Baker's Bread of Heaven
The Blog of Pastor Peter Baker
- Grace Awakened Eyes
- We've had so many positive responses on social media and email to the recent broadcast service.
- All Change
- There's no standing still in the Christian life - change should be part of our lives.
- Think Before You Tweet
- Words are powerful. So it matters what you say on social media and in the rest of life.
- The Passion of Easter
- In our world, to love often means to suffer.
- Community Action
- With the Big Weekend coming up soon, I thought I could reflect on the theological issues that are driving it
- Koinonia!
- Greek scholars will recognise the word. The rest of us just say “fellowship“!
- What's in a Name?
- "Christian" - a label that does us no good
- The Heart of the Matter
- How’s your heart? Not that pump between your lungs which beats on average 72 times a minute, but that spiritual organ which integrates your thinking, feeling and responding.
- The Magnificat
- As a Protestant church, we tend to give Mary a wide berth! But in doing so we can lose one of the clearest definitions of faith which she illustrates - the obedience of faith to God’s word.
- Move over JK Rowling!
- We are blessed with huge talent among the staff with a number serving not just Highfields but the wider UK Church in different ways.
- Christmas at Highfields and the QR code
- No, this is not a new book by Dan Brown purporting to undermine the source material of Christian faith, but a clever piece of communications technology!
- Love Thy Neighbour
- Mahabba – that’s Arabic for “love”.
- Living with Loss
- The journey from grief to something better
- Prayer - The Great Omission
- Something stirred in me this week while preparing Sunday morning’s message from 1 Thessalonians 5, with its urgent call in verse 17 to “pray continually”.
- Reflections on Remembrance Sunday
- I doubt whether those who signed the Armistice in 1918, in a railway carriage in a French forest, could possibly have imagined the development of such a significant annual and global act of remembrance.
- The Naked Pastor
- I always feel a little sorry for the Emperor – why doesn't anyone tell him he's got no clothes!
- One of a Kind
- I wonder how many Latin phrases you have used today without even realising.
- How to make a real difference
- We live in an age of Celebrity where people can be famous simply for being famous.
- The wonderful thing about Tiggers!
- Within days of his arrival in the Hundred Acre Wood that is Highfields Church, I noticed the remarkable similarities between Simon Price, our new fresh-out-of-bible college Assistant Pastor and AA Milne’s character Tigger!
- The Unfinished Smile
- I read last week that works of art worth £400 million pounds, stolen last year from the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, are now in fact believed to have been dumped and crushed in a rubbish truck.
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