North City Church

Listen in as Pastor JD looks back at 2021 and looks forward to 2022 and asks: What has it looked like for North City to "reset" in 2021 and what will this look like in 2022? 

Pastor JD explores what it means for us to choose joy in the midst of waiting. 

North City Intern Claudy Corvil shares an Advent Jesus story focused on how we can choose love in the midst of waiting. 

We start the Advent season by talking about how to find hope in the midst of our waiting. Listen in as Jimi Nshimirimana shares a story of hope in the midst of waiting. 

Join pastor JD in exploring the practice of Sabbath, why it matters, and how it can change your life.

We were so fortunate Sunday to have Jimi Nshimirimana share a spoken word, and Pastor Stephanie O'Brien share the Jesus story. Listen in to both here. 

Pastor JD & CA sit down for a special series of episodes diving into what it means for North City to be a dinner church.  Why is North City a dinner church? What is a dinner church? How does North City choose to be a dinner church? How do you participate in a dinner church... how do you engage with people at the table who are different than you? In the next few episodes, Pastor JD & C...

Pastor ChristianAnn leads teaching night to help us explore how we approach loss in our life and how grief can be a way to grow spiritually through our grief.

Jesus heals... What difference does that make in your life? This is what Pastor JD explored in last Sundays' Jesus story. Listen in as he looks at the story of Jesus healing two blind men, and ask along with North City what difference Jesus the healer could make in our lives and neighborhood. 

Have you ever felt "stuck" in your relationship with Jesus? It's ok, that's normal. Moreover, it's a crucial part of your spiritual maturity. I'm excited to bring Pastor Edrin C. Williams voice into our fall teaching series on emotionally healthy spirituality today. Listen in to this message he gave in March 21 about "journeying through the wall

Part 3 of our Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Teaching series. Laura VanNorman leads us on an experiential healing journey to explore how our families of origin influence our spiritual lives. Listen in and reflect. 

Pastor ChristianAnn leads us to a discussion about how we grow through family pains. She takes a look at Jesus' own life to understand how we navigate family in our lives and specifically in the uniqueness of our Minnesota culture and family of origins. 

Listen in as Pastor CA explores the story of the prodigal son and how it can help us grow through the pain caused by distorted images of God we may have. 

What if we are living out of others' expectations for us rather than who God made us to be? What if we can know God more deeply by having the courage to be more deeply honest with ourselves?  Explore all this and more by joining us in the next teaching of our Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Teaching Fall teaching series lead by Adaobi Nduka.

Sunday we started a new dinner church discussion series called Growing Pains. In this series, we are looking at Jesus Stories that highlight the ways Jesus navigated tensions we all experience as we grow as humans. This week we look at Jesus' temptation (luke 4:4-13) where Jesus is tempted in ways that reflect how we are constantly tempted. 

Emotional maturity and spiritual maturity are inseparable , it is not possible to be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature. Start a journey towards more emotionally healthy spirituality with us. Listen in to the first week's teaching from Pastor JD on what sets us up for emotionally healthy spirituality, and what Emotionally UNhealthy spirituality can look like.  JD explores...

North City is taking a Sabbath ( A break - no community dinner) Sunday. Our community values a rhythm of sabbath in our lives, not just as an occasional practice but as a way of life. Sabbath is a sort of resistance... a resistance to the "must do and have everything now" culture we live in. Sabbath is a faith-filled stopping, that says "God is providing, and our identity is not in what we achieve...

Listen in to the Jesus stories we share at our Community Dinners.  This weeks story is about how Jesus stops to see, befriend and invite Zachious into the family of God 

Why did Jesus lavishly save a wedding from near calamity? What does it tell us about God's response to calamities in our lives? Listen in to this sermon Pastor JD preached at our partner church Mill City Church and hear how Jesus' love shows us a different way to see (God, ourselves, and others) and a different way to be (signposts of God's agape love).  Also! Pod listener, we want to hear fr...

Pastor Christian Ann Larson preached during the Combine Service at Brookdale on Pentecost Sunday.

Pastor JD speaks to what "returning to the table" could mean for Micro-churches.

Pastor JD starts this Sunday to layout the next chapter of North City.

Pastor JD concludes the Real Talk series by discussing how grace can be applied in our relationships.

Adaobi Nduka continues in the Real Talk series and preached about intimacy with God, ourselves, and others.

Pastor ChristianAnn Larson continues in the series: Real Talk preaching how to move from control to empowerment in significant relationships.