Passage: Acts 4:23-31 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection https://nscbc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/sermon0823.mp4 Sermon Summary Gospel movements are marked by kingdom-advancing prayer. The prayer life of the early church made them unique in their day, and if we want to see a gospel movement on the North Shore, we too need to
Passage: Acts 2:1-13 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection https://nscbc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/sermon0816.mp4 Sermon Summary In a gospel movement, God moves through every one of his ordinary, yet Spirit-filled people. In ancient societies, people would build temples on high places, and these temples acted like “hotspots” of God’s presence on earth—places where
Passage: Acts 1:1-11 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection https://nscbc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/sermon0809.mp4 Sermon Summary Our church’s vision is to “see a gospel movement on the North Shore.” The book of Acts describes the first gospel movement, as God used the early church to powerfully extend Christ’s kingdom beyond Jerusalem, into Judea,
Passage: Ephesians 1:3-14 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection https://nscbc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/sermon0802.mp4 Sermon Summary In order to endure this lengthy hardship, we need a concrete purpose and aim in life—an aim so great that even suffering cannot take it away. Thankfully, we are not left to find our own purpose on
On Wednesday evening, July 29, the North Shore Gospel Partnership, a collaboration of churches in Essex County, hosted a virtual live event titled Let’s Talk: Hard Stories and Honest Questions. Paulea Mooney-McCoy introduced the conversation as an opportunity to pull up a chair to her family’s table as she, her
Passage: Ephesians 1:3-14 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection https://nscbc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/sermon0726.mp4 Sermon Summary As the pandemic drags on, many of us feel worn down, with seemingly no end in sight. Times like these can reveal what we’re truly hoping in. In the midst of Ephesians 1:3-14, Paul gives us to
Passage: Ephesians 1:3-14 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection https://nscbc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/sermon0719.mp4 Sermon Summary It’s easy to see in our society the brokenness and disunity among us. We wonder what could possibly help bring us back together. Paul declares the “mystery of [God’s] will” in Ephesians 1:9-10, which is that all
Passage: Ephesians 1:3-14 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection https://nscbc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/sermon0712.mp4 Sermon Summary The greatest stories of our time are often pointing to our questions about fate and destiny. We wonder who decides our destiny or if fate even exists. As Christians we can be confident that God is in
