November 17, 2024 • Carl Medford • 1 Peter 5:8, Philippians 1:6, Ephesians 6:10–18, Romans 5:12–13, Galatians 5:17
Carl Medford teaches about becoming a community who wars, not against other people, but against the things the Bible calls us to war against. The good news is that Jesus has won the ultimate war, allowing us to be brought back into an eternal and loving relationship with our Father. As a result, we now battle against spiritual enemies that would try to hijack that relationship for us and for others whom God is drawing to himself. Ultimately, the church is victorious because the One who began a good work in us will be faithful to complete it in Christ Jesus!
Becoming NCC: Who Leads this Community?
November 10, 2024 • Bo Noonan • Titus 1:5–9, Genesis 1:27, Acts 2:17–18, Galatians 3:28, Mark 10:42–45
Bo Noonan teaches on the counter-cultural type of leadership that Jesus calls his followers to. Throughout scripture we see the complimentary roles that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have played throughout eternity past and into eternity future - they are fully equal in standing, yet they play different roles. It is the same in the church. We are all equal in standing because of the work of Jesus, yet as we grow in leadership of ourselves and others, we learn to lay down our rights more and more and take on differing roles and responsibilities. According to scripture, our character must come before our giftings and abilities as we lead through serving one another.
Becoming NCC: A Word and Spirit Community
November 3, 2024 • Bo Noonan • Ephesians 1:13–14, John 14:6, Hebrews 4:12, Hebrews 6:5
Bo Noonan teaches on the importance of being both a Word and Spirit community. We believe that the Bible is fully true and points us to God's order, way of life, and his love. We also believe that we fully need the empowering presence and the seal of adoption that the Holy Spirit gives us, which allows us to know God intimately as Father. We are a both/and church that is learning to give ourselves fully to the ways of Jesus and the power and presence of his Holy Spirit, so that we can be equipped for the mission he has called us to.
Becoming NCC: A Healthy and Healing Community
October 27, 2024 • Bo Noonan • Revelation 2:1–5, Revelation 3:1–3, John 1:1–5, Psalm 46:4–7, Ezekiel 45:6–12
Bo Noonan teaches about being a healthy and healing community, not just physically, but emotionally and spiritually. Being a healthy church means that we must remain in love with Jesus, connected to him as our Source, and continually be receiving from the power and presence of the Holy Spirit. That said, it remains true that many have experienced real hurt in the church in many forms. By God's grace and the love of a healthy church community, even those with deep hurts can find healing, wholeness, and a way forward. In Jesus, there is hope.
Travis Aicklen, from Radiant Church in Visalia, CA, encourages us to be a community that endures. He takes us to the story of Timothy and Paul, and their exchanges in 1 and 2 Timothy. Through these exchanges he helps us see a way to endure and continue on in faithfulness to the call that God has placed on us as a church. As we look to the faithfulness of Jesus over generations and see it in the lives of others, we can find encouragement to press on through the "dips" of life.
Becoming NCC: A Community on Mission
October 13, 2024 • Bo Noonan • Mark 10:45, Luke 19:10, Luke 7:34, John 4:1–42
Bo Noonan teaches through Jesus' model of mission from the story of the "Samaritan Woman at the Well" in John 4. He unpacks a biblical model of mission seen in the acronym B.L.E.S.S. - Begin with prayer / Listen / Eat together / Serve / Share your God story. This model can be lived out in our lives, our families/friend groups, and through our Community Groups.
Becoming NCC: A Church of Community Groups
October 6, 2024 • Andy Cooley • John 1:35–42, John 13:34–35, 1 John 4:19–21, Romans 15:5–6
Andy Cooley teaches about the biblical value of the community of the Church and how that is worked out here at NCC through Community Groups. Community is a central theme in Jesus' teaching and a loving mandate to anyone who is learning to be with him, like him, and do what he does.
Becoming NCC: One New Man in Christ (The Miracle of the Church)
September 29, 2024 • Bo Noonan • Ephesians 2, Galatians 2:20, Jeremiah 4:3–4
Bo Noonan kicks off our new series: Becoming New Community Church by diving into the amazing truth of being "one new man in Christ". The truth about the Church is that we are a miracle! We are the profound work of God doing the impossible through his son Jesus: he has taken separated, dead enemies and made us into fully alive children of God! Because of this, we are not just a gathering of people or a social club; instead, we are the redeemed people of God, created in the Christ Jesus for good works. We are the miraculous work of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit...we are the Church!
