Northwest Bible Church

The Galatians didn’t abandon Scripture… they misinterpreted it. And that one mistake distorted the gospel. In Galatians 4:21–31, Paul shows that while the Law has its place, it cannot justify you, and those who try to earn their standing before God end up in bondage. The Holy Spirit illuminates Scripture, but only when we let the text speak for itself instead of making it echo what we already beli...

Most of us either wield truth like a weapon or stay quiet to protect the relationship. Neither is love. In Galatians 4, Paul refuses to separate grace and truth… and shows us how to speak hard things and receive them through the power of Jesus Christ.

Most believers know they’re forgiven… but still relate to God through fear, pressure, and performance. Christ set you free, making you an heir. Start living like it.

The Law was never designed to save, secure, or sustain you… it was meant to show you that you can’t. We keep trying to earn what Christ already fulfilled. Stop living a life God never intended and walk as a fully accepted child of God.

You can’t earn God’s favor through better behavior or spiritual disciplines. The Law was never meant to save you—it was meant to show your need for grace through a relationship with Jesus. Discover why your attempts to manufacture spirituality through rule-keeping are actually rooted in distrust of God’s promises and reliance on your own performance.

You were saved by faith, but now you’re trying to earn God’s blessing through works. You tithe, serve, obey… hoping to secure His favor. But God isn’t bribed by your righteousness. The same Spirit who saved you by grace will complete what He started.

Most of us make the same mistake: we stay silent when we should speak truth, or we correct people over personal preferences instead of biblical error. When one of Jesus’s closest followers made this mistake, Paul confronted him publicly. Discover what biblical rebuke actually preserves.

Some fights are worth fighting. There is no “agree to disagree” when it comes to gospel truth. Paul fought to preserve the gospel while refusing to fight over preferences… and he shows us how to tell the difference.

Paul was accused of man-pleasing for preaching grace instead of rules. His conversion proved the gospel doesn’t need your approval. Religion doesn’t change you… Jesus does. God’s truth, all of it (not just the comfortable parts), is what transforms you through His grace.

What feels like a minor adjustment to the gospel is actually a departure from God Himself. In Galatians 1, Paul shows that the gospel isn’t just how you’re saved… it’s the ongoing work of God that justifies, sanctifies, and sustains you. Any other message doesn’t transform; it replaces the truth.

What makes you deep in faith isn’t what you know… it’s obeying God without guaranteed outcomes. When you say yes to His nudges, when you’re in over your head and can’t touch bottom, that’s where faith gets vibrant. God wants you dependent on His power, not your ability.

Christmas celebrates God reconciling us to Himself… but that reconciliation changes how we live. Your relationship with God is inseparable from your relationships with people. Through the Holy Spirit’s power, you’re called to extend the same peace Jesus gave you. The reconciled should be reconcilers.

There’s a way that seems right… until it ends in death. Confident and clueless, we wander further than we realize. Our deepest problem is being separated from God by sin. Christmas is God’s answer: Jesus didn’t come to show the way back. He IS the way.

The world affirms everything you do but doesn’t actually love you. Jesus loves you but isn’t okay with what’s destroying you. Discover why real love requires both clarity about sin and compassion that transforms… not through your effort, but the Holy Spirit making you entirely new.

You’ve been told that if you pray with doubts, God won’t answer. That if your faith isn’t perfect, you’re disqualified. But that’s bad theology—built on pulling a few verses out of context and missing what James actually meant. Your doubts don’t disqualify you from God. Faith isn’t having it all together… it’s trusting the One who does. We’re looking at what the Bible really says about doubt, doub...

Your words carry more weight than you realize. Guest pastor Robby Greene shares how words he spoke a decade ago came back with consequences he never imagined. Sow to the wind, reap the whirlwind.

Stop asking God to fulfill YOUR dreams. He’s calling you into waters too deep to touch bottom… where real faith begins. Discover what “with God all things are possible” really means and why trusting Him in the impossible transforms you more than staying comfortable ever could.

Everything is too much for you to bear—but nothing is too much for Him. Stop relying on your strength.

Bad theology twists “Do not judge” to avoid accountability. God calls us to judge within the church… but leave the world to Him.

Theology is easy to get wrong… especially when we love a verse so much we stop asking what it actually means. In this first message of Bad Theology, we look at Jeremiah 29:11 and discover we’ve been seeking the wrong thing. Stop chasing God’s plans for your life. Chase God… that’s where you’ll find Him.

Pride whispers, “you deserve this.” Humility reminds you: “God entrusted you with this.”

Chasing recognition will never satisfy you. Everything in your hands came from God—here’s what that changes.

Pride hides in your holiness. Stop comparing yourself to others and start seeing your desperate need for mercy.

You can’t hide sin forever. Here’s what happens when God sends your Nathan moment.

Pride blinds you to the sin that’s destroying everything you care about. Here’s how to finally see it.