Articles
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When Everyone’s Doing ‘Home-Work’
In these days of restrictions and isolation due to the Corona Virus, many of us are having to work from home. For some, this is not a new experience. For others, it is completely foreign. Working from home can bring great blessings, and provide new and creative opportunities to explore. It can save us travel…
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Preparation for Baptism
Aim Our aim is to understand and receive the key truths of the Christian faith. Baptism is into the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, and into the fellowship of the church, so Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and the God’s holy Church will be the outline of what we will…
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The Nature of Pastoral Service
Representing Christ’s Lordship to his Church and the World. In addition to the papers written by Noel Due at the time when eldership was being first considered in Coromandel Baptist Church, I have sought to describe the nature of pastoral service—what it is about, what it does and how. This is with a view to…
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Baptist Baptism as a Confirmation of Faith
Where do children belong in the family of God? That is to say, what is their actual status before God? The task of parents is to represent that to their children and the task of the church is to welcome them according to their actual status before God. Jesus modelled that when children desired to…
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Happily a Child
Everyone likes to think that they relate well to others. So much of our life is a matter of relationships, that to be a failure here would be to feel a failure everywhere. But our ability to relate to others has a lot to do with our being a child. Is childhood ever a thing…