For the North End Community Ministry / food pantry visit http://necmgr.org or call (616) 454-1097.



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

Shepherd’s Pen (Page 46)

hurry up and be patient

One of the most difficult things we must do is to wait for something. Whether it’s Amazon’s new “next-month delivery” promise (I jest) or a webpage that takes an extra half-second to load (ugh) or not being able to meet together until who-knows-when (seriously! when!?), we often find waiting difficult. It is difficult to wait…

I wait because it is done

God had chosen David to be king over Israel. There was one problem, though: Saul was still king. David refused to move against him, though he had been anointed king. His loyalty to Saul was profound in its intensity. He would not lay a hand to the Lord’s anointed, even though he himself had been…

never fear

Years ago my wife and I knew a youth pastor who would tell his students to not watch R-rated movies. Instead, he would tell them, they should just read the book of Judges. It is filled with war and violence and conspiracy and destruction. While the visual effects may not be as appealing, it has…