Category: Church Matters

The opening years of my ministry in Chelmsford were tough. The vast majority of the church happily responded to my

The ultimate goal of pastoral care is presenting “everyone mature in Christ” (Col 1.28). Alas, all too often pastoral care is

The other day, on the spur of the moment Caroline and I decided to explore a small town not so

Nowhere more clearly do we see Jesus as the Servant than when he washed his disciples’ feet in the upper

However gifted and skilled ministers may be, however hard-working and committed they may be, ultimately they are dependent upon the

In March 2014 I retired – or at least I retired from stipendiary ministry. Fifteen months later I thought I

Just before Easter I spent ten days in Sri Lanka as the guest of the Colombo Theological Seminary, an evangelical

Worship is the occasion when we men and women become truly alive; when we humans made in the image of

Knowing that I would have an eleven hour flight to Sri Lanka, I decided to buy myself a copy of

In most churches there is a limit to how long anybody can be a lay leader in the church. Many