Pastor's Sermon Series, Audio Study Guide, Northwood Baptist Church

We have all struggled with sin. But we often ask why does sin affect us when we’ve been saved. Doubts begin to form as we think that maybe we haven’t been saved. We long to be rescued, but feel trapped. We find out that on this podcast.

Freedom isn’t doing whatever you want—it’s choosing the right Master. This episode explores grace, obedience, sanctification, and why eternal life starts now. Are you living free, or still stuck in old pattern of sin? Listen and discover what it means to become  more like the Master . 

One man’s choice in Eden shaped a broken world—and your life today. It doesn’t feel fair. But Romans 5 reveals better news: Christmas is about another Man. Choosing Jesus brings grace, life, and hope that outweighs Adam’s sin. Discover why Christmas had to happen.

Unshakeable faith fuels an unstoppable mission. Because we have peace with God, His grace, and His love, we endure affliction, grow in character, and boldly share the gospel. God’s love compels us to be peacemakers, embrace sacrifice over comfort, and take the good news to the nations with confidence and hope.

Romans 4 highlights Abraham’s unwavering faith in God’s promise despite impossible circumstances. His righteousness came not through works but through trusting God. Likewise, we are made right with God by faith in Jesus, not our efforts. True faith shifts confidence from ourselves to Christ, who died and rose for us.

Paul teaches that no one can produce righteousness through the law; it reveals our sin. God freely gives righteousness through faith in Jesus, whose death justifies and redeems us. To be saved, we must receive this gift, embrace the Gospel, reject boasting, and live gratefully from Christ’s righteousness.

Trying harder improves many areas of life, but it cannot earn God’s favor. Romans 3 exposes the failure of religious privilege and human effort to make us righteous. All are under sin, the Law reveals our guilt, and only dependence on Jesus brings justification. Today, we’ll learn to stop trying and start depending!

Phillip the Evangelist shows how ordinary believers can join God’s extraordinary work. When we make space to listen, obey, and start where people are, divine appointments become life-changing moments. This podcast invites you to live on mission—eyes open, mouth ready—trusting that no labor in the Lord is ever in vain.

Hypocrisy is a battle that is fought by many if not all believers. This passage warns that labels can deceive—appearance doesn’t equal authenticity. Paul, in Romans 2:17–29, challenges religious people who claim faith but lack true transformation. Christianity isn’t a label to wear; it’s a genuine, life-changing relationship with God that overflows into sharing His truth with others.

You may be seeing this and be real religious. After all, that’s why your search landed you here. You were looking for something to help you be more religious. But, is religion enough? Truth be told, it actually hurts worse than it helps when it comes to having a relationship with Christ who is the only way to Heaven. So, are you that religious person that thinks, surely my religion helps me? But n...

What is our biggest sin? It always has been and always will be our greatest sin. Unblief has lots of consequences that affect not only now, but in the world to come. You see, there is a God and He sent His very own Son for all who believe.

Have you been ashamed? It it so debilitating, isn't it? You turn red, you won’t look someone in the eye, you might even run away in fear of what people may say. Yes, that has happened to us all. Yet, that kind of shame should never be associated with Jesus. We cannot be ashamed of Jesus as followers of Christ. Let’s choose to be unshamed. Find out how this week!

We have all been through really hard times in our life. Many times, we make it through regardless of how difficult it was. But the aftermath was not so good. We moped about and said how difficult life still is. Yet we don’t have to. Our lament can turn to praise as we hope andf trust in God. How can we do that well in this broken world we live in? Answers are ahead!

We can be a sad people. We want to talk about all the bad stuff and why the world is going downhill like a kick ball down a steep mountain. But shpuld that be all life is? We have much to look forward to. It is God’s glory that we look to that we can live a life of praise. It’s ttime that we do

The world seems like it’s going crazy everywhere around us. Does that make you want to trust God more or less? Habakkuk struggled and gives us direction to know how to respond in this broken world we live in. Are you ready to know God’s way?

You have been treated unfairly. We all have. Yet, should followers of Christ respond differently? We are not always going to understand, but we do have a God that we can trust to always do the right thing.

Prayer is the beleivers access to God. Yet we don’t think much about this vital activity in the Christian life. Be ready this week to boldly approach the throne of God with confidence and watch what God does!

As followers of Christ, we do not live our lives in defeat, but as those who have overcome. Our challenge to day is not to give in to fears and doubts but to trust in the Jesus who made a way clear and will be faithful to us always It’s tome we trust Him and not ourselves.

For some of us, we fear love. We fear loving others with sacrificial practical love. Maybe you have hard time loving others with the love of Jesus because: • You might be rejected. • You might be hurt. • You might be betrayed. • You might be embarrassed. This is the Big statement from John: “Perfect love drives out fear” (1 John 4:18). John has been telling that one of the ways we know we belong t...

I hear this phrase more and more, “Well, that’s your truth. We all have our own truth.” But can that line up with what real truth is? it’s that which is found in the Word of God, the Bible. When a false speaks "their truth”, can we test it to recognize it as false? Yes we can and yes we should. Here’s how.

Hate is strong and mocks the song of peace on earth good will to men. Yet, in the midst of this hate, Christains are called to love the hateful, the unlovely, the mean, the destructive, and all humans in this broken world. Love God. Love your brothers and sisters in Christ. Then your love will be seen as God’s love as never before.

We are alll broken people. Yet, do we really have to live broken when we are new creations following Jesus? There is another way other than allowing sin, our enemy to take our lives over. The answer is found in what happened when Jesus died and rose again for us.

Comfort when we’re hurting is a big deal. As believers, we rely on God to bring us His comfort. Often that comes through other believers who have often been through a hard time and are qualified by their difficult situation to bring comfort. Has God given you a story that can help others who are facing the “sentence of death”. It might not be sickness, but it could be the death of: a relationship,...

Over and over again in the Bible we are challenged to endure. Yet, often we don’t know that looks like on a spiritual biblical level. It does matter that we listen and believe the right doctrines that the Bible teaches us clearly. It’s time that we as God’s people understand what it means to endure as followers of Christ.

The world is not just our planet, it is also something much more insidious. It is this broken world system that is everything that opooses the Christian, the Christ, and His kingdom. We are told simply told to not love the world neither the things in it. Let’s begin understanding what that means in today’s teaching.