Category: Church Matters

The other day when I visited my 92 year-old mother we talked about one of the hymns she would like

Next March I will have completed 21 years as the senior minister of Central Baptist Church, Chelmsford. Needless to say,

Preaching about money – and in particular preaching about giving money to the church – is more risky than walking

My blog this week takes the form of an appeal for sponsorship which I have out to many of my

This coming weekend I am going away with my fellow leaders. There will be quite a number of us: for

“Children are a gift from the Lord”, wrote the Psalmist, “they are a real blessing. The sons a man has

Organisations – religious and secular – seem to be increasingly in the business of rebranding. Just in the last month

Many churches assume that children are not really able to worship God.  So when we want to involve children in

Over the years I have often referred to baptism as the occasion when we nail our colours to the mast.

Ordination prayers Over the years I have had the privilege of ordaining a good number of men and women into