Helping Your Kids Start the School Year Well

It’s just around the corner: “the most wonderful time of the year”…back to school. Sports, youth group, Awana, Sunday School, curriculum nights, small groups, scouts, and many other activities are also starting up. All that empty space on the calendar seems to fill up too quickly. Summer – that welcome break from routines, homework and…

Apatheism: A New Approach to Spirituality

“Apatheism” is a new term describing people who are apathetic about matters of God/spirituality. Additionally, those who are apatheists don’t actually care about other people’s religion either. But, apatheists aren’t necessarily atheists; they could even be Christians. Jonathan Rauch, journalist and apatheist, coined and explains this concept in this article. This Sunday after the service we’ll…

Proclaiming the Gospel to One Another

Tim Chester, pastor and author, has written this post about developing a gospel focus in our churches. He says that our church community – in order to grow and last – must be founded on Jesus Christ. “We don’t read the Bible simply to fill our minds, but to change our hearts. We don’t read the…

Race: How Can We Get Along?

Living on the North Shore means living in a predominantly white community (85% of North Shore population, 93% Beverly, 92% Hamilton, 96% Ipswich). This makes it easier for some of us to not think about relationships with people who have a different race than us until events like last week’s shootings in Baton Rouge, Minnesota, and Dallas occur. Dr….

Unexpected Blessing

Tears are rolling down my cheeks. “This is crazy,” I think, and I turn my head away from the crowd, so no one will see. I’m standing with about 140 elementary school kids and 30 or so adults, who are all participating in the 2015 Vacation Bible School (VBS) at North Shore Community Baptist Church….

Enlarge Our Hearts

Over the course of the last 30 days as we have followed this prayer guide we have asked God to work among the communities in which we live. And rightly so, for we know that the North Shore needs to wake up to the riches and wonder of Christ-for-us. And yet…church historians note that in…

Sermon Scraps: New Perspective through the Gospel

Yesterday, we continued in the series Ordinary Christians: Life Together on Mission. Pastor Bobby’s sermon emphasized that the Gospel not only gives us salvation, but it is the very  thing that helps us grow in Christ. It is through the Good News that we “get in” with God, but also become like his Son. The…

The Problem of Reality

Yesterday at 30 Minutes Offline, Pastor Bobby shared that our prayer and vision for NSCBC at this time is that we would rediscover the Gospel – that our own hearts would be awakened to the living hope that we have in Christ. He shared some of the story of Francis Schaeffer, a modern theologian and philosopher, that he…

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