The market never sleeps. As the NASDAQ closes and you’re on the train back to Westchester, the Hang Seng is getting ready to open, futures are moving, and some algorithm on the other side of the world has re-pricing everything you thought you understood by dinner. Earnings reports drop overnight, headlines swing sentiment, and lying in bed, your brain decides it’s time for a late-night portfolio review — whether you asked for it or not.

Or maybe it’s not the markets at all. Maybe it’s the rent, the heat bill, the credit card balance, and the quiet math that doesn’t quite add up to make this month actually work. This week at BCC, we’ll talk honestly about how money keeps us awake — from global exchanges to kitchen-table budgets — and explore a wiser way of handling it that can move us from anxiety to peace, and toward the kind of life that lets us finally get a good night’s sleep.

Join us on Sunday at 9:30 am.

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Kids have a remarkable ability to keep us up at night. It’s crying babies, wondering if that teen will be home by the 11pm curfew, and a whole lot in between. Sometimes it’s replaying conversations, worrying about their future, or wondering if that thing you said at dinner will require therapy later. For some, it’s when will we have kids. For others, why do my grown children still act like kids? But for many of us, it’s the same reality: when it comes to children, sleep is fleeting.

This week at BCC, we’ll explore some of the common parenting traps that quietly steal our rest. We’ll also look at how biblical wisdom points us toward another way—one that forms hearts rather than manages outcomes—and invites us to trust God enough to finally get a good night’s sleep.

Join us on Sunday at 9:30 am.

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Over the last two weeks, I’ve genuinely missed you all. A Sunday “off” for the pastoral staff isn’t quite as restful as it might sound—especially when our heart is still very much with the people you long to gather with. Add in snowstorms, shoveling-induced back pain, and nights spent half-awake checking weather forecasts, and let’s just say my sleep tracker has been unimpressed.

These past weeks have carried a particular tension: holding safety as a real priority while also deeply wanting—really wanting—to be together as the church. Watching the forecast, weighing decisions, praying for wisdom… all of it has made me even more aware of how much gathering together matters.

And here we are again, with more snow in the forecast this weekend. I’m praying that the weather will not once more complicate what we’re longing for—that we’ll be able to gather, worship, laugh, and simply be the community God has formed us to be.

Because when we are together, something settles in our souls. Scripture names it in Psalm 133, “Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!”

Join us on Sunday at 9:30 am.

www.bedfordcommunitychurch.org