A guest blog from our Next Generation Pastor, Rebecca DeLucia On the last Saturday of February, Central Youth had our 2nd annual One Day Youth Retreat. Over the course of the day we spent time playing games like cereal relay, Wario-Ware, life sized Candy Land, and the youth group classic, sardines. We also spent time with one another having lunch at the Atlantic Diner in town and having a blast at the Monmouth Squash and Swim Club in Sea Bright. These

On Sunday, we continued in our “Step In” series, opening the door on the topic of justification. It’s a big topic. Way too big for one Sunday, in fact. In the history of Christian theology (and church history), it’s one of the biggest. I hope you can come tonight (to Step In & Follow Up at 7PM) and hear more, ask questions, and look at other scripture passages that talk about it. See below for more details! On Sunday, I introduced the idea that before justification is

This past Sunday in our “Step In” series, we ‘stepped in’ to an enormous topic: redemption. Redemption is a kind of umbrella word for everything that God in Christ and through the Spirit has done, is doing, and will do for us – to restore us to the life God always meant for us to live (ie, life with God…eternal life). See what I mean? It’s an enormous topic. We ‘stepped in’ to it, but really, it’s like we just barely dipped

This past Sunday, we reached the mid-point in our big winter Steps series called “Step In: Taking In the Message of Christ”. We talked about a BIG, BIG, BIG idea: grace. Grace is one of those big ideas that is so ‘everywhere’ in the bible – so ubiquitous – that it’s almost hard to define (and even harder to do in one short sermon!). Bouncing off of Romans 6:23, we heard that “What Went Right?” is that God has decided to restore