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Category Archive: Pastoral Passages

Local Online Evangelism: Initial Experiences

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||Pastoral Passage|| Experiences from my first forays into a local & online evangelism experiment

Chris Northcott March 14, 2025 Evangelism, Pastoral Passages

The Coming of Christ and the Dawning of New Beginnings

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||Pastoral Passage|| The gospel message includes the historical acts of God as well as their potential experiential impacts by the Holy Spirit.

Chris Northcott December 14, 2024 Gospel of Luke, Pastoral Passages, Reflections on Scripture

Church as Family, with Room to Grow

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||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.

Chris Northcott November 1, 2024 Communal Christianity, Pastoral Passages

Biblical Metaphors for Gospel Presentations

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||Pastoral Passage|| There is more than one way to explain the gospel

Chris Northcott August 30, 2024 Christian Service, Evangelism, Pastoral Passages

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

Chris Northcott August 11, 2024 Doctrine of God, Kings, Reflections on Scripture

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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