||Pastoral Passage|| For Christians, the center of our universe is bigger than both the glory of personal achievement and the honor of familial diligence.
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.
||Pastoral Passage|| These are challenging changes, so helping inquirers see this and helping each other grow into this is an important part of what we can do as a church community.
||Pastoral Passage|| As you go through each week, look for ways that build trust with those who are your own “mission field”, so that your message will more likely find an open ear.
An excerpt from an early Germanic poem about the life of Jesus
||Book Summary|| This book provides a comprehensive introduction to a full suite of topics that explain the significance of Christ’s death on the cross.
||Pastoral Passage|| Experiences from my first forays into a local & online evangelism experiment
||Book Summary|| This book offers a short and sobering analysis of churches that have “died” and offers instructive advice on remedying the decline and realistic hope that a church can flourish again.
||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.
||Pastoral Passage|| The gospel message includes the historical acts of God as well as their potential experiential impacts by the Holy Spirit.
Chris Northcott 