||Pastoral Passage|| It is a notable feature of our culture that responsibilities regularly take a back seat to fulfilling our aspirations and upholding our real or perceived rights. The example of Jesus challenges our assertion of our rights.
||Pastoral Passage|| Have you put your career in its proper perspective?
||Pastoral Passage|| Some people, like myself, are quite directly called into faith in God (or some aspect of Christian living or understanding) without personal difficulty, perhaps akin to the prior passage; Proverbs 1:20-23. Others, however, must struggle greatly and persevere in this struggle until they reach their object. This post discusses Proverbs 2:1-5, which encourages us to that struggle.
||Pastoral Passage|| I have been considering the theme of ‘wisdom’ in Proverbs lately, and what its connection to Jesus’ words in Matthew 23:34 could be: “I am sending you scribes, prophets and wise men.”
||Pastoral Passage|| The book of Proverbs introduces us to three people types: the wise, the simple, and the fool.
||Pastoral Passage|| Good things can get in the way of better things.
||Pastoral Passage|| Sometimes (so-called) Christians can make something beautiful look really ugly
||Pastoral Passage|| I have been trying to see how features of the Christmas season can be better connected to the biblical celebration.
||Pastoral Passage|| A lesson from a less-known feature of the world of John Bunyan’s ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’.
||Pastoral Passage|| A lesson from an important feature of the world of John Bunyan’s ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress.’
Chris Northcott 