Truth isn’t affected by popularity, or a lack of it.
Experience will teach us that although Christian hope should give us gladness, it does not remove but only blunts the varied griefs we suffer and does not fill the hole left in the lives of those left behind.
||Pastoral Passage|| “. . . the miner and the grocer were not people who had a “ministry” like a professional pastor or Christian worker, yet they had a huge impact for the kingdom of God.”
||Short Article|| The strength to refuse honour to the cultural idols of our day will come from having a clear vision of a bigger God.
I would like to promote the use of ‘real’ (i.e. paper) Bibles for personal reading.
||Pastoral Passage|| Jesus presents wise living in a new light – instead of measuring wisdom by success in everyday life, it is measured by the practise of his word.
||Pastoral Passage|| Being a ‘scribe of the Kingdom’ today does not need to be limited to the professional scholars and Bible teachers
Some churches sing the psalms during their time of worship.
||Book Summary|| This short book describes changes to the institution of marriage in New Zealand in 1850, 1950, and the early 2000s, and investigates how legislation has accelerated these changes.
||Pastoral Passage|| In the fourth and final scenario of Jesus’ parable of the sower we come to the ideal outcome for someone hearing the message of the kingdom.
Chris Northcott 