Fully Alive: The Official Podcast of Northland Church

Word to the Wanna Be Wise | Week 3 | Josh Laxton

Proverbs
While a friend is a neighborly disposition towards all people we encounter that adds functionality and flourishing to their life, Proverbs teaches a deeper understanding of being a friend, called friendship. Biblical Friendship is the vehicle God uses to help us function and flourish in our humanity (how we relate, create, and operate) as we traverse through the sea of life on our way to eternal life. This kind of friendship is hard to find, but we know we can find it in Jesus Christ, our friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Word to the Wanna Be Wise | Week 2 | Josh Laxton

Sermon Synopsis:
The book of Proverbs teaches how a wealth of wisdom makes us wise toward wealth and how money is viewed, generated, and stewarded. We are told to work with diligence, energy, perspective, character, excellence, dignity, humility, boundaries, gratitude, and purpose. As we steward our money through giving to the Lord and others, saving measurably, investing intentionally, and living frugally, we live out what Proverbs teaches about money, and we will have a wealth of wisdom that will help us become wise toward wealth.
 

Word To The Wanna Be Wise | Week 1 | Josh Laxton

Proverbs 1:1-7
Sermon Synopsis
Wisdom comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth! Solomon, as a young king, asked God to give him a discerning heart to govern God’s people and to distinguish between right and wrong. Through God's grace, God made Solomon wise, and Solomon wrote several books of the Bible, one of which is Proverbs for those who wanna be wise. Proverbs challenge us to gain the wisdom that brings all of life under the rule and reign of God as we are mesmerized by the Lord, who is the object of our wonder and who motivates us, inspires us, and takes our breath away.

Letters to His Church Week 9 | 11am | Josh Laxton

Sermon from 11 am. 9 am is also posted.
Churches are created, called, and commissioned by Jesus to be His revolutionary witnesses. Jesus is not tolerant of His church's sins and failures but is patient in their sanctification process. We must live in a state and posture of repentance as the Spirit of God searches and communicates with us so that we will be fruitful and useful as we are victorious and effective in the world. 
 

Letters to His Church Week 9 | 9am | Josh Laxton

Sermon from 9 am. 11 am will also be posted.
Churches are created, called, and commissioned by Jesus to be His revolutionary witnesses. Jesus is not tolerant of His church's sins and failures but is patient in their sanctification process. We must live in a state and posture of repentance as the Spirit of God searches and communicates with us so that we will be fruitful and useful as we are victorious and effective in the world. 
 

Letters to His Church | Week 8 | Josh Laxton

Sermon Synopsis:
Revelation 3:14-22
The Church at Laodicea was in a place of spiritual lukewarmness that made Jesus sick because He knew their deeds and that the fruit of their lives did not match their faith. They were good for nothing. Jesus calls us to live useful lives and live in the light of the King, giving Him credit for every good thing. When there’s unity between our deeds/fruit and our declaration/faith, we become useful to the King in advancing His Kingdom!

Letters To His Church | Week 7 | Josh Laxton 9am

For the Church in Philadelphia, Jesus had only good things to say about them, and He said He knew their deeds. As revolutionaries, we live to please Christ, and we see Jesus work at making us pillars that weather every storm. Lives that are pleasing to Christ transform us into pillars made by Christ.

Letters To His Church | Week 7 | Josh Laxton 11am

For the Church in Philadelphia, Jesus had only good things to say about them, and He said He knew their deeds. As revolutionaries, we live to please Christ, and we see Jesus work at making us pillars that weather every storm. Lives that are pleasing to Christ transform us into pillars made by Christ.

Letters to His Church | Week 6 | Josh Laxton

Jesus challenges the Church at Sardis to wake up and come alive again. He urges them to strengthen what remains so that everything does not die off. He reminds this church of their faith and commands them to repent and regain their lost faith. Unlike the Church at Sardis, revolutionary living comes by way of a church that is filled and empowered with the Holy Spirit rather than by being a church that has the appearance and reputation of “Christian” religion. Our call is to be revolutionaries who care more about what Jesus thinks rather than what the world thinks.

The Importance of Connection | Lee Stephenson

From John 15:5
Sermon Synopsis
Jesus is the true Vine, and as His disciples, we are to stay connected to Him. We will produce fruit as we are attached to and abide in Jesus. As we remain connected, God will take care of the rest, and everything depends on Him. When we are connected to the Vine with Jesus in our lives, we are able to love others as Jesus loves being a positive influence on the world, reaching out to our neighbors and nations with the Good News.