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In this sermon, Josh Jewell-Horton continues the "When God is Distant" series by tracing Joseph's thirteen-year journey and his reunion with his brothers, where Joseph finally sees that God was at work even in the silence. CHAPTERS [00:00] - Welcome & Series Recap [02:12] - True Colors & Spiritual Wall [03:40] - Nouwen's Canyon Image [04:30] - Silence Is Your Native Tongu...

In this sermon, Josh Jewell-Horton walks through Joseph's story to discover how God meets us in our deepest pits of despair. Josh reveals that Christian hope isn't optimism about our circumstances; it's trust in God's character and presence even in darkness. CHAPTERS [00:00] - Opening & Personal Context [00:06] - The Problem of Pain [00:39] - When God is Distant [01:39] - Intro...

Today, Dave Peterson explores how spiritual doubt is not a sign of failure but a doorway to deeper intimacy with God. CHAPTERS [00:00] - Opening & Relationships [00:01:04] - Why Relationships Matter [00:03:28] - Spiritual Journey with God [00:05:17] - Personal Relational Wounds [00:07:04] - COVID & Church Disconnection [00:08:06] - God's Silence & Absence [00:09:09] - Saint John of...

This is week 5 in our series on the Good Samaritan, and Rachel challenges us to move beyond sympathy into active, embodied mercy—even when it's inconvenient. CHAPTERS [00:00] - Worship & Series Introduction [00:25] - Five Weeks on the Good Samaritan [01:20] - Three Philosophies of Life [02:32] - The Way of the Neighbor [03:53] - Scripture Reading & Prayer [05:20] - Identifying with the...

In Luke 10, when a lawyer asks Jesus "who is my neighbor?" to justify himself, Jesus responds with the parable of the Good Samaritan—illustrating the superiority of love over legalism. In this sermon, Josh unpacks what it truly means to be a neighbor: not a question to answer, but a calling to live out sacrificial love. CHAPTERS [00:00] - Opening & Grand Canyon [00:02] - The Passage...

In this message, Pat Little explores two foundational aspects of neighborliness from Scripture: shared relationship and shared place. CHAPTERS [00:00] - Introduction & Series Overview [01:14] - Who Is My Neighbor Defined [02:55] - Word Association Activity [08:23] - Story: Carl & June [11:32] - Story: Pat & Judy [12:55] - The Lawyer's Question [13:22] - What Hebrew Scripture Says [...

CHAPTERS [00:00] - Good Morning & Welcome [03:54] - Who is My Neighbor Series [05:19] - Christian Taglines [08:25] - Love God, Love People [09:51] - Why Are Commandments Hard? [10:49] - The 613 Laws & The Shema [13:42] - Loving with Everything [15:26] - Healing on the Sabbath [17:06] - You Shall Love [18:27] - God's Steadfast Love (Hesed) [19:31] - Examining Your Faith [21:42] - Your Reput...

In this first installment of a five-week series on the Good Samaritan, Rachel Palmbush explores what happens when we approach faith looking for simple answers but encounter an invitation to something far deeper and more beautiful. CHAPTERS [00:00] - A Modern Good Samaritan [00:55] - The Cultural Icon [01:22] - Beyond Simple Morals [02:22] - Provocative Parables [03:31] - The Upside-Down Kingdom [0...

In this sermon, Rachel explores how slowing down isn't about passivity—it's about presence. Through Mary of Bethany's intimate act of anointing Jesus' feet with expensive perfume, we discover what it really means to be attentive to God's presence in our lives. CHAPTERS [00:00] - Summer Slowdown Series Opening [02:11] - Leslye's Family Road Trip Stories [13:23] - Opening Pra...

In this message, Dave Peterson returns from sabbatical to explore what he calls "unwelcome solitude" through the story of Elijah: a powerful prophet who broke under pressure at the very height of his ministry. CHAPTERS [00:00] - Welcome Back [03:10] - Summer Recombination [04:08] - Kate Bowler's Blessing [06:23] - Hold Your Moments [07:36] - Three Kinds of Solitude [09:43] - Unwelcom...

Today Josh Jewell-Horton takes us into the story of a woman on the margins, carrying a complicated past, who meets Jesus in the middle of an ordinary afternoon and ends up with a whole new life. Jesus doesn't offer her a lecture, a list of rules, or easy answers; He meets every single one of her defenses with something of Himself. CHAPTERS [00:00] - Welcome & Summer Slowdown [02:02] - The...

In this week's message from NCC's Summer Slowdown series, Rachel Palmbush takes us into Psalm 73, where a psalmist mired in envy and comparison finds his heart completely reoriented by one simple act: entering the sanctuary of God. CHAPTERS [00:00] - Move Your Seat [03:46] - Highlander vs. Lowlander [06:47] - Geography Shapes the Soul [09:49] - Biblical Relocation Stories [11:19] - Scriptu...

In this Summer Slowdown message, Joanna Bartel invites us to see delight not as a feeling we earn but as a practice we can step into in any season–even the hard ones. CHAPTERS [00:00] - Welcome & Introduction [00:40] - What Is Delight? [01:57] - Life Is Hard, But... [03:39] - Delight as a Practice [05:20] - Delighting in a Child [07:40] - Setting Up John 21 [10:37] - Jesus on the Shore [13:57]...

After completing a seminary capstone on technology and pilgrimage, Josh set out on a multi-day analog walk along the Camino de Sonoma. What he expected was transcendence. What he found was an anxiety attack and a truer version of himself than he'd bargained for. Jesus doesn't call the hurting to get it together; he blesses them, because it is in those places of hurt where the seeds of his...

This week, Rachel’s sermon from our Summer Slowdown series makes a case that creativity isn't a talent reserved for a special few, but a core expression of what it means to be made in the image of a God who makes art. This message is an invitation to remember your truest identity: you are God's poema, and you were made to make beautiful things. CHAPTERS [00:00] - Welcome & Kids Ministr...

What if play were a spiritual responsibility? In this week's message from the Summer Slowdown series, Josh Jewell-Horton makes the case that play is not a luxury for Christians but an act of deliberate rebellion against the empires of this world, and a bold anticipation of God's coming kingdom. ncc.church CHAPTERS [00:00] - Welcome & Series Intro [00:37] - Recap: Stop & Rest [02:44...

Today, Dave Peterson explores the kind of inner rest that Jesus himself modeled: a spiritual sanctuary built within us through a living relationship with God, not by our own effort or willpower. CHAPTERS [00:00] - Welcome & Opening [01:04] - Father's Day Reflection [04:49] - California's Exhaustion Crisis [08:17] - What Is Spiritual Rest? [09:51] - Jesus in the Eye of the Storm [12:13]...

In this opening message of NCC's Summer Slowdown series, Rachel takes us from David Foster Wallace's iconic "This Is Water" speech to the liberation story of Exodus, making the case that rest is an act of resistance and identity. CHAPTERS [00:00] - Welcome & Summer Intro [02:08] - David Foster Wallace: "This Is Water" [03:26] - Hurry Is The Water We Swim In [06:09]...

This week, all four NCC pastors sat together on stage for an unscripted conversation about what it's been like to spend five months inside the Gospels. From the Transfiguration to Zacchaeus to the bleeding woman, each pastor shared the story that has personally moved them. They also wrestle with what makes Jesus so compelling, and why his parables still feel electric thousands of years after t...

In this final message of the Sent Out series, Josh walks through Paul's dramatic journey from Jerusalem to Malta, showing how the full arc of Paul's story maps onto the community engagement pathway NCC has been walking this spring: listen, discern, envision, collaborate, and celebrate. On a special Student Sunday, testimonies from NCC's high schoolers make the case that celebration is...

On this Pentecost Sunday, Dave explores how resurrection opens both our minds and our hearts, freeing us from fear and self-sufficiency, and releasing us into a new kind of community engagement. CHAPTERS [00:00] - Welcome & Siobhan Introduction [01:18] - Scripture Reading: The Advocate [05:38] - Pentecost Sunday Overview [07:57] - Pentecost & The 50 Nations [10:33] - Series Recap: Listen,...

What does it mean to dream with God? In this message, Rachel Palmbush explores how God has always spoken to his people through dreams and visions–from Jacob's stairway to heaven, to the two dramatically different visions in Acts 9 that bound strangers Saul and Ananias into a shared destiny. CHAPTERS [00:00] - Introduction: Dreaming With God [02:37] - How Does God Speak? [03:29] - Envisioning i...

What if God is planting seeds in your heart right now for a calling that won't fully bloom for years? In this week's message, Pastor Dave Peterson explores what it means to discern God's invitation, drawing from the story of Peter and Cornelius in Acts 10 and his own unexpected journey from a career in investment banking to pastoral ministry. CHAPTERS [00:00] - Welcome & Mother&#39...

What does it really mean to be a Christian? Is it just fire insurance for the afterlife, or is there something far more alive? In this opening message of a new series, Pastor Pat Little unpacks the biblical vision of shalom: God's dream of wholeness and flourishing for all creation—and what it means for us to be "midwives" of that new creation right now. CHAPTERS [00:00] - Welcome &a...

After his resurrection, Jesus didn't open with answers or explanations; he opened with questions. In this message, Rachel Palmbush explores three deeply personal questions the risen Jesus asked his closest friends: "Why are you crying?" to a grief-stricken Mary in the garden, "Why are you troubled?" to fearful disciples hiding behind locked doors, and "Do you love me?&...