Easter eggs all wrapped up in their glittering foil are pretty to look at, but if that is all they
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.
A reflection for Palm Sunday
That first Palm Sunday must have been wonderfully exciting for the friends of Jesus. For Jesus came riding into Jerusalem
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Traditionally Protestants call the fifth Sunday in Lent (and the second Sunday before Easter) ‘Passion Sunday’, which is the beginning
Continue readingMy pattern of daily prayer
Apart from the Lord’s prayer, there is no one God-given pattern of daily prayer. In this week’s blog I intend
Continue readingIn Jesus all the many races and cultures form a glorious harmony and are a taste of heaven
On Sunday 9 February many British churches celebrated the 30th anniversary of Racial Justic Sunday. This is the day when
Continue readingLiving life to the full at eighty-one
I was born on 14 March 1944. To my surprise I have discovered that many famous people were born on
Continue readingPeople of faith are generally more likely to be generous
People of faith are generally more likely to be generous than people who are not religious, but there are many
Continue readingCommunicating like Jesus did
Unlike most ministers, when I was ordained on 10 October 1970, I was ordained not as a pastor but as
Continue readingHow could Europe’s most cultured race allow the Holocaust to take place?
Last January marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camps. It was but one of the many
Continue readingEvangelical leaders need to welcome and learn from those who are different from them
Although I am an Evangelical, I am dismayed by so many Evangelical leaders in the Baptist denomination as also in
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