North Metro Church Podcast

Lead Pastor Rob McDowell teaches on God's heart for the nations.

Parenting is one of God’s major tools for sanctification. God uses two imperfect people to guide, protect and sacrifice for small people who will never fully appreciate them or what they’ve done until they are parents themselves.  The cost is great, but the reward for both parents and children is priceless.

One of the great struggles in all marriages is conflict. No matter who you are or where you’re from, it is impossible to always agree with someone. Especially when you live and are raising a family together. So how do we respectfully disagree with our spouse, while not destroying or humiliating them? This week, with Scripture as the primary guide, adults and couples will be encouraged to fight fair.

Week 3 in the series Team Us. Once the team has come together, a shift takes place. For some, this shift happens over night. For others, it takes many years. This is the shift from ME to WE. This week, we will explore the key ingredient of humility and submission to one another in order to properly move from ME to WE.

God created marriage to be a team venture. But how does, and more importantly, how should the team come together. This week, we will explore the progression from, “Nice to meet you” to “I Do!” with specific emphasis on how God has called us to prepare our people for marriage.

As we begin the Team Us teaching series, we will discuss the end goal of marriage:  Eternity.  Having a picture of where you are going greatly helps you get there. 

Next Sunday is Easter. In the Christian world, this time of year brings with it great anticipation, excitement, and worship. As we prepare to celebrate the gospel together, two things will grow and enhance our ability to do this collectively: Prayer and Fasting. Both of these things are forms of worship. Fasting is how we worship God through dependence upon Him rather than earthly materials or sustenance. Prayer is how we connect and communicate with this loving God and express our heart and worship to Him.

Worship is revelation and response. The goodness of God is revealed in all of life, but the Word of God is the primary place of revelation. One of the best ways we can worship God beyond a song is setting aside time to read and study His Word each day. Every time we do this, worship takes place. We receive God’s revelation and respond according to what’s been revealed. The Word renews our mind and transforms the way we live. The desire for this week is that adults leave and desire to spend time in God’s Word, growing in their love and worship of Him.

So far, we’ve said that we all worship. Worship is more than a song, is clear in the way we live our lives, but includes singing songs. This week, we will look at another way that worship is more than a song, yet takes place within the walls of the church. Each Sunday, hundreds of adults and college students come and serve during our services. Around here, we call these people Table Setters. Each of them sets the table for more people to come and worship God with us. Setting the table for someone else to worship, though, is also a form of worship. It’s a picture of our laying down our lives and sacrificially serving someone else as Christ did for us. Adults will be inspired to serve and set the table as part of their weekly worship here at NMC.

As we stated last week, worship is definitely more than a song. But, singing is a key part of our worship to God. So why do we sing? What are we communicating when we sing songs each week? We sing as a response to what’s been revealed to us about God. We sing about God and to God. We sing to teach and remind ourselves the timeless truth’s in God’s Word. Singing also takes on a variety of postures. Some kneel, bow, or raise their hands. Each posture is significant as well. This week, adults will be informed of the what, why, and how or worship through song, and encouraged to sing and worship freely each Sunday.

We’re all worshippers. Whether we believe in Jesus or not, we all worship something, because worship is simply revelation and response. Whatever grabs our attention and holds our energy and affection is what we worship. Clearly, it’s more than singing a song. For those who follow God, worship is a life of response to God for who He is and what he’s done for us. As we begin our time in this series, adults will be challenged to survey what they worship with their lives, and to choose to embrace a lifestyle of worship to their great Heavenly Father.

As we conclude the series, we will look at one more pivotal way that God calls us to treat one another, encouragement. We are called to remind one another of the great things God has done, as well as the future hope we have in Christ's return.

This week the call is to serve one person in our sphere of influence, asking God to make us humble and more like Christ.

Last week we talked about confessing our sins to one another, now we will build on that with carrying one another's burdens.

The Bible calls for us to confess our sins to one another, but in reality many of us rarely do. God designed confession to bring sin out into the light and set us free. We all have a mess, therefore confess.

As we continue to discover what it means to live out the Golden Rule, one of the most important things we can do is pray for one another.

Love reveals a powerful truth, all of our sins have been forgiven. Because of the forgiveness we have received, we are called to forgive one another. Forgiven people, forgive people.

With the context of the Golden Rule established, we can now dive into the most important way to live towards one another. That way is love.

We begin One Anothering sermon series with the Golden Rule: Do to one another what you would like done to you. Though many have heard this powerful statement, it's possible they've lost sigh of the context in which Jesus was delivering it.

Teaching Pastor Tray Tankersley talks about the importance of being a beggar and not a a baker.