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Category Archive: Pastoral Passages

New Identity, New Community, New Purpose: The Transformations of Christian Conversion

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||Pastoral Passage|| These are challenging changes, so helping inquirers see this and helping each other grow into this is an important part of what we can do as a church community.

Chris Northcott June 20, 2025 Pastoral Passages

The Role of Trust in Evangelism

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||Pastoral Passage|| As you go through each week, look for ways that build trust with those who are your own “mission field”, so that your message will more likely find an open ear.

Chris Northcott May 16, 2025 Evangelism, Lessons from Historic Christians, Pastoral Passages

Jesus’ Passion Prediction in “The Heliand”

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An excerpt from an early Germanic poem about the life of Jesus

Chris Northcott May 2, 2025 Gospel of Luke, 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

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