NCC Daily

This Welcome Home series was all about who we are as a church and how you and I can make ourselves part of the work of God in the Earth. This series was both an invitation and a challenge. It was both aspirational and our daily reality. We believe and we are witnessing this church as a place of prayer, a place of belonging, miracles, and worship.

Come Alive

God Sized Dreams

A Place to Dream

Where is a place you dream to visit? This is a question I often love answering. It puts me in a moment of time where our beautiful world is available to visiting. I think of incredible cities full of culture and art, beautiful mountains of serene stillness, and places where the northern lights shine.

What if we, as believers, led the charge on celebration in our homes, our neighborhoods, and our culture? What if we showed the world how to party and how to give a better picture about who God is and what he’s like through our celebrations? This type of celebration requires strategy and intention. But the creative possibilities are endless.

I am so excited to get to share with you all this morning on how we as Christ followers can become a place of celebration.

You Are Worth Celebrating

Marked By Celebration

With a job like mine, you could say I know a little something about CELEBRATING! I have the daily pleasure of celebrating so many organizations, events, birthdays, weddings-you name it! As a people, we love to come together to celebrate.

What is your primal urge? To answer that question, I think we have to go a step higher and dig a little deeper and ask: What is God’s primal urge? Because it doesn’t begin with us, it begins with God. And we find our purpose and we find our mission when we find ourselves in him.

Creativity and Connection

This week, as we contemplate finding our purpose, I would encourage you to tap into the missional purpose to which God has called his people. Our God is a missional God, his very nature is one in which out of love, he sends himself to those in need.

The journey to understanding our identity comes with many challenges and questions, and we often find others and ourselves asking God, the universe, our peers, and authorities. What is my purpose?

We are part of a much bigger purpose, the missional church. Which at the end of the day is to see the Kingdom of God come to earth.

When it comes to miracles, especially ones that I’d like to experience, like my personal prayer to be totally healed from cancer, I’ve stopped asking why and why not, and I’ve started asking what can I learn, how can I grow, where is my opportunity to walk in obedience to the Spirit’s leading, and what can I do while I’m here.

Discernment: Miracle to Miracles

Belief in Jesus also changes our worldview. It shifts the way we see God, the way we ourselves, the way we see others, and the way we even see creation. It draws us to become students of his words, imitators of his ways, and partners in his mission. Belief in Jesus compels us to walk as true disciples of Jesus.

My prayer for you today is that you will have a prayer every day. You need a miracle. We need to have the miracle of God in our lives to magnify God because we are in a constant battle, and our God is our defender, and he has conquered it all.

I'd love to share what I've experienced that has given me an understanding of what a house of healing can be.