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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

“The World, the Flesh, and the Devil” and Christian Discipleship in Modern Society

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||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.

Chris Northcott July 31, 2023 Christianity and Culture, Pastoral Passages, Personal Spirituality

“Queen Vashti should have done as she was told, right?”

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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.

Chris Northcott June 9, 2023 Christianity and Culture, Esther, Marriage and Family, Pastoral Passages

Laidlaw College and our Local Church

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||Pastoral Passage|| What role do local church fellowships play for Bible colleges and seminaries like Laidlaw College?

Chris Northcott April 20, 2023 Communal Christianity, Pastoral Passages

Self-Indulgence vs Self-Denial: Mardi Gras and Lent

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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.

Chris Northcott March 3, 2023 Communal Christianity, Pastoral Passages

The “Firstborn from the Dead”: The Greatness of Jesus’ Resurrection – a tract

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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.

Chris Northcott December 28, 2022 Colossians, Pastoral Passages, Public Christian Faith

“Kiwi” Christians, for Better and for Worse

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||Pastoral Passage|| What characterizes New Zealanders? And how does that shape Christian faith in New Zealand?

Chris Northcott November 25, 2022 Christianity and Culture, Pastoral Passages

Matthew 25v14-30: The Million Dollar Question

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||Pastoral Passage|| Jesus has made every one of his people entrepreneurs for the kingdom.

Chris Northcott October 24, 2022 Christian Service, Gospel of Matthew, Pastoral Passages, Reflections on Scripture

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