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We meet for worship at 214 Spencer Street NE. Directions.
Service begins Sundays at 10:00AM.

Shepherd’s Pen

are we there yet?

The earliest Christians lived with a profound sense the Lord could return any day. In the early years of the church after the apostles, this expectation resulted in a weekly cycle of worshiping on the Lord’s Day—Sunday. Life was oriented around this experience of the gathered assembly. The church also met at other times and…

liar liar

You’re being lied to. So am I. We are lied to all the time, yet we frequently fall for the lie for there is something in us that desperately wants the lie to be true. It is not. It never was. It never will be. Let me give you some backstory, but first, some backstory…

phantom pain

The Nicene Creed declares, “We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic church”. Normally in English adjectives like this are usually separated by commas. For example, if you had rough day at work you might write in your journal, What a long, tiring, frustrating day. You are indicating three distinct—though clearly related—things about your day.…

Judas, sovereignty, and human will

It seems to me that arguing for a particular theological system requires trying to force some Scriptures into boxes they can’t quite fit in order to make sense of the rest of the Scriptures. To say this another way, it seems clear to me that when picking a theological system, whether Covenantal Theology or Dispensationalism…

what we need is another hot-take!

You ever get on social media thinking to yourself, “You know what I need? I need someone’s hot-take. I need to know what someone thinks about some current event after several seconds of deep, thoughtful reflection on it.” What you and I need is yet another hot-take, isn’t it? We get onto our favorite social…