Northgate
No matter where you are on your spiritual journey, you are welcome at Northgate. We value the process of journey. We believe in the transformative power of Christ. Northgate is focused on doing this not only through our weekend services in-person and online, but also by reaching outside our four walls. We accomplish this through multiple local outreaches every year, supporting global and local missions and taking teams on national and international mission trips each year. For more information about us, please visit our website: https://thisis.church
Episodes
1055 episodes
Life On The Vine: Patience and Kindness in a Me-First Society
We've often been encouraged to practice, "Random Acts of Kindness". But what if we became even more intentional? What if we actually lived lives of kindness? How would our neighborhoods, our schools, our workplaces and our freeways change if pa...
Life On The Vine: Cultivating Joy and Peace
"The pursuit of happiness" is one of the unalienable rights set forward in the Declaration of Independence. It could easily be argued that we are often so busy in our pursuits, that we're missing out on the happiness. The pace of our lives can ...
Life On The Vine: Cultivating A Life Of Love
Every culture has certain shared values, convictions and characteristics. Out of these grow the expectations that guide and shape the lives of the people in that culture. Jesus said, "By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you...
Fathers Day: A Fathers Legacy
"What am I leaving my kids?" It's a good question for every father to ask himself from time to time.Beyond drafting a will or providing for their physical well-being, what are we fathers instilling deep within our children's souls? What things ...
Dealing with Doubt: How Can There Be a Loving God?
One question that overlaps every generation and culture is the one that interrogates the notion that God is loving. It's based on the pervasive presence of evil, suffering and death. This form of doubt is possibly the most readily used attack t...
Dealing with Doubt: I Have...No Doubt!
What causes us to doubt when we waver in our faith? According to what we learn in the bible, we are "tossed" around like sea waves. Is this where the word wavering comes from? This weeks message from special guest speaker Jim Mitchell continues...
Dealing with Doubt: What Are We Doing Here?
The Rock group Kansas recorded a popular song in the late 1970s called Dust In the Wind. From the lyrics we can hear: Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea. All we do, crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see. Dust in the...
Dealing With Doubt: We Know in Part
Doubt has been defined as a suspension of knowledge. As human beings, we often find ourselves in such suspension. Certain novelists make much money from being able to cause readers to hover over a plot until it is resolved. For the seeker of Go...
Worlds Toughest Job Description
Effective motherhood is not about perfection. Many women experience guilt because they're trying to achieve an unattainable standard of getting it all right. But God takes us just the way we are and comes alongside to strengthen, encourage and ...
Living the Free Life: Free to Love
Freedom can be a risky venture. We live in a free society and yet we all understand that freedom doesn't allow us to trample on the rights and freedoms of others. Freedom cannot be used as an excuse for self-indulgence because ultimately, selfi...
Living the Free Life: Free to Trust
Who do you trust? The answer to that question typically depends on how well you know someone. The more you know someone, and the more they've proven to be dependable, the more willing you'll be to trust them. It all comes down to relationships....
Living the Free Life: Free to Change
Millions of dollars are spent every year on Self-Improvement. We buy books, try new diets, hire professional "coaches" and personal trainers all with the expectation that they will help us change our lives. More often than not we end up disappo...
Living the Free Life: Free to Live
The pursuit of freedom is at the very heart of what it means to be human. We long to live free but we are easily imprisoned. Our desires can trap us in addiction, our possessions can imprison us with worry, our past can enslave us with regret, ...
Searching for Jesus: Fully Alive
Easter is not just an event to be commemorated once a year, nor is it simply the proof that Jesus was who he claimed to be. At it's heart, Easter is about life. The resurrection is God's invitation to each of us to come alive. It is about life ...
Searching for Jesus: Jesus, the Master of Life
Everything that Jesus taught and did was filled with life. The Gospel writers record in great detail how Jesus concerned himself with life in every respect -physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual LIFE. He knew what life was about and he...
Searching for Jesus: The Truth Revealer
Jesus had a way of cutting through the smokescreens and getting to the heart of a matter. He not only came to reveal the truth about God he also came to reveal to us the truth about ourselves."The Truth Revealer", this week's message continues ...
Searching for Jesus: The Compassionate Healer
All four accounts of Jesus' life in the gospels are filled with emotional detail. Jesus was not a stoic walking unemotionally through life. He taught with humor in his stories, he shed tears at a friend's death and sighed deeply at his follower...
Searching for Jesus: Turning Tables
We continue our series "Searching for Jesus." When searching, it doesn't take long to discover that Jesus challenged the status quo. According to Jesus' assessment, the Word of God had been turned into an instrument of death, rather than life. ...
Searching for Jesus: He Calls Us To Follow
He was the son of an insignificant handyman, in a backwater town, in a remote annex of the vast Roman Empire. Yet his life and teachings changed human history. No one can deny his impact on the world. Such a powerful figure cannot be dismissed....
When The Church Is At Its Best
There are few organizations that have had as much positive effect AND negative effect in this world than the church. At it's worst, the church has been accused of hypocrisy, bigotry and self-righteous judgmentalism. But at it's best, the church...
Trouble with a Capital T
If you're at all familiar with the 1960's Broadway Musical and Movie THE MUSIC MAN, you'll recognize the line WE'VE GOT TROUBLE WITH A CAPITAL T. The story behind THE MUSIC MAN has to do with a swindling traveling salesman who makes money by pl...
Hi Def Living: Redefining Servanthood
How do you define "greatness"? Typical answers usually include things like power, wealth, intelligence or prestige.Jesus said, "The greatest among you will be your servant." His words are challenging and powerful, but what gives his words such ...
Hi Def Living: Highly Defined Finances
There are few things more personal, more difficult to manage and generate more stress in our lives than our finances. Though we live in one of the most affluent areas of the richest nation in the world we never seem to have enough. In a constan...
Hi Def Living: Re-defined Relationships
Everyone in your life matters to God - even the "difficult" people. When we look at others through God's eyes we begin to recognize their eternal worth. God has placed us in relationships with others so that together we might learn to practice ...
Hi Def Living: High Definition Dreams
At three weeks into a new year no one knows yet what 2007 holds in store. We have dreams of a better life, a future and a hope. When our dreams line up with God's call they become more than "wishful thinking". They become powerful, God-honoring...
