||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.
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||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.
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||Pastoral Passage|| What role do local church fellowships play for Bible colleges and seminaries like Laidlaw College?
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||Pastoral Passage|| To form and develop disciples of Jesus, practices that are prescribed, tangible, and theologically-imbued must surely have a valuable role to play.
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||Evangelistic Tract|| The resurrection of Jesus is the ground for his people to have confident hope in the face of death. This tract aims to share that hope.
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||Pastoral Passage|| What characterizes New Zealanders? And how does that shape Christian faith in New Zealand?
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||Pastoral Passage|| Jesus has made every one of his people entrepreneurs for the kingdom.
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||Pastoral Passage|| God does not want churches who are preoccupied with themselves, nor does he want Christianity reduced to religiously-motivated social work.
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||Pastoral Passage|| The answers to this question find many parallels when it is asked regarding church gatherings
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||Pastoral Passage|| Church life in New Zealand – like that of tourism and hospitality – has been disrupted and constricted these past two years, and it seems now that the times of lockdowns and gathering restrictions have come to an end. The Lord’s response to the despondent Jews at their return from exile also speaks today to church communities who are rebuilding.
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Chris Northcott 