Category: Church Matters

For the last four weeks the dining room table has been full of retirement cards. But now is the time

In this season of Easter let’s remind ourselves that faith in the God of resurrection impacts not just the future,

The first ‘word’ of the seven so-called ‘words’ of Jesus from the cross is the most extraordinary: “Father, forgive them;

In the week that Dame Sally Davies, the Chief Medical Officer in Britain, declared that obesity is now so common

‘Truth through personality’. What a wonderful definition of preaching! Preaching is not just the communication of truth – it is

When I was wrestling with my call to ministry, it was first and foremost a call to preach. Like Jeremiah,

Twenty years ago, on Monday 21 March 1994 the Richard Baxter Institute of Ministry was launched. We put on a

This week I was asked by BBC Essex to reflect on my 21 years of ministry at Central Baptist Church,

Last week I chaired my last ever deacons’ meeting. It was a very happy occasion – not least because, to

This week for the last time I shall attend a meeting of the PSM – for soon I shall be