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Jesus’ Passion Prediction in “The Heliand”

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An excerpt from an early Germanic poem about the life of Jesus

Chris Northcott May 2, 2025 Gospel of Luke, Pastoral Passages

Early Calvinist Counterinterpretations of Hebrews 6.4-6: The Distortive and Distractive Power of an Inappropriate Question

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||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.

Chris Northcott December 20, 2024 Short Articles

Still Time to Care: What We Can Learn from the Church’s Failed Attempt to Cure Homosexuality

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||Book Summary|| Johnson’s book tells the story of evangelicalism’s shift from a paradigm of “care” to one of “cure”, and the failure and damage caused by the latter.

Chris Northcott November 4, 2024 Book Summaries

The Pastor Theologian: Resurrecting an Ancient Vision

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||Book Summary|| This book is valuable for the vision of pastoral ministry that it (re)introduces. Given the kind of challenges that Christianity faces today, church leadership needs to have more heft for the sake of the more intellectual elements of discipleship.

Chris Northcott October 18, 2024 Book Summaries

Redemptive Family: How church as a family rooted in a place lies at the heart of God’s mission

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||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

Chris Northcott June 25, 2024 Book Summaries

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