||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.
Category Archive: Christianity and Culture
||Pastoral Passage|| The World, the Flesh, and the Devil are part of a Christian vocabulary that needs to be reinstated deliberately in the face of the differentness of the wider non-Christian society we live in.
||Pastoral Passage|| Forget the question of whether Vashti should have done as she was told. Ask whether the King should have told his wife as he did—and why most people today think he shouldn’t have.
||Pastoral Passage|| What characterizes New Zealanders? And how does that shape Christian faith in New Zealand?
The Christian faith frequently conflicts with current ideas. Given this has happened since Christianity’s inception, this should neither surprise nor dismay us. Rather, we should establish its difficult teachings in our hearts and minds so we can preserve them, present them, and faithfully pass them on.
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.
Two subtle but significantly different ways we can approach scripture.
If you are a Christian struggling to find a place in your church, do not give up: you have more to offer than you can realise.
It is awkward when you are represented in such a way that you neither wholeheartedly endorse nor wish to outright deny.
As Christians the gospel should shape our values and perspectives on all issues, and here I would like to offer the example of one man whose perspective on one of these was indeed formed by his commitment to Jesus. His name was Paulus Orosius.
Chris Northcott 