||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|| Although excessive brooding over one’s own sinfulness can be a sign of a melancholy temperament, it should be remembered that … in our day and age, we are not likely to overdo it.
||Pastoral Passage|| Real Christianity is difficult, and in our society increasingly foreign. What compels people to begin and continue this path?
||Pastoral Passage|| Perhaps our experience of church has not been as rich as we would hope, or maybe we just don’t even know what Christian community could be.
||Pastoral Passage|| Sometimes (I confess) I have thought it would be nice if Christianity was more of a “civic” religion.
||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|| The pursuit of godliness is meant to be done with others with sincere and active faith.
Are you in need of a new beginning with God?
Chris Northcott 