Daily: Beloved Community

For The Next Generation

March 3, 2022 • Pastor Amber Phillips • John 3:16

As a community, will you commit to helping our NCC families lead their children to recognize the Imago Dei in every individual? Would you pray for families as they disciple the children in their homes?

The Poetic Community

March 2, 2022 • Tarinna Olley

I just really believe that this world would be mundane and actually kind of boring if we didn’t have creatives. I think creatives in so many capacities are messengers from God in the way that God gives them the vision to create, and in particular, the poetic arts.

Making Room

March 1, 2022 • Brenda Perrodin

We need to make room for others in our lives, just like we have made room in our lives for God. Every person in the world has something that they can share with others, to form connections that can lead to a community.

Seeing A New Reflection

February 28, 2022 • Emmanuel Caudillo

What do we all have in common? We all bear His image. Let’s see the image of God in each other and reflect that in our actions, in our thoughts, in our words. Let us treat each other equitably, regardless of class, race and ethnicity, gender, or socioeconomic status.

Beloved Community - A Poem

February 25, 2022 • Joel Buckner • 1 Corinthians 13:4–8

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels but do not have love, I am only a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal If I give all my possessions to the poor and give my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

A History of Peace

February 24, 2022 • Peter Hartwig

Peacemaking in Community

February 23, 2022 • Debra De Los Reyes

How do we create a space where a person feels safe? Willing to be vulnerable? To take that risk in sharing of themselves with you in such a way that invites a reconciling to God, then to others?

Homes Not Borders

February 22, 2022 • Laura Thompson Osuri

True solidarity goes both ways. We see you but you also see us. It’s standing side by side, not one in front of the other.

Between Christmas and Easter

February 21, 2022 • Pastor Steve Andres

These two very significant moments occupy a great deal of our attention as Christians and I’ve found they occupy a significant portion of our theological reflection as well.

Instrument of Peace

February 18, 2022 • Joshua Coad

Today we hear and view a video of Pastor Josh Coad singing Instrument of Peace.

Serve The World

February 17, 2022 • Joel Buckner

I want to challenge us to expand our thinking beyond just the things we do outwardly and commit to the transformative work of our soul because the world is waiting to be served with mature love.

The Desire to Serve

February 16, 2022 • Steve Most

It is by the power of the Holy Spirit that we can become more like Jesus who calls us to serve others.

Do Justice. Love Kindness.

February 15, 2022 • Rachel Irmen

What comes to mind when you think of justice? My personal idea of justice has shifted over the years, some seasons for the better and some seasons less so. But over these years I have seen that the best model of justice is Jesus.

Biblical Justice

February 14, 2022 • Pastor Charles Williams

As disciples of Jesus, we step into restorative justice by offering ourselves as living instruments of peace into the world.

Lavish Life

February 11, 2022 • Suzanne Vel

If you want a lavish life, find a person who looks nothing like you, grew up nothing like you, lived a life nothing like yours, and love them so well that they call you their favorite person. That’s a lavish life.