Fully Alive: The Official Podcast of Northland Church

VISION: Believe | Week 1 | Josh Laxton

Over the last three years, the foundation has been laid, which has worked to create clarity, alignment, and processes around Northland's Mission, Vision, Core Values, and Structure.  Northland is in a good place to be challenged and dared to BELIEVE God for greater days and greater things!
This week, we will see how need is the prerequisite of believe and how need precedes belief.

Soul Care with Mindy Caliguire | Josh Laxton

Your inner life determines how well you deal with the outer life. Soul Care, which attends to your inner life, will prepare you for the Scenario Q’s of life. A Scenario Q is something we could never have imagined or envisioned where God can provide a scenario that would come into being, something entirely off the radar and utterly outside of what was hoped for.
 
Mindy Caliguire, who participates in this discussion with Pastor Josh Laxton, is the co-founder and president of Soul Care (soulcare.com). As an organization, Soul Care cultivates soul health among leaders by providing pathways, practices, and guides to help them personally flourish and achieve missional impact.

Turning The Page | Matt Shiles

Sermon Synopsis - January 4-5, 2025
Turning the page on a new year is inevitable, but what we turn away from and turn towards in the new year will shape who we become. This new year, God calls us to be dedicated people who turn to King Jesus. We are to turn away from sin and turn to God with a posture of praise, in a position of repentance, and a purpose of blessing. Our goal is to be dedicated and connected to God's mission, which is that we are sent to be salt and light to all nations and peoples in the world, sharing the wonderful news about Jesus, our Lord and Savior.

New Year's Eve Night Of Worship | Josh Laxton

Pastor Josh talkes about losses and gains moving from one year to another in this special NYE Night of Worship 2024-2025

2024 Sabbath weekend | Josh Laxton

Sermon Synopsis for December 28-29, 2024
Jesus taught about Sabbath rest and the heartbeat behind Sabbath rest which is that it is for our blessing. It is not a burden or extra rules and regulations that we do to appease God.  The Sabbath was created for our benefit, blessing, and enjoyment and therefore our heart's desire needs to be to experience the blessing of Sabbath rest.

Breaking The Silence week 4 | Christmas Eve 2024 | Josh Laxton

Pastor Josh's Christmas Eve sermon, 2024.

Family Christmas Service | Pastor Dan Elkins

Sermon Synopsis, December 23-24, 2024. 
When God spoke, breaking the silence at the first Christmas, He gave humanity the greatest gift in history: His Son. The Bible explains what happened in the past, how it affects the future, and how, at the first Christmas, after 400 years of silence, God breaks the silence and sends His Son to save a people from all peoples and give them purpose and peace. Three reasons why Jesus is the greatest gift ever given to humanity are that Jesus redeems and saves sinners from enslavement to sin and to the sinful world, Jesus reinstitutes humanity’s primary purpose, and Jesus restores Shalom inwardly and promises to bring it eternally.
 

Breaking the Silence: Week 3 | The Gift of Redemption | Josh Laxton

Exodus 2:23-3:10
Sermon Synopsis
When God speaks, breaking the silence, He speaks redemption and sends a Savior, Jesus Christ. While historically and physically, the children of Israel suffered from slavery in Egypt. They illustrate what it means to live in a broken, fallen, fractured, and sinful world.  While there may be times the world can seem like a friend, it ultimately turns out to be a foe. Ultimately, God saves His people through faith in Jesus Christ with an outward goal of making Himself known to the world so that the world can be invited into His redemptive project. 

Breaking the Silence | Week 2 | The Gift of Purpose | Josh Laxton

Sermon Synopsis - December 7-8, 2024
Genesis 12
When God speaks, breaking the silence, He gives us purpose and sends us on mission. God breaks the silence and reminds us of our purpose as we go where He has told us to go, leave what God has told us to leave and cleave to God as the sole purpose of our life. As we glorify God, we are called to bless the world, being the conduit by which God pours out His presence, power, provision, and protection for others. 

Breaking the Silence: The Gift of Shalom | Week 1 | Josh Laxton

Genesis 1
Sermon Synopsis for November 30-December 1, 2024When God speaks, He creates a sphere of shalom. Shalom is wholeness, completeness, peace, wellness, intended functionality, and flourishing. The Christmas Season, when Jesus was born,  marks the time when God spoke into the chaos and darkness of sin and began the ultimate restoration project of Shalom.