First Assembly NLR Audio Podcast

Do you have conflict, tension or broken relationships in your family? In this message, we learn reconciliation lessons from a touching, powerful story in the Bible. Families can be healed!

If you have credit card debt, it's one of, if not the biggest, sources of stress in your life. It affects your health, your marriage, and your family.  You can change your thinking and patterns in your financial life!  In this message, Pastor Rod Loy looks at causes of debt, and ways we can pay it down and live debt free.

People spend a lot of time planning for weddings and honeymoons, but don't often spend a lot of time planning for a successful marriage.  In this message, Pastor Rod Loy shares some principles that will make a marriage thrive, regardless of what stage of life you are in.

We're all getting older.  We have a choice.  Do we want to be a good old person who encourages younger generations and shows them the way to go, or will we be grouchy and negative in our older years?  What can we do to ensure that we will be a good old person?

Families come in all shapes and sizes.  One of our core values is We Must Build Healthy Families.  How can we make our families spiritually healthy? 

We live in an instant society.  Everything has to be done right now.  But life is not always instant.  God isn't instant.  We want immediate answers, instant results and on-demand blessings.  But God doesn't operate on our timeline.  For many people, this is a big challenge - why they walk away from God and give up on faith.

The result of all the scams and lies in our culture today is that we don't know who or what to trust. Does the way we trust people affect how we trust God?  

For the follower of Jesus, success is to be faithful.  That's the goal - faithful to God, faithful to your family, faithful to your spouse, faithful to your job. God promises His blessings, what the world views as success, in response to your faithfulness.  But how can we be faithful in everything?

People have a lot of questions, doubts, and misunderstandings about God.  This is a question that people who are believers and people who don't know God wrestle with.  It's a tough one.  Why do bad things happen to good people?

It's easy to forgive someone who cuts you off in traffic, or the bully from Third Grade. You can get past things like that.  The people closest to you are more difficult to forgive.  The hurts are deep.  The memories stay fresh.  What is forgiveness, and what is it not?

Negative thinking is the pull to see everything and everyone through a critical, cynical grid.  This pattern of thinking holds you back, diminishes your influence and keeps you from developing relationships with others.  In this message, Pastor Brian Dollar examines how to get rid of "stinking thinking."

How does God get through to someone whose conscience has been seared, who no longer feels or knows the difference between right and wrong?

Pastor Brad's new song from the February 6,7 weekend services:  I Remember You

We all hate to wait.  The worst waiting is when you have a dream, or a promise from God that hasn't come to pass yet.  You know what should happen. But it's not happening.   This is the place where many people give up on His promise, their assignment, or their dream.   But what is happening while we wait?

When you are faithful in how you treat others and are generous, you can expect to be blessed.  You can't expect to be blessed when you are disobedient.  We all understand that.  But, how do you respond when you've been faithful and things still go wrong?

If you know you are capable of sin - that's the tug of the human heart - then you need to know how to handle temptation - the impulse to sin.  You need to learn boundaries, safeguards, and strategies to overcome Satan and His agenda to destroy you.

Dreaming looks into the future and visualizes the world as God meant it to be. Dreaming is about seeing reality through God's eyes.  

Sometimes when we have a dream from God, we feel like the path should be smooth and easy sailing.  But often, life is not that way.  In the story of Joseph, we can learn some important principles from a very complicated life.

What does it mean to be a healthy church?  What makes a church healthy?  What principles are important to make sure our church is healthy and growing?

In this final message of our Year with Jesus, Pastor Rod examines Jesus: what can we learn from His interactions with people about His character, His priorities, and His values?  What does it really mean to follow Jesus?

No telling of the Christmas story is complete without the star:  Jesus.  But He is more than just a baby born long ago.  He is the Savior.

The arrival of Jesus changed everything.  Jesus did not come as a savior for one selective group of people.  Jesus came for all people.

When we tell the Christmas story, we don't spend a lot of time dwelling on Herod the Great, who brutally ruled the area where Jesus was born.  But his story is an important part of the real Christmas story.

The Bible doesn't say much about Joseph, the earthly father of Jesus.  But we can learn a lot about what it takes to be a person of integrity by his actions.  He was wiling to give up his own plans and dreams in order to further God's plan for our world.

Our society is once again racing headlong into the Christmas season. But for the next 40 days, we are going to slow down and really consider the first Christmas.  We're going to look closer and learn from the main characters in the story.   Perhaps the most famous woman in the Bible is Mary, the mother of Jesus, who was fantastically used by God.