Gospel Jazz Brunch
Historic Berean Baptist Church, 1400 Montana Avenue, NE WDC 20018
Saturday, March 3, 2012, Noon-3PM
Donation: $25
Featuring Ms. Natalie Carter, accompanied by Calvin Fields, David Carr – percussion, and Pastor Kenneth Blanchard-guitar
For tickets call the church
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Had a great worship experience today. The church was packed. We gained a candidate for baptism. After church we celebrated the birthday of one of our Deacon Ward, with a nice meal and cake put together by Minister Blue.
The Message was from the “Beatitudes,” found in Matthew 5:1-12. Pastor explained how the Sermon on the Mount, is still relevant today. How it is an encouragement to the people of God that trust in Him.
Contrary to popular belief, sin is sin.
But one that grieves the Holy Spirit is the sin of unbelief. There are many people that don’t prescribe to “organized religion,” from some hurt, or don’t believe all, and as a result are guilty of this sin. It doesn’t matter how great a deed one does, or how “righteous” they seem to us, we don’t have a heaven to keep them out of or a hell to put them into. Faith is the key.
“Without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is” (Hebrews 11:6).
Christ-man season is here. Worship begins at 10am and then we will be having a home-cooked dinner with live music to celebrate Christmas this Sunday, 12/18/2011. Bring your family to church this Sunday and fellowship with us.
The worship has been on fire. The church club donated money to get a new wireless microphone and audio system. The music has been great and there are a few new faces from the neighborhood. God is glorified.
Mind, Body and Soul.
I heard a couple of nice things today at church. I heard a man testify that he loved his wife and appreciated her after being married to her for almost 61 years. Then he said he didn’t want to tell her personally cause she might get a big head and “start gaming the system.” I knew what he meant, and thankful to God for seeing a change in an senior saint. Love is good at every age.
Todays message comes from Matthew 22:35-37 and is provided in audio below. I had to compress it a little and shared it on my In The Wilderness Ministries Podcast.
http://traffic.libsyn.com/kennblanchard/87_ITWM.mp3
Everybody has their opinion on how the music should be played, or how long a church service should be but I think last Sunday was one of our best. Pastor reminded us not to worship Dr. King, nor his likeness. Make sure you worship the Creator and not the created. It started off with fervent prayer asking God to forgive us of all the STUFF we bring in that doesn’t belong and then asked Him to purge the place of all influences contrary to His will. It was all uphill from there.
Brother Fields ushered in the Spirit with the gifts of a talented musician. He played softly and lively until folks got in there customary places and got comfortable. Our drummer and Trustee Carr was on time and accompanied him on the drums. Pastor relented from the pulpit passing the microphone to Minister Blue to take the lead as worship leader, and pastor grabbed the electric guitar augmenting the vocals with the instrument like BB King might if he played in church. Testimonies, songs of praise and prayers continued until the church was almost full.
Deacon McGee led a couple of spirited spirituals reminiscent to days gone by that resonated in our souls. There were no out of key outburst. There was no one trying to lead that didn’t know the songs, it was just harmony. Our praise and worship lasted longer than usual and it felt good. Pastor was brought to tears several times thinking about how good God was to him. It made it difficult to play the guitar and not cry.
The Message took something from the past and brought it to the present. While many were downtown celebrating the dedication of the memorial of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., pastor reminded the church about those times compared to the present.
In 1967, Jimi Hendrix made a album called “Are You Experienced.” 1967 was a tough time. There are tough times today. Our experiences should give us hope. Our trials and tribulations should teach us and remind us that if it hadn’t been for God on our side, we would have perished. The text came from Romans 5:1-4.
1Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
2By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
3And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
4And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
This experience gave me hope that we are growing. It was a good day, and you just had to be there.
I am the pastor of a Baptist church in northeast Washington DC named Historic Berean Baptist Church. It’s a mouthful and let me share with you a little about it. The founders of the church split from a church that they had loved named Berean Baptist Church in northwest D.C. The name “berean” comes out of the Bible in the book of Acts 17:11-12, where the Apostle Paul met a noble people from Berea that had a readiness of mind and that searched the Scriptures daily. The founding members in 1997 were all senior citizens and believed they were the “history” of the church they had left so they included it into the new name.
I have been a member since 2005. When I arrived, the church didn’t have a pastor and was still going through the fall out of several incidents and loss. I came to serve God. I came to worship God. Things were tough. I stayed because God asked me to.
Two years later I was ordained in the traditional oral Baptist fashion in the presence of nineteen pastors. A year later I was called as the second pastor of HBBC. We’ve had our challenges. It’s a new church today. Check us out and see the changes He has made. God is here. We are getting better every Sunday. Come and see.
The video and pictures you see here are of the experiences and people that God has blessed me to meet, to love, to listen to and to learn from. Not everyone pictured are members. Some are from the community the church is located in. I consider all potential members. Good times are here. We have bible study on Wednesday nights at 7pm. Come on over. The Rhode Island metro is down the street.
I am here to build a tabernacle not made by human hands. Our building is an old bank. It’s not about money. I am here to lift up and encourage. I am here to grow in grace. I am here as a witness to what God can do with someone like me. Come as you are and leave anew.
This is old school with a God that never fails to do the miraculous.
Welcome and thanks for watching.
If you are looking for a church home consider being apart of my family. This is HistoricBereanBaptistChurch.org He’s left The Light on for you.
Pastor Kenneth Blanchard
This is the first night of a two night revival- Sept 2011. Our speaker of the night was the Reverend Derrick N. Brown, pastor of New Hope AME Church. He was well received and we blessed God for his congregation attending and sharing with us. The church was full, the Spirit was high. I had to edit this a little for time (27:28 min.) Praise God!
The answer to the title question is, I suggest you trust God!
HBBC Revival 2011 – first night from Historic Berean Baptist Church on Vimeo.
Last night we Rev. Derrick N. Brown, pastor of New Hope AME church as our principle revivalist. It was well attended by a large number of his church. Ours, in comparison, not so much. I had a great time in the Lord. The Spirit was high and we praised God in song, and testimony. There were quite a few funny moments. The most memorable was one of our newer members that had once been on the street and an addict saw one of the visitors during her testimony, and said “you look familiar, you from the streets?” So the man, now handsomely clothed and sitting with friends had been put on the spot to confirm or deny that he may have been in her company so time previously. It was one of those moments that only in the house of God is your former life, irrelevant.
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 2 Corinthians 5:7 KJV
It is only in the house of God that you recognize we are all sinners, saved by Grace.
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Ephesians 2:8 KJV
None of us, is above anyone else and the brother didn’t have to be ashamed nor defensive.
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Romans 3:23 KJV
So after we realized it didn’t matter, we were all glad God still sits high and looks low.
The Message last night came from 2 Corinthians 4:7-10
But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. 8 We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 10 We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. (NIV)
The sermon: “What Do You Do When The World Doesn’t Make Sense.” The answer was to trust God.
I am looking forward to tonight.
One of the people (the first person you see) in this video is a Christian comedian and friend of mine, I met online.
Here’s brother Gaskins’ most recent work. This show provides some food for thought as well as a few smiles. Enjoy.
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