The question is HOW do we fan into flame God’s gift?
Join us as we wrestle through this important question in seeking to become who God destined us to be.

God’s revelation often comes in different ways through different vessels, so this weekend we thought it was appropriate to share a tag team message. As our Campus Pastors all speak to a unique dimension of hope, we pray that God would enlighten our hearts to see our world, our neighborhood, ourselves as He sees...with eyes of eternal hope.

Ephesians 2:1-10 speaks to our journey in Christ. It take us on a journey from who we were, to who we are, to who we can become. We go from our destruction, to God’s grace, to God’s purpose for us. Do you know that God’s grace can overcome sin, satan, and every structure? His grace catapults us to faith. His faith fills us to understand who we are. We are God’s workmanship, His masterpiece, his work of art. And it’s when we know who we are that we can understand where we are going. We go from identity to destiny. And in Christ, and through God’s Spirit, we can lean in to understand what it means to fully live!

You are BLAMELESS in the eyes of God. You are ADOPTED by the Heavenly Father. You are REDEEMED by the blood of Christ. You are SEALED by the Holy Spirit, and you are STAMPED with the image of God.

We continue in our series on the book of Daniel, and today walkthrough chapter 10. After seeking God through fasting and prayer for 3 weeks, God gives Daniel a vision and opens his eyes to see the realm of the unseen. The heavenly realm, in which there is good and evil clashing behind the scenes. Believe it or not, there is a spiritual battle happening. And when we lean into God in prayer, he will give us both a revelation of what is happening and affirmation of who we are, to press forward. As God opens up Daniel’s eyes, chapter 10 is just the beginning of the prophetic vision of what is to come. Join us as we engage in a text will challenge us as well as take us underneath the surface of the challenges all around us.

In the midst of tremendous uncertainty, one thing is certain. God is able. In fact, God is able to do immeasurably more than all we can ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us! This weekend we believe God for the breakthrough, individually and corporately.

In our text today, Jesus found himself facing pressure, pain, and challenge in the moments before He would face the cross. As He entered the garden, He grappled with all that was to come and shared honestly about His desire for a different path. In fact, He shared his agony and anguish to the point of sweating blood. He was desperate! It might be Christ’ greatest show of humanity as He wrestled with God.

In His wrestle, He ultimately came to an incredible statement of sacrifice, relenting with, “Not my will, but thy will be done.” In one statement, He accepts and finds resolve for the difficulty to come. Jesus shows us that we can be honest in our emotions with God. Yet we still have to move forward in His will. He shows us we can lean into grief, but we must ultimately come to a place of acceptance. Emotions have to have motion. Just as we are going through the stages of grief, we’ve got to keep moving. The garden was a place of pressure, a place of anguish, a place to grapple, and ultimately a place so submit and resolve to God’s will. We pray that this scripture ministers to your soul in an intense and crazy season!

1. Check Your Ego At The Door
2. Identify Least Common Denominators
3. Let your Conscience be your Guide
4. Don’t be Dogmatic about Disputable Matters
5. Love people when they least expect

Correction: The correct name of the peacemaker Pastor Heather mentions is Daoud Nassar of Tent of Nations, Palestine.

God doesn’t bless us to raise our standard of living. God blesses us to raise our standard of giving. Discover five steps to flipping the blessing:

1. Take inventory
2. Find your signature
3. Learn their love language
4. Little things are big things
5. Have fun

1. Whatever you don’t turn into PRAISE turns into PRIDE.
2. Your FOCUS determines your reality.
3. Don’t let what’s WRONG WITH YOU keep you from worshipping what’s RIGHT WITH GOD.

What story is God waiting to write beyond your act of obedience?

What revelation is ready in anticipation of your word of testimony?

Our story today will challenge you in your faith and the way you walk it out. What does radical obedience look like for you? It’s one thing to live your life dutifully. But what if it cost you something? Real giving, real sacrifice, real obedience should hurt!

Leonard Ravenhill said, "The early church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity." Faith will cost you something, but it will gain you everything. Walk with us through Acts 9 and the story of a little known man named Ananias and the lengths he is willing to go to live out obedience and the subsequent miracle that follows. We pray your soul is encouraged and your faith is challenged.

Whatever you don’t turn into praise turns into pride. Whatever you don’t turn into praise turns into pain. Worship is not just thanking God for what He has already done. By faith, worship is declaring what God can do, what God will do!

Throughout scriptures, we see a common progression in shame. It starts with secrecy, which leads to isolation, which breeds insecurity. But with courage, we’ll talk about how to peel back the layers of shame by talking through the antidote to each category. Don’t accept the shame that you have lived with for far too long. God has freedom in store for you. Join us in this journey as we seek God in our shame.

Our goal is not to guilt you into feeling bad, but to inspire you into doing good. And then we’ll unpack Acts 3 to talk about our motivation behind living out brave. We hope and pray you are encouraged through each story that is told through this missions come to life podcast. We encourage you to watch the video if possible.

The individual pursuit of happiness is far from the pursuit of meaning. Research shows that the more you pursue happiness, the less you are actually happy. But to pursue meaning is to pursue service. You find meaning in others. So the purpose of our gifts are not intended to satisfy us, but others. But in satisfying others, it brings incredible meaning to us. Figuring out those gifts begins with service. Activating those gifts has to do with the Holy Spirit. We pray that the gifts that lay unidentified or unused within you are ignited into action through this message.

The scriptures give us a progression of understanding of love. In John 4, we’re taught to "love one another.” In Mark 12, the measure is increased. Don’t just love one another, but "love your neighbor as yourself.” And in John 13:34-35, the measure is increased yet again. Don’t just love one another, don’t just love as you love yourself. But love "as Christ has loved us". Because he knows our love for each other can be imperfect. Our love for ourselves can even be imperfect. But He came to this earth to give us the ultimate example of love. It’s the prepositional gospel:

Coming TO (incarnational)
Being WITH (relational)
Dying FOR (sacrificial)

Jesus gives us a beautiful picture of what it should look like to be known in community.

• Worshippers
• Transformed people
• Unique yet not above
• Empowered with gifts from God
• Devoted to love
• Enthusiastic in service
• Peace keepers living in harmony
• Peace makers within the world

We are a people called out to live for God’s purposes. Join us as we strive to become who God has made us to be.

We begin our collective story in Genesis as dust. But when God breaths into that dust, we come to life. We become who we are made to be, we become the shape and form that we were purposed to be. Join us as we discover where we come from and what value lies within.

In Luke 2, the shepherds had heard the message of hope before. The prophecy was 600+ years old from the book of Isaiah. It was already stated and people were well aware of it. But in this story, they are being harkened back by God to what they already knew.

Are we ignoring the harks of our day? The Holy Spirit is harking back to us throughout our day. You might have heard the Christmas story when you were 5 years old, but today, God is calling you back.

For those who choose to side with God, they can have no fear because justice and righteousness shall reign in their land through the outpouring of God's spirit.

We have a saying at NCC. We want to be a part of the dream that God has given you, and we also want to invite you to be a part of the dream that God has given the church. This series is not about chasing your whim or wondering off in a fantasy. This is God’s dream for His Church. One that requires sacrifice, submission, and laying down your own comforts to pursue the Holy Spirit. When you get in his presence it will lead to the power necessary to step into Dream.