||Book Summary|| This book highlights the fundamental features of the nature of the church—a family, on a mission, in a place, together—and challenges all Christians to ensure that these things are clearly built into the way we spend our time together
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||Book Summary|| “Parenting in the Pew” is a worthwhile book for those who want to help the youngest members of their church community join them as brothers and sisters in the faith.
||Article|| Christians (and others) who ultimately refuse to get vaccinated and acquire a vaccine-passport face being made maligned and marginalised members of New Zealand for the foreseeable future. Whatever their rationale, they will not be doing it lightly, and it is not the role of vaccinated Christians to make life harder for them.
||Article|| As you read this, I would like you to imagine how things might be different today if the ideas here were widespread in churches 30-40 years ago. It is unfortunately common for churches to be slow to respond properly to difficult social issues – too often the response has been silence, reactionary, or capitulation. Nevertheless, “late” is better than “never” and churches are increasingly taking these kinds of ideas on board.
||Pastoral Passage|| The pursuit of godliness is meant to be done with others with sincere and active faith.
Chris Northcott 