Fully Alive: The Official Podcast of Northland Church

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.

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.

Proverbs 1:1-7 Sermon Synopsis Wisdom comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth! Solomon, as a young king, asked God to give him a discerning heart to govern God’s people and to distinguish between right and wrong. Through God's grace, God made Solomon wise, and Solomon wrote several books of the Bible, one of which is Proverbs for those who wanna be wise. Proverbs challenge us to gain the wisdom that brings all of life under the rule and reign of God as we are mesmerized by the Lord, who is the object of our wonder and who motivates us, inspires us, and takes our breath away.

Sermon from 11 am. 9 am is also posted. Churches are created, called, and commissioned by Jesus to be His revolutionary witnesses. Jesus is not tolerant of His church's sins and failures but is patient in their sanctification process. We must live in a state and posture of repentance as the Spirit of God searches and communicates with us so that we will be fruitful and useful as we are victorious and effective in the world.

Sermon from 9 am. 11 am will also be posted. Churches are created, called, and commissioned by Jesus to be His revolutionary witnesses. Jesus is not tolerant of His church's sins and failures but is patient in their sanctification process. We must live in a state and posture of repentance as the Spirit of God searches and communicates with us so that we will be fruitful and useful as we are victorious and effective in the world.

Sermon Synopsis: Revelation 3:14-22 The Church at Laodicea was in a place of spiritual lukewarmness that made Jesus sick because He knew their deeds and that the fruit of their lives did not match their faith. They were good for nothing. Jesus calls us to live useful lives and live in the light of the King, giving Him credit for every good thing. When there’s unity between our deeds/fruit and our declaration/faith, we become useful to the King in advancing His Kingdom!

For the Church in Philadelphia, Jesus had only good things to say about them, and He said He knew their deeds. As revolutionaries, we live to please Christ, and we see Jesus work at making us pillars that weather every storm. Lives that are pleasing to Christ transform us into pillars made by Christ.

For the Church in Philadelphia, Jesus had only good things to say about them, and He said He knew their deeds. As revolutionaries, we live to please Christ, and we see Jesus work at making us pillars that weather every storm. Lives that are pleasing to Christ transform us into pillars made by Christ.

Jesus challenges the Church at Sardis to wake up and come alive again. He urges them to strengthen what remains so that everything does not die off. He reminds this church of their faith and commands them to repent and regain their lost faith. Unlike the Church at Sardis, revolutionary living comes by way of a church that is filled and empowered with the Holy Spirit rather than by being a church that has the appearance and reputation of “Christian” religion. Our call is to be revolutionaries who care more about what Jesus thinks rather than what the world thinks.

From John 15:5 Sermon Synopsis Jesus is the true Vine, and as His disciples, we are to stay connected to Him. We will produce fruit as we are attached to and abide in Jesus. As we remain connected, God will take care of the rest, and everything depends on Him. When we are connected to the Vine with Jesus in our lives, we are able to love others as Jesus loves being a positive influence on the world, reaching out to our neighbors and nations with the Good News.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.