Northplace Church Podcast

Today we continue the conversation showing how the resurrection of Jesus impacts our lives in the 21st century, not just in a spiritual way but in a very practical way. To start that conversation Pastor Bryan in depth explores John 20:19-21. 19-20 Later on that day, the disciples had gathered together, but, fearful of the Jews, had locked all the doors in the house. Jesus entered, stood among them...

The Resurrection is the key to everything! Listen to what the Apostle Paul says: I Corinthians 15:14-19 Amplified Bible 14 If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain [useless, amounting to nothing], and your faith is also vain [imaginary, unfounded, devoid of value and benefit—not based on truth]. 15 We are even discovered to be false witnesses [misrepresenting] God, because we test...

This Sunday is the beginning of Passion Week, which is the celebration of the last week of Jesus life. This Sunday is known as Palm Sunday, the day the people waived palm branches in front of Jesus as he rode into Jerusalem and sang… “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.” It was known as his triumphal entry. But this same crowd who sang his praises on Palm Sunday were shouting “Crucify...

Last week we launched a series of messages that will help us approach Easter weekend with a growing sense of momentum. Over these three weekends leading up to Easter, we are going to examine several of our Easter weekend topics from the past decade that made the deepest impact on us as church family and on those who were our guests. These topics focus on the clear message of the gospel, the centra...

How many think sin is bad? (Humor if only a few hands… “wow…this is a real solid upstanding crowd”-14 people here think sin is bad.”) Sin is bad. The biblical definition of sin is to “miss the mark.” The mark is not set by your mom, or your church, or the media, or popular vote. God sets the mark. God is the one who differentiates and delineates between right and wrong. The Bible says in Romans 3:...

Rewind with us to ancient days, when new kings would kill the remnants of any remaining family members of the previous monarchy. They eliminated any threats to their rule. It was in this setting that Saul and Jonathan’s family and servants heard the horrific news “King Saul and Prince Jonathan are dead and David is now King.” That announcement struck fear in any heart related to Saul and Jonathan...

The disciples where asking 2 questions almost 2000 years ago that people seem infatuated with asking today...When will Jesus return and Are we near the end of the world? The question of Jesus’ return is a question usually studied and talked about among church believers...church people. But the question about the end of the world is being asked by everybody...Hindus, Muslims, Atheists, Christians.....

This weekend we got to hear some great relationship advice from Pastor Scotty Gibbons. What happens after you've been married for a while. Listen to this talk and apply it. For the video go to http://northplacechurch.com/watch

We are still early in the year, and even if you have already blown your new year’s resolutions, even if you have already messed up your well-intentioned bible-reading plan, it’s important for us to be reminded of the power of God’s word in our lives and get engaged with it again. http://northplacechurch.com/watch

Over the last several weeks we have been in our series called Reset. This weekend we conclude a 21'day season of fasting and prayer...that has been a phenomenal time in many of our personal lives and within our church as whole. We are resetting our lives to restore connectivity with God. Our prayer times have been full of hungry people and full of the presence of God...our services have been...

In the first couple weeks we looked at how being intentional with our new year’s goals will allow for a reset in our lives. We looked at how prayer and fasting works to restore our intimacy with God. Last week, Sujo showed us how God can take tragedy, devastation and the evil aimed at us and turn it around to reset the direction of our lives for God’s glory. Today is going to be altogether differe...

How can you refocus your life after a tragedy strikes? Listen to this message from Sujo John, a 9/11 survivor, telling how the worst day of his life propelled him ton change his approach to life. Watch the video at http://northplacechurch.com/watch

A hard reset can restore our connectivity issues. That’s the reason why we started this year with a sermon series called Reset. What all of us need at the beginning of 2016 is a Reset. We need a fresh start, a new beginning…a do over. For one reason or another we are having connectivity issues with God…and maybe even with the people in life that we love. The first of the year is a perfect time for...

A hard reset, also known as a factory reset or master reset, is the restoration of a device to the state it was in when it left the factory. All settings, applications and data added by the user are removed. 1 I love the reference to a Master Reset because that reveals my intent. When a device has a Master Reset, it returns to its purest form...its original design. All the things I have added to t...

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The “expectant waiting” of Advent is almost over. Like the ancient believers from scripture who ached in longing for their anticipated Messiah, the 4-week season of Advent compresses those feelings and emotions for us. As we march toward Christmas Eve and the celebration of the birth of Jesus on Christmas day, we experience similar emotions as those early believers. Long before there were sleeples...

We often think… if I just had this, had that, lived in that house, drove that car, married that girl, that guy, landed that job, my instagram account had this many followers, people liked my status on facebook, forget my status, if people just liked me… Don’t let excuses keep you from having Joy. Don’t let people keep you from having Joy. Don’t let your job keep you from having Joy. Don’t let your...

When you go looking for love you find it in the most unexpected places…and if we are talking about finding love in the Christmas story…our minds automatically go to the more obvious and common expressions of love. We could easily and rightly say that Advent is the time John 3:16 became a physical reality. That God expressed his love for us by giving us his only begotten son. He loved us so deeply...

Until a few years ago, Northplace had not focused that much on Advent. Traditionally, Advent has been something celebrated primarily among liturgical churches like the Anglican or Lutheran traditions. But for us Christmas has been commercialized, the word twisted to mean what it shouldn’t, and the season hijacked by materialism. We wanted something that anchored us in rich theology, biblical histo...

Several weeks ago the Lord dropped something in my heart to share this weekend that was supposed to prepare our hearts for Thanksgiving. I started working on what I believed to be a spirit inspired sermon called The Discipline of Celebration. I had no idea the events that have unfolded over the last few days would happen. The Paris attacks where scores lost their lives… and the heightened terroris...

Each week we have focused on one key piece that makes up the underlying elements of our culture. These things are what make us…uniquely us. Today I want to focus on our commitment to The ongoing work of the Holy Spirit…in our lives and in our church. As we said from the beginning of this series, one of the most important things a pastor can do, is create, cultivate, and contend for a gospel center...

This is week 7 in our conversation about the culture of our church. We have committed over the last couple of months to talk about those things that make us… uniquely us. Each week I have focused on one key ingredient that makes up a part of the culture of Northplace. We have talked about our commitment to generosity, courageous faith, biblical balance, missional focus, and doing less better. If y...

We are in our sixth week of a very important conversation as a church family. We are reminding some and education others about the unique ingredients that make up the Northplace culture. Every place… whether be a school, a restaurant, a business, a family, or a church, has a unique feel or environment that becomes synonymous with that place. That familiar environment and that familiar experience y...

We’ve been defining the power of a culture and contending for the key ingredients that make Us…Us. We’ve said that the easiest way to define Culture is “the way do things around here.” We’ve also said… An unhealthy culture can suck the life out of vision, plans, and dreams. A healthy culture is the environment that causes all those things to flourish. Over the last ten years we have been intention...

After 25 years of serving the local church, I would say that church culture is as bad or worse in its love of the extreme. I have watched what seemed to be steady, well-grounded people get caught up in some new fad that sweeps through the church. Before long they are so certain this “new thing” is the only thing…that they celebrate the new fad more than they celebrate Jesus and often look down wit...