Northeast Christian Podcast

Jesus calls us friend. Isn’t that beautiful? As we obey Him, our friendship with Jesus grows deeper. Obedience isn’t always easy but it produces intimacy with our Father who cares for us with an everlasting love.

Friends who share an eternal bond in Christ can speak truth without fear of separation. In our current seres, "Forever Friends," we're learning how to make friends and be a good one. This week's message is about the deep friendship of Paul and Barnabas.

In our current seres, "Forever Friends," we're learning how to make friends and be a good one. This week's message is about the covenant friendship between David and Jonathan.

Adult friendship is two people saying ''I haven't seen you in forever, we should really meet up more'' over and over again until one of you dies. But it doesn't have to be this way. In "Forever Friends", we're learning how to make friends and be a good one. Today we're learning to be a good friend to yourself first, start with who is already in your life, and how to be willing to work through the mess.

Exodus transports us from palatial power to slave labor in a few verses that span a few generations. Seems the line of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will perish beneath Pharaoh’s whips along with their distant God and His absurd promises. Or will it? Enter stage right — Moses. Fished out the Nile, raised in royalty, married in Midian, and blessed by a bush. The reluctant one delivers God’s plagues, then God’s people, then God’s law. Deuteronomy is just barely more exciting than Leviticus…until you peak beneath the hood to see what God is up to. The book is basically one big do-over (the name literally means a second law). It’s not merely a remake, it’s a new start. Let’s take a second look at the “Second Law” for the best chance at a new beginning.   For more resources to study Exodus & Deuteronomy, please visit www.necchurch.org/resources

The beginning has begun. Creation is history. God did it! And God has put an image of Himself to rule and enjoy it. "Adam and Eve, you're here! And you're hired!" What a gig! What a grace! All is good in paradise, right? What could go wrong? Well, apparently ... us. Turns out this managerial arrangement will serve as the central point of conflict in the plot of the human story. The humans forget they are an image, not Immanuel. We get too big for our britches. We lead above our paygrade. We mistake having the image of God for having the wisdom and foresight of God. And we seize authority rather than trusting that God's way is the best way. Which begs the question - What is God going to do about it? Will he fire us? Will he give up on the relationship? Not a chance. While sin may win the battle, it will not win the war. For more resources to study Genesis, please visit https://www.necchurch.org/genesis-resources/

Genesis, THE origin story. It’s Bible study week! By the end of this message, you will be able to outline this epic book, understand its foundational themes, answer some of the hard questions everyone debates, and find Jesus in its pages. At Northeast, we want our people to know, honor, and read the Bible. That journey starts here in the “Genesis” of everything and everyone. Visit www.necchurch.org/resources/genesis for more tools to help you study Genesis.

We're ringing in the New Year the best way we know how. This special New Year's Day prayer service will encourage you to start the year in the presence of the Lord. 

As a church, Northeast is committed to being in the forefront of both relief and development. "Relief" makes a difference in communities in the short term by helping provide for immediate physical needs. "Development" takes a long term approach by working to reduce the need for future intervention and aid. Relief and development mobilize Christians locally and globally to express their concern and compassion in practical ways, such as financially supporting projects or volunteering where help is needed. Sometimes, a simple food box or a Christmas Gift offered in God's name is worth a thousand sermons on love and compassion. Where some look at the needs and pain in the world with despair or disinterest, Northeast sees tremendous opportunity and privilege to serve the poor, marginalized, and forgotten through both relief and development. All we do in the ministry of relief and development is for God's glory. Working with Love the 'Ville outreach Partners, you could help a young woman leave a trafficked life. Yo

Holistic Ministry views people through God’s eyes as complete individuals with both bodies and souls. This holistic view of ministry changes the way we see individuals and communities. In individuals, we seek to meet both physical and spiritual needs to nourish the body and soul with love and tangible care. In communities, we seek to provide both short term intervention and long term involvement. This week, we get to hear from a panel of our partners who are passionate about holistic ministry. Visit www.necchurch.org/outreach to find a place to serve today.

Every person is made in the Image of God. Every image bearer has dignity, worth, and capacity. Being made in the image of God means you have inherent worth. It also means you have inherent capacity- abilities, ideas, assets, and solutions. In all of our Outreach efforts, we seek to define others by this identity of "image bearer". If we define others by their deficiencies or treat them as passive recipients of someone else’s help, it rejects their dignity as image bearers. "Dignity " means we involve everyone as participants, as equals. If we change our paradigm for understanding poverty from a resources framework to a relational framework, then we will focus on the practice of reconciliation rather than the distribution of resources. To get involved with Outreach at Northeast, visit the Outreach page at https://www.necchurch.org/outreach/ We'd love to connect you with one of our partners who are making a difference in our community.

"Shalom" is the biblical concept of wholeness. Shalom is physical, spiritual, emotional, and social harmony everywhere. As followers of Jesus, we seek justice to bring shalom to life. In this series, we're walking through the biblical concepts of justice and shalom, and highlighting partners in our city who are doing the work.

We have a saying at Northeast that we “Always walk the walk, and talk the talk when the time is right.” But how do you know when the “time is right” to share your faith? It’s not as complicated, scary, or weird as you may think. We believe sincerity always trumps spectacle, and that unleashing the love of Jesus is most effective in the everyday moments with the people closest to you.

We have a saying at Northeast that we "Always walk the walk, and talk the talk when the time is right." But how do you know when the "time is right" to share your faith? It's not as complicated, scary, or weird as you may think. We believe sincerity always trumps spectacle, and that unleashing the love of Jesus is most effective in the everyday moments with the people closest to you. Week one of "Show + Tell" will encourage you to both show and tell the love of Jesus in small, daily, world-changing ways.

As we unleash the love of Jesus in our homes, workplaces, city, and church, we want to be the answer to Jesus' prayer in John 17. "My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me." John 17:20-21 We want to be a church that leads in facilitating unity among diverse churches in the ‘Ville because, as Jesus said, our unity will be attractive to a divided world. How does a group of people from all different backgrounds, of all different ages, of all different socio-economic situations, come together as one? Jesus is how.

It's Youth Takeover Weekend! We want to be a church that invests in our youth, especially the most committed. You'll hear from our family teams about why we love the next generation of the church and how we want to partner with you to achieve this goal.

"Spiritual formation is becoming like Jesus for the sake of others". -Robert Mulholland At Northeast, we want to help you become more like Jesus so you can take his truth, his beauty, and his love into every part of your life. We hope that your investment in your spiritual formation leads you to say, "I have rhythms and restrictions that help me resist popular culture and connect with God." It's our goal to create resources and communities that make spiritual formation a priority for every person who calls Northeast home. In this message, Tyler shares how we plan to help invest in your spiritual formation in 2023 and beyond.   Visit www.necchurch.org/resources to explore the beginning of our Northeast Resource Library. 

We've all heard the adage, "It's easy to overestimate what you can accomplish in one year, and even easier to underestimate what you can do in five." At Northeast, want to be obedient in becoming who we believe the Lord is calling us to be as a church. In this introductory message, Tyler gives an overview of the ten "aspirational vision targets" that we are strategizing towards for the next five years. It's our hope that five years from now, we can look back and see how God has moved in our church and grown us together in these key areas. Over the course of this series, we will dive deep into five of the ten targets, highlighting one each week. This week, we're focusing on the first target: "We want to be a congregation who knows, honors, and reads the Bible."