True North Community Church

Week Three of our Advent series: Repeat the Sounding Joy, from Luke 1:46-55.

Week Two of our Advent series: Repeat the Sounding Joy, from Luke 2:25-35.

Week One of our Advent series: Repeat the Sounding Joy, from Luke 1:36-45.

A word from Matthew 16:24-26 on putting to death what must die in order to live into new life.

Real stories from real people about what Jesus does with our efforts to follow and obey him.

The last part of our Sabbath series. As people who aim to lead lives that point to Jesus, we look to how he, our Lord did Sabbath.

A collaboration with Practicing the Way. Sabbath isn’t just a day to stop, rest, and throw a feast in community. Ultimately, it’s a holy day — set apart for and dedicated to God himself. Early Christians called it “the Lord’s day.” It’s a weekly day of worship by which we cultivate a spirit of worship all week long. For more info, visit practicingtheway.org.

A collaboration with Practicing the Way. Sabbath is not an onerous day for dour religious duty but a life-giving day of delight — a weekly party. It’s a full day set aside to celebrate our life with God in his world. And it’s designed to be done in community, not alone. Few things are more provocative in the modern world than communities of joy. For more info, visit practicingtheway.org.

A collaboration with Practicing the Way. We hear about Sabbath rest and we imagine sleeping or taking a day off to chill. But Sabbath rest is a form of resistance. There are powerful forces — both external and internal — that war against a Sabbath spirituality. To sabbath will require that we resist. For more info, visit practicingtheway.org.

A collaboration with Practicing the Way. The word “sabbath” means “to stop.” In Genesis, God worked for six days but then he rested on the seventh. In doing so, he built a rhythm into the fabric of creation. When we live in alignment with this ancient rhythm, we find peace and joy, but when we fight it, we fracture our souls. For more info, visit practicingtheway.org.

A word from 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 on spiritual sustainability, and the next phase of True North.

From Galatians 5:22-24.

From John 16:33.

From John 20:24-29.

From Psalm 130.

From Luke 15:11-32.

As children of technology and social media, we all have the ability to escape into alternate realities, and in doing so, run away from God and what He is doing in our real lives. This week, we kick off our summer series: Seasons, as we explore how God works in all seasons of our lives, especially the ones we'd prefer to skip.

It is in times of waiting, for questions to have answers, moments to pass, or better times to come, that God invites us to follow him even further into the unknown, always with the promise that He is there and He is good.

Real stories from real people about what Jesus does with our efforts to follow and obey him.

Part 5 of the series "Songs of Lament." Experiencing grief is not only an inevitable part of life, it is a pathway to healing and deep joy. When we choose to lament and cry out to God, He reminds us of the real reason we have to hope in a better tomorrow.

Part 4 of the series “Songs of Lament.” Weeks like these should anger us and spur us to cry out against the brutality of violence and injustice in our country, and make us desperate for Jesus’s return and remaking of the world. This song reminds us that God sees all evils, teaches us how to pray and take action towards reform, and assures us that the One who Judges will bring retribution and redem...

Part 3 of the series “Songs of Lament.” One psalm famously, does not end with hope. On those dark nights of the soul, our God does not offer answers or spiritual platitudes, but sits with us in our anger and wrestling, and He invites us to be a similar presence to those around us when they experience the same darkness.

Part 2 of the series "Songs of Lament." David writes this psalm after a friend calls him out for a string of offenses and crimes. What begins as a cry to God leads to a deep examination of the self, and an even deeper understanding of how God loves to forgive.

Part 1 of the series "Songs of Lament." Our world, and sometimes our church, doesn't really know what to do with sadness. God does not ask us to repress our pain nor overlook it because of our faith. The psalms prove that He is familiar with all our grief, and that sorrow is necessary for joy.

The last part of the series "Sacred Bodies." Jesus was born to us in a body; his body was subjected to torture and death, and his body came back to life. What are the implications then for us, our bodies, and our lives in the here and now?