||Evangelistic Tract|| An invitation to faith in Jesus based on the angels’ new to the shepherds on the night of Jesus’ birth.
||Pastoral Passage|| Recognising that we are conditioned to treat time secularly should make us pause for thought and consider how we might think Christianly about time.
||Essay Summary|| A summary of David Bebbington’s 1994 essay “Evangelicalism in its Settings: The British and American Movements since 1940.”
||Pastoral Passage|| Christian creeds provide a framework within which reflection can take place without messing things up theologically and spiritually. Here are a few things that could be included in a creed on hardship and suffering.
||Book Summary|| A history of how it is that western culture has come to accept and defend the idea of a man trapped in a woman’s body, and the role of the church in such a context.
||Short Article|| Human beings are more than mammals; and better than brainy beasts. We are made with divine dignity and regal responsibility, and on that basis we have too much self-worth to merely reflect what we see on the Discovery Channel—we must reflect our God.
||Pastoral Passage|| The World, the Flesh, and the Devil are part of a Christian vocabulary that needs to be reinstated deliberately in the face of the differentness of the wider non-Christian society we live in.
||Film Reflection|| Viewers intuitively recognise the inherent beauty and truth of the commitment of the protagonist, because it reflects – albeit imperfectly – the essential goodness of God’s covenant with Man.
||Book Summary|| This book is a work historical fiction. It purports to be a collection of ancient letters recently discovered, translated and published for the reading public. Through this fictional collection of letters, a story emerges which provides an imaginative reconstruction of church and daily life for people of the NT era as well as the impact that can be made by the story of Jesus.
||Pastoral Passage|| Forget the question of whether Vashti should have done as she was told. Ask whether the King should have told his wife as he did—and why most people today think he shouldn’t have.
Chris Northcott 