The NorthWord

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! You don't graduate from discipleship. You never stop being a student. And that's not a burden — it's the point. Text Us directly by clicking 'Text Us' at the top of these show notes to share your journey! Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theanglicanfamily Connect with us: https://linktr.ee/TheNorthWord Support the show

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! Hardship isn't punishment for what you did. It's preparation for who you're becoming. Text Us directly by clicking 'Text Us' at the top of these show notes to share your journey! Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theanglicanfamily Connect with us: https://linktr.ee/TheNorthWord Support the show

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! You know exactly what you should do. Knowing isn't the problem. The problem is that knowing isn't the same as doing. Text Us directly by clicking 'Text Us' at the top of these show notes to share your journey! Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theanglicanfamily Connect with us: https://linktr.ee/TheNorthWord Support the show

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! Being disciplined from outside yourself is one thing. Learning self-discipline from within is another. And you need both. Text Us directly by clicking 'Text Us' at the top of these show notes to share your journey! Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theanglicanfamily Connect with us: https://linktr.ee/TheNorthWord Support the show

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! One moment of correction shaped my entire life. This is the story of why the hardest thing a parent can do is sometimes the most loving. Text Us directly by clicking 'Text Us' at the top of these show notes to share your journey! Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theanglicanfamily Connect with us: https://linktr.ee/TheNorthWord Support t...

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! Everyone has to carry a burden, but which one will you choose? Drawing from Matthew 11, this is an honest sermon on the burdens we carry, the freedom we chase, and the one yoke that's actually light — an invitation to trade self-rescue for rest.  Text us directly by clicking ‘Text Us’ at the top of these show notes to share your journey! Connect with...

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! A rerun of one of our older shows! Proximity isn't community. Attendance isn't belonging. Why our calling to love is impossible without the community God gave us.  Text Us directly by clicking 'Text Us' at the top of these show notes to share your journey! Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theanglicanfamilyConnect with us: http...

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! When the old self dies, something new can be born. But you have to be willing to wait in the grave for a while. Text Us directly by clicking 'Text Us' at the top of these show notes to share your journey! Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theanglicanfamilyConnect with us: https://linktr.ee/TheNorthWord Support the show

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! You're not being asked to hate yourself. You're being asked to recognize that the version of you that ran your life is already dying. Text Us directly by clicking 'Text Us' at the top of these show notes to share your journey! Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theanglicanfamilyConnect with us: https://linktr.ee/TheNorthWord Sup...

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! Dying to yourself isn't suffering for its own sake. It's the price of becoming who you're actually meant to be. Text Us directly by clicking 'Text Us' at the top of these show notes to share your journey!  Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theanglicanfamily Connect with us: https://linktr.ee/TheNorthWord Support the show

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! You keep going back to the same thing, and you're not trying hard enough — you've already died to it in baptism. The question isn't whether you can become dead to sin; it's whether you'll live like you already are. Text Us directly by clicking "Text Us" at the top of these show notes to share your journey!  Watch the serm...

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! Grace reigns — but our capacity to stay in it requires structure, relationship, and the willingness to be truly known. A challenge to move beyond a comfortable, private Christianity and into the kind of accountability that keeps the conscience awake.   Text us directly by clicking ‘Text Us’ at the top of these show notes to share your journey! Watch the se...

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! There is a particular trap that catches faithful, long-serving people: the moment a role shifts from something we do into something we are. A reflection on the difference between holding important work with open hands versus clenched fists, and what grace makes possible in that moment of letting go.   Text us directly by clicking ‘Text Us’ at the top of th...

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! Most people don’t lose the fight at the moment of the act — they lose it in the quiet moments just before, when they’re still telling themselves they haven’t decided anything yet. Walk through the four stages from temptation to habit, and discover where grace can actually interrupt the process. Text us directly by clicking ‘Text Us’ at the top of these sho...

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! Following Christ doesn’t make the pull of the old nature disappear — it means that pull no longer has the final word. A reflection on what it looks like to carry two natures, and why the presence of temptation is not a sign of failure. Text us directly by clicking ‘Text Us’ at the top of these show notes to share your journey! Watch the sermon on YouTube:...

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! One man’s sin introduced a condition that infected all of humanity but Christ’s response was never meant to be a one-for-one remedy. Explore how the overflow of grace doesn’t just forgive the debt but clears the record entirely, placing us at a table we never occupied before. Text us directly by clicking ‘Text Us’ at the top of these show notes to share yo...

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! Three small words — stop, stay, see — offer a practical framework for making the most important decisions from a place of faith rather than fear. The week closes with a grounded, actionable challenge drawn from Paul, Jesus, and James: how to stand still long enough to receive what God has placed in your season before you move on from it. Text us directly b...

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! There is a profound difference between escaping a season before God's work is complete and leaving because that work is genuinely finished. A careful and honest exploration of when to stay, when to go, and how to tell the difference — including a word for those in situations that are difficult, and those in situations that are genuinely harmful. Text...

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! God doesn't remove the hardship — He equips you for it, with blessings precisely matched to the burdens you are carrying right now. A close look at Ephesians 1 reveals a stunning one-to-one inventory of divine provision: forgiveness for your failures, wisdom for your decisions, the Spirit for the hard things, and a guaranteed inheritance for an uncert...

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! When we run from a difficult season before God's work is finished, we don't leave the problem behind — we carry it with us into the next chapter. A reflection on our deepest failure as people of faith: masking the season instead of moving through it, and what it means to finally receive what God has placed right here. Text us directly by clicking...

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! God's provision for your life is not waiting for your circumstances to improve — it was already given, past tense, before the foundation of the world. Explore the New Testament economy of spiritual blessing and why the resources you need for this season are already present, right where you are.   Text us directly by clicking 'Text Us' at the...

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! What if our biggest barrier to experiencing the love of God isn't our moral failures, but our obsession with our own performance? In this episode, we dive into the sharp intersection of 1 John 3:16-24 and Luke 14:15-24. Sitting at a tense dinner party, Jesus completely upends our cultural definitions of worth, achievement, and love. We often live by a...

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! Faith is not an idea you hold — it is a direction you move in, even when every instinct says stay put. Closing out the week, this episode ties together Abraham, Matthew, and the Rabbi Weisser story into one clear challenge: where is God asking you to get up? Faith doesn’t make sense — and that is entirely the point. Text us directly by clicking ‘Text Us’ a...

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! Trials are not interruptions to your faith — they are the curriculum. Grounded in James 1:2–4, this episode reframes the tests and pressures you’re facing right now as honest, formative tools in the hands of a God who is growing you toward maturity — not punishing you for your shortcomings. Text us directly by clicking ‘Text Us’ at the top of these show no...

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! Real mercy is not a feeling you carry privately — it is an act that puts you somewhere deeply uncomfortable. Through the story of Rabbi Michael Weisser and Larry Trapp, this episode makes the case that incarnational mercy — the kind Jesus modelled at Matthew’s table — must cost you something to be genuine. Text us directly by clicking ‘Text Us’ at the top...