North Central Church Messages

BIG IDEA: When you root your trust in Jesus, God transforms you from the inside out – including your home. PROBLEM: When you know Jesus, but live with no change.

BIG IDEA: A Gospel transformed heart trusts and treasures Jesus above everybody and everything.

BIG IDEA: Jesus offers us the only transformation that solves humanity’s sin problem and results in eternal life with him.

Big Idea: You can only understand missions rightly, if you understand God rightly.

Big Idea: Christians should relate to their neighbors as lovers and givers who generously show and share what God has given them.

Big Idea: The way you treat your children has the power to either provoke or prune them.

Big Idea: God designed us to love our parents with obedience and to thank them with honor.

Myth My marriage is primarily for me & my happiness. Big Idea Our marriage relationship is designed to shine as a bright and attractive reflection of Jesus’ humble self-giving love.

Big Idea: Our new life in God provides new wisdom and power to relate to our self.

BIG IDEA: Jesus’ followers are filled with joy knowing his ascension completed his earthly mission and signified his enthronement as their heavenly priest and king.

BIG IDEA: The resurrection of Jesus solves history's greatest mystery.

BIG IDEA: In Jesus’ work on the cross, people of all race, religion, and rank are welcomed into restored relationship with God.

BIG IDEA: On his painful path of suffering Jesus shows us how God uses our suffering to shape our desires & strengthen our dependence.

BIG IDEA: The sacrificial death of Jesus was the atonement that was able to fix our main problem.

MAIN IDEA: People can wander from the truth and believers have a God-given responsibility to rescue them and bring them back to the truth. "My dear brothers and sisters, if someone among you wanders away from the truth and is brought back, you can be sure that whoever brings the sinner back from wandering will save that person from death and bring about the forgiveness of many sins." ~ James 5:19-20 [NLT]

MAIN IDEA: You should depend on the power of God available through prayer to overcome any weaknesses caused by suffering, sickness and sin.

So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image. - 2 Corinthians 3:18 [NLT]

WARNING: There’s a coming judgement for wealthy oppressors and a coming justice for those they’ve oppressed.

Humble believers plan their lives around God’s desires instead of their own.

MAIN IDEA: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God. So humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up in honor.