Northgate Christian Community

Sally Henien

Chris Parker

Jon Hasselbeck

Roy Van Der Westhuizen

Chris Parker

Jon Hasselbeck Landrey Mack Michael & Nate Vilardo

Penn Clark

Penn Clark

Jon Hasselbeck Continuing with the series, we heard from three people on what seeking the kingdom looks like. Pastor Sally shared about the recent missions trip to Guatemala from which she and others recently returned. They sought the Kingdom by delivering over 150 school supply packages to kids in Guatemala, helping with a construction project that allowed the pastor of the church there to live in an apartment above the church and by engaging in incarnational, cross-cultural relationship building. Next Mary-Kate, who is seeking the kingdom as the director of a pro-life pregnancy resource center, shared about legislation that is set to pass next week that will allow for late term abortions and attempt to shut down pro-life centers. Mary-Kate invited us to pray and to contact our local congressmen. Lastly, Pastor Jon spoke on longing for more. He opened the message by showing a clip from the Matrix in which Morpheus presents to Neo two pills, representing two options that will determine the outcome of his life

Chris Parker

Jon Hasselbeck

Roy Van Der Westhuizen

Jon Hasselbeck

Chris Parker

Roy Van Der Westhuizen

Chris Parker

Jon Hasselbeck While it is difficult to acknowledge, let alone talk about, our deepest vulnerabilities and areas of brokenness, the church is to be a safe community through which people can experience the love, hope and healing of Jesus. When the church chooses to not talk about our vulnerabilities and areas of brokenness, people remain stuck and their sin grows. That is why we are so grateful to Andrew and Kaylee for bravely sharing their story with the church. Andrew shared about his nearly two-decade long struggle with pornography and sexual addiction, which started soon after his mom had died when he was a kid. About a year ago, Andrew joined a group that God was using to help set him free. For the first 9 months he was in this group, Andrew was sober from pornography. However, despite the success he was experiencing, he shared that his relationship with Christ was not growing. 9 months later, Andrew relapsed he and Kaylee hit their lowest point. Andrew was completely broken and hopeless. Kaylee was angry

Roy Van Der Westhuizen Roy started his talk off by showing us a picture where an individual can see an old woman or young woman. The lines are the same they don’t change; to see the difference you have to change how you “see”.  Our worldview often is so ingrained in our thinking that we can’t see it until someone with a different way of thinking comes into our lives.  Jesus saw the world very differently than we do today.  Roy identified four aspects of our western worldview that often come into conflict with the world Jesus Christ saw and taught us to see. It is important to note that Roy was not encouraging us to drop these ideas completely but to see how these concepts, especially at their extremes, aren’t always congruent with Christianity.   1.    Free thought. We believe free will and thought are God given gifts. It can get out of balance when we think that there are no authorities of information other than our own opinions. Often this leads to people rejecting concepts such as revelation.   2.    Self-

Jon Hasselbeck Jon opened his message this week with a tweet from Jim Rudy “What you are going through is not nearly as important as how you are going through it.” Aside from the revelation that pastor Jon has a twitter account, he wanted to communicate that we have the choice in how we handle and what attitude we have towards the things that happen in our lives. We can’t always control when bad things are going to happen but we can control whether we turn that over to God and live in the joy that he offers rather than the suffering of the moment. Jon had Jen and Bill D’Alessandro come up and share about a recent struggle they had. Jen while waiting in her car at work was assaulted by a mugger. He opened the door rustled through her purse and hit her in the face with a gun. She complied and the guy left. She called the police and Bill came and picked her up and took her home. As she was processing through all that had happened she came to the realization that despite everything she was going to be ok. She wou