Dorchester Baptist Church

A few weeks ago Alice and I went to a pottery/craft shop. I was more taken by the potter’s wheel than anything else, sad I know! I tried to imagine how a lump of clay could be formed into the beautiful items that surrounded us. My mind has gone back to this image whilst reading Jeremiah 18 Like the potter who has something in mind when he sits down at the wheel, Father ...

Happy Easter May you know something of the Easter story dawning afresh upon you as you journey through,  from Good Friday to Easter Day. It’s a little different for us this year. For the first time in years not having to plan and prepare orders of service, sermons and reflections - very strange! Actually,  it has given more time for reflection. I’ve been looking at this whole area of surrender again (see my previous blog) and particularly this Easter through the life of ...

Gen 28:15 I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”  I can’t help but think after my first trip to College and sitting in two one hour lectures, why did I do it? Was it so I could say I have done it? Maybe to justify the sabbatical! The lectures were extremely good, challenging and ...

Well,  we are into the second week of our sabbatical. I’ve finished reading and been deeply challenged by John Piper’s book ‘Let the Nations be Glad’  - Supremacy of God in missions. He states that God has to sustain and empower the whole process of mission  and it starts and ends with prayer (John 14:13). Dr Piper comes out with phrases like ‘ God has given us prayer because Jesus has given us mission’; God’s ultimate goal comes through prayer’; John 16:24 ‘Ask and ...