O Come Children’s Devotional
This children’s devotional was designed as a kid-friendly companion to the
2024 NSCBC Advent Devotional. Each O Antiphon has been paraphrased
with more accessible language for children.
Each page is actually a coloring page featuring a large icon symbolic of that
particular name for Jesus. Children are encouraged to color and explore!
O Come
Each year, NSCBC authors and artists contribute to a devotional that prepares our hearts for the season of Advent. As a community, we walk together in the longing of Advent, clinging to beauty and the hope of the King who is to come.
This year, our artists’ contributions are organized around a set of seven prayers called the O Antiphons, which are anthems sung responsively that have been used in the season of Advent for thirteen-hundred years. Rich with biblical language and themes, they cry out, ‘Come!’
The fifth (and final) habit of resilient Christ-followers
This summer, we’ve been discussing how many of the young people who continue to have a vibrant relationship with Jesus tend to have 5 things in common. Habit #5: The 34% of youth who stayed connected to Christ into adulthood were entrusted with ministry at a young age. I am so delighted that many of […]
About our values
We want the way we do things at NSCBC to be shaped by the Gospel. See below some different ways that we try to live out a Gospel culture on the North Shore. We love the North Shore and invest our lives in it, but we’re not defined by the cultural values around us. As […]
The Way of Light
The Way of Light is the Eastertide complement to the Way of the Cross. Just as the Way of the Cross depicts the stations (moments or scenes) leading to the cross, the Way of Light depicts resurrection appearances. The Way of Light is the leg of the journey between disorientation and reorientation. As a church, we explore Jesus’ life anew every year. As we do this, we invite Jesus to carve into our souls the truth that “through the Cross (one comes) to the light.”
The Kingdom Through the Cross
Our little Lenten devotional is a journey through scripture and practice that takes us from Ash Wednesday to Easter together. Together, because spiritual practices were never meant to be done in isolation from community. We’ve created this Lenten devotional as a resource as we embark on two separate but very much inter-related journeys: Reflective Reading and Reflective Practice. We encourage you to join with your small group, discipleship group, family, or simply invite one friend for the journey. Some practices are designed so they could be shared with a friend or neighbor – even if they aren’t yet sure what they believe about Jesus.
Salvation Sings
In the first chapters of Luke the Spirit overflows from people in song. These ‘little’ songs (the canticles of Advent) have been set to music; sung and chanted for millennia. They come to us through their latin names: Nunc Dimittis, Magnificat, or Benedictus, and Gloria in Exceslsis.
Artists and writers in our community have teamed up to produce this devotional book to orient us to the Advent Season through scripture, poetry, music, and art using these songs as our guide.
Advent Devotional Week 2: The Candle of Peace
Click Here to Download the Full Devotional (PDF) Art for Week 2 The Way of Peace | “Thou Will Keep Him in Perfect Peace” Danielle & Jon Rodgers Cello arrangement with photography Watch at nscbc.org/perfectpeace Artists Statement: I used to sing Samuel Wesley’s “Thou Will Keep Him in Perfect Peace” with an anglican choir […]
Portraits of Jesus
John tells us, “No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself
God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.” (1:18)
If we have seen Jesus as the Bread of Life, then we know God our Father as the
source of nourishment for hungry bodies and searching souls. If we have seen Jesus
as our Fellow Mourner, we can be sure that we never bear our losses alone. As we
meditate on Jesus’ life, may we be captivated. And may we be stretched by one
anothers’ way of seeing Jesus and find a deeper unity, rooted in who he is for us.
