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Our good friend Jeremiah Pervez shares from his personal experience and from God's word, teaching us how to view suffering, persecution, and hope. As we bring our pain to Jesus' feet, offering it to him, he converts it to honor. As we bring our bitterness to him, offering it to him, he converts it to hope. This is grace...and undeserved gift from Jesus himself because he has known pain and convert...

Bo Noonan teaches through Luke 15:11-23, the story of the prodigal son in our series Come Home. He takes a deeper dive into the concept of "coming home" and how Jesus came to make a way for humanity to do just that.

Bo Noonan teaches through Luke 15, where we find the great lengths God will go to find what he lost...his children whom he so greatly loves. On this Easter we begin a new series about the Prodigal Son story, which exposes our hearts to God's lavish love, grace, mercy, and desire to be in restored relationship with us.

Wes Swarthout teaches from Luke 19 - a story known as Jesus' Triumphal Entry. In this story we see Jesus entering Jerusalem on a donkey - a symbol of both peace and royalty. He comes with the express purpose of going to the cross to accomplish his Father's work. He is intentional and intense, yet, instead of riding a war horse to declare war on Israel's enemies, he enters on a donkey to bring peac...

Miguel Villahermosa teaches through a biblical survey of worship throughout the Old and New Testaments. Throughout the Bible we see worship as a submitting of our will and our heart to God, as well as numerous actions that can follow. Worship includes praise through music, but it also includes much more.

Waymond Hampton teaches through Luke 1 in our Lenten miniseries on Luke. In Luke 1 the birth and lives of John the Baptist and Jesus are foretold to their parents. These foretellings speak of amazing promises, yet the way each story is lived out is full of both triumph and incredible difficulty. In a culture that tells us "you can do anything you set your mind to" and "anything is possible" we nee...

Bo Noonan finishes up our series Life in Bablyon by teaching through Daniel 10-12. In these verses we have more apocalyptic and prophetic teaching from Daniel. Once again, we need to remember that this type of teaching is full of symbolism, but that symbolism is meant to point us to the final victory of Jesus and not to confusion and fear. As the book of Daniel finishes, we see that even when chao...

Carl Medford teaches through Daniel chapter 9, where we find another set of dreams that Daniel shares with God's people. As we mentioned in our last teaching, these "apocalyptic" or "prophetic" texts are not meant to confuse and cause fear, but rather to help us look to our savior and king, Jesus, and the sovereignty of God, our good Father. May we be encouraged to actively learn to listen and to...

Bo Noonan teaches through Daniel 7 and 8. Here we find the beginning of a large section of what is called "apocalyptic literature", which talks about things that will happen in the future in a way that uses lots of imagery. How we read and interpret this type of scripture is incredibly important. We need to remember that scripture is not meant to lead to confusion and fear, but faith in God's sove...

Bo Noonan teaches through Daniel chapter 6 in our Life in Babylon series. Here we see the aftermath of last week's "writing on the wall" as a new king is now in charge. An 80+ year old Daniel finds himself back at center stage as the new king puts him in a place of great authority, but the king's advisors are far from pleased with Daniel and his status. As a result, they play to the king's ego and...

Bo Noonan teaches through chapter 5 of Daniel in our series Life in Babylon. Seventy years have past between chapters 4 and 5, and here we find the grandson of Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar, throwing a massive party that centers around a boast that the gods of Babylon are greater than the Lord God of the Hebrews. As a result of this boast, God himself writes a message on the wall of the palace that m...

Bo Noonan teaches through chapter 4 of Daniel in our Life in Babylon series. Here we see king Nebuchadnezzar narrate his own story of God's humbling power through a time of pre-prophesied madness. In the story we see the love and care that Daniel has cultivated toward the king, as well as God's grace as he gives the king time to repent and trust him. In the story we see a clear picture of a man's...

Bo Noonan teaches through Daniel chapter 3 in our series Life in Babylon, where we are learning how to live as faithful witnesses of God's goodness in a dark and hostile world. In this chapter we find Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego standing together in faithfulness and enduring a fiery furnace, as they defy the king's orders to bow down to a statue proclaiming him as a god. Even though we may not...

Andy Cooley teaches through Daniel chapter 2 in our series Life in Babylon. Here we see Daniel and his three friends coming face to face with a situation that puts their faith to the test...not for the last time. As a people who have been removed from their homes and are being actively indoctrinated by an evil culture, how will they react? God, in his wisdom, sends letters from the prophet Jeremia...

Bo Noonan kicks off Life in Bablyon, a new series through the book of Daniel. In this series we will see how to be a faithful witness of Jesus and his ways in times of moral corruption, spiritual confusion, and political fragmentation...like the times we live in today. As we begin the series, we get context for the dire situation and the amazing faith that gets lived out as a group of young men tr...

2023 was filled with stories of lives being changed by God and we wanted to share some of them with you. Here are a few stories of miraculous healing, salvation and more! We also spent time praying and praising God together and we would encourage you to do the same as you welcome in 2024. As a bonus, there's also a plug for ManCamp...if you'd like more info, head to ncctacoma.org/mancamp or the NC...

Bo Noonan finishes our Advent series by teaching on JOY. He shows us that joy is not circumstantial, rather it is sourced in God himself and can be ours because of the coming of Jesus to save us and add us into his eternal family. Through Jesus we can have eternal joy starting now!

Bo Noonan teaches on the Advent theme of LOVE from 1 John 4:7-21. Here we see a letter written about biblical love from the perspective of a person who lived with Love incarnate. John learned what and who love was by being with Jesus, and he relates the truth of love at work in our lives as we submit to the truth that God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son.

Bo Noonan teaches about Peace in week 2 of our Advent series. He walks through the story of how God freed his people from slavery in the book of Exodus and how we too are freed from slavery to sin - both physically and spiritually, which brings the ultimate peace.

Bo Noonan kicks off our 2023 Advent series by digging into the HOPE we have through Jesus. In a culture of "get it now" we are called to be a people who grow in our capacity to wait in hopeful expectation for what will be revealed when Jesus returns. Yet, there is also a wonderfully rich experience in the right now of his presence, which serves as just a taste of what that day will ultimately be l...

Bo Noonan finishes our series The Upper Room by looking at John 18:1-18, where Jesus leads his disciples to a garden. There he will be arrested, led to the high priest to be tried, and ultimately crucified for the sins of all humanity. There is huge significance to Jesus being in the garden and saying yes to his Father's will, as this is the opposite of Adam and Eve's choice to follow their own wa...

Bo Noonan teaches through John 17, taking a deeper dive into what it means for Jesus to be our High Priest. In Jesus' "high priestly prayer" he pulls back the curtain on what he is about to do through his life, death, burial, resurrection, and ascension...and what he shows us is breathtaking!

Lonnie Arnold shares from Jesus' prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane in John 17 during our series The Upper Room. In this prayer we find the beauty of reconciliation and Jesus' prayer that, as the Church, we would be one as he and the Father are one. We also find the amazing truth that God the Father loves us, as followers of Jesus, with the same quality and quantity as Jesus himself!

Bo Noonan teaches from John 16:5-33 in our series The Upper Room. Here we find Jesus' last words of teaching before he is arrested and crucified. In these last words we find the thesis statement for the Upper Room teaching, which is summed up in "don't let your hearts be troubled...believe in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit." Jesus' main "why" for not being troubled, having, peace, and trusting i...

Bo Noonan teaches through John 15:16-16:4 in our series "The Upper Room". In this scene, Jesus lays out the truth that the systems of the world will hate his followers. This warning is not meant to instill fear, but rather to further help them see their need to abide in him, his love, and his sending of the Holy Spirit. Our response to hatred is not to respond in-kind, but rather to respond with t...