Fully Alive: The Official Podcast of Northland Church

The Invitation to Recklessly Scatter The Invitation | Kevin Harney

Jesus calls believers to recklessly scatter the seed as we invite others to encounter God's love, grace, and the message of Jesus as we share our faith everywhere and all the time. We scatter the seed as we love others as Jesus does, pray for people when God opens the door, engage freely and openly in spiritual conversations, and tell our story and His Story of faith and transformation.  

Letters to His Church | Week 5 | Josh Laxton

Revelation 2:18-28
•Revolutionary living rejects friendship with the world to remain faithful to the King.
•Revolutionary living renounces that which Jesus rejects.
•Revolutionary living requires faithfulness to the word of God rather than friendliness to the ways of the world.

Letters to His Church | Week 4 | Josh Laxton

Revolutionary living requires actions aligned with our authority, Jesus. While the Church at Pergamum was true and faithful during severe persecution, it had allowed false teaching to compromise and undermine its faith. Jesus told them to repent. If they did not repent, He would wage war against them. Jesus told them He would reward them if they would repent, renew, and recommit and make their actions align with Jesus, their authority.

Letters to His Church | Week 3 | Josh Laxton

The Church in Smyrna shows how revolutionary living means you’ll die for Jesus even though you’ll face difficulties because of Jesus. This church was suffering and in poverty, and they were fearful of what they were facing. Jesus encouraged them in their time of suffering by stating that they were rich and that if they faithfully faced death for their faith's sake, He would give them the crown of life.

Letters to His Church | Week 2 | Josh Laxton

Revelation Chapter 2
Sermon Synopsis for August 24-25, 2024
Revolutionary living requires love for Jesus rather than a religious lifestyle that might look like Jesus. Jesus revealed to the Church in Ephesus that He rules and reigns over the whole world, recognizes what they do well, and rebukes and requires them to deal with sin. Further, He revealed that He would remove their Church if they didn’t deal with sin, and He would reward them if they overcame it. Jesus tells them to return to their first love for Him so they can live a revolutionary life and experience victory in and through a loving relationship with Him.

Letters to His Church | Week 1 | Josh Laxton

Sermon Synopsis
This series delves into Revelation Chapters 1–3, focusing on the profound teachings about the seven churches in Revelation. As we embrace the revelatory Lord and His revolutionary life, revelatory leaders who exalt our revolutionary Lord, and the revelatory letter, we will be exhorted and challenged to revolutionary living.

Building a Healthy Church (Pastor Dan Elkins)

Sermon Synopsis:
Jesus called believers to build a healthy church. A healthy church begins with people loving Jesus with all their hearts, minds, souls, and every ounce of strength. Additionally, a healthy church grows by loving each other. Finally, a healthy church thrives by loving the lost. As we build a healthy church, we will showcase God and His glory for all the world to see. 

You Rule? Live Your Life God's Way | August 4, 2024 | Vince Taylor

Sermon Synopsis
As believers in God, we are called to live our lives God's way, being willing to align with God's word. As we live God's way, we demonstrate the attributes of the fruit of the Spirit, which are love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Also, as we live our lives God's way and follow Jesus, we share our faith with neighbors and nations and reflect Jesus Christ, our Savior, to the world. 

A&E 2024: New Songs, Same Humanity | Week 4 of 4

Sermon Synopsis: 
By embracing and following Jesus as the way, the truth, and the life rather than following our own desires, we gain life lessons that provide a framework for love relationships, decision-making, and forgiveness. This leads to a life that is less tortured and more nurtured. 

A&E 2024: New Songs, Same Humanity | Week 3 of 4

There is a contrast between how Job, in the Book of Job, and Benson Boone, in the song "Beautiful Things," approach loss and suffering in their lives. Boone expresses his worry about losing the beautiful things in his life, and he fails to realize and embrace God, who is the most beautiful thing in the world. Job, however, after losing beautiful things and questioning God, praises, worships, extols, and remains faithful to God. Job realized that God was better than life itself and that God was always more than enough.