Category: Church Matters

‘Truth through personality’. What a wonderful definition of preaching! Preaching is not just the communication of truth – it is

When I was wrestling with my call to ministry, it was first and foremost a call to preach. Like Jeremiah,

Twenty years ago, on Monday 21 March 1994 the Richard Baxter Institute of Ministry was launched. We put on a

This week I was asked by BBC Essex to reflect on my 21 years of ministry at Central Baptist Church,

Last week I chaired my last ever deacons’ meeting. It was a very happy occasion – not least because, to

This week for the last time I shall attend a meeting of the PSM – for soon I shall be

I am excited, for the College of Baptist Ministers is about to be launched! After months of preparation and consultation

Today I went up to my old Cambridge college – Jesus College – to attend a memorial service for Cameron

From childhood I have loved reading and loved books. And so too has my wife, Caroline. As a result over

In a previous blog I have written of what attracts people to a church. In researching that blog I came