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Max Lucado: The prolific author on his lockdown struggles // Jo Saxton: The leadership coach with a passion for mentoring women

5 Sep 2020
52:25

In this week's double bill, Rachel Matthew meets the prolific Christian author Max Lucado and Claire Musters interviews well known leadership coach and popular speaker Jo Saxton.   You can also read the interviews with Max Lucado and Jo Saxton on the...

Damian Stayne: The Catholic charismatic on healing, prophecy and deliverance

28 Aug 2020
01:14:27

Damian Stayne is a healing minister in the Catholic Church. He is the founder and the leader of Cor et Lumen Christi, which aims to equip fellow Catholics in supernatural ministry. In this in-depth interview with Premier Christianity's Megan Cornwell...

John Mark Comer: How to ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life

21 Aug 2020
58:18

The American pastor's new and much-praised book The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry is out now. And you can get it FREE when you subscribe to Premier Christianity magazine. To celebrate this great offer, we're replaying our in depth interview with John...

Rev Chris Lee: The viral vicar reaching 1 million people a week

14 Aug 2020
58:46

He has more followers than the Archbishop of Canterbury and tens of thousands watch his 60-second sermons. BBC News has dubbed him “an internet sensation”, but what message is Rev Chris Lee seeking to communicate? In this in depth interview with Prem...

Lisa Fields: Jude 3 Project, Racism in the Church, US politics

7 Aug 2020
46:43

Lisa Fields is head of the Jude 3 Project, an apologetics organisation with a focus on helping African Americans better understand and share their faith.   Lisa speaks to Megan Cornwell about: the types of objections to Christianity raised by people...

Ken Costa: Following Jesus in the world of banking and finance

31 Jul 2020
54:59

Ken Costa is part of the leadership team at Holy Trinity Brompton and has had a career in banking and finance. In this interview first broadcast in 2016 he talks about growing up in apartheid South Africa, his Christian conversion and his recent book...

Pastor Sam Robertson: Supernatural encounters // Shadow Faiths Minister Janet Daby MP: My testimony

24 Jul 2020
55:50

On this week’s show, Premier’s Maria Rodriguez speaks to Sam Robertson from the Glasgow Prophetic Centre about the unusual supernatural encounters he’s experienced during times of prayer ministry. In the second part of the show, Cara Bentley intervi....

Dr Francis Collins: The Christian geneticist on conversion, creation and Covid-19

17 Jul 2020
01:05:07

Dr Francis Collins is a renowned geneticist who directs the National Institutes of Health in the USA, at the forefront of finding a vaccine for Covid-19. He was recently awarded the Templeton Prize. In this interview he speaks to Justin Brierley abou...

Eric Gaudion: Suffering with the most painful condition known to humanity

10 Jul 2020
41:17

Church leader Eric Gaudion endured one of the most painful conditions known to humanity for 22 years. He was admitted to hospital more than 100 times and went through 30 surgeries before a groundbreaking transplant gave him his life back. In this int...

KXC’s Pete Hughes: Discovering God’s plan to make all things new

3 Jul 2020
52:17

In this week’s episode, church planter and author Pete Hughes talks to Sam Hailes about coronavirus, racism, ministering to millennials and Gen Z in London and why and how the church he leads in Kings Cross has grown. The figures - 40 congregants to....

Rich Wilson: Head of student mission movement, Fusion

26 Jun 2020
55:37

Rich Wilson is passionate about raising up the next generation of students who love Jesus, and then unleashing them on the world. In this in-depth interview he shares his own journey to faith and reveals some of the remarkable things God has done alo...

Paul S Williams: The Marketplace and Mission in a post-Christian world

19 Jun 2020
59:47

Paul S Williams is CEO of Bible Society, which for 200 years has sought to bring the Bible alive to every man, woman and child.  He shares how he was dramatically brought back to faith as a student at Oxford University before going on to work in fina...

Lisa Bevere on thriving in lockdown // Rev Anthony Thompson on forgiving the racist who murdered his wife

12 Jun 2020
56:00

It’s a double bill of The Profile podcast this week. Rachel Matthews is in conversation with bestselling author and founder of Messengers International, Lisa Bevere. In part two Claire Musters interviews Rev Anthony Thompson who lost his wife in the....

Dr Rowan Williams: The former Archbishop of Canterbury on the Rule of St Benedict

5 Jun 2020
52:38

Dr Rowan Williams is hoping to move back to Wales. “I don’t know exactly when it will be possible” he tells Catherine Larner, “but I still hope to be back by late autumn. I’m waiting to see what lies ahead, but I’m not looking to fill the diary. I’m...

Nigel Ipinson-Fleming: Keyboards, drugs, The Stone Roses and my journey to Jesus Christ

29 May 2020
53:24

Nigel Ipinson-Fleming is a Gospel artist, keyboard player and music producer with a history playing in bands such as Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and The Stone Roses. First broadcast in 2016, in this interview he chats with Muyiwa Olarewaju abou...