Northstar Church in Panama City, FL is a place where everybody's welcome, nobody's perfect and anything can happen! We hope that you enjoy these messages from our lead pastor Marty Martin and the Northstar teaching team. We hope that they encourage and challenge you to live a life of worship. For more information and resources, such as videos and notes that accompany these messages, please visit www.northstar.cc
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Podcast by NorthStar Church - Kennesaw, GA
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Podcast by Pastor Roy Evans
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This is the podcast of Northstar Church in Blacksburg, Virginia. Our vision is to help believers in Christ "be the church."
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Planning ahead to place obstructions in the path of sinful habits
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Appropriating the power of the Holy Spirit that is already in me
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Putting to death the old self that I've already put off
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What does hospitality in the church have to do with architecture? Today we explore the story of this practice in Church history: throughout the New Testament, we see followers of Jesus gathering in homes around a table and a meal. But as the church changed, so did their meeting place, which impacted the practice of eating and drinking in fellowship…
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Putting off the old self's evil practices through confession
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Putting off the evil automatic responses that have embedded themselves in my body
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disarming the lies of my earthly desires with the truth of God's promises
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Rendering my body of sin, powerless and ineffective
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Depriving our old self of its power
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Choosing the presence of Jesus, overthinking about fulfilling the desires of my flesh
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Description: Jesus said we are to "love your neighbor as yourself." What if he meant our actual neighbors? What if we were to reimagine our homes not as a castle to hide in, but as an outpost for the kingdom of God, our tables as a tangible expression of love, and meals as the setting where strangers become neighbors and neighbors become brothers a…
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Description: What was it about Jesus' method of hospitality that drew people in? How can something as ordinary as setting a table create space for people far from God to experience the Father's warm welcome into his family? Join us this Sunday!
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Killing desires before they become evil over desires
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Healing my disease that causes over desires
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Changing what I do for any reason other than pleasing God
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Description: Is there a practice from the life of Jesus that could set us up to thrive in a culture of distraction and escapism? Jesus details out a framework to help us thrive! Join us this Sunday!
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Cutting off the life source of all sexual immorality
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Putting to death everything in me that does not extend beyond what I can touch and see
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Choosing the practices that will sever the life from my earthly cravings
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Future experience with Jesus trumps my immediate pleasures
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Encouraged as I focus on the eternal glories that come from my current afflictions
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A deeper longing to see Christ revealed
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Living the life. Jesus made possible by trusting him and his sacrificial love.
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Pursuing Jesus, who is my life with all of my heart, mind, soul, and strength
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Stopping the indulgence of the flesh by setting my mind on grace
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Setting my mind on God's kingdom when I can't see my life flourishing
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Enthralled with my part in God's story
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My eyes turned away from what cannot satisfy
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a heart inclined away from selfishness, and toward God's word
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Description: What does it look like to witness in our culture? In a culture of hostility, Pastor Marty challenges us to live our lives in a way that demonstrates the good news of Jesus to others.
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Fixing my thoughts, will and affections on things above
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Using every unfulfilled desire as a means to delight in Jesus
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Desiring God more than getting out of my circumstances
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Seeking God's manifest presence
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Guidance, motivation, and power to seek only God's kingdom
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Rejoicing in being raised from the deadness of my sins and transgressions
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Delighting in God by not giving my body as much as it craves
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Description: Sabbath isn't just a command - it's a gift God designed at the dawn of creation to meet our deepest needs. Together we'll explore how despite chronic exhaustion, distractions, a lack of time and shifting seasons, we're all called to embrace these challenges as we grow into healthier followers of Jesus through the practice of Sabbath.…
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Denying myself in a way that helps me stop fleshly indulgence
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Humility that brings grace rather than attention
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Approaching God the way he wants to be approached
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Recognizing the difference between false and true wisdom
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Discerning between temporary human and eternal divine principles
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making every action count for eternity
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Tasting, handling and touching to worship God
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Description: Do you ever feel like your life is overstuffed with too many things and too much to do? Do you long for the peace of contentment but struggle with how to achieve it? Join us this Sunday to learn about the practice of Jesus that fosters contentment.
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Never submitting to decrease the demand. I behave in a certain way
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Rejecting everything but Jesus as my source of significance and joy
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Not relying on worldly means to love God more
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