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Welcome Home, Part 4: House of Miracles - Dr. Mark Batterson

Our church home is a PLACE OF MIRACLES, place of prayer, place of worship, place of belonging, place of purpose and so much more. No matter where you’ve been or where you're headed, we’ve got a seat for you at the table, and you’re right on time. Welcome Home.

Welcome Home, Part 3: In The House! - Pastor Collin Savage

Where do I belong?  The age old question. Make yourself at home this week as we tackle the topic of belonging. You belong somewhere - Fully Seen. Fully Known. Fully Loved.

Welcome Home, Part 2: Place of Worship - Dr. Mark Batterson

Worship is a weapon, our secret weapon. It’s the way we fight spiritual battles, shift the atmosphere, and prophesy our praise.

Welcome Home, Part 1: A Place of Prayer - Dr. Mark Batterson

Our highest privilege and greatest responsibility is prayer. Prayer is the difference between the best WE CAN DO and the best GOD CAN DO, and that’s a big difference. Prayer is the way we WRITE HISTORY before it happens.

Unashamed, Part 3: Shame Off You - Pastor Donna Pisani

Unashamed, Part 2: Reframe Your Shame - Irene Rollins

Discover how facing your underlying pain will allow you to overcome it and move forward as Irene shares her story and talks about what it takes to break the cycle of addiction and shame.

Unashamed, Part 1: The Shame Game - Dr. Mark Batterson

Shame is a story you tell yourself about yourself. Like a news ticker that runs in the background of our minds, we have shame scripts that say: “I am unworthy, I am unlovable, I am not enough, I am a mistake.” God says you are His workmanship, fearfully and wonderfully made, the apple of His eye, more than a conqueror. If you want to change your life, you have change your story! You are who God says you are. To believe anything else is false humility.

Intentional, Part 3: What’s in your backpack? - Pastor Joel Schmidgall

God has prepared in advance opportunities for you to step into. He has and is opening up doors for you to live and share your faith. The question is this: Do you have something to give? Here’s where it starts…sharing and living your faith. Sharing your faith is giving an answer. Sharing your life is living an answer. Join us as we unpack 1 Thessalonians 2:8 and learn to fill our backpack to be able to bless those that God brings across our path.

Intentional, Part 2: Foot to the Floor Intention - Pastor Joel Schmidgall

Intentional faith starts with praying a simple prayer: God where are you at work and how can I be a part? But when our foot hits the floor, it’s time to activate and live out that of which God is making us aware. We go from praying a prayer, to living a prayer. Join us as we talk about developing a prayer state of mind, cultivating story, acting as witness, and calling out God’s image. 

, Part : Lincoln Theatre/Pastor Jimeka Jones Setzer, Intentional, Pt 2 - Pastor Jimeka Jones Setzer

, Part : NoVA, Pastor Marion Mason, Intentional, Pt 2 - Pastor Marion Mason

, Part : Intention to Redemption - Pastor Joel Schmidgall

What would happen if you started your day with a simple prayer: God where are you at work and how can I be a part? It’s the difference between pursuing your own agenda or partnering with God’s plan. We don’t realize all that God is doing all around us, until through prayer, our eyes are opened. When we turn our attention to intention, annoying interruptions become divine interventions. Random interactions become relationship building opportunities. Join us as we talk through what it means t...

Intentional, Part 1: Intention to Redemption - Pastor Joel Schmidgall

What would happen if you started your day with a simple prayer: God where are you at work and how can I be a part? It’s the difference between pursuing your own agenda or partnering with God’s plan. We don’t realize all that God is doing all around us, until through prayer, our eyes are opened. When we turn our attention to intention, annoying interruptions become divine interventions. Random interactions become relationship building opportunities. Join us as we talk through what it means t...

Rule of Life, Part 6: Rule of Patience - Dr. Dick Foth

PATIENCE: tolerating delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset. A simple thought that is difficult to do. If you want to be a farmer, you better have patience. The act of farming is not limited to plants and land. We are farmers each day when we invest in those around us towards the harvest of their futures. A future of love, hope, joy, and all of the fruits of the spirit is made possible when we give sacrificially and patiently wait for the harvest of their lives. Having...

Rule of Life, Part 5: Rule of Humility - Dr. Mark Batterson

If you stay humble and stay hungry, there is nothing God cannot do in you or through you. Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less. How? By thinking of others more. By thinking of God more.

Rule of Life, Part 4: Rule of Wisdom - Dr. Mark Batterson

We are getting smarter and smarter, but I’m not sure we’re getting wiser and wiser. Our culture is polarized and politicized, fight or flight. If we ever needed wisdom, it’s now. The good news? Wisdom has a name. Jesus is wisdom with skin on it. Jesus is perfect theology! The Jesus Way is Third Way. It doesn’t compromise it’s convictions, but it always shows compassion.

Rule of Life, Part 3: Rule of Faith - Pastor Nina Schmidgall

Faith is as faith does! James 2 exhorts the reader that a true faith will be evident by the way one's life is lived. Our active faith is our testimony. It is the way we live our love that testifies to Christ! Faith that works is a faith...that works! 

, Part : Rule Of Life: Freedom - Pastor Jimeka Jones Setzer

Sermon Series: Rule Of Life National Community Church Lincoln Theatre Location Date: 06/19/22

Rule of Life, Part 2: Rule of Freedom - Pastor Joel Schmidgall

Let’s be honest. There’s just about nothing we want more than freedom! Whether it’s financial freedom, freedom from addictions, freedom within our workplaces, freedom to pursue our passions. Freedom is a desire in every direction. In James no nonsense, don’t pull any punches, direct way, he gives advice on how to achieve freedom. It comes through the Word of God planted within us. When we cultivate God’s Word and live it out on a daily basis, we become who God has made us to be. There’s not...

, Part 2: Rule of Freedom - Pastor Joel Schmidgall

Let’s be honest. There’s just about nothing we want more than freedom! Whether it’s financial freedom, freedom from addictions, freedom within our workplaces, freedom to pursue our passions. Freedom is a desire in every direction. In James no nonsense, don’t pull any punches, direct way, he gives advice on how to achieve freedom. It comes through the Word of God planted within us. When we cultivate God’s Word and live it out on a daily basis, we become who God has made us to be. There’s not...

Rule of Life, Part 1: Rule of Joy - Dr. Mark Batterson

We have RULES for everything. There are rules of the road, rules for the games we play, rule of law. Spiritually speaking, a RULE OF LIFE consists of core values, core beliefs, and core practices. It’s a CODE OF CONDUCT—rituals and routines, decisions and disciplines—by which we live our lives. This week we explore seven JOY RULES, and it starts with this—ENJOY THE JOURNEY.

Genius, Part 7: Genius: The Genius of Jesus - Dr. Mark Batterson

Everybody is somebody’s disciple. Consciously or subconsciously, we pattern our lives after someone. As Christ followers, we have made a conscientious decision to live like Jesus, pray like Jesus, forgive like Jesus, love like Jesus. We are His hands, His feet. We are His workmanship. We are the manifold wisdom of God. Simply put, you are the genius of Jesus.

Genius, Part 6: Genius: The Genius of Discipline - Pastor Joshua Symonette

When most people think of genius, I am sure their mind goes to outputs. We think about what someone produces. But what if most of what genius is has more to do with inputs; the things we don't see. I believe discipline, as an input over time, is a force multiplier. And when that discipline is focused on submitting to God, he takes care of the outputs, which is beyond what we could ever do on our own.

Genius, Part 5: Genius: The Genius of Generosity - Dr. Mark Batterson

When you put what you have in your hand—five loaves and two fish—into the hands of God, 5 + 2 doesn’t equal 7 anymore. Add God to the equation, and 5 + 2 = 5000 R12.  

Genius, Part 4: Genius: The Genius of Willingness - Dr. Dick Foth

There are 2 words that have the power to change worlds, and they are: “I WILL”. Gideon modeled for us what the Genius of Willingness looks like and what God can do with a willing heart. 

Genius, Part 3: Genius: The Genius of Activation - Pastor Nina Schmidgall

A powerhouse leader for God's people, Deborah had the Genius of Activation (Judges 4-5). Activators are individuals who prompt us, support us, call out of us! Leaning into their god-given authority, Activators have an acute ability to discern a path forward. Let us be a community that activates one another!

Genius, Part 2: Genius: The Genius of Vulnerability - Pastor Robb Schmidgall

We often view vulnerability as a weakness, and it certainly can be. But Paul models how to use vulnerability as a tool that moves us toward soul wellness. In fact, it is a requirement in each of our journeys back to who God created us to be. 

Genius, Part 1: The Genius of Suffering - Dr. Mark Batterson

When you trace the genealogy of genius, the genesis usually involves some PAIN and SUFFERING. Genius is not born of comfort. It’s born from, born for adversity. SUFFERING is the SEEDBED of genius. God redeems it and recycles it for His plans, His purposes.

Easter, Part 1: Rock and Roll - Dr. Mark Batterson

When Jesus was crucified on a Roman cross, it was GAME OVER.  Death was undefeated, but there is a God who turns GRAVES into GARDENS.  It's not over until God says it's over.  Don't put a PERIOD where God puts a COMMA.  Just when it seems like all is lost, God has a supernatural surprise up His sovereign sleeve!

, Part : Ruth, Jesus & Second Chances - Pastor Jimeka Jones Setzer

, Part 2: Current Reality ≠ Future Destiny - Joel Schmidgall

Many of us find ourselves in chains to addiction or habit or routine. And when God sends someone to help us, to unchain us, we have a choice. Do we cross the threshold of fear toward faith to try and escape our prison, or do we lean into our fears and remain captive? Will you risk faith? Or will you risk not having faith? Join us as we speak not only to the second chance that we have, but the second life that God gives us through his Spirit to those that believe.

People of the Second Chance, Part 2: Current Reality ≠ Future Destiny - Joel Schmidgall

Many of us find ourselves in chains to addiction or habit or routine. And when God sends someone to help us, to unchain us, we have a choice. Do we cross the threshold of fear toward faith to try and escape our prison, or do we lean into our fears and remain captive? Will you risk faith? Or will you risk not having faith? Join us as we speak not only to the second chance that we have, but the second life that God gives us through his Spirit to those that believe.

, Part 2: Your Current Reality Does Not Reflect Your Future Destiny - Joel Schmidgall

In Acts 12, Peter had been thrown in prison. He faced certain death. Life looked grim. But Peter was a part of a praying community. And as the church prayed, an angel came to rescue Peter. As Thomas Watson said, “The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was praying that sent the angel.” God had a greater plan for Peter. The angel came to Peter in the night while he and the prison guards slept and unchained Peter. At that point, Peter was unchained, but still in prison. Many of us find...

People of the Second Chance, Part 1: People of the Second Chance with Prison Fellowship - Dr. Mark Batterson

God has not, cannot, and will not give up on you. It’s not in His nature. He is the God of second, third, and hundredth chances. We are never beyond the need of God’s grace and we are never beyond the reach of God’s grace. When we extend God’s grace to others, we become People of the Second Chance.

Courage, Part 4: Courage: Courage of Change - Pastor Heather Zempel

Esther leveraged her power, position, and privilege to serve others. Xerxes released control in order to reverse the narrative. Both required a special kind of courage. A courage that makes decisions based on values, convictions, and opportunities instead of fear, insecurity, and avoidance. 

Courage, Part 3: Courage: Courage of Calling - Dr. Mark Batterson

At critical junctures in our lives, situations present themselves that call for courage. Are you going to let FEAR or FAITH dictate your decisions? Are you going to OFFEND GOD or OFFEND PEOPLE? Are you going to PLAY IT SAFE or TAKE A RISK? These are the days when decades happen. The courage of calling is risking ME for WE. The courage of calling is enduring present-tense PAIN for eternal GAIN. The courage of calling is living according to biblical convictions—no reserves, no retreats, no re...

, Part : Courage: The Courage of Calling - Dr. Mark Batterson

At critical junctures in our lives, situations present themselves that call for courage. Are you going to let FEAR or FAITH dictate your decisions? Are you going to OFFEND GOD or OFFEND PEOPLE? Are you going to PLAY IT SAFE or TAKE A RISK? These are the days when decades happen. The courage of calling is risking ME for WE. The courage of calling is enduring present-tense PAIN for eternal GAIN. The courage of calling is living according to biblical convictions—no reserves, no retreats, no re...

Courage, Part 2: Courage: Courage of Inconvenience - Pastor Joshua Symonette

It would be great if we could make things happen on our terms, without hassles, holdups, and sometimes having to push through hell. But often, in order to get to the other side of our dreams, our calling, and the things we envision, there is usually inconvenience. Because inconvenience and opportunity usually go together. And that means discomfort, which no one loves. But if we are ever going to maximize our potential and live out who God desires for us to be, we will have to be courageous ...

Courage, Part 1: Courage: Courage of Conviction - Pastor Joel Schmidgall

Conviction is the antidote to a thousand comprises.  We tend to take life as it comes to us, making decisions in the moment, without guiding values.  Which leads to a thousand regrets.  But if we take time to make pre-decisions to explore that which we are CALLED to do, God will grant us peace, no matter the outcome.  Because we are then living in PURPOSE.   In today's message, we will look at one of the lessor known figures in the book of Esther.  She makes a courageous decision against ...

, Part : Courage: Courage of Conviction - Pastor Joel Schmidgall

Conviction is the antidote to a thousand comprises.  We tend to take life as it comes to us, making decisions in the moment, without guiding values.  Which leads to a thousand regrets.  But if we take time to make pre-decisions to explore that which we are CALLED to do, God will grant us peace, no matter the outcome.  Because we are then living in PURPOSE.   In today's message, we will look at one of the lessor known figures in the book of Esther.  She makes a courageous decision against ...

Love ______, Part 4: Love: Unoffended - Dr. Mark Batterson

What we perceive to be our problems are often presenting problems. The root problem? Unforgiveness. We take offense, and let a seed of bitterness grow roots. The net result is unforgiveness. That’s when and where and why we get stuck spiritually. Hurt people hurt people by projecting their repressed pain. Forgiven people forgive people. There is nothing easy about living unoffended, but it’s the solution to a hundred presenting problems!

Love ______, Part 3: Love: Undistracted - Bob Goff

Bob's inspiring and entertaining stories show us what it looks like to live a beautiful and purposeful life rather than drifting aimlessly from one season to the next.  He encourages us to fix our eyes on Jesus and harness life's distractions so we can find joy despite our circumstances.  

Love ______, Part 2: Love: Regardless - Pastor Heather Zempel

Love the one who hates you. It was shocking and revolutionary when Jesus taught it, and it remains shocking and revolutionary today. In the parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus invites us to imagine a world transformed by people who make decisions against themselves to love across labels, categories, and divisions.

Love ______, Part 1: Love: Unconquered - Dr. Dick Foth

Seeing love as the immoveable, unconquerable thing in our lives that lasts forever.

Dream, Part 8: Dream: It’s Our Responsibility - Pastor Robb Schmidgall

The call to DREAM again is not only an invitation but a responsibility. Dreaming is not just for the self-identified "Dreamer", but a responsibility for us all. Join us as we walk through what it means to live from and toward a DREAM way of life!

Dream, Part 7: Dream: Field Seven - Dr. Mark Batterson

God is raising up a REMNANT—a creative minority, a company of prophets—that operates with an Issachar anointing. They understand the times—supernatural insight. And they bring supernatural solutions to the table—supernatural foresight. God is raising up this DREAM COLLECTIVE to usher in a new season of REVIVAL in the church, REFORMATION in the kingdom, and RENAISSANCE in culture.

Dream, Part 6: Dream ‘22 Revival - KJ Scriven

Dream, Part 5: Dream ‘22 Revival - Jimmy Rollins

Dream, Part 4: Dream ‘22 Revival - Jon Tyson

Dream, Part 3: Dream: Renaissance - Dr. Mark Batterson

We have a core value—the church belongs in the middle of the marketplace. We don’t curse the darkness. We light candles. We’re not just building a church. We’re blessing a city. We want to be more known for what we’re FOR than what we’re AGAINST. We criticize by creating! We write better books, make better music, draft better legislation, produce better films, start better businesses. How? With the help of the Holy Spirit.