When Jesus leaves the Earth he encourages his disciples that it's good! Because now the Spirit can come and be with them - be with us. Living in step with the Spirit takes effort and an intentional way of living to choose God's way -- how do we do that? What does it look like to live a Spirit-Filled Life?
It's easy to let others shape our identity - many of us hold on to things others say about us and take that as truth. We have to shift our minds to see what Yahweh says about us - the real truth and build our identity from that foundation.
We are created in the image of God! And he created us with emotions! Many of us believe some emotions are bad and try to stay away from them, but our emotions themselves aren't bad! How do we manage our emotions and honor God through them?
This week's message is inspired by STAR WARS: Return of the Jedi! Inspired by. The message is still coming from scripture. Forgiveness is something that every one of us has to work through and we need Jesus with us to do this well. How can we forgive and what happens when we do?
We're taking inspiration from some of our favorite movies! This week we're looking at the movie UP -- it's just bringing to light a theme that we all relate to and we're looking at what the Bible has to say about that theme -- this week? Disappointment. What do we do when life doesn't go our way? How do we deal with it and what does God have to say about it?
No matter what season we're in, we can learn a lot from the experience of marriage. 2 people coming together to support, love, and build up one another -- there are lessons there for any of us in our relationships with others. Today Pastor Aaron & Sara along with Pastor Hannah & Adrian talk about lessons they've learned through marriage.
When we talk about relationships it's important to talk about singleness! It's a real part of life that everyone experiences for atleast some time. God has something to say about singleness and the benefits / joys / difficulties of life being single.
Many of us would say we know 1 thing as a constant in relationships: CONFLICT. And many of us would say we know 1 thing should be a constant: COMMUNICATION -- how do these fit in our relationships and what does the Bible say about it?
Everyone has relationships in some form and as we follow Jesus - he has a lot to say about how these relationships look and how to keep them healthy!
The Church is about Community! God is about Community! and at NCC, we want to lean into that and talk about it - encourage it - give opportunity to build community. Let's talk about Community.
Prayer is a huge part of our regular faith and life with Jesus. If we're doing this consistently and we're together a Praying Church, what would happen? What does it mean to be a "Praying Church"?
The Church - God's people - shouldn't be an exclusive group to just hang out together. God has called us to be on mission with him to find those disconnected from him and help them find their way back. The Church should be growing, should be influencing the community, should be multiplying! What does that look like and how do we do it?
What kind of church is NCC? What is the church supposed to be? We believe that God's church should be based on Scripture - not opinion or ideas or some person. God's word leads our lives together and personally.
2023 is a year of NEW for NCC. God has something great for us together and something great for each of us personally. How do we step into this NEW season well and ready for what God has?
Christmas is proof of how much God loves us. He gave everything just because he wants to be with you. It wasn't our sin that forced God to give up his son -- he sent Jesus to save us because he wanted to be close to us. He does want to be close to us and that life with him is a simple invitation waiting for us to accept.
Many of us read the Bible and think 'these people are amazing and so beyond who I could be'... but if we look closer, the people God uses are very ordinary and usually broken, super normal people. The Christmas Story proves this fact -- look at Mary and Joseph and the first people who the ANGELS tell about the birth of Jesus are Shepherds! God is looking for people just like you to partner with in the world.
Christmas is a foundational moment in history and to our faith. Jesus came to fulfill God's promise to us. God keeps his promises and Christmas proves that -- in this season, it's easy to get distracted and overwhelmed and God is promising PEACE to you and your family.
Throughout the Gospel, we read of Jesus loving those who are outcast, forgotten, even hated! He gives an incredible example of loving those who are hard to love -- we all know someone like that.
There’s a story of a woman in the Bible who has a conversation with Jesus and he impacts her so deeply she can’t help but go tell everyone in her town about him! What did he say? What can we learn from this story about what Yahweh wants to do with OUR story for the people around US?