Episodes
Sunday Mar 10, 2024
Empowered | Week 4 | March 10, 2024
Sunday Mar 10, 2024
Sunday Mar 10, 2024
All of us need to take lessons. We learn lessons when we are interested in the topic at hand, or when we love the area the lesson is about. The four lessons of mission we learn from Paul in Acts 16 are contextualization, vision, evangelism and suffering. These four lessons will enhance our understanding and make us more effective at mission.
Sunday Mar 03, 2024
Empowered | Week 3 | March 3, 2024
Sunday Mar 03, 2024
Sunday Mar 03, 2024
As we learn from Paul and Barnabas, sometimes leaders can't work together, and they need to go their separate ways. Sometimes, God prompts leaders to split over sharp disagreements about strategy that multiplies mission efforts. Sometimes, God allows for disappointments that develop us for later duties. Leaders with differing viewpoints can both be right, and their rightness can cause a rift in the partnership and could cause a multiplication of ministry and mission.
Sunday Feb 25, 2024
Empowered | Week 2 | Feb 25, 2024
Sunday Feb 25, 2024
Sunday Feb 25, 2024
Faith in the Gospel brings about SALVATION and a TRANSFORMATION, leading to major IMPLICATIONS around Christian unity. This Gospel Transformation, brought about by the centrality of Jesus’ life and Kingship, lays the groundwork for Christian unity. As a result, there will be some things Christians CEASE DOING because they belong to Christ and live by His law, and there are some things Christians CEASE DOING in front of diverse brothers and sisters because it would offend/agitate/trouble them, cause division, and threaten Christian unity.
Sunday Feb 18, 2024
Empowered | Week 1 | Feb 18, 2024
Sunday Feb 18, 2024
Sunday Feb 18, 2024
Faith in THE GOSPEL saves us from the penalty of sin and welcomes us into the life of the King and His Kingdom. God has sent the rightful KING of all creation, Jesus Christ, to earth, who, through His substitutionary death on the cross and His resurrection from the dead, is in the process of redeeming and restoring human beings from every nation, tribe, and tongue and the cosmos from the curse of sin.
Sunday Feb 11, 2024
Engage | Commision
Sunday Feb 11, 2024
Sunday Feb 11, 2024
Jesus COMMISSIONS His Church from everywhere to everywhere to share and show the Good News that, through His death and resurrection, He is making all things new. God has been on mission from the very beginning to create a people for Himself to reflect His glory in all spheres of life. Christ desires His followers to engage in His local church as they PARTICIPATE in God's Mission through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Sunday Feb 04, 2024
Engage | Care for God’s People and His Resources
Sunday Feb 04, 2024
Sunday Feb 04, 2024
Jesus expects His Church to CARE for God's people along with the resources He provides in a manner that gives witness to His Kingdom and in a way that demonstrably shares the Good News with the world. The church cares for creation and its resources by stewarding them for God's glory and others' good. As God's caring people, we meet needs, we love one another as God has loved us, and we give sacrificially of our time, talents and treasures for the building up of God's Kingdom.
Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
Engage: Cultivate
Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
As God's people, we are cultivated into his image as we become disciples who are learning what it means to be human and part of God's new human race after the image and likeness of Jesus. Jesus expects his followers to reflect God's glory in all spheres of life through corporate worship, small groups (LIFE2Groups) and close friends. As we are cultivated as a disciple of Jesus, we need to be embedded in community, submit to the Word, and exercise spiritual disciplines.
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Engage: Connect
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Jesus expects His followers to Connect with the Lord and with His people for corporate worship. From the very beginning, the early church believers connected as they added believers and devoted themselves to teaching, fellowship, communion and prayer.
Tuesday Jan 16, 2024
Engage: The Church
Tuesday Jan 16, 2024
Tuesday Jan 16, 2024
The church isn't a religious invention by humans that has a mission, but the divine intention of God birthed out of and for His mission. Christ builds the church, which is unstoppable and founded upon our confession that Christ is the Messiah, the Son of the Living God.
Monday Jan 08, 2024
Representing Jesus and His Kingdom
Monday Jan 08, 2024
Monday Jan 08, 2024
As we get a new perspective, we are sent on a mission of reconciliation as we represent Jesus and His Kingdom well because of the cross. As instruments of God's Kingdom, we are to make disciples as we live in a broken and hurting world, sharing the love of Jesus and the Good News of the Gospel with neighbors and nations.
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Each week we’ll serve up sermons from Pastor Josh Laxton and share stories about the life change we see happening at Northland each and every day. You won't just be full but Fully Alive in King Jesus!