Past, Present, and Future
I’ll be reading from Isaiah 43:16-21 in The Passion Translation and pausing on occasion to allow you time to pray and listen.
Jan 27, 2022•4 min
NCC Daily
The NCC Daily is a 5-minute devotional podcast that serves as a prompt for us to read, study, pray, and live out God's Word, actively seeking to bring heaven to earth together. This podcast is hosted by National Community Church in Washington, D.C.
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Episodes
A Living Sanctuary
As I lead us today in this guided prayer, let’s take a moment to quiet our souls as we prepare to commune with God.
Jan 26, 2022•5 min
Our God is Holy
As we continue in our series entitled Dream, I want to just take a moment and intimately guide us in prayer—a prayer that allows us to consecrate and sanctify ourselves from the inside out. A prayer that will allow us to be the revival, reformation, and renaissance first within us individually so that we can believe and posture ourselves for revival in the church, a reformation in the kingdom, and a renaissance in culture.
Jan 25, 2022•4 min
Revival: A Homecoming
Today we’re going to pray through a Scripture that should always give us the confidence to want to come HOME.
Jan 24, 2022•4 min
Joining God in Creation
As image-bearers of God, we are called to reflect his likeness in every way, and while God's essence embodied in the Trinity is love, the action that flows out of that love is creation.
Jan 21, 2022•4 min
Create: Theology of Making
Once we remember that God freely has given us the Holy Spirit which holds that same capacity for the same radical love, we have that capacity to create, and to make beyond some industrial, production-centric purpose culture imposes on us or that we impose on ourselves. It allows us to create through a Spirit-filled, loving state.
Jan 20, 2022•4 min
Renaissance: A Cultural Bridge
When I think of the Renaissance I think of that rebirth in culture and the huge bursts of creativity in art and architecture and grand marble statues, but I also think of great writers and artists who have stood the test of time.
Jan 19, 2022•3 min
Beauty Brings Creativity
God has made everything beautiful for its time. He has placed eternity within the human heart. Beauty is all around us—God’s goodness made manifest to the senses.
Jan 18, 2022•4 min
Creative Minority
I think the Apostle Paul, walking into the Areopagus in Athens and competing for the truth is a picture of what it means to be both a moral minority and a creative minority. We don’t curse the darkness. We light a candle. We criticize by creating. We write better books, make better music, produce better films, draft better legislation, start better businesses. How? With the help of the Holy Spirit.
Jan 17, 2022•5 min
Arrive Where We Started
At its root, to reform is to make better. It’s a look back, a return to the ancient truths and practices that have bulwarked our faith, and it’s a look forward to what could be built.
Jan 14, 2022•4 min
New vs. Original
To experience a Spirit-led reformation of the heart and the church is to be drawn back to the original place of God’s love and His blessing.
Jan 13, 2022•5 min
Be The Reformation
Live today like it could be the day that you are the expression of reformation that is needed in our world, and it will be so. Be the reformation the world needs.
Jan 12, 2022•5 min
Resonate Spirit
There is something about God’s people responding to a move of His Spirit that resonates with the Spirit in us. Our spirit resonates with the Lord and it resonates with one another.
Jan 11, 2022•5 min
Semper Reformandum
There was a rallying cry during the protestant reformation. Semper Reformandum—reformed, and always reforming. Every generation needs its own reformation.
Jan 10, 2022•5 min
Supernatural Demonstration of Love
Revival is beautifully demonstrated when God’s love is displayed through His supernatural power.
Jan 07, 2022•5 min
Fresh Anointing
A move of God’s Spirit always comes with a fresh anointing. Scripture is full of signs that speak to the newness of what God is doing.
Jan 06, 2022•5 min
Make Room
There is a table of goodness that God has prepared for us as we empty ourselves to receive it. How are we preparing ourselves?
Jan 05, 2022•4 min
Stand In Awe
We often think of anticipation and expectation as outcomes of practicing spiritual disciplines. Bible reading, prayer, meditation and celebration, silence and worship, solitude and community. Those practices serve to heighten our awareness of the presence of God in our midst, they cause us to take notice of His fingerprints in our world, and they prime a sense of anticipation and expectation within us.
Jan 04, 2022•5 min
Draw the Circle
We’re believing God for REVIVAL in the church, REFORMATION in the kingdom, and RENAISSANCE in culture. Our focus in week one is REVIVAL.
Jan 03, 2022•5 min
Joy To The World
Joy comes from Holy Spirit, abiding in God's presence, and from hope in His word.
Dec 23, 2021•5 min
Joy in the Waiting
There is joy found in the waiting. His timing is good and perfect and we can trust the story He’s writing through us.
Dec 22, 2021•4 min
Joy in Difficult Messiness
Our joy does not hinge on the ups and downs of day-to-day life. Some days are wonderful and some are unimaginably terrible. Rather, our joy is rooted in an expansive vision of reality, one in which God is not distant from us.
Dec 21, 2021•5 min
Jesus is Lord
Jesus and His proclamation of the kingdom told us what we could prefer to life itself and it would work. The Scriptures end by telling us we are called to be people who would say, “Come, Lord Jesus”—who would welcome something more than business as usual and live in God’s big picture.
Dec 20, 2021•4 min
Steadfast Love
Imagine what the church could do if we were not deterred by fear and anxiety and we truly understood what steadfast love meant.
Dec 17, 2021•4 min
Love - Lectio Divina
Today we’re going to step into the practice of Lectio Divina, which simply means divine reading. So, we’ll read the passage, 1 John 3:16-18, four times, and each time I will invite you into a space of silence and reflection through a simple question or directive.
Dec 16, 2021•5 min
Love Without Condition
How does this kid in the Old Testament, under the inferior covenant, show his love to a king without condition and without an agenda? I honestly do not know, but I am challenged by this kind of unique and unconditional love.
Dec 15, 2021•5 min
Love Through the Weary
You can bring that weariness this Advent season because the King creator is into trading beauty for ashes, shame for significance, and pain for peace.
Dec 14, 2021•4 min
Wonders of His Love
God is with you. God is for you. Live today in the wonders of His love.
Dec 13, 2021•4 min
Partner With Hope
My prayer for us in this season is that we would learn to partner with Hope Himself. May the word hope have a whole new meaning to us. A new expression. A new experience. Hope has a name. Hope is with us.
Dec 10, 2021•4 min
Thrill of Hope
My prayer for us all as we observe Advent together and as we prepare to gather with friends and family this holiday season is that we experience and recognize the hope that is Jesus. Christ, who came to the earth in the most humble of forms, to live a life full of hope for His people. For me. For you. May our weary souls rejoice. For we have a thrill of hope; a hope that is just what we need when we need it. A hope that anchors the soul and brings a new and glorious morn.
Dec 09, 2021•4 min
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