Category: Church Matters

Last night we had a great AGM – we had done all the ‘business’, if business be the word, by

In a Baptist context baptismal services are normally wonderfully exciting occasions. But when I was at Cambridge as a student,

If the local paper is to be believed, most people in Chelmsford do not approve of the Council’s recent decision

One of the oddities of ministerial life is that although as far as the Inland Revenue is concerned we ministers

The other day when I visited my 92 year-old mother we talked about one of the hymns she would like

Next March I will have completed 21 years as the senior minister of Central Baptist Church, Chelmsford. Needless to say,

Preaching about money – and in particular preaching about giving money to the church – is more risky than walking

My blog this week takes the form of an appeal for sponsorship which I have out to many of my

This coming weekend I am going away with my fellow leaders. There will be quite a number of us: for

“Children are a gift from the Lord”, wrote the Psalmist, “they are a real blessing. The sons a man has