Today I want to honour my friend, Alan Wilkinson, who died just a few days ago on 3 May 2017.
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.
Jesus 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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A sermon preached at Great Notley, Palm Sunday 9 April 2017 Every Sunday we come to remember Jesus. But this
Continue readingJesus uses us to build his church
Some 2000 years ago Jesus said to a handful of disciples: “I will build my church and the powers of
Continue readingThe Passover
Breakfast with the Bible, Chelmsford Cathedral: 2 April 2017 “Liturgy precedes the liberative event” says Terence Fretheim of this chapter.
Continue readingLet’s be friends
“No man is an island”, declared John Donne. We are made to relate to others. “It is not good for
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