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Motto 2012

"Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life." - Proverbs 4:23

Motto 2013

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!" - 2 Cor 5:17

The Waiting is Over

I’ve never got on terribly well in waiting rooms - doctors, dentists, or airports. Actually waiting in general and for anything is not my gift! So you can imagine how manic I was as a young boy whenever Christmas came around!!

Quod in vita facimus, in aeternum resonat

It’s with a very real sense of gratitude that I write a website tribute to Carolyn Jowers, who leaves the Staff of Highfields this month after more than nine years with us.

Hiraeth

A couple of Sunday’s ago, a woman approached me in Church after the service and said, “I got up this morning and felt a hiraeth for Highfields.”

The Promise

One Christmas I desperately wanted the deluxe version of the electric racing car game, Scalextric.

The Goldilocks Enigma

After hearing Philosophy Professor, Peter Williams, preach at Highfields last weekend, and like many others enjoying him, I managed to get hold of his book - "A Sceptic’s Guide to Atheism". Read it! It’s a great demolition job of ‘New Atheists’ like Dawkins, Hitchen and Harris.

Boring irrelevance or community of hope?

When I think of Church … I want to run away as fast as possible!

On a road less travelled

“I shall be telling this with a sigh | Somewhere ages and ages hence: | Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - | I took the one less travelled by, | And that has made all the difference.”

What's so great about being fifty?

Well, as Bilbo Baggins said, himself fifty at the beginning of The Hobbit, it is “clearly time for a new adventure!”

A pot by any other name

We got rid of hundreds of small clay pots at church on Sunday. By ‘got rid of’, I mean sold, not destroyed!

Prodigal Church

“Church members are very forbearing and forgiving regarding the neglect of the lost, while extremely impatient and unforgiving regarding the neglect of the righteous."

Where are we making a difference?

I was asking that question this week. If Highfields had not become involved, what would have happened?

It’s a big world after all!

Just blown away this week by how wide the grace of God is, and how great His plans for the nations.

Heart Felt

What’s on my heart today? Well, just like every other day, a lot!

Church Planting and the Big Church Syndrome

The States taught me that Church Planting is old news! Campus Church or Satellite Congregation is the new kid on the block.

Leaders are born then remade

“Some are born great, others achieve greatness, while some have it thrust upon them.“

Peter Baker's American Trip

Keep up to date with Peter Baker's travels round the US by checking his itinerary here and reading his travel blog 'The American Way' on his facebook notes page

Pete Tweets!

You can now follow Peter Baker on Twitter - @RevPeterBaker

The Making of a Christian Leader

Michael Green discusses his own convictions about Christian leadership and also assesses the challenges facing the current generation of Christian leaders.