||Personal Reflection|| One of the earliest ministries I was part of was in the youth unit of a prison. These are some of the memories I have of that time, and some of the lessons I learned.
Category Archive: Short Articles
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.
||Conference Talk|| This paper reviews the interpretation of Heb 6:4–6 by early Reformed interpreters (1500s–1700s) with respect to the identification of the people described therein.
||Short Article|| An observation of the way that one progressive Christian thinker has articulated a doctrine of sin, and a demonstration of how his presentation fails to account for how sin is an offense against God.
||Essay Summary|| A summary of David Bebbington’s 1994 essay “Evangelicalism in its Settings: The British and American Movements since 1940.”
||Short Article|| Human beings are more than mammals; and better than brainy beasts. We are made with divine dignity and regal responsibility, and on that basis we have too much self-worth to merely reflect what we see on the Discovery Channel—we must reflect our God.
||Film Reflection|| Viewers intuitively recognise the inherent beauty and truth of the commitment of the protagonist, because it reflects – albeit imperfectly – the essential goodness of God’s covenant with Man.
||Sermon Summary|| While we struggle with life in the body in the present, God’s promise of resurrection gives us anticipation of better things and anchors our pattern of living outside our experiences of the present.
||Film Reflection|| The MCU’s 2021 Eternals film presents two conflicting visions of human purpose. Does humanity exist for itself, or for something bigger? Eternals echoes and affirms a popular cultural response to this question.
Chris Northcott 