North Central Church Messages

Big Idea: Believers salt their politics best by replacing their old impulse for criticizing, complaining and condemning with a new habit of intercession.

Big Idea: Believers salt their politics best by choosing to assist their governing authorities instead of to resist them

Jesus didn’t call everyone to agree on everything, but he did command his followers to be united in the main thing.

Big Idea: Jesus tells us he is the vine who reaches lost people by maximizing the fruitfulness of his disciples.

Big Idea: Jesus tells us that if our troubled hearts want to see, know and be with the Father in heaven, we’ll rest in him alone.

Big Idea: Jesus tells us he is the only way to live again, even after dying. 25 Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying. 26 Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never ever die. —John 11:25–26 (NLT)

Big Idea: Jesus is the suffering shepherd who lays his own life down for his sheep.

Big Idea: Jesus is the only door a person enters into the people of God, whom he knows, saves and protects.

Big Idea: Jesus thinks He is the only way for humans to see God in the darkness of sin.

Big Idea: Jesus thinks He was sent from God to eternally satisfy our deepest cravings.

Big Idea: Only when you know who Jesus truly is will it transform who you truly are.

What is the hope of heaven and how do we get it?

Jesus' words teach that the next chapter of our story begins with "the renewal of all things," by which he means the earth we love in all its beauty, our own selves, and the things that make for a rich life: music, art, food, laughter and all that we hold dear. Everything shall be renewed "when the world is made new."

Jesus' words teach that the next chapter of our story begins with "the renewal of all things," by which he means the earth we love in all its beauty, our own selves, and the things that make for a rich life: music, art, food, laughter and all that we hold dear. Everything shall be renewed "when the world is made new."

Jesus' words in the gospel of Matthew, describe the next chapter of our story and it begins with "the renewal of all things," by which he means the earth we love in all its beauty, our own selves, and the things that make for a rich life: music, art, food, laughter and all that we hold dear. Everything shall be renewed "when the world is made new."

BIG IDEA: Is something under the surface getting in the way of you expressing God’s compassionate forgiveness to the people you despise?

BIG IDEA (1:17-2:10) God changes our lives with His supreme grace by arranging or allowing us to reach rock bottom.

God is willing and able to throw at us anything he desires in order to accomplish our salvation or correction.

When God said to get up and go to his enemies, Jonah got up to get away from his God.

BIG IDEA: A neighborhood transformed by the Gospel advances the Kingdom of God