Brokenness and Beauty, side by side

This Advent season, we have the opportunity to reflect on this deep and incredible commitment God has made – becoming human. We’ll consider four areas where Christ’s coming creates a new paradigm for the way we live. Our theme in week one is Vulnerability. Although all power and authority was his, Jesus came to earth…

Becoming vulnerable to meet the vulnerable

This Advent season, we have the opportunity to reflect on this deep and incredible commitment God has made – becoming human. We’ll consider four areas where Christ’s coming creates a new paradigm for the way we live. Our theme in week one is Vulnerability. Although all power and authority was his, Jesus came to earth…

How do you view yourself? Reflection on the Freedom of Self Forgetfulness

I’m good enough because _____. What’s in your blank? For some of us, it’s performance at work or school. If the salary or the grades are high enough, then we are good enough. The list of justifications goes on and on. It’s all too easy for us to try and justify our own worth based…

A Little Known Secret…Church Planting Works in New England

The following post is an excerpt from our church planting email list from September 2019. To sign up for our email list for updates and prayer requests, see the bottom of this post. Does Church Planting Work in New England? As we are in the beginning stages of planting a church some questions that many of…

Disciple Making Toolkit: Consider The Seed

Our vision to see a gospel movement on the North Shore will only become a reality if we saturate the North Shore with transformed disciples who make disciples. The charge to “go and make disciples” (Matt. 28:19-20) is our central task as Christians, and is joyful hard work. In the New Testament, disciple making is…

Why preach hard passages?

Sometimes the things we read in the Bible can be difficult to understand or accept.  The Bible’s teaching can at times be counter to the values we have inherited from our culture. So what are we to do when we come across passages that make us uncomfortable? In our sermon this past Sunday Pastor Bobby gave…

For God so Loved…Ghana

The following post is written by Electa Sutton who will be serving in Ghana December 2019/January 2020. Read her reflection on God’s missionary heart and how that has shaped her. What is the world to you? For God so loved the world, he gave his one and only Son… John 3:16 When you think of…

A Church Planting Promise

The following post is an excerpt from our church planting email list from May 2019. To sign up for our email list for updates and prayer requests, see the bottom of this post. A daunting task Part of what is so daunting about church planting is the many unknowns that are ahead of us. Church planting is…