National Community Church Audio Podcast

State of the Church. The best is yet to come

Our Campus Pastors close out the Reset series, each giving a unique angle on what it means to reset our lives spiritually.

Someone else's miracle is on the other side of your faith, your sweat, and your investment. Who can't tell their story without including your name? Establishing intentional rhythms, practicing forgiveness, honoring one another, and thoughtfully re-drawing boundaries are reset buttons for keeping our relationships healthy and growing.

Joy is found on the giving side of life

How do you view your body? The tendency in the church is to separate the physical and the spiritual. But the scriptures exhort us to be aware of both. In fact, the incarnation teaches us God doesn’t devalue the physical, but hyper values it. But different from physical new year’s resolutions of losing weight or getting in shape, we’ll talk about how to give our bodies as “living sacrifices” (Romans 12) unto God.

We can only understand the man on the cross when we understand the baby in the manger. The Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace is the One who illuminates the way during the fog of the Holidaze.

God has blessings for you in categories that you don’t even know exist. 

No matter how hard we prepare for Holidays, they somehow always turn a little chaotic and stressful. The Holidays can leave us in a holidaze. In Matthew 1, Joseph faces one of the messiest holiday situations that you’ve ever seen. No matter how hard he tried to plan his way out of it, his plans kept getting interrupted. But his interruptions were actually God’s plan. Joseph teaches us to let go of our plans and embrace God’s purposes in the midst of the craziness.

If you want a heart that breaks for the things that break the heart of God you’ve got to get out of your routine, out of your rhythm, out of your comfort zone. That’s where miracles happen!

The 'G' stands for God. If you put God in front of any problem He'll give you the strength to get through it and the solution to it.

Is your life being lived for the glory of Jesus?

We serve a God who draws us in, so we can be sent out. Isaiah 6 sets the tone with the man who steps into the glory of God to then be sent out to proclaim God’s message.You’ll hear heartfelt testimony of people who have stepped out, who have sacrificed, and who have found peace in God’s presence. And you’ll hear our strategy of mission around the world. And ultimately, you’ll be invited to be a part of God’s calling.

To see yourself as anything less than who you are in Christ is false humility. You are not a victim. You are more than a conqueror.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

Trading your if only regrets for God’s what if possibilities! 

Reconciliation involves not only God and the individual but also the individual and the community.

God has given each person a wide variety of gifts, and he expects us to employ those gifts in his service. It is not acceptable merely to put those gifts on a closet shelf and ignore them.

Never underestimate the power of a single seed of faith.

God wants to do something new in you. Jesus message and entire life was about modeling what a new way of living should look like. But are we flexible and ready to respond to His revelation? New revelation + the same lifestyle = Frustration & Guilt. It's only in obedience that we go from revelation to transformation.

God loves you just the way you are, but he loves you too much to leave you that way!