Who am I?
I am a lay preacher from the south east of England.
I was converted at the tender age of nine in the town of Shrewsbury in the West Midlands, for fear of going to hell.
After going through a crisis in life while still at school, my reliance on the Lord Jesus Christ grew.
On leaving school I spent six months as a trainee missioner in the Birmingham City Mission.
This meant taking occasional Bible studies in my home church, but at the end of this time my plans to become a preacher failed.
My attempts to obtain funding for a course at the Bible Training Institute in Glasgow were unsuccessful.
This and the departure of our minister from Shrewsbury led to my leaving Claremont Baptist Church for the Evangelical Church in the town.
Following a period of unemployment and a twelve month council funded training scheme the Lord provided me with a job with HMCE.
I have been a civil servant ever since...
After several years in the Shrewsbury Church I became involved in the planting of Welshpool Independent Baptist Church.
There I served alongside the missionary family from Georgia in the United States of America for several years.
During this time I preached in the surrounding area, regularly at Forden Congregational Chapel, and occasionally at the Revel and other places of worship.
While there I was provided with a wife and moved to London to be married to her.
We have since left Kent and Surrey for Sussex where I occasionally preach at chapels in the county.
Since 2020 I have become the deacon in charge of Bells Yew Green Chapel.
I am a lay preacher from the south east of England.
I was converted at the tender age of nine in the town of Shrewsbury in the West Midlands, for fear of going to hell.
After going through a crisis in life while still at school, my reliance on the Lord Jesus Christ grew.
On leaving school I spent six months as a trainee missioner in the Birmingham City Mission.
This meant taking occasional Bible studies in my home church, but at the end of this time my plans to become a preacher failed.
My attempts to obtain funding for a course at the Bible Training Institute in Glasgow were unsuccessful.
This and the departure of our minister from Shrewsbury led to my leaving Claremont Baptist Church for the Evangelical Church in the town.
Following a period of unemployment and a twelve month council funded training scheme the Lord provided me with a job with HMCE.
I have been a civil servant ever since...
After several years in the Shrewsbury Church I became involved in the planting of Welshpool Independent Baptist Church.
There I served alongside the missionary family from Georgia in the United States of America for several years.
During this time I preached in the surrounding area, regularly at Forden Congregational Chapel, and occasionally at the Revel and other places of worship.
While there I was provided with a wife and moved to London to be married to her.
We have since left Kent and Surrey for Sussex where I occasionally preach at chapels in the county.
Since 2020 I have become the deacon in charge of Bells Yew Green Chapel.
What do I Believe?
I am a biblical Christian, who believes that God has communicated to his creation which he made in six literal days, through the means of a single book.
The book has multiple authors over many centuries:
The first was a prince of Egypt brought up in Pharaoh's court at the height of the empire.
That was before God destroyed that empire by ten miraculous plagues.
That left the mighty nation totally devastated and ruined, as they were judged for their wickedness.
The last was a fisherman from Galilee.
One who was first with Andrew to follow the man that John the Baptist called 'The Lamb of God!'
This fisherman then followed that Messiah for three years and was there at the foot of the Roman gibbet, when the Lamb was sacrificed for his people.
That Lamb had been rejected by the Jewish and Gentile world, but he rose after three days in the tomb as prophesied in the Old Testament.
That fisherman then lived through the beginning of the church in Jerusalem on the Day of Pentecost.
He saw the church at Antioch thrive and send out a converted Jew by the name of Paul to preach the gospel among the nations.
Through both of these men, and a large number of others in between, God communicated to mankind.
During its writing and since its completion, Almighty God has watched over it and protected it through the decades from those rebels who have sought to destroy it and its teachings.
The message contained in the book is one of amazing revelation.
From the very first history book, we are told how God made the heavens and the earth in six days and rested on the seventh giving us our week!
It tells us of mans almost instant rebellion and the plan of salvation before we leave the third chapter of that book, where God kills the first animal in sacrifice to cover the sins of mankind.
In chapter four we see the first murder, following on from the first blasphemous worship service called a Mass or bloodless sacrifice.
There the cursed fruits of the cursed earth were offered to the Creator.
The murderers generations who refused to acknowledge their finiteness and eventual death that would follow, are then revealed.
God replaced the god fearing one with another whose generations we are then given, with each one facing death as the penalty of Adams sin.
After just over 1000 years the man of peace, Noah is born.
And 600 years later climate change took place on a massive scale!
The whole earth was drowned in a flood of judgement on mankind, whose every thought was evil against God.
Noah alone followed God, and God saved him through the building of an ark.
This all happens in the first nine chapters.
We then are given the origins of the nations of the earth as Noah's three sons Shem, Ham and Japheth repopulated the earth.
A descendent of Ham rose in rebellion once more by constructing a city and a tower to heaven to unite men against God,
very much like the United Nations in our day in total rebellion against the Creator God of the bible.
That city was eventually known as Babel as God confused the language of the nations and sent them to populate the earth.
Japheth travelling to the corners of what we now know as Europe, Asia and America by land through Alaska during the ice age which resulted from the flood.
Ham made his way into Africa, while his brother Shem remained in the middle east.
From the neighbourhood of that rebellious city a town called Ur, God called out a man chosen of him to be the ancestor of the Messiah or Promised One.
He was called by faith, out of rebellion into a land he didn't know.
There he lived in a temporary tent all his life, knowing that he looked for a city whose builder and maker was none other than God.
He worshipped the God of Creation by blood sacrifice in the prescribed way, and though he wasn't perfect he followed his God.
He was blessed with two sons in his old age, the first of a bond woman, the latter the son of promise by his wife aged 90!
The latter son continued in the land faithfully but not perfectly before his wife bore him twins.
The younger went on to father twelve, the penultimate one being the one who brought Egypt to greatness through his faithful following of God.
I am a biblical Christian, who believes that God has communicated to his creation which he made in six literal days, through the means of a single book.
The book has multiple authors over many centuries:
The first was a prince of Egypt brought up in Pharaoh's court at the height of the empire.
That was before God destroyed that empire by ten miraculous plagues.
That left the mighty nation totally devastated and ruined, as they were judged for their wickedness.
The last was a fisherman from Galilee.
One who was first with Andrew to follow the man that John the Baptist called 'The Lamb of God!'
This fisherman then followed that Messiah for three years and was there at the foot of the Roman gibbet, when the Lamb was sacrificed for his people.
That Lamb had been rejected by the Jewish and Gentile world, but he rose after three days in the tomb as prophesied in the Old Testament.
That fisherman then lived through the beginning of the church in Jerusalem on the Day of Pentecost.
He saw the church at Antioch thrive and send out a converted Jew by the name of Paul to preach the gospel among the nations.
Through both of these men, and a large number of others in between, God communicated to mankind.
During its writing and since its completion, Almighty God has watched over it and protected it through the decades from those rebels who have sought to destroy it and its teachings.
The message contained in the book is one of amazing revelation.
From the very first history book, we are told how God made the heavens and the earth in six days and rested on the seventh giving us our week!
It tells us of mans almost instant rebellion and the plan of salvation before we leave the third chapter of that book, where God kills the first animal in sacrifice to cover the sins of mankind.
In chapter four we see the first murder, following on from the first blasphemous worship service called a Mass or bloodless sacrifice.
There the cursed fruits of the cursed earth were offered to the Creator.
The murderers generations who refused to acknowledge their finiteness and eventual death that would follow, are then revealed.
God replaced the god fearing one with another whose generations we are then given, with each one facing death as the penalty of Adams sin.
After just over 1000 years the man of peace, Noah is born.
And 600 years later climate change took place on a massive scale!
The whole earth was drowned in a flood of judgement on mankind, whose every thought was evil against God.
Noah alone followed God, and God saved him through the building of an ark.
This all happens in the first nine chapters.
We then are given the origins of the nations of the earth as Noah's three sons Shem, Ham and Japheth repopulated the earth.
A descendent of Ham rose in rebellion once more by constructing a city and a tower to heaven to unite men against God,
very much like the United Nations in our day in total rebellion against the Creator God of the bible.
That city was eventually known as Babel as God confused the language of the nations and sent them to populate the earth.
Japheth travelling to the corners of what we now know as Europe, Asia and America by land through Alaska during the ice age which resulted from the flood.
Ham made his way into Africa, while his brother Shem remained in the middle east.
From the neighbourhood of that rebellious city a town called Ur, God called out a man chosen of him to be the ancestor of the Messiah or Promised One.
He was called by faith, out of rebellion into a land he didn't know.
There he lived in a temporary tent all his life, knowing that he looked for a city whose builder and maker was none other than God.
He worshipped the God of Creation by blood sacrifice in the prescribed way, and though he wasn't perfect he followed his God.
He was blessed with two sons in his old age, the first of a bond woman, the latter the son of promise by his wife aged 90!
The latter son continued in the land faithfully but not perfectly before his wife bore him twins.
The younger went on to father twelve, the penultimate one being the one who brought Egypt to greatness through his faithful following of God.