||Book Summary|| Louis Markos suggests that at times pagan writers catch a glimpse of the true glory of the triune God.
Category Archive: Pastoral Passages
||Short Article|| Hebrews 6:4-6 is a challenging passage that has disturbed many Christians over the centuries. The seventeenth-century interpreter John Owen shows how teachers and preachers of the Word can draw both comfort and challenge from this passage.
||Pastoral Passage|| Some of the responses I receive online for posting about Christian faith resort to caricatures to criticise Christianity.
||Pastoral Passage|| We evangelical Christians are people of the gospel. May we never be unfocussed evangelicals.
||Article|| The reality of sin moderates our understanding of Luke’s theme of welcome and inclusion.
||Pastoral Passage|| Every single facet of creation is called upon to worship God because he is the Creator, the King, and the Redeemer, but only humanity can articulate God’s worthiness with words.
||Pastoral Passage|| A major need for commending and defending Christian faith today are ordinary Christians who are willing to talk with their neighbors and colleagues
||Pastoral Passage|| Jesus has earned the right to be called the brother to his people. He is worthy to be followed and trusted as our leader and redeemer.
||Pastoral Passage|| For Christians, the center of our universe is bigger than both the glory of personal achievement and the honor of familial diligence.
Excluding others is frowned upon in New Zealand. Our Christianity runs the risk of amplifying the biblical theme of welcome and inclusion so much that other themes are drowned out. In the Gospel of Luke, sin remains a barrier to our access to God—but one that can certainly be crossed.