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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

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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

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Chris Northcott July 14, 2024 Book Summaries

Who was Ralph Josselin?

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||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.

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Chris Northcott July 1, 2024 Christian Service, Lessons from Historic Christians, Pastoral Passages, Personal Spirituality

Redemptive Family: How church as a family rooted in a place lies at the heart of God’s mission

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||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

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Chris Northcott June 25, 2024 Book Summaries

The Propriety of Extreme Language in Galatians 1:8–9

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||Pastoral Passage|| Weighty matters deserve weighty measures. 

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Chris Northcott June 16, 2024 Galatians, Reflections on Scripture

The Song of the Angels: Jesus’ Birth and the Meaning of Christmas

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||Evangelistic Tract|| An invitation to faith in Jesus based on the angels’ new to the shepherds on the night of Jesus’ birth.

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Chris Northcott December 18, 2023 Pastoral Passages

Secularity and the Christian Calendar: How we think about Time 

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||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.

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Chris Northcott November 17, 2023 Christianity and Culture, Pastoral Passages, Public Christian Faith

Evangelicals in Recent History: Differences Between the US and the UK

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||Essay Summary|| A summary of David Bebbington’s 1994 essay “Evangelicalism in its Settings: The British and American Movements since 1940.”

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Chris Northcott October 13, 2023 Short Articles

Spiritual Safety Rails on the Subject of Suffering

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||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.

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Chris Northcott September 22, 2023 Difficult Texts and Doctrines, Doctrine of God, Pastoral Passages

Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution

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||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.

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Chris Northcott September 20, 2023 Book Summaries

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