Category: Church Matters

The Olympics are coming. Indeed, this Friday (6 July) the Olympic torch comes to Chelmsford, and there is much excitement.

I have just finished preparing a sermon. If the truth be told, I thought I had prepared it yesterday. I

On the Sunday morning of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Weekend I got the congregation to sing the National Anthem. My

Every time I sit at my desk, I am challenged by a text displayed on a wooden stand which I

The American poet Robert Frost once said: “A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday, but never

When it comes to preaching, I happily preach about the difference that Jesus makes to life, but I find it

After Christmas and Easter, Pentecost is the third great Christian festival of the Christian year. Yet of these three great

To my amazement, this year nobody in our church felt free to accept nomination as a deacon. As a result,

Baptist deacons have sometimes had a bad press. Gerald Coates, the founder of the Pioneer group of churches, once caricatured

Here at Central Baptist Church, Chelmsford, we are in the process of a deacons’ election. Deacons in our context are