A weekly blog post or devotional from the Pastor of Center Barnstead Christian Church in Center Barnstead, New Hampshire.
3/17/2020 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – I think we could all agree that life can get messy at times. Judy and I have been to the Philippines on numerous occasions to teach at a small Bible College. I remember one year when we arrived on the campus, there was no Read more
3/10/2021 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – A friend told us about this diet that Judy and I have been on for the past two months. Between us, we have lost 57 lbs which is pretty exciting to us. It doesn’t just happen though, every Monday morning we get on the Read more
3/3/2021 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – Do you know anyone like this? People who might have “complained in the hearing of the Lord?” If you hang out with some Christians, that is exactly what you will hear. There is some incorrect thinking going on in the church today. Incorrect thinking Read more
2/17/2021 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – My two youngest children grew up on Veggie Tales, and I must admit that I grew to like some of those characters too. Before you become too pious, I would guess that if you have children the age of mine, you know a bit Read more
2/10/2021 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – Sanctification is a fancy theological word for “The Process.” It is the process that God uses to take a forgiven sinner and transform them into the image of Christ. Paul describes the process like this… And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Read more
2/3/2021 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – I was in the 6th grade when our grammar school, for the first time ever, had a basketball team. I wanted nothing more than to be on that team. Now we did not have a gym to play in, so we had to practice Read more
1/27/2021 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – For Judy and me it was July 2000. We were leaving our home on Canandaigua Lake and leaving our home church who had stood with us during a very difficult time in our life. Our two youngest children were leaving a youth group and Read more
1/20/21 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – Joe Stowell said… “We are what we are, not because of dreams we have, but because of choices that we make.” In his book Satisfaction: Investing in What is Important to God, Joe Aldrich portrays the well known and successful author Ernest Hemingway like Read more
1/13/2021 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – In 1971… John Lennon wrote a song titled “Imagine.” It would become his best-selling single of his solo career. His lyrics encouraged the listener to imagine a world at peace without the barriers of borders or the divisions of religion and nationality and to Read more
1/6/2021 – Pastor Brian’s Blog – Change is inevitable. The world is full of change. On Monday House Speaker Nancy Pelosi changed the rules: in an effort to be inclusive to those who don’t identify as a specific gender, her new rule strips all mention of gender-specific pronouns and terms Read more