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Author: Paul Beasley-Murray

Paul is the chairman of Ministry Today, as also the College of Baptist Ministers, and from 1993 – 2014 was Senior Minister of Central Baptist Church, Chelmsford. He can be contacted at paul@paulbeasleymurray.com.
September 18, 2025 Paul Beasley-Murray

Books for Today – September 2025

I began to read In My Time of Dying: How I came face-to-face with the idea of an afterlife (Simon

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September 11, 2025 Paul Beasley-Murray

Celebrating 58 years of marriage

On Tuesday Caroline and I celebrated 58 years of marriage. As I have discovered, about 7% of marriages reach 50

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September 4, 2025 Paul Beasley-Murray

Worshipping God in singing psalms, hymns and songs

Christian worship declared Karl Barth, “is the most momentous, the most urgent, the most glorious action that can take place

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August 28, 2025 Paul Beasley-Murray

Let’s remember Jesus

“Remember Jesus Christ” wrote Paul to Timothy (2 Timothy 2.8). The place we supremely remember Jesus is at the Lord’s

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August 21, 2025 Paul Beasley-Murray

Where your treasure is, there your heart will be

In August Caroline and I were worshipping at Chelmsford Cathedral.  The preacher that morning was Canon Philip Neel, a former

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August 14, 2025 Paul Beasley-Murray

What do we call those who lead God’s church?

In the New Testament the two main terms for leaders in God’s church were called either ‘elder’ (this is the

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August 7, 2025 Paul Beasley-Murray

Let’s proclaim Jesus

Preaching has been at the heart of my ministry. My call to ministry was very much a call to preach.

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July 31, 2025 Paul Beasley-Murray

Confessing our faith in Jesus

The earliest New Testament confession of faith is “Jesus is Lord” (Romans 10.10). With these words on their lips the

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July 24, 2025 Paul Beasley-Murray

Let’s read the Scripture

Over the years I have discovered that the more ‘Bible-believing’ a non-liturgical church is, the less Scripture is likely to

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July 17, 2025 Paul Beasley-Murray

Let’s nail our colours to the mast

The term ‘nailing your colours to the mast’ has its roots in the Battle of Camperdown, fought on 11 October

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