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Make your life count: a year of Adrian’s writing

Make your life count: a year of Adrian’s writing

Last updated on: November 5, 2025 at 12:00 pm by Adrian Warnock

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Make your life count: a year of Adrian’s writing 2025-11-05T12:00:03+00:00 Adrian Warnock

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“One life” how to make yours count: Pro-life for refugees

Making your life count was the theme I started on at the beginning of last year. Inspired by a movie on the life of Nicky Winton, the focus was questioning why we as Christians tend to sit around talking, and yes blogging about things rather than actually making a difference. Several times in the year I argued we must learn to be pro-life not just for babies in the womb but for all people everywhere. If you have not watched the film, I encourage you to do so. In many ways this first article set the tone for the rest of my year of writing, and one of the last articles I wrote last year returned to the same theme: Love the Immigrant: This is the Way

What a year 2024 has been. I was able to write a lot more than I did in 2023 which I enjoyed. I hope you also enjoyed the journey with me. I do not believe that Christian Blogs are Dead, and still identify as a blogger. I created with the assistance of AI lists of the Top Personal Christian Blogs and Organisation Blogs.

This was the year I marked a full seven years of my new life dealing with long term sickness and disability. I hope that my overview of what that has been like was helpful to many, if you missed it, and only want to catch up on one of these posts can I recommend this one: D-Day: Defying Definition by Diagnoses Seven Years On.

D-Day: Defying Definition by Diagnoses Seven Years On

POLITICS AND RELIGION

Politics from a faith perspective has been a major pre-occupation this year for me, and I reacted quite strongly to the assumptions coming out of the USA that you HAVE to be very right wing if you are a Christian. Here are some of the highlights of this writing from me this year:

Pro-Life Voting: Beyond Anti-Abortion, Protecting All Lives

FAITH AND CHURCH

I also explored some other theological and practical themes. I challenged some of our assumptions in the following posts:

Ten Things Jesus Did NOT Say

THE RESURRECTION

I also shared the content of my first book which will hopefully shortly be re-published as a second edition:

What is the Baptism in the Holy Spirit? Receiving Assurance

I hope to be able to write more on some of these themes this year.

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About Adrian Warnock

Adrian Warnock

Medical doctor · Published author · Patheos writer since 2003

I have always lived within sixty miles of London, UK where I studied, worked and worshipped for thirty years. I began writing for this Patheos blog in April 2003, making it one of the longest-running individual columns on the Christian Internet. My writing here, on Substack, and in my books is influenced by my medical training, eight years of working as a psychiatrist in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), eighteen years working in medical research in the pharmaceutical industry, twenty-five years of serving as a pastoral leader in a growing multicultural church, and a difficult decade of lived experience with chronic illness, including blood cancer, and the unexpected losses, including early retirement, that resulted.

Together, these all shape a biopsychosocial-spiritual approach which I first wrote about on Patheos in 2013. This model offers us hope, compassion, and healing in all life’s challenges. This holistic approach is based on the idea that all truth is God’s truth.

At times, since my illness, my faith has been faint. I wondered if this was the end of my story. I was not strong enough to live for Jesus the way I wanted to. I could not change myself. And then hope reminded me: The resurrection of Jesus changes everything. Just not all at once. Healing takes time. Compassion and patience sustain us over a lifetime of change. I aim to approach suffering with hope and compassion, and address tough questions including:

What does Jesus’ resurrection mean for you?

Raised With Christ: How the Resurrection Changes Everything (Crossway, 2010; 2nd edition, Amazon, 2025)
Why is change so difficult? What causes the resistance?

The Traitor Within: Understanding and Healing Our Deceitful Hearts (Amazon, 2026)
Why is change so slow? How does grace lead us over a lifetime?

Amazing Grace: How Faith Grows in the Human Heart (Amazon, 2026)
How do you become a Christian? Can you know if you really are one?

Hope Reborn: How to Become a Christian and Live for Jesus Co-authored with Tope Koleoso (Christian Focus, 2014)

Qualifications

I qualified with an MB BS from the University of London (equivalent to an MD in the United States), hold postgraduate qualifications in psychiatry (MRCPsych) and pharmaceutical medicine (MFFM, DipPharmMed), and took theological training courses run by Newfrontiers.

Connect With me

Substack: adrianwarnock.substack.com (the best way to ask questions)
Twitter/X: @adrianwarnock
Facebook: Adrian Warnock
Email: [email protected] (I may not be able to respond to every message)

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