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Early Calvinist Counterinterpretations of Hebrews 6.4-6: The Distortive and Distractive Power of an Inappropriate Question

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||Conference Talk|| This paper reviews the interpretation of Heb 6:4–6 by early Reformed interpreters (1500s–1700s) with respect to the identification of the people described therein.

Chris Northcott December 20, 2024 Short Articles

The Coming of Christ and the Dawning of New Beginnings

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||Pastoral Passage|| The gospel message includes the historical acts of God as well as their potential experiential impacts by the Holy Spirit.

Chris Northcott December 14, 2024 Gospel of Luke, Pastoral Passages, Reflections on Scripture

Still Time to Care: What We Can Learn from the Church’s Failed Attempt to Cure Homosexuality

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||Book Summary|| Johnson’s book tells the story of evangelicalism’s shift from a paradigm of “care” to one of “cure”, and the failure and damage caused by the latter.

Chris Northcott November 4, 2024 Book Summaries

Church as Family, with Room to Grow

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||Pastoral Passage|| The experience of church as a family and a community helps inquirers come to a commitment to Jesus, and it helps followers of Jesus grow strong and stable in the faith they have committed to.

Chris Northcott November 1, 2024 Communal Christianity, Pastoral Passages

The Pastor Theologian: Resurrecting an Ancient Vision

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||Book Summary|| This book is valuable for the vision of pastoral ministry that it (re)introduces. Given the kind of challenges that Christianity faces today, church leadership needs to have more heft for the sake of the more intellectual elements of discipleship.

Chris Northcott October 18, 2024 Book Summaries

Progressive vs Orthodox Christian Conceptions of Sin: A Brief Comparison

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||Short Article|| An observation of the way that one progressive Christian thinker has articulated a doctrine of sin, and a demonstration of how his presentation fails to account for how sin is an offense against God.

Chris Northcott October 4, 2024 Short Articles

Biblical Metaphors for Gospel Presentations

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||Pastoral Passage|| There is more than one way to explain the gospel

Chris Northcott August 30, 2024 Christian Service, Evangelism, Pastoral Passages

Identity Theft: Reclaiming the Truth of Who We are In Christ

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||Book Summary|| Ten short studies on Christian identity

Chris Northcott August 25, 2024 Book Summaries

The Inconvenient Holiness of God

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||Pastoral Passage|| God is the center, and our understanding of faith and worship and service must take that into account

Chris Northcott August 11, 2024 Doctrine of God, Kings, Reflections on Scripture

Destroyer of the gods: Early Christian distinctiveness in the Roman World

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||Book Summary|| A survey of how early Christianity was distinctive from the religions of the Roman Empire

Chris Northcott July 14, 2024 Book Summaries

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