Galatians 6:1-10 Have you ever played that game you often see at youth groups, where you fill a cup with water and pass it down a line of kids to pour in a bucket at the other end? I played a game like that with some international students visiting the Cape this past summer. It […]

Editor’s Note: As we continue our year long study on the subject of worship, we will consider how our praise to God is tied into our global mission. This article from John Piper describes the vision we have for our ministry and why it is our desire to proclaim the love of God, so that […]

We have spent the entire year discussing the topic of “Worship.” Throughout this study we have discovered that worship is far more than simply the songs we sing before a sermon on Sunday. Here is just a brief synopsis of our study. Communion and Service From the very beginning, Adam’s worship of the Creator was […]

Book Three of the Psalms is unique. Starting with Psalm 73, we see a collection of songs that were written from the perspective of worship leaders. Different from some of the Psalms we sing today, the songs of Asaph, in particular, are somber and filled with disappointment. That is not particularly something you would associate […]

Editor’s Note: After reading this article by Jared Wilson, previously posted on his blog at The Gospel Coalition, I was reminded of the challenges we have in serving New England and I was greatly encour- aged to see the call to action to consider our own backyard a mission field, fertile and ready for the […]

 Mother’s Day is once again upon us, sending children of all ages scurrying to the greeting card aisle to find just the right sentiment to send to Mom. Mother’s Day touches all of us – though not all of us are mothers, all of us have a mother. It is true that the calendar date […]

 Let me offer a theory I have based on personal experience: mothers are some of the most intense prayer warriors that anyone could ever hope to have. I never need to check the weather where I live. If there is ever any sign of a storm, my mother, who lives almost 300 miles away, will […]

Matthew 21PALM SUNDAY: JESUS ENTERS JERUSALEM (March 29, AD 33)Matt 21:1-11; Mark 11:1-10; Luke 19:28-44; John 12:12-19After three and a half years of public ministry, Jesus’ messianic activity is now reaching a major climax. As Jesus’ brothers had told Him earlier, anyone who claimed to be the Jewish Messiah must reveal Himself to be such […]

Amos 5I wonder if you ever feel a disconnect between Sunday morning and Monday morning? On Sunday you join God’s people in praising Him for who He is and what He’s done. Brilliant. But then Monday brings traffic jams, relentless emails, grumpy colleagues, dirty diapers. The worship of God feels like a distant memory.Amos 5 […]

Matthew 5-7The Lord’s Prayer is a passage of Scripture that just about anyone who self-identifies as a Christian can quote. Go ahead and close your eyes and recite it to yourself. I would even wager that this prayer ranks in the top three of people’s recognition level of Bible passages–right after John 3:16 and Psalm […]

As a pastor’s kid, I was at the Church whenever the doors were opened. That meant Sunday School, Sunday morning, Sunday night, and of course the midweek prayer meeting. I dreaded the prayer meeting. Except for a short time of prayer at the end, it was just like any other service–a few hymns and a […]

In Luke 18:10, Jesus tells a parable about two men who went up to the temple to pray. Prayer is to be a part of worship. Paul wrote to Timothy that the priority for the church in Ephesus was to pray (I Timothy 2:1, 6). In Matthew 6, Jesus indicated that prayer is a key […]