The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines outreach as: “The act of reaching out,” and “The extending of services or assistance beyond current or usual limits.” At Northgate, we might refer to outreach as “The extending of assistance beyond current limits.” Simply put: outreach is simply reaching out beyond regular church attendance. In October, Northgate is reaching…
On Wednesday, August 30, Northgate Baptist Church voted to begin extensive and much needed renovations of the church facilities. This is an exciting time in the life of God’s church at Northgate! The project will include exterior renovations of all of the church’s buildings. Roofs will be replaced, trim will be repaired, and the steeple…
These are the days when dogs lie around and pant because it’s hot, right? Wrong!!! The dog days of summer didn’t originally have as much to do with dogs, but stars. The dog days of summer have to do with the ancient Greeks and constellations! They begin when the star, Sirius, rises just before dawn…
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) will meet in Phoenix this month for our annual meeting. I thought this would be a good time to reflect upon one of many Southern Baptist distinctions. The Cooperative Program (CP) is the means which God uses to direct SBC churches to distribute financial resources from the source to the…
According to his website, “H. W. Brands was born in Oregon, went to college in California, sold cutlery across the American West, and earned graduate degrees in mathematics and history in Oregon and Texas. He taught at Vanderbilt University and Texas A&M University before joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, where…
Marcus Borg, a leader in Progressive Christianity and influential participant of the famed Jesus Seminar, wrote in 1998: As a child, I took it for granted that Easter meant that Jesus literally rose from the dead. I now see Easter very differently. For me, it is irrelevant whether or not the tomb was…
We are in the “dead of winter.” Have you ever thought about that idiom in our language? Have you ever thought about the meaning behind it or the origin of it? According to the British website, Bloomsbury-International.com, the meaning of this phrase refers to a time – “the time of year when it is coldest…