Yesterday I attended a Eucharist for the Day of Pentecost. The hymns and prayers as also the sermon were all
Continue readingAuthor: 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.
Priest or minister?
In the Church of England the standard term for ‘minister’ is ‘priest’. Yet the New Testament never uses the term
Continue readingEntering new territory
Entering New Territory is the title I have given to my report on the experience of retired Baptist ministers who
Continue readingHow should we pray?
In a recent survey of Baptist ministers now in their retirement worshipping in Anglican churches, I asked the question: ‘How
Continue readingHow old do you need to be for baptism?
In a booklet for people preparing for baptism I wrote: Baptism is a dramatic way of declaring that we belong
Continue readingBooks for Today – May 2019
Retired and inspired: making the most of our latter years (BRF. Abingdon, 2019. 143pp: £8.99) by Wendy Billington, a former
Continue readingWhat heritage will our children have?
Today I will be visiting my elderly impaired mother. Almost ninety-seven years of age, she suffers from macular degeneration and
Continue readingThe ongoing challenge of telling my story
The John Rylands Library on Manchester’s Deansgate is one of the great libraries of Britain and is full of wonderful
Continue readingThe message of the empty tomb
Much has been made of the so-called ‘discrepancies’ between the various Gospel accounts of the first Easter Day and the
Continue readingDid God hear Jesus pray for Peter?
Although the Gospels repeatedly tell us of times when Jesus withdrew to pray, for the most part we have no
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