More Than We See
A guest blog / short devotion from former (recently moved) member, Shawn Blythe: I recently attended a classical guitar concert featuring an award-winning classical guitarist with international experience and accolades (Leonela Alejandro). She played a piece written by a world-renowned composer, who composed several hundred musical works, nearly one hundred move musical scores and wrote twenty books (Toru Takemitsu). The musical piece Alejandro selected was composition well known within the classical guitar world and is celebrated for its ability to utilize
You Stepped In
Two Sundays ago – which I echoed in last week’s Wednesday email – I challenged you to step in to the mission of the church, and gave one timely example: the Block Party. You stepped in. Well done. Thank you. Sunday’s Block Party, as hot as it was, was a huge success – and I think, another building block for the Kingdom of God in the Bayshore region. We welcomed loads of kids from Atlantic Highlands (judging by the mound of bicycles on
Join in on God’s Mission
On Sunday, I spoke about how one of the very first things that Jesus DID was to launch the Christian movement - called the Church. He, alone, showed us who God is and what we as humans are meant to be, he inaugurated the Kingdom of God, and in doing so, abolished Satan’s reign over us. Even though he uniquely did these things, he empowered his movement – the Church – to participate in this work, giving us a substantive role with
Characters at the Cross
A guest blog by Rebecca DeLucia, Next Generation Pastor In today’s Bible Reading plan, we are in Luke 23—a chapter jam-packed with action, a slew of characters, plenty of plot, and so much more. In this chapter, we come across the stories of three unexpected individuals. None of them are the “main characters,” yet each shows us something about what it means to follow Jesus. The first character we meet is Simon of Cyrene. Simon doesn’t wake up that morning planning to serve Jesus;