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
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Matthew: Lust
You know the next commandment pretty well, too: ‘Don’t go to bed with another’s spouse.’ But don’t think you’ve preserved your virtue simply by staying out of bed. Your heart can be corrupted by lust even quicker than your body. Those ogling lo...
Matthew: Anger
You’re familiar with the command to the ancients, ‘Do not murder.’ I’m telling you that anyone who is so much as angry with a brother or sister is guilty of murder. Carelessly call a brother ‘idiot!’ and you just might find yourself hauled into...
Matthew: Fulfilling the Law
“Don’t suppose for a minute that I have come to demolish the Scriptures—either God’s Law or the Prophets. I’m not here to demolish but to complete. I am going to put it all together, pull it all together in a vast panorama. God’s Law is more re...
Matthew: Salt and Light
Let me tell you why you are here. You’re here to be salt-seasoning that brings out the God-flavors of this earth. If you lose your saltiness, how will people taste godliness? You’ve lost your usefulness and will end up in the garbage. “Here’s a...
Beatitudes: The Peacemakers
“You’re blessed when you can show people how to cooperate instead of compete or fight. That’s when you discover who you really are, and your place in God’s family.
Beatitudes: The Persecuted
"You're blessed when you get your inside world—your mind and heart—put right. Then you can see God in the outside world."You're blessed when you can show people how to cooperate instead of compete or fight. That's when you discover who y...
Beatitudes: Pure In Heart
The next time you put on a dinner, don’t just invite your friends and family and rich neighbors, the kind of people who will return the favor. Invite some people who never get invited out, the misfits from the wrong side of the tracks. You’ll b...
Beatitudes: Blessed are the Merciful
I can anticipate the response that is coming: “I know that all God’s commands are spiritual, but I’m not. Isn’t this also your experience?” Yes. I’m full of myself—after all, I’ve spent a long time in sin’s prison. What I don’t understand about...
Beatitudes: Those Who Hunger and Thirst for Righteousness
You’re blessed when you’re at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule.
Beatitudes: Those Who Mourn
You’re blessed when you feel you’ve lost what is most dear to you. Only then can you be embraced by the One most dear to you.
Beatitudes: Poor In Spirit
Where did the idea of New Year's Resolution come from, and what makes the start of a new year so much different than any other day of the year?
Christmas Eve 2021
If you are familiar with the Christmas story, know that God did not intend to have the story just end there. It was only made to be the beginning episode one, and God always intended to have you continue the story in your life.
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A Personality of Christmas: The Shepherds
There were shepherds camping in the neighborhood. They had set night watches over their sheep. Suddenly, God’s angel stood among them and God’s glory blazed around them. They were terrified. The angel said, “Don’t be afraid. I’m here to announc...
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A Personality of Christmas: Hark the Herald
He was supreme in the beginning and—leading the resurrection parade—he is supreme in the end. From beginning to end he’s there, towering far above everything, everyone. So spacious is he, so roomy, that everything of God finds its proper place ...
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A Personality of Christmas: Waiting with Hope
Christmas is this season of perpetual hope, except for when it isn't. Sometimes it doesn't feel very hopeful for some of us. In fact, what the Christmas season does is it highlights loss and it highlights what we are missing this year.
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Missions Sunday 2021
Join us as we get updates from the missions that you help from around the world. Their work and dedication to their ministries is helping bring others to Jesus Christ daily.
Matthew: A Skeptics Guide to Miracles
From there he went all over Galilee. He used synagogues for meeting places and taught people the truth of God. God’s kingdom was his theme—that beginning right now they were under God’s government, a good government! He also healed people of th...
Matthew: Follow Me
When Jesus got word that John had been arrested, he returned to Galilee. He moved from his hometown, Nazareth, to the lakeside village Capernaum, nestled at the base of the Zebulun and Naphtali hills. This move completed Isaiah’s sermon:...
Matthew: Temptation (Part 3) Kingdoms of the World
For the third test, the Devil took him to the peak of a huge mountain. He gestured expansively, pointing out all the earth’s kingdoms, how glorious they all were. Then he said, “They’re yours—lock, stock, and barrel. Just go down on your knees ...
Matthew: Temptation (Part 2) Jump from the Temple
For the second test the Devil took him to the Holy City. He sat him on top of the Temple and said, “Since you are God’s Son, jump.” The Devil goaded him by quoting Psalm 91: “He has placed you in the care of angels. They will catch you so that ...
Matthew: Temptation (Part 1) Stones into Bread
Next Jesus was taken into the wild by the Spirit for the Test. The Devil was ready to give it. Jesus prepared for the Test by fasting forty days and forty nights. That left him, of course, in a state of extreme hunger, which the Devil took adva...
Matthew: Set Apart, Empowered
Jesus then appeared, arriving at the Jordan River from Galilee. He wanted John to baptize him. John objected, “I’m the one who needs to be baptized, not you!”But Jesus insisted. “Do it. God’s work, putting things right all these centurie...
Matthew: John the Baptist (Part 2) The Kingdom of Heaven
While Jesus was living in the Galilean hills, John, called “the Baptizer,” was preaching in the desert country of Judea. His message was simple and austere, like his desert surroundings: “Change your life. God’s kingdom is here.”John and...
Matthew: John the Baptist (Part 1) Uncivilized Discipleship
While Jesus was living in the Galilean hills, John, called “the Baptizer,” was preaching in the desert country of Judea. His message was simple and austere, like his desert surroundings: “Change your life. God’s kingdom is here.”John and...
Matthew: The Insecurity of Herod & All of Us
Jesus was born in a town called Bethlehem, in Judea. King Herod ruled Judea at that time. After Jesus was born, some wise men came to Jerusalem from a country in the east. When they arrived there, they asked people, ‘Where is the baby who...
