Passage: Luke 10:25-37 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection https://nscbc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/sermon0516.mp3 Sermon Summary In our life together as church, we want to be a people who show loyal love to one another, and to our community as well. In the Parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus illustrates what this loyal
Passage: Colossians 1:3-14 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection https://nscbc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/sermon0519.mp3 Sermon Summary This new sermon series, Life Together, examines five practices that shape and express our shared life as church community formed by the grace of God in Jesus. One such practice is gratitude. Though the Apostle Paul led
Passage: Haggai 2:20-23 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection https://nscbc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/sermon0502.mp3 Sermon Summary The pressing question at the close of Haggai is a question of worship: “Is the God of the temple worth worshipping? What kind of power does he have, after all?” Zerubbabel, the Governor of Judah, was likely
Passage: Haggai 2:10-19 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection https://nscbc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/sermon0425.mp3 Sermon Summary Three months after the people began rebuilding the temple, they were again confronted with a challenging word from the Lord, through Haggai: “Every work of their hands” was unclean (2:14). The covenant curses (blight, mildew, crop failure)
Passage: Haggai 2:1-9 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection https://nscbc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/sermon0418.mp3 Sermon Summary When we look at the brokenness in ourselves, and in the world around us, it’s easy to grow discouraged, and to quit investing in God’s kingdom. We need God to personally strengthen us, and encourage us to
Passage: Haggai 1:1-15 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection https://nscbc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/sermon0411.mp3 Sermon Summary This pandemic season has been a “reality check” for many of us, as it’s challenged us to consider what we’ve been building our lives upon. Now that we’re (hopefully) emerging from the worst part of the pandemic,
Guest post by church member, Paul Sidmore Taking time to study God’s Word a has become a significant part of my every day. I am challenged to get beyond head knowledge to have it sink in and become part of me. I guess that’s what “saturate” really means. When I
During this past season of Lent, one of the prayer stations in the church sanctuary invited us to write on a canvas the things that we lost this year, the things we are grieving over, and the things that caused us pain and heartache. It is good to name
