Pastor’s Blog – Summer 2011
Have you ever noticed how the members of a family react when they meet a new baby for the first time?
Have you ever noticed how the members of a family react when they meet a new baby for the first time?
Many people struggle with problem attitudes and behaviours in their lives, never realising just how practical Biblical truths are for helping us to deal with them. Here are Biblical principles worth thinking about…
2009 marks the 400th anniversary of the formation of the first English Baptist Church, in 1609, by a group of Independent (Congregationalist) Christians who had fled to Amsterdam in Holland to escape the persecution of dissenters in England.
The past 12 months have been unprecented in its economic volatility and there are further tough and unknown times ahead.
Welcome to Pastors’ blog, where from time to time one of our pastors will write about things that are happening both at MOBC and in the wider world.
The Bible tells how the title ‘Christian’ was first applied to the followers of Jesus in a place called Antioch:
‘Now those who had been scattered by the persecution in connection with Stephen travelled as far as Phoenecia, Cyprus and Antioch, telling the good news only to Jews. Some however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and [...]