About Us

This web site exists primarily to make available to the public the work of Philip Loose.

This includes for example short comments, articles, Bible teaching, sermons, music, biographical comments, devotional texts. These are all connected with Biblical content and the Biblical worldview, with the history and lives of Christians throughout the ages.

They flow from a Christian, Protestant, Evangelical and Biblically Conservative understanding of the nature and teaching of the Bible and of the universe, it's origin, history and destiny.

Statement of Faith

The truth framework that is the foundation of this site is expressed within this statement of faith:

The sovereignty and grace of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit in creation, providence, revelation, redemption and final judgement.
The divine inspiration of the Holy Scripture and its consequent entire trustworthiness and supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct.
The universal sinfulness and guilt of fallen humans, making them subject to God's wrath and condemnation.
The substitutionary sacrifice of the incarnate Son of God as the sole all sufficient ground of redemption from the guilt and power of sin and from its eternal consequences.
The justification of the sinner solely by the grace of God through faith in Christ crucified and risen from the dead.
The illuminating, regenerating, indwelling and sanctifying work of God the Holy Spirit.
The priesthood of all believers, who form the universal Church, the Body of which Christ is the Head and which is committed by His command to the proclamation of the Gospel throughout the world.
The expectation of the personal, visible return of the Lord Jesus Christ in power and glory.

Short Biography of Philip Loose

Born in 1955, Philip has been our pastor for a few years now: since 2022 as Senior Pastor, before that as Associate Pastor. He has been married over 40 years.

Philip studied Natural Sciences and Computer Science at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge 1973-1976. He spent the autumn of 1976 living and studying at L'Abri in Switzerland, a Christian community and study centre set up by the American Christian pastor and apologist Francis Schaeffer.

In the early 80s Philip and his wife helped out at a small evangelical church on the Essex-Suffolk border. This was with an organisation now known as Rural Ministries.

Most of his working life was spent in the fields of Electronics and IT, but in 2005 he and his wife moved to Normandy to work as missionaries and church planters. They were there until the end of 2009. Part of that ministry involved running a summer Bible exhibition in a church right by the beach. Running the exhibition each summer continued after they had returned to the UK, up until 2013 when another Christian organisation took over responsibility for running the exhibition.

From around 2020 he served as associate pastor at Grove Road Evangelical Church in Chelmsford, UK, and then as senior pastor from 2022 onwards, stepping down From that role in 2025 at the age of 70.