A weekly blog post or devotional from the Pastor of Center Barnstead Christian Church in Center Barnstead, New Hampshire.
1/29/2020 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – The headlines this past Monday read “The World Mourns for Kobe Bryant.” As a Celtic fan since the “60’s” that loathes everything “Lakers,” my heart breaks for the Bryant family as well as the other families that were affected in that deadly helicopter crash Read more
1/15/2020 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – January 8, 2020 could be a date that goes down in infamy. No, it was not the day that the U.S. military killed the terrorist Qasem Soleimani, the leader of Iran’s elite Quds Force. It was not the day that Congress said that they Read more
1/8/2020 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – If you are passionate about professional football and you live outside of New England, chances are you are just one of millions of people rejoicing on Saturday night when the New England Patriots lost to the Tennessee Titans and were eliminated from the playoffs. Read more
1/1/2020 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – Three of our children came home for Christmas this year. Between Judy & me, and them, we represented 84 years of marriage!! We had a great time together! We played games and ate a lot of food. Judy made cookies with the younger grandchildren Read more
12/25/19 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – I think there is one thing about Christmas that we all can agree on, and that is it has become very commercialized. You can see Christmas things coming out in stores before Thanksgiving is even celebrated. They even start promoting Christmas layaways in October. Read more
12/18/19 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – Just seven more days until countless children (and maybe some young-at-heart adults) will be waking up early in the morning to see if their dreams, their expectations, and yes, even their wishes have been fulfilled. Even though Judy would always make Christmas a fun Read more
12/11/19 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – When I directed Snow Camp at Word of Life, we would theme our weekends. We once had a “Wizard of Oz” weekend where we had the witch flying down from the rafters; we also recruited some short students that we used for the Munchkins. Read more
12/4/19 – Pastor Brian’s Blog Now that our church Thanksgiving dinner is in our rearview mirror and now that David and Heidi and the 3 boys have returned safely to Rochester, NY, Judy and I have changed our focus as we now enter our favorite season of the year: Christmas! Read more
11/27/19 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – It will soon be the Christmas season, the time when God became flesh… The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and Read more
11/20/19 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – Judy and I picked up some things at Hobby Lobby the other day and to my amazement the place was filled with Christmas items. Christmas items already on sale! It seems like we have jumped from Halloween right to Christmas. As I was thinking Read more