Category: Church Matters

As a child my politics reflected the views of my parents – I was a Tory. However, when I was

It came as something of a shock when I discovered that when I became 79, I actually had become 80.

Recently I was preaching at the anniversary of a Baptist church here in Essex. As an aside, unlike Anglican churches

From the conversation of Jesus in the Upper Room with his disciples, we discover that the Spirit of Jesus who

Jesus said to his disciples in the Upper Room, “I will ask the Father, and he will give you another

Jesus claimed to be able to satisfy people’s thirst for God. It was a sensational claim. He was essentially making

Jesus was in conversation with a Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well. The conversation got off to a wonderful start about

“The wind blows where it chooses” (3.8) – what a wonderful metaphor for the Spirit! However, Nicodemus was puzzled by

Following the celebration of Pentecost last Sunday, for six weeks my blogs will feature reflections on John’s account of the

At Pentecost God poured out his Spirit in a totally strange, inexplicable, indeed miraculous manner. Luke’s account of the coming