Fully Alive: The Official Podcast of Northland Church

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.

Word to the Wanna Be Wise | Week 4 | Gus Davies

Sermon Synopsis for November 23-24, 2024
The book of Proverbs provides wisdom about making wise decisions. Our priorities in decision-making will reveal who we are and our priorities in life. As believers, we prioritize glorifying God in all our decision-making and trusting in God's Word and His ways in all areas of our lives. We are to surrender to God's guidance as we make decisions, listen to wise counsel, and abide in the Christian community as we love and serve others.

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.