Category: Church Matters

Earlier this year I sent out a survey to ministers serving churches belonging to the Baptist Union of Great Britain

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the great Victorian ‘prince of preachers’,  pastored the same Baptist church for 38 years – and every

Grieving is part of the cost of loving and takes time.  It is generally reckoned that the grieving process can

Years’ ago we Brits didn’t cry – or at least not in public. However, a survey of some 2000 adults

I have just taken part in a formal external review of the mission and ministry of Chelmsford Cathedral – or

This week I have spent four hours putting political leaflets through doors.  My children are appalled, for they support another

Is retirement a Biblical concept?  No says Rodney Macready, an Australian Baptist, in his book Retiring Retirement (Hendrickson, Peabody Massachusetts,

Today I want to honour my friend, Alan Wilkinson, who died just a few days ago on 3 May 2017.

Immediately following the sending out of the Twelve (Matt 10.5-15), Jesus declared: “See, I am sending you out like sheep

Like any other minister, I have read time and again John’s account of the calling of the first two disciples