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About David Baker
David Baker is an Anglican minister and former daily newspaper journalist. He is a regular contributor to Christian Today.
David Baker
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Six tips for Christians as Brits prepare to vote in the general election
Read the Bible, Pray. With today being the last chance for Brits to register to vote, David Baker looks at how Christians can prepare to vote with integrity.
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How can we be sure Jesus will return and how should we prepare?
If Jesus was able to predict with unnerving precision what would take place several decades later in relation to the temple, we can be sure that one day the New Testament promises about his return will also be fulfilled
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The Jesmond crisis: My shocking suggestion for the Bishop of Newcastle
The consecration of a 'rogue' bishop on her patch presents a bit of a conundrum for the Bishop of Newcastle, Christine Hardman. For what, if anything, should she do about this unexpected episcopal presence?
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3 spiritual lessons from the world's fastest zip-wire
So there I am, suspended horizontally face down in a harness, swaying in the wind several hundred feet above a precipitate cliff drop, as a voice behind me says, 'Three, two, one – go!'
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GAFCON's 'missionary bishop' – the spark to blow up Anglicanism?
Let's avoid silly Twitter tirades and pointless Facebook fisticuffs. We are followers of Jesus Christ.
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Who is the greatest Christian alive today?
If you were asked to suggest the greatest Christian people alive today, who would you put into your 'top five'?
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Can we avoid Holy Week hypocrisy?
Last week I found myself doing exactly the sort of thing I decry in others, and which seems to me to go against the gospel Jesus taught – and which I claim to preach – in so many ways.
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You can transform the world through love: here's how
The teaching of Jesus about love makes a transformative difference, both to individuals and society.
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Philip North and Jeffrey John: A Church that is more 'via muddle' than 'via media'
The Church of England and Church in Wales need to decide what they believe. It has become easier to appoint people who are slightly less clear on contentious issues, appeasers of different views, rather than teachers of truth – for in today's Anglicanism, it turns out the truth is unclear.
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Fake news and Good News: how Jesus helps us tell the difference
In many walks of life, getting the genuine article is important – and no more so than when it comes to matters of God and faith.
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4 Ways To 'Render Unto Caesar' In The Trump-Brexit Era
Wherever we stand on various issues we find much that unsettles us in civil society. Most people feel they want to say something – but struggle to know how.
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Memo To Bewildered Bishops - Please Be Shepherds, Not Sheep
Is it time for the bishops to remember how to lead their flock? After all, what are they supposed to be there for?
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Is Jesus Your Essential Building Block? Or Is He Your Stumbling Block?
Jesus can either be the essential building block on which we construct our lives – or he will be a spiritual stumbling block over which we fall.
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'What Do You Mean By Crushing My People?' 7 Tests Of Spiritual Fruitfulness
ARE YOU a fruitful – or fruitless – Christian? What matters ultimately, of course, is God's opinion – but how can we know what he thinks?
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3 Ways Jesus Challenges Authority
No-one likes having their authority subverted. Yet Jesus does this all the time. David Baker looks at what this means.
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