Dr Ken Baker
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Hello! Val and I live in London, in the UK. We are teachers (http://kenandval.com), pastors of a local Nazarene church in Walthamstow and prayer activists working to develop new expressions of the kingdom of God.
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Tag Archives: Bible
When God Goes Off-Script: Hearing Christ Beyond the Church
There is a moment in Acts 17 when the ground shifts under our feet. I refer to this text again and again, just to think it through as fully as I can. Paul the Apostle stands in Athens—not in a synagogue, not … Continue reading
The Unmapped Road
There’s a particular kind of faith we inherit—tidy, mapped, laminated. It comes with assurances about where God will be at every turn, what he will do next, and how long the journey will take. It feels a bit like being … Continue reading
God Is Hiding in Your Tuesday Afternoon
We were taught to look for God in the exceptional. In the polished prayer.In the moral high ground.In the rare, shimmering moments when we finally get our act together. Somewhere along the way, holiness became a performance review. But the … Continue reading
Palm Sunday: The Strange Parade
They expected a revolution. Not the slow kind. Not the interior kind. Not the kind that works like yeast in dough or seeds in soil—quiet, hidden, almost offensive in its lack of urgency. They wanted banners, noise, clarity. A kingdom … Continue reading
The Quiet Presence: Knowing the Spirit Who Does Not Draw Attention to Himself
In Gospel of John 14–16, Jesus prepares his disciples for absence by promising presence. The paradox is striking: he goes away so that God may come nearer. The Spirit is not an “it,” nor merely a force, but personal, relational, and deeply intertwined … Continue reading
Study Guide: ‘The Fight’
In The Fight, John White writes not as a detached theologian but as a pastor-physician of the soul. Some of closing questions of the chapters are not mere discussion prompts; they are diagnostic instruments. They probe beneath behaviour into desire, beneath belief into … Continue reading
The Quiet Rebellion of Joy
There is a kind of sadness that passes for sophistication these days. You hear it in the clever cynicism, the raised eyebrows, the well-phrased despair. It sounds intelligent. It feels safe. If you expect nothing, you cannot be disappointed. If … Continue reading
New Book: Rethinking ‘Holy Week’
There are weeks that pass. And there are weeks that refuse to stay in the past. This is one of those weeks. We call it Holy Week, as though it were safely contained—seven days, neatly arranged, filed somewhere between memory … Continue reading
Present (Not) Tense
We have a habit of rushing children toward a horizon they cannot yet see. We call it love.We call it preparation.We call it “setting them up for the future.” But somewhere along the way, we quietly decide that being a child is … Continue reading
Groaning, Glory, and the God Who Prays for Us
Romans 8:18–30 18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, … Continue reading
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