Welcome to North Second Street. The Spirit of God continues to hover over the waters and to create growth in a dry desert. If you follow social media posts of preachers and teachers within churches of Christ, you would think the church is in turmoil and headed in the wrong directions. Each week, one article… Read More »
Mid-Year Report 2025
It is easy to take for granted the good things we have happen to us on a regular basis. Our outpost of the Lord’s army is growing, has young people that truly love God, and our giving continues to out-pace our budget year over year, even in times when you think it might wane, faithful… Read More »
Elders: Thoughts From 13-Years Ago
[Editor’s note: This article is from February 2012. It shows this church’s commitment to being scripturally organized.-JS] What would you do if you had to leave your children and go on a long journey? And I mean a long journey, like 20 to 30 years. If you had to provide for protection and nurturing of… Read More »
Confession: Radical Restoration Does Not Work
I remember the first time I heard about a “house-church.” My initial impression was, “What is the big deal? Most congregations begin in the homes of Christians.” Then I was told, the modern house-church movement thinks homes are the only scriptural place for a church to assemble. My ears perked up at that point and… Read More »
Year In Review 2024
Escape velocity is the speed an object must achieve to leave the gravity and atmosphere of a planet. The gravitational pull of the third rock from the sun and our generous blanket of atmosphere dictates a breath-taking velocity of nearly 25-thousand miles per hour to reach into space. That is a speed of seven miles… Read More »
Two Years As A Proper Flock
Just over 24-months ago, the people of God who meet at North Second Street ordained elders to serve and lead the congregation. David Brown and David Muiznieks have been feeding, tending, and guiding the flock as true shepherds and we are being blessed because of our submission to the will of God through Jesus the… Read More »
Why Don’t You Call Your Preacher “Pastor?” (Reverend, Father, or Bishop)
Because no one man can be “the Pastor.” If only my sermons could be as short as that answer! But alas there is usually more to my sermons and there is definitely more to answering this question. At North Second Street, we strive to, “Call Bible things by Bible names and do Bible things in… Read More »
CENI: Communication or Interpretation
Every six months or so, it seems there is an attack on “CENI.” Opponents decry this “intellectual relic from an earlier time.” We are told we need a “new hermeneutic” or a “Jesus-centered approach” to face the issues of the 21st century. Just this month, the Christian magazine Pressing On published a special edition entitled,… Read More »
The Bounds Of Christian Fellowship
One year ago this week, the North Second Street Church of Christ ordained David Brown and David Muiznieks as elders in this congregation. Soon after, Scott Ford and Jim Lahue were named deacons of the church. Having been set in order according to the plan of God, we have been on a path of numeric… Read More »
What If Two Cords Stay Home?
“Two are better than one…And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.”-Ecclesiastes 4:9, 12 We talk quite a bit about our congregation at North Second Street in the corporate sense. God continues to bless us. We are growing. What are we going… Read More »