the Most Embarrassing Moment feature will have you laughing massively out loud. Richard gives his view on the current state of the C of E and how as an atheist in his teenage years he ended up going to church. A scientist specialising in Agriculture before going into
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Bishop Richard is genuinely funny and the Most Embarrassing Moment feature will have you laughing massively out loud. Richard gives his view on the current state of the C of E and how as an atheist in his teenage years he ended up going to church. A scientist specialising in Agriculture before going into ministry,
