NorthernLife Sermons

The book of Ruth gives us a tremendous example of compassion through companionship. This message will encourage you to have eyes to see the person God has given you to support through challenging times.

How do small groups contribute to the development disciples? This message explores the 7 keys for LIFE HUBS to make disciples. CONVERSATION-COMMUNITY-CONVERSION-COMMUNION-CONTENT-CHARACTER-CALLING This is the concluding message of the LIFE HUBS teaching series.

Life Hubs are small groups at NorthernLife Baptist Church. Life Hubs go deeper towards accomplishing our mission of Loving God, Loving Others and Making Disciples. This message explores how Life Hubs go deeper in devotion one for another. The message is based in the challenging words of Paul to the Church in Rome.

Northern Life small groups are known as LIFE HUBS. In LIFE HUBS we aim to “go deeper”. Loving God is all about deeper delight. This message explores how small groups can deepen our delight in the Lord, expressed in our core values for loving God.

Ten Reasons to tithe from the Old and New Testaments. This message tells the story of a local church revitalisation and what a growing weekly budget meant for kingdom ministry. The message ends with an excellent spoken word prayer from the Doxology – PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW.

Paul wrote to Timothy and instructed him to teach the rich not to put their hope in worldly riches. This message explores the Scriptural charge to the rich to be rich in good deeds.

The book of Nehemiah ends on a bit of a downer. After all the work of rebuilding and lots of great leadership lessons for us 21st century folks, the prophetic hope of renewal and transformation given by Jeremiah is no where near complete. The book of Nehemiah ends with frustration and spiritual apathy.

Nehemiah shows how to avoid distractions in accomplishing a God glorifying call on his life.

Micah tells us what the Lord requires of us: To Act Justly, To love Mercy and to walk Humbly with our God. God desires that his people act justly because He acts justly. This sermon explores how Nehemiah responded to the injustice he discovered in the Jerusalem community and how he responded.

Whenever God does something new and life giving there will be “push back” from the enemy. Predictable Resistance. This message explores what Nehemiah and the people did in response to this resistance and considers how we might respond ourselves.

Team work makes the dream work! Nehemiah motivates the people to begin rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem. This message explores the power of delegation in accomplishing a goal.

Vision is a picture of a preferred future that produces passion. This message explores the way in which Nehemiah unleashes his vision for a preferred Jerusalem to his fellow Israelites. Many of us carry a sense of call / purpose / burden to engage in some good thing for the Lord.

Sometimes everything hinges on one simple yet very scary question. Do you have the courage to ASK IT? God’s new thing may be on the other side of that question!

The book of Nehemiah begins with a fair amount of presumed knowledge. This message sets the historical context for the book and then explores the hope-filled reality of serving a God who loves doing new things! As Isaiah 43:19 says “BEHOLD, I AM DOING A NEW THING”. What new thing is God doing in your life?

We are a sent people committed to sending others. We have been blessed to be a blessing. As the Father sent the Son, the Son sent the Spirit, the Spirit sends the Church, the Church sends ministers of the gospel. We nurture new life in Christ, we train up, we raise up, we send out and we “go” ourselves. We live our lives with a sense of purpose. We see mission as everyone’s life calling - across t...

We are disciple making disciples who live intentionally to develop others’ in Christ. We are disciples making disciples of Jesus. When Jesus ascended to heaven, He gave His disciples a very clear mandate. This has not changed for us in the 21st century. By God’s grace and the gospel we lead people to Christ, coach them towards maturity in Christ and encourage them to do the same thing causing King...

We are apprentices of Jesus, learning to live the way He said we could live. This process centres around character transformation. Peter reminds us that growth in the grace and knowledge of the kingdom is a possibility and expectation of all who followers Christ Jesus as Lord. We embrace effort with servant hearted intentionality to become more like Jesus. Our character is the sum of our habits. A...

Our faith is grounded in the truth of the gospel. Jesus Christ—fully God, fully man—lived a perfect life to die a perfect sacrificial death and rose victoriously and powerfully from the dead. This is historically verifiable truth, which is the bedrock of our Church. After the resurrection Jesus Christ ascended to heaven and sent His Spirit at Pentecost to fill His Church. We know and share the gos...

Humanity has proven rather adept at building walls throughout history. Pride and shame, guilt and fear all contribute. We build walls not only between countries, we build them in our hearts to keep people out. This message explores how Jesus has made away to tear down both the wall of sin separating us from God.

When Peter wrote his first letter of the New Testament suggesting followers of Jesus could experience "joy unspeakable" one may imagine he was out of touch with the challenges of "real life". Then again, considering the fact that he was writing to a church who were witnessing the martyrdom of many of it's members it is clear; this is real life. Joy in Christ is available no...

Through the blood of Christ we can experience peace with God, peace with ourselves and peace with others.

We pray with shameless persistence and authority. Life is spiritual. Mysteriously God has invited His church to interact with Him in prayer. By grace we pray persistently, passionately and humbly approaching the throne of Grace through Jesus. We believe that for every situation Prayer has Power. Through our dependence on the Holy Spirit in prayer we see transformation unto the glory of God.

Since people matter, we believe in listening to stories, understanding journey’s, discovering opportunities and providing solutions. Love, loves with action. We listen and respond. We get involved. Whether it’s finding out a new persons name at morning tea, or investigating a tragedy unfolding in Malawi. We find out, we help out, we put skin in the game, for the renown of His name.

God is painting His story on a canvas of generations in the colours of the nations - we are a canvas of colour. God’s plans for our church are beyond one generation and one ethnicity. We respect and appreciate each generation, we enjoy and rely on our diversity. We are not the body of Christ by ourselves as individuals but together we are the Body of Christ. We are dependent on the integration of...

All living things matter; people and planet, we steward everything for God’s glory in the context of loving relationships. We are called to exercise our authority as true humanity in Christ through stewardship of all creation. As we take care of each other and our environment we desire to bring glory to the one who created and sustains it all. We are responsible and we are accountable.