||Pastoral Passage|| There is more than one way to explain the gospel
Category Archive: Christian Service
||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.
||Pastoral Passage|| Jesus has made every one of his people entrepreneurs for the kingdom.
||Pastoral Passage|| God does not want churches who are preoccupied with themselves, nor does he want Christianity reduced to religiously-motivated social work.
A short while ago I came across a summary of the gospel from John Stott’s commentary on the book of Acts. I appreciated the summary but wondered what place gospel-motivated social transformation has in it. How does the gospel make us make the world better?
The excellent book The Trellis and the Vine finishes on a note that is strikingly relevant for our present context.
I would like to take the chance to thank all of you in the LRBC church family for supporting and encouraging me over the years of my tenure as youth pastor.
||Pastoral Passage|| “. . . the miner and the grocer were not people who had a “ministry” like a professional pastor or Christian worker, yet they had a huge impact for the kingdom of God.”
||Pastoral Passage|| Jesus presents wise living in a new light – instead of measuring wisdom by success in everyday life, it is measured by the practise of his word.
||Pastoral Passage|| Being a ‘scribe of the Kingdom’ today does not need to be limited to the professional scholars and Bible teachers