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Actress and Christian speaker Jen Lilley is calling believers to move beyond a passive faith and rediscover a vibrant, intimate relationship with Jesus. She observes that many people believe in God yet feel spiritually stagnant, settling for routine church attendance rather than a life fully alive in Christ. Lilley believes true renewal comes through deeper commitment, obedience, and freedom found in knowing Jesus personally. Through her podcast and her new devotional book, Wake Up Your Faith: 365 Daily Encounters with Jesus, she invites readers into daily, Spirit-filled encounters that awaken faith and confidence in God’s healing, grace, and faithfulness. Drawing on her own journey from a successful acting career to wholehearted discipleship, Lilley challenges Christians to be bold in prayer and witness. She urges believers to step out in everyday moments, pray for others, and respond to the urgency of the Great Commission. Her message is clear: now is the time to awaken faith, live fully surrendered to Jesus, and actively make disciples.

Former research scientist Fazale 'Fuz' Rana shares how advanced scientific study led him from agnosticism to Christian faith. As an undergraduate, science pushed him toward doubt, but deeper research in biochemistry revealed to him the extraordinary complexity, elegance, and precision of even the simplest living cells. Through decades of laboratory experiments, he says, scientists have consistently failed to demonstrate how life’s essential complex molecules could arise spontaneously through unguided chemical processes. Instead, these experiments require careful planning, intervention, and controlled environments provided by intelligent researchers. Rana describes this contradiction as the 'problem of unwarranted researcher intervention’, highlighting the irony that attempts to prove chemical evolution instead point toward intelligent design. This scientific dilemma raised deeper questions about purpose and origin, ultimately leading him to Scripture. He describes a profound encounter with Jesus through the Sermon on the Mount, recognising his sin and need for salvation through Christ’s sacrifice. Now serving as president and CEO of Reasons to Believe, he seeks to engage sceptics by presenting a robust scientific case for God’s existence and the reliability of the Bible.

Team GB swimmer Daniel Jervis has thanked God and his family church for their support during his Olympic participation. ‘I want to thank my village of Resolven and I want to thank my church, Sardis Baptist Church, Ammanford church in Ammanford, who have really been supportive of me, and everyone back home who has been praying for me. ‘I am proud of many things in my life, but the thing I'm most proud of is that I'm a Christian. Obviously, God was with me tonight, and I'm just really grateful to be representing Him,’ he told the media just after he finished his last race of the games.