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May 18, 2017 Paul Beasley-Murray

Retiring retirement

Is retirement a Biblical concept?  No says Rodney Macready, an Australian Baptist, in his book Retiring Retirement (Hendrickson, Peabody Massachusetts,

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May 11, 2017 Paul Beasley-Murray

My friend Alan is now free at last

Today I want to honour my friend, Alan Wilkinson, who died just a few days ago on 3 May 2017.

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May 3, 2017 Paul Beasley-Murray

Jesus calls us to be wise as serpents and innocent as doves

Immediately following the sending out of the Twelve (Matt 10.5-15), Jesus declared: “See, I am sending you out like sheep

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April 26, 2017 Paul Beasley-Murray

My four o’clock moment

Like any other minister, I have read time and again John’s account of the calling of the first two disciples

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April 19, 2017 Paul Beasley-Murray

Tears on Easter Day

Mary Magdalene “stood weeping outside the tomb” (John 19.11). Her tears were not just because Jesus was dead, but rather

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April 12, 2017 Paul Beasley-Murray

Jesus was thirsty: a reflection for Good Friday

Crucifixion was an awful agonising death. Yet strangely the New Testament gives few details about the torture involved. The one

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April 5, 2017 Paul Beasley-Murray

Jesus uses us to build his church

Some 2000 years ago Jesus said to a handful of disciples: “I will build my church and the powers of

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March 30, 2017 Paul Beasley-Murray

Let’s be friends

“No man is an island”, declared John Donne.  We are made to relate to others.  “It is not good for

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March 23, 2017 Paul Beasley-Murray

Mother Mary: a reflection for Mothering Sunday

Every young mother thinks her child is special. There is no other child as beautiful or as clever as her

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March 16, 2017 Paul Beasley-Murray

Will there be nothing to show that we were here?

Some months ago I revisited the town where for over 13 years I had been the pastor of the local

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