2024 Livestream Archive

NCF Sunday Worship Livestream - August 25, 2024

August 25, 2024 • Pastor Daryl Wattley • 1 Kings 17:8–24, Genesis 18:17–19, Psalm 30, John 11:32–37

"Tears of Faith for Foreigners" (Pastor Daryl)

NCF Sunday Worship Livestream - August 18, 2024

August 18, 2024 • Pastor Bob Becker • Colossians 1:11–20, Isaiah 61:1—62:7, Romans 6:22–23, Psalm 84:1–5

Sermon Title: “The Anointed One’s Mission" (Pastor Bob) Summary: A church can be a great witness to its community if its members show great joy while living in this modern world with all its trouble and turmoil. As Christians we can lack joy because we have forgotten that Jesus’ mission in our lives and in the lives of others was a liberating mission; a mission that replaced shame with honor not just once but forever in the life of the Christian. Jesus is committed to us based on an everlasting covenant. So much of this world and maybe of our life experience can be summed up by the word desolation. Yet, this Servant of the Lord, this Anointed One, replaces desolation with delight. He can do this forever because he forever makes intercession for us. His hearing and answering our prayers prove it!

NCF Sunday Worship Livestream - August 11, 2024

August 11, 2024 • Pastor Bob Becker • Psalm 51:10–17, Hebrews 12:22–29, Isaiah 59:14—60:22, Romans 11:26–27

Sermon Title: "Renewal Through the Gospel" (Pastor Bob) Summary: Sometimes we think God is indifferent to sin and wrongdoing. Actually, he is displeased with it. He is displeased that there is no justice. We, by nature, suppress the truth. Like in the movie, “It’s A Wonderful Life,” every Bedford Falls eventually becomes Pottersville. There is, therefore, no one to intercede to save us, so God’s own arm must bring salvation. Jesus’ breastplate was righteousness, his helmet; salvation. The glory of the Lord has risen upon us. Though the world is covered in darkness, the nations shall come to our light because it is the light of Jesus Christ. The Gospel will go out from the church to all the nations, and they will echo it back to us. Isn’t it amazing that God chose the most unlikely people for greatness; you and me, to magnify His own greatness? Isaiah 60:17 says: “Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver; instead of wood, bronze, instead of stones, iron. I will make your overseers peace and your taskmasters righteousness.”

NCF Sunday Worship Livestream - July 28, 2024

July 28, 2024 • Pastor Bob Becker • Hebrews 13:15, Psalm 86:6–13, Luke 14:7–14, Isaiah 56—57

Sermon Title: “An Unscheduled Revival” (Pastor Bob) Summary: Are revivals scheduled? We may think so when seeing a church sign exclaiming, “Revival Services This Week.” What is revival? Is it a time of refreshing from the presence of the Lord? “Isn’t it when God causes the normal ministry of the gospel to surge forward with extraordinary spiritual power (Raymond Ortlund Jr.)?” How does any Christian or church maintain ongoing revival? They must be empowered by hope, marked by trust, inclusive of all those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. This is the way God’s people ought to be, but often are not. They are often led in churches by self-seeking leaders being made up of those who believe and those who only pretend to believe. God values a heart for Christ; for it defines spiritual authenticity. God’s covenant with us is marital in nature. His love is a jealous love. We commit spiritual adultery when we act as if God and His love is not enough for us. God dwells not just in a high and holy place but also in the hearts of the humble. Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted. He opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.

NCF Sunday Worship Livestream - July 14, 2024

July 14, 2024 • Pastor Daryl Wattley • 1 Kings 16:29—17:7, Hebrews 10:22, Psalm 23, John 7:37–44

Sermon Title: "A Word for a Dry Land" (Pastor Daryl) Meditation: Hebrews 10:22 "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water."

NCF Sunday Worship Livestream - June 30, 2024

June 30, 2024 • Pastor Bob Becker • John 1:29–34, Isaiah 52:13—53:12, John 10:17–18, Micah 7:18–20

Sermon Title: “The Power of God’s Love" (Pastor Bob) Summary: Who is the most loving person you know? Why do you view them that way? Is it because they love you despite how much you have sinned against them? We think God shows his greatest power in the destruction and punishment of the wicked. His greatest power is seen in taking the wickedness of this world on His shoulders and giving back love. Isaiah in this text answers the question, “How can the gracious promises of God come true for guilty people?” (Raymond Ortlund Jr.). Isaiah tells us this Servant of the Lord, though marred beyond recognition, rejected by people, and died innocent of any crime, was also our sin-bearer. It may have been a human plot to kill him, but going to the cross for our sins was also a divine strategy. His death produced life in us. How and what did Jesus feel about the Father’s plan? Isaiah 53:11 says: “Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities."

NCF Sunday Worship Livestream - July 21, 2024

July 21, 2024 • Jim Womer • 1 Peter 3:8–12, Ephesians 4:32, Psalm 34:11–22, 1 Samuel 24:1–15

Sermon Title: "Suffer Well and Bless Others" (Jim Womer) Summary: In this passage of Scripture Peter is writing to the persecuted church in Asia Minor and lists qualities that should characterize the way they lived their lives as they suffered. In the midst of their suffering, they were to have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. Peter’s instructions to the church are foreign to a world that believes that we should take it upon ourself to right the wrongs that have been done to us. The world says that if you get hit, you have to hit back harder to make sure it doesn’t happen again. How can Christians bless those who persecute us? We are to remember that the eyes of the Lord are on his people and his ears are open to our cries. When we trust that the Lord sees our suffering and hears our petitions, we are free to let him right the wrongs done to us. The gospel not only transforms our relationship to the world, but also those in the church. If we are able to bless those who persecute us, how much more so should we be able to bless our brothers and sisters in our church family when they hurt us.

NCF Sunday Worship Livestream - July 7, 2024

July 7, 2024 • Pastor Bob Becker • Isaiah 54—55, 1 Peter 1:8–9, Psalm 105:1–10, Romans 15:7–13

Sermon Title: “Holy Joy for Bad People” (Pastor Bob) Summary: How are the redeemed supposed to respond when hearing their sins are forgiven? “Break forth into singing and cry aloud!” Isn’t the Gospel good news? Doesn’t good news make us happy? What we believe is summarized in the church’s creed, but it is also seen in joyful worship. Why are we so joyful? It is because God’s grace has caused such great reversals. Isaiah uses three images to help us know how to rejoice over God’s grace. It is like a barren woman who now has a growing family, like a lonely wife comforted by her loving husband, a poor city beautified by costly jewels. God’s word is effective. It changes people, situations, and societies. Because the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, died for us, and rose again and is coming again, a renewed world awaits us. Why wouldn’t any true believer not rejoice and keep on rejoicing?

NCF Sunday Worship Livestream - June 23, 2024

June 23, 2024 • Pastor Bob Becker • Isaiah 51:9—52:12, Ephesians 5:13–14, Psalm 108:1–6, Philippians 3:3–11

Sermon Title: “Wake Up!” Summary: The Jews living in exile needed to hear the words of Isaiah 51:9-52:12. They needed to wake up to the message that the time of God’s wrath has passed. The only way to escape His wrath is through His mercy! The message that God comforts His people is as secure as His existence. There is no place for a half-way Christianity. We are on a holy pilgrimage; a pilgrimage that does not lead to social isolation, but isolation from every system of self-salvation. Anything in our lives that is unclean, that in any way contaminates the message of the Gospel, must go. We need to wake up to the fact that God's salvation is spreading. God is extending His grace throughout the world. More and more people, Jews and Gentiles, are looking forward to His homecoming. Are you?

NCF Sunday Worship Livestream - June 16, 2024

June 16, 2024 • James Richters • Luke 15, Jeremiah 23:5–6, Isaiah 11:1–9, Ezekiel 34:1–12

Sermon Title: "Two Sons in a Far Country" (James Richters) Sermon Summary: Jesus invites the scribes and Pharisees to come into the house and join the tax collectors and sinners in celebrating the grace of God offered to them all.

NCF Sunday Worship Livestream - June 9, 2024

June 9, 2024 • Pastor Bob Becker • Isaiah 50:4—51:8, Proverbs 19:20–21, Psalm 61, James 1:19–27

Sermon Title: “Who Are We Listening To?” Sermon Summary: Why did God put our ears on the outside of our heads and not on the inside? God did not want us to listen to our own thoughts and feelings. I truly believe this is the reason so much has gone wrong in this world. We listen more to our own thoughts and feelings and less and less to what God is saying through His Word. Much of our lives are lived within a mental universe and our ears are not open to the blessing of God’s Word, which brings and sustains life. Almost 400 times the O.T. refers to the Word of God coming to us. The question is, will we listen?!

NCF Sunday Worship Livestream - June 2, 2024

June 2, 2024 • Pastor Bob Becker • 1 John 4:9–10, Psalm 103:13–22, Luke 11:14–23, Isaiah 49:1—50:3

Sermon Title: “On The Palm of His Hands” Sermon Summary: Though God will use Cyrus as his servant to liberate the Jews from exile and have them return to Jerusalem, Isaiah sees in the future a great Servant who will redeem the world. God gives His people a glimpse of what the future holds for the church. Because of the triumph of His grace, the church will expand so greatly, be so numerous, that it will surprise greatly the people of God; like a mother astonished at the multitude of happy children gathering around her. What shall accomplish this? - a love far greater than a mother’s love for her children - it is the love of God. He has engraved all our names on the palms of His hands. A mother or father may forget their children, but our God will not forget us. What encouragement this is to a despondent people who cannot see beyond their present distress to what awaits them in God’s glorious future. There is no room for anger and resentment over what we face in the present. Isaiah’s vision of God is true. God loves us more than we love ourselves, so we can rest in His mighty arms.

NCF Sunday Worship Livestream - May 26, 2024

May 26, 2024 • Jim Womer • 1 Peter 3:1–7, Colossians 3:3–4, Psalm 147:1–7, Genesis 18:1–15

Sermon Title: "Christian Wives and Husbands" (Jim Womer) Sermon Summary: The Gospel changes everything. When we are born again, God changes our hearts and our relationships. Women who converted to Christianity in the early church faced opposition from their culture and their own husbands. Wives, in the Greco-Roman world, were supposed to worship the gods their husband worshipped and to associate with the people their husband wanted them to associate with. This was part of the social code. Christ gave the women a new identity and a new community that could place her at odds with her family. Peter’s answer was for the women to submit to their husbands and to lead holy and gentle lives that point their husbands to Christ. This submission is not out of fear or social pressure but is to be done for the sake of Christ. Husbands are to endeavor to understand their wives and to honor them. Marriage points us to our need of Christ. No husband perfectly understands and honors his wife and no wife perfectly respects her husband. Marriage can be a wonderful relationship, but it is Christ who truly satisfies us.

NCF Sunday Worship Livestream - 30th Anniversary Service - May 19, 2024

May 19, 2024 • Pastor Bob Becker • Romans 11:33–34, Psalm 115:1–11, Revelation 22:11–21, Isaiah 48

Sermon Title: “The Logic of God” Sermon Summary: How many times have you heard people say, “Christianity cannot be true. Look at the people in the church. They’re sinners like everyone else.” Raymond Ortlund, Jr. says Isaiah 48 goes deeper. “How does God think? Christianity must be true. Look at the people in the church. They’re sinners like everyone else.” God knows we are hardheaded, and we have hearts of stone. Yet in love He does not give up on us even when we do not live by real faith. He declares things to us from old. He announces them before they come to pass so we will not say our idols did it. Out of love for His people He restrains His anger. He refines them in the furnace of affliction because he will not give His glory to another. It may seem illogical to us that he would be so gracious to such a sinful people, but He is a good Savior no matter what he chooses to do. The ultimate wickedness is to refuse His grace. There can be no peace for those who reject such grace. Resistance must become trust; refusing, to listening; and delaying, to following.

NCF Sunday Worship Livestream - May 12, 2024

May 12, 2024 • Pastor Bob Becker • Isaiah 46—47, John 1:4–5, Psalm 102:18–28, Romans 1:20–25

Sermon Title: “False Gods Destroy Cultures” Sermon Summary: Not all the things we idolize are bad in and of themselves. We can go after a good thing, a gift God has given His creation. But when we prefer it to God, it is an idol. We make the gift more real and more rewarding than the Giver. The worship of idols collapses the greatest of cultures. The Babylonians are an example. They thought they were superior to all and answerable to no one. When God decrees their downfall then they see their religion has no answers and their wealth will be no refuge. Only our God is a refuge and strength to those who serve Him. It is His counsel that shall stand forever.

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