Holy Trinity Church Cambridge Buying In Without Selling Out | 14 September 2025 | DANIEL | Stuart Browning
Sep 16, 2025
Stuart Browning, a preacher and featured speaker at Holy Trinity Church Cambridge, explores how Christians can stay true to their faith under ungodly authorities through the lens of Daniel 1. He delves into the challenges of cultural pressure during Babylonian captivity and discusses responses like fight, flight, or conforming. Highlighting Daniel's strategy of adopting certain practices while maintaining moral integrity, Stuart shares the importance of setting boundaries and resisting cultural renaming, all while trusting in God's sovereignty.
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Faith Under Ungodly Authorities
- The book of Daniel explores how to live faithfully under ungodly authorities without losing ultimate allegiance to God.
- Stuart Browning frames the series as teaching how kingdom vision shapes life amid hostile regimes.
A Bad Boss Story
- Stuart recounts his father's boss who gave him only one day off in a year and refused time off when his son was born.
- The boss then gifted a signed portrait and an engraved pen when the father left, illustrating poor leadership.
Cultural Reprogramming In Exile
- Daniel and his friends are deported and placed in a program designed to capture their hearts and minds for Babylonian culture.
- The training aimed to remake identity via language, literature, renaming, and dependency on the state.