Summer Street Church Nantucket

Tabitha didn’t work miracles. She worked material. Thread and needle, robes and clothing, made for the most vulnerable women in her community. And when she died, the widows didn’t describe her faith. They put on what she made. That is her eulogy. Not words. Evidence. This week we look at what the resurrection actually restores, and why the feeling that your ordinary life doesn’t add up to much is...

Saul wasn’t persecuting the church because he hated God. He was persecuting the church because he loved God. His certainty didn’t come from rebellion. It came from devotion. And that’s what makes his story so unsettling, and so close to home. Jesus didn’t stop him with a better argument. He stopped him with light. And the question that landed on Saul lands on us too: in your zeal, in your convicti...

In Acts 8, the early church faces real persecution. People are dragged from their homes, imprisoned, and scattered. But something unexpected happens: the scattering doesn't silence them. It spreads them. The enemy's strategy to destroy the church ends up planting it in places it had never reached. In this message, Pastor Derek looks at what it actually means to live as resurrection peopl...

What comes out of you when the pressure is on? When you're backed into a corner, when the crowd turns hostile, when the cost of following Jesus becomes real, what surfaces? In Acts 7, Stephen stands before the Sanhedrin facing false accusations and a hostile crowd. He could have softened his message, managed his image, bought himself some time. Instead, what comes out of him is a Spirit-fille...

What kind of life are you reaching for? Most of us don't decide. We just look around and start moving toward what everyone else has. In this message from Acts 4:32–5:11, Pastor Derek explores what happens when a community is formed not by the world's values, but by the Spirit of the risen Jesus. The early church didn't just believe differently, it behaved differently. No needy perso...

In this teaching, Pastor Rich Leland takes us to Revelation for a surprising look at where this is all heading.

You've seen them. Someone in line at the grocery store or out and about whose life is hard right now. You feel something. And then you move on. Not because you don't care but because you don't know how it will go. This week in Acts 3, Peter and John are on their way to the temple when they pass a man who has been lame from birth. And they do something most people don't. They mo...

Something unprecedented happens in Acts 2. Not just wind and fire and three thousand baptisms. Someone arrives. And the question this week is not whether you believe in the Holy Spirit, but whether the Holy Spirit is at home in you. At Summer Street Church, we continue our series through the Book of Acts with the moment the Spirit falls on all believers, the church is born, and an entirely differe...

After everything changes, what do you do next? We begin a new series through the Book of Acts with a question the disciples were asking after the resurrection: what now? In Acts 1, Jesus tells his followers to wait. Not passively, but with a posture of expectant, persistent prayer. He calls them witnesses, promises the Holy Spirit, and then ascends. Then 120 people go back to an upper room in Jeru...

The resurrection of Jesus is the load-bearing wall of everything that matters. Remove it, and the whole structure comes down. This Easter, we open 1 Corinthians 15 and follow the Apostle Paul's argument all the way to the end. Six walls collapse if Christ was not raised. But two small words in the original language meaning, "but as it is", change absolutely everything.