Category: Pastor's Blog

Pastor’s Blog – Summer 2011

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?

Pastor’s Blog – Spring 2011

Pastor’s Blog – Spring 2011

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…

Baptists and Hymn Singing

Baptists and Hymn Singing

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 GFC – A Christian Response

The GFC – A Christian Response

The past 12 months have been unprecented in its economic volatility and there are further tough and unknown times ahead.

Pastors' blog

Pastors' blog

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.

What is a Christian?

What is a Christian?

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 [...]