||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.
Author: Chris Northcott
||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.
||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.
||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.
||Pastoral Passage|| There is more than one way to explain the gospel
||Book Summary|| Ten short studies on Christian identity
||Pastoral Passage|| God is the center, and our understanding of faith and worship and service must take that into account
||Book Summary|| A survey of how early Christianity was distinctive from the religions of the Roman Empire
||Pastoral Passage|| An obscure man from faraway times, whose name is preserved as by a thread, whose unremarkable life reminds us of our place in God’s wide world.
||Book Summary|| This book highlights the fundamental features of the nature of the church—a family, on a mission, in a place, together—and challenges all Christians to ensure that these things are clearly built into the way we spend our time together
Chris Northcott 