NCC Daily

I’ll be reading from Isaiah 43:16-21 in The Passion Translation and pausing on occasion to allow you time to pray and listen.

As I lead us today in this guided prayer, let’s take a moment to quiet our souls as we prepare to commune with God.

As we continue in our series entitled Dream, I want to just take a moment and intimately guide us in prayer—a prayer that allows us to consecrate and sanctify ourselves from the inside out. A prayer that will allow us to be the revival, reformation, and renaissance first within us individually so that we can believe and posture ourselves for revival in the church, a reformation in the kingdom, and...

Today we’re going to pray through a Scripture that should always give us the confidence to want to come HOME.

As image-bearers of God, we are called to reflect his likeness in every way, and while God's essence embodied in the Trinity is love, the action that flows out of that love is creation.

Once we remember that God freely has given us the Holy Spirit which holds that same capacity for the same radical love, we have that capacity to create, and to make beyond some industrial, production-centric purpose culture imposes on us or that we impose on ourselves. It allows us to create through a Spirit-filled, loving state.

When I think of the Renaissance I think of that rebirth in culture and the huge bursts of creativity in art and architecture and grand marble statues, but I also think of great writers and artists who have stood the test of time.

God has made everything beautiful for its time. He has placed eternity within the human heart. Beauty is all around us—God’s goodness made manifest to the senses.

I think the Apostle Paul, walking into the Areopagus in Athens and competing for the truth is a picture of what it means to be both a moral minority and a creative minority. We don’t curse the darkness. We light a candle. We criticize by creating. We write better books, make better music, produce better films, draft better legislation, start better businesses. How? With the help of the Holy Spirit...

At its root, to reform is to make better. It’s a look back, a return to the ancient truths and practices that have bulwarked our faith, and it’s a look forward to what could be built.

To experience a Spirit-led reformation of the heart and the church is to be drawn back to the original place of God’s love and His blessing.

Live today like it could be the day that you are the expression of reformation that is needed in our world, and it will be so. Be the reformation the world needs.

There is something about God’s people responding to a move of His Spirit that resonates with the Spirit in us. Our spirit resonates with the Lord and it resonates with one another.

There was a rallying cry during the protestant reformation. Semper Reformandum—reformed, and always reforming. Every generation needs its own reformation.

Revival is beautifully demonstrated when God’s love is displayed through His supernatural power.

A move of God’s Spirit always comes with a fresh anointing. Scripture is full of signs that speak to the newness of what God is doing.

There is a table of goodness that God has prepared for us as we empty ourselves to receive it. How are we preparing ourselves?

We often think of anticipation and expectation as outcomes of practicing spiritual disciplines. Bible reading, prayer, meditation and celebration, silence and worship, solitude and community. Those practices serve to heighten our awareness of the presence of God in our midst, they cause us to take notice of His fingerprints in our world, and they prime a sense of anticipation and expectation withi...

We’re believing God for REVIVAL in the church, REFORMATION in the kingdom, and RENAISSANCE in culture. Our focus in week one is REVIVAL.

Joy comes from Holy Spirit, abiding in God's presence, and from hope in His word.

There is joy found in the waiting. His timing is good and perfect and we can trust the story He’s writing through us.

Our joy does not hinge on the ups and downs of day-to-day life. Some days are wonderful and some are unimaginably terrible. Rather, our joy is rooted in an expansive vision of reality, one in which God is not distant from us.

Jesus and His proclamation of the kingdom told us what we could prefer to life itself and it would work. The Scriptures end by telling us we are called to be people who would say, “Come, Lord Jesus”—who would welcome something more than business as usual and live in God’s big picture.

Imagine what the church could do if we were not deterred by fear and anxiety and we truly understood what steadfast love meant.

Today we’re going to step into the practice of Lectio Divina, which simply means divine reading. So, we’ll read the passage, 1 John 3:16-18, four times, and each time I will invite you into a space of silence and reflection through a simple question or directive.