On Being Single

Talk to Me Like a Five-Year-Old

The winds are blowing. There are first snows falling around the Country and the temperature has certainly dropped. It’s December. December is such an interesting time. It is so very…

3 Ways to Grow in Gratitude

Thanksgiving is meant to be a time for slowing down enough to…well, to give thanks and appreciate all the blessings that have been bestowed upon us.  A time of sharing…

Well Shoot, I Did it Again.

A few weeks ago, I was listening to worship music and thinking that although I loved the music, it had been years since I had felt that “desperation” to lean…

Thanksgiving Every Day for Everything

We are two weeks from Thanksgiving. I went to Costco this week, there were stacks of pumpkin pies, bags of rolls and piles upon piles of hams and turkeys. There’s…

The Providence of God

So, we have a new President. Which I’m sure makes half the people I know happy, or 50.7% And half unhappy, roughly 49.3% However somewhere in these stats may be…

It’s just Lateral Inversion

What do you see when you look in the mirror? A sinner? A saint? Beautiful? Ugly? God’s work of art? A failure in life? Years back I was struck by…

The Church Isn’t Meeting My Needs

This week we share an article by Pastor Brian Moss … Over the years I’ve watched many people come into the church excited only to be MIA within a few…

Useful to God

On a recent weekend at North Coast, our teaching pastor preached a message entitled, “Welcome to the Priesthood,” utilizing 1 Peter 2: 1-10 as his guiding scripture.  (If you’d like…

Let’s Talk about Why We Should Praise God

Let’s Talk about Why We Should Praise God. Here’s what AnnMarie from Busy Blessed Women has to say … I realized a while ago that I needed an attitude change. Life was…

Where Is God in Natural Disasters

I live in East Tennessee. The damage from Hurricane Helene is widespread. Millions of people lost access to water, electricity, and cell service, and thousands have been cut off from…