Pastor Nic's Blog

Dear church family, Thank you to those who came last week to our church prayer! It was a great time of prayer and fellowship. For those who were not able to make it I wanted to fill you in on a little of what was shared so you can be praying with us in a few key areas. We began our time together looking over Ephesians 3:20-21:"Now to him who is able to do far more abunda...

Dear church family, I hope you are enjoying our current sermon series on The Values that drive NHCC. Last Sundays sermon on the authority and the sufficiency of Scripture was one that can bring up a lot of questions. We live in an age where these two ideas are under fire by the world, and the temptation for the church is to buckle under such pressure. As Christians we wan...

Nehemiah 5 Preserving the Unity of God's people and Preferring Others is what Nehemiah chapter 5 is all about. It is in these two ways Nehemiah is a clear Christ-like figure for us. When the community of God's people turn on each other and begin to exploit one another Nehemiah responds quickly, and clearly as he see's the immense risk division can cause. He calls God's pe...

Last week we got into the basis for Nehemiah's motivation in returning to the land, which was his expectation of Glorious Restoration, brought by the coming Messiah. What we see in Nehemiah Ch.1 is that the backbone for his motivation was a promise that God had given to His people. Nehemiah could trust the promise that God had given because God is trustworthy! God, being m...

Nehemiah"Preparing for Glorious Restoration" Leadership is only as good as the vision it is leading others toward. Nehemiah had a grand vision and led others with it, and lived in expectation of its fulfillment. That vision: The Glorious Restoration by the coming Messiah!There was no reason to think that the return from exile wouldn't begin the great Day of the Lord and t...

Reaching people one at a time....

You are not struggling because you are a Christian, per se, but because you are human....

"We had finished sharing the gospel with him and he only asked us one question at the end of it: 'Do you really believe that a man rose from the dead?'"...

Pastor Nic's top 5 books and articles he read this year....