Just this week I finished reading Walking Home From Mongolia: Ten Million Steps Through China From the Gobi Desert to
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Retirement Wishes
For the last four weeks the dining room table has been full of retirement cards. But now is the time
Continue readingTough Times Demand Easter Faith
In this season of Easter let’s remind ourselves that faith in the God of resurrection impacts not just the future,
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The first ‘word’ of the seven so-called ‘words’ of Jesus from the cross is the most extraordinary: “Father, forgive them;
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In the week that Dame Sally Davies, the Chief Medical Officer in Britain, declared that obesity is now so common
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‘Truth through personality’. What a wonderful definition of preaching! Preaching is not just the communication of truth – it is
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When I was wrestling with my call to ministry, it was first and foremost a call to preach. Like Jeremiah,
Continue readingMT celebrates its 20th anniversary
Twenty years ago, on Monday 21 March 1994 the Richard Baxter Institute of Ministry was launched. We put on a
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A sermon on Acts 2:46; Revelation 19:5. Available to download as a PDF.
Continue readingMissionary leadership is vital
This week I was asked by BBC Essex to reflect on my 21 years of ministry at Central Baptist Church,
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