I popped into Starbucks today for a consciousness-sustaining beverage and bumped into a sister from the church. We chatted for a bit, and the conversation turned to the fairness of Hell, in light of our current sermon series in Revelation. Does the punishment of eternal damnation really fit the crime of sin? No believer relishes […]
Read more...My wife and I just took advantage of the current low interest rates and refinanced our house. A lawyer came to our home for the closing and had us sign a stack of documents. We initialed and signed and dated for almost a half hour. The lawyer gave us sound-bite explanations of […]
Read more...May 3, 2010 Pastor Jeramie was invited to speak at the New England Center For Expository Preaching’s annual Pastor’s Conference. One of the talks Pastor Jeramie gave was published online. Below is the link to his talk.
“Exposition and Sufficiency.”
Our congregation recently met to decide on the building project proposal. In an amazing show of unity and enthusiasm, the church voted by over 96% to move forward with the expansion.
The vote also produced some interesting conversations. A newer attendee to SSBC asked me, “Why do you vote?” In other words, why did SSBC use […]
Last Tuesday the congregation adopted a new doctrinal statement, the product of almost three years of revision and discussion. This robust document will serve our church well for generations.
Now we turn our attention to revising SSBC’s membership covenant. Section 13 of our new doctrinal statement begins, “We believe that a visible church of Christ is […]
I dropped in on the church membership class today to field questions from attendees. One of them, a teenager, asked a basic but critical question: “Is church membership in the Bible?”Great question! It’s true that there is no 11th commandment in the Bible that says, “Thou shalt be a church member.” Nor do we have […]
Read more...An Argument for Expanding the Facility of South Shore Baptist Church while Pursuing Local Church Planting, by Pastor Jeramie Rinne - November 10, 2009So why not just plant?
“Why build an expensive addition to our facility when we could plant churches much more cost-effectively?” It is a question I have asked myself, and have been asked […]
How did it come to this?
From where I sit the countdown to the New Year is well on its way. Most of us have a jam packed schedule of Thanksgiving celebrations, Christmas shopping, company or school ‘holiday parties’, Christmas celebrations, and then the perennial dropping of the ball in…(drum roll…….) New York City.
Not all of […]
Speaking of songs (see Pastor Jeramie’s blog titled “Choosing Congregational Songs“) there are some great recordings out there fitting the criteria he outlined that I would recommend adding to your personal music library. For all of the reasons mentioned in his blog I have been basking in and promoting the Getty songs and ministry for […]
Read more...This past Sunday evening, several of us from SSBC trekked into Park Street Church to enjoy a concert by Keith and Kristyn Getty. The Getty’s have written a wealth of modern hymns, many of which we sing at SSBC (see http://www.gettymusic.com/). Hearing them live, I was struck by the simplicity and power of their arrangements, […]
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