||Pastoral Passage|| Our God is not ashamed to be called the God of his people of trustful and daring faith, because his promises are ready to be given to us – at his appointed time.
Category Archive: Reflections on Scripture
||Pastoral Passage|| Our inheritance is ready and waiting for the day that is appointed. The question that matters is this: When that time comes, will you be ready and waiting?
||Pastoral Passage|| The ‘Beatitudes’ surprises us. The actions and attitudes commended are either humiliating, costly or emotionally draining.
||Pastoral Passage|| Jesus’ proclamation of the kingdom of God announced that its arrival was imminent, and that we must drop everything in order to be ready and on board for it – that is, we must repent.
||Pastoral Passage|| The episode of Jesus in the wilderness has much to teach Christians as they seek to follow his example.
||Pastoral Passage|| How naturally does rejoicing spring forth from your faith? The third of the blessings arising from being justified in Christ in Romans 5:1-2 is ‘hope of the glory of God’. This is something that ‘we rejoice’ in.
||Pastoral Passage|| How do you relate to God? I have heard it said that Christians can either relate to God like a ‘son’, or like a ‘servant’.
||Pastoral Passage|| Evangelical Christianity has traditionally been very strong on the fact that through faith in Jesus Christ they are justified, or acquitted from the guilt of their sin. But I think we are not so strong on remembering the fruits of that justification.
||Pastoral Passage|| The short New Testament letter called First John gives a series of ‘tests’ by which Christians (real or professed) can check whether their faith is genuine, rather than sham or superficial. The first of these so-called ‘tests’ is that of obedience.
||Pastoral Passage|| Have you put your career in its proper perspective?
Chris Northcott 