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Trinity (Romans 5:1-5, John 16:12-15) I am going to tell you a story I have told before about a meeting I was part of many years ago to plan a ‘Baptists Today’ conference… Baptists Today, to fill some of you in, was a conference for Baptists from all over Australia Read more…

For the Spirit of God beside/in/through us – John 14:8-17,25-27 A few weeks ago, we went to a friend’s 50th birthday and when it came time for speeches she told us a story – a story famously told by Russell Conwell, an American Baptist minister in the late 19th, early Read more…

Crossing the street ourselves – Acts 9:1-20, Psalm 122 Three months ago, we explored together some of our distinctive Baptist values; discipleship (the call of God to each one of us to be part of God’s work), community, mission and freedom, and this month we begin another time-honoured Baptist practice Read more…

Scars – John 20:19-29 I have a scar on my left foot. It’s three centimetres long and I got it when I was four and my dad had taken me to a scrap metal yard. (Parenting in the early 70’s!) The yard had a guard dog and I decided it Read more…

God’s new world – Luke 24:1-12, 1Corinthians 1:18-21, 26-30 It is always daunting on Easter Sunday morning to say something adequate about the absolutely new and unexpected event of the resurrection, about the new life we have been given, about the new world God is creating – which, as Martin Read more…