Category: Church Matters

As I have repeatedly written in some of my more recent books, ministers need to rediscover their role to be

Sadly since January I have had very few books to review.  Nonetheless there are two which I wish to share:

I have just published my twenty-first book. Entitled Here is Love: Preaching at Weddings, it complements my previous book, There

Like any other Baptist minister, until I retired worship was always within a non-liturgical setting. Nonconformists do not have a

At the beginning of April Caroline and I went up to London to see a performance of Nye at the

For years I have been fascinated by the story of the two who met Jesus on the road to Emmaus.

The wonder of Maundy Thursday is found in John’s account of that evening (John 13.3-4): Jesus, knowing that the Father

Palm Sunday is the day when Jesus came riding triumphantly into Jerusalem. As the Gospels make clear, the crowd went

According to Mark Twain, “my mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it”.

The ‘Prince of Preachers’ was the name given to Charles Haddon Spurgeon, who founded the college of which I was