||Pastoral Passage|| In the fourth and final scenario of Jesus’ parable of the sower we come to the ideal outcome for someone hearing the message of the kingdom.
Author: Chris Northcott
||Pastoral Passage|| Spot your weeds, and pull them out.
On what do we base our confidence of persevering in the faith?
||Pastoral Passage|| It is one thing to reject Jesus because one dislikes him, but quite another to base that decision on a misunderstanding of him.
My wife and I read a book with the above title, and would like to share a few thoughts from the preface.
||Pastoral Passage|| Theology matters. It defines and declares who your God is. The knowledge of God is what fuels and steadies the devotion of his people in their song and their service.
||Pastoral Passage|| During my own short stint at university in my early 20’s I remember a few cheap shots taken from the front of the lecture theatre…
||Pastoral Passage|| Is our following of Jesus easier than he intended it to be?
||Pastoral Passage|| I have wondered if the way we practice church gatherings is too attendance-based to prompt much opportunity for meaningful fellowship and mutual love.
||Pastoral Passage|| An experience of healing, by faith in the character of God, expressed by prayer.
Chris Northcott 