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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?&...

"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" is one of Jesus's most haunting questions—and one we often rush past. In this sermon, Josh explores this cry from the cross not as a problem to be solved, but as one of the most profound revelations of who God is. Drawing on the life of theologian Jürgen Moltmann, who first encountered this question as a prisoner of war, Josh shows us how G...

Today, Dave explores one of Jesus's most personal and provocative questions: "Who do you say I am?"– inviting listeners to move beyond inherited belief into their own honest, experiential journey of faith. CHAPTERS [00:00] - Welcome & Easter Tide [01:26] - A Child's Easter Gift [03:19] - Our Generational Responsibility [05:23] - The Resurrection Changes Everything [08:42] - A...

In this Easter message, Pastor Rachel Palmbush explores how the resurrection story begins not with fanfare and certainty, but with confusion, doubt, and quiet personal encounters—just like our own lives. [00:00] - Welcome & Church Memories [01:47] - Wanting to Believe Like That [02:17] - The Easter Story [03:35] - A Surprisingly Quiet Resurrection [05:09] - Easter Begins with Confusion [07:06]...

In this Palm Sunday message, Pastor Dave Peterson invites us to experience Holy Week through a lens of unexpected grace. Dave explores unanswered prayers, spiritual mystery, and the profound comfort found in Jesus's words at the Last Supper: "I have longed for this time with you.” CHAPTERS [00:00] - Welcome & Holy Week Intro [01:43] - Comparing Holy Week Intensity [03:47] - A New Lens: Chaos [...

In this sermon on Luke's story of the ten lepers, Pastor Rachel Palmbush explores how true faith moves beyond experiencing gratitude to actively expressing it—and how that expression transforms us. CHAPTERS[00:00] - Welcome and Opening[01:00] - Gratitude for a Beautiful Day[03:30] - Today's Scripture: Four Movements[04:44] - Jesus in the Borderlands[07:30] - The Ten Lepers[10:46] - The Pra...

Today Josh explores four pictures of prayer through the story of the paralytic lowered through a roof in Mark 2: the active, persistent prayer of the friends who carried their paralyzed companion; the skeptical inner prayer of the law teachers; the vulnerable, wordless prayer of the paralytic beholding Jesus; and the amazed praise of the crowd. CHAPTERS[00:00] - Opening Prayer[00:58] - Bill Wither...

Today Rachel talks us on a line-by-line walk through the Canaanite woman's encounter with Jesus in Matthew 15. Through her desperation, persistence, and bold humility, the Canaanite woman reveals a truth the disciples hadn't yet grasped: that the mercy of Jesus is so abundant there is enough for everyone -- even the crumbs from his table are enough to heal. The sermon explores what honest,...

What if prayer isn't about finding the right words or getting God to do what you want — but about friendship? In this Lenten sermon, Dave explores how prayer moves us beyond desperation into genuine intimacy with God. Dave challenges us to see prayer not as a spiritual technique, but as an invitation to be with someone who loves us unconditionally. CHAPTERS 00:00 Welcome & Introduction 02:...

In this message, Pastor Rachel Palmbush explores the often-overlooked Parable of the Growing Seed, uncovering a liberating truth at the heart of Kingdom living: our job is simply to scatter seeds, and God's got the rest. CHAPTERS [00:00] - Welcome & Opening [00:42] - The Power of Story [03:10] - Jesus and the Kingdom [04:43] - The Growing Seed Parable [07:11] - The Sleeping Farmer [09:04]...

In this sermon, Dave Peterson explores Jesus's parable of the wheat and tares to understand how God's kingdom operates amid evil and brokenness. CHAPTERS [00:00] - Opening Vision of Mercy [01:24] - Parables and Paradox [03:35] - A Gardening Lesson [06:08] - Wheat Among Tares [07:08] - Kingdom of God Defined [09:05] - Evil's Infiltration [13:46] - Zion's Utopian Dream [15:29] - The...

In this sermon, Josh Jewell-Horton challenges our culture's obsession with growth and invites us into Jesus's "big kingdom of smallness."CHAPTERS[00:00] - The Jenny Story[03:19] - Why Jesus Uses Parables[05:38] - Jesus's Kingdom Mission[07:27] - Ezekiel's Cedar Prophecy[09:13] - Our Obsession with Growth[13:05] - Growth in the Church[16:16] - The Mustard Seed Parable[19:3...

Today, Rachel Palmbush invites us to consider the Parable of the Sower as a radical story about Jesus, the extravagant sower who generously spreads the seeds of God's kingdom everywhere, even in unlikely places. CHAPTERS[00:00] - Family of Storytellers [01:09] - Jesus the Teacher [03:36] - Introduction to Parables [04:57] - Understanding Parables Differently [07:29] - The Parable Explained [09...

In this sermon, Dave Peterson explores how experiencing radical generosity transforms us spiritually, using personal stories and the biblical account of Jesus turning water into wine to illustrate how Christ's open-handed generosity—expressed through seeing the image of God in others, compassion for suffering, empowerment, and financial freedom—shapes us into generous people ourselves.[00:00]...

Rachel Palmbush invites us to examine our own relational lives and discover that spiritual formation and healing happen not in isolation, but through genuine engagement with others. CHAPTERS [00:00] - The Loneliness Epidemic[04:00] - Our Disconnected Culture[08:00] - Series Overview[13:23] - Made for Community[17:00] - Jesus Chose Community[23:00] - Jesus's Relational Engagement[27:00] - We He...