||Book Summary|| Holiness is an Evangelical Classic for readers who desire spiritual instruction that is wholehearted and biblically derived.
Discipleship
||Pastoral Passage|| We evangelical Christians are people of the gospel. May we never be unfocussed evangelicals.
||Pastoral Passage|| Jesus has earned the right to be called the brother to his people. He is worthy to be followed and trusted as our leader and redeemer.
||Pastoral Passage|| For Christians, the center of our universe is bigger than both the glory of personal achievement and the honor of familial diligence.
||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.
||Pastoral Passage|| The experience of church as a family and a community helps inquirers come to a commitment to Jesus, and it helps followers of Jesus grow strong and stable in the faith they have committed to.
||Pastoral Passage|| Recognising that we are conditioned to treat time secularly should make us pause for thought and consider how we might think Christianly about time.
||Pastoral Passage|| Christian creeds provide a framework within which reflection can take place without messing things up theologically and spiritually. Here are a few things that could be included in a creed on hardship and suffering.
||Pastoral Passage|| The World, the Flesh, and the Devil are part of a Christian vocabulary that needs to be reinstated deliberately in the face of the differentness of the wider non-Christian society we live in.
||Sermon Summary|| While we struggle with life in the body in the present, God’s promise of resurrection gives us anticipation of better things and anchors our pattern of living outside our experiences of the present.
Chris Northcott 