This week I have spent four hours putting political leaflets through doors. My children are appalled, for they support another
Continue readingAuthor: Paul Beasley-Murray
Paul is the chairman of Ministry Today, as also the College of Baptist Ministers, and from 1993 – 2014 was Senior Minister of Central Baptist Church, Chelmsford. He can be contacted at paul@paulbeasleymurray.com.
Preaching Good News evokes a mixed response
Breakfast with the Bible, Chelmsford Cathedral (21st May 2017). As our passage for this morning – as also the New
Continue readingRetiring retirement
Is retirement a Biblical concept? No says Rodney Macready, an Australian Baptist, in his book Retiring Retirement (Hendrickson, Peabody Massachusetts,
Continue readingBreakfast with the Bible: Acts 12:20-13:12
CHELMSFORD CATHEDRAL: 14 MAY 2017 – led by Paul Beasley-Murray 12.20-25: THE DEATH OF HEROD Herod Agrippa I was at
Continue readingMy friend Alan is now free at last
Today I want to honour my friend, Alan Wilkinson, who died just a few days ago on 3 May 2017.
Continue readingJesus calls us to be wise as serpents and innocent as doves
Immediately following the sending out of the Twelve (Matt 10.5-15), Jesus declared: “See, I am sending you out like sheep
Continue readingMy four o’clock moment
Like any other minister, I have read time and again John’s account of the calling of the first two disciples
Continue readingTears on Easter Day
Mary Magdalene “stood weeping outside the tomb” (John 19.11). Her tears were not just because Jesus was dead, but rather
Continue readingJesus was thirsty: a reflection for Good Friday
Crucifixion was an awful agonising death. Yet strangely the New Testament gives few details about the torture involved. The one
Continue readingThe Tenth Plague
Breakfast with the Bible, Chelmsford Cathedral, Palm Sunday (9th April 2017).
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