||Pastoral Passage|| Jesus has earned the right to be called the brother to his people. He is worthy to be followed and trusted as our leader and redeemer.
Category Archive: Reflections on Scripture
Excluding others is frowned upon in New Zealand. Our Christianity runs the risk of amplifying the biblical theme of welcome and inclusion so much that other themes are drowned out. In the Gospel of Luke, sin remains a barrier to our access to God—but one that can certainly be crossed.
An excerpt from an early Germanic poem about the life of Jesus
||Pastoral Passage|| The gospel message includes the historical acts of God as well as their potential experiential impacts by the Holy Spirit.
||Pastoral Passage|| God is the center, and our understanding of faith and worship and service must take that into account
||Pastoral Passage|| Weighty matters deserve weighty measures.
||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.
||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.
||Pastoral Passage|| Jesus has made every one of his people entrepreneurs for the kingdom.
||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.
Chris Northcott 