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The Northwood Podcast flows from the conviction that the world needs more love, justice, and hope in it. It is produced by Heath Jones, pastor of Northwood Christian Church, who hopes to bring a message of hope and liberation for the needy and downtrodden. Take heart! Hold fast to hope! Love will win out in the end!
Moving right through the Gospel of Matthew, today we read about an interaction between Jesus and his disciples; one that called them to consider where true power lies. It’s found in Matthew 16:13-20. The Roman Empire seemed to be holding all of the cards, but Jesus spoke of an authority and power in God that transcends the empires of humanity. This episode reflects on these themes. In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8. If you’d like to join our mailing/emailing list, please write in to admin@indyncc.org.
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Today, we’ll consider a story from the Gospel of Matthew that is quite disturbing on it’s face. It’s found in the 15th chapter. It tells of a woman who approaches Jesus with a need, but Jesus’ response is not what we might expect. He treats her with all the contempt that his culture would hold for such a woman, for she was an outsider. But, the story ends well. Jesus heals the woman’s daughter. But, what to make of his initial response? This episode reflects on these themes. What In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8. If you’d like to join our mailing/emailing list, please write in to admin@indyncc.org.
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Today, we’ll consider a story from the Gospel of Matthew chapter 14. It’s a fairly well-known story about Jesus walking on tumultuous waters. The waters carried symbolic significance in Jesus’ day, standing as a metaphor for the chaos and turbulence we find in our world. What might Jesus’ master over the storm teach us today? This episode reflects on these themes. What In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8. If you’d like to join our mailing/emailing list, please write in to admin@indyncc.org.
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Today, we’ll consider the only Miracle Story about Jesus that is recorded in all four of the gospels. The version we’ll be going over is found in Matthew 14:13-21. Here is where Jesus feeds a multitude of people by dividing 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish. Somehow, the disciples find this to be enough to meet the immediate needs of the masses of people. What might this story have to teach us today? In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8. If you’d like to join our mailing/emailing list, please write in to admin@indyncc.org.
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Today we’ll consider a parable of Jesus recorded in the Gospel of Matthew chapter 13. It is about weeds and wheat growing together in a field and what to do about it. This is, of course, a metaphor for our own communities that are filled both with people who exude life/love (wheat) and those who do not (weeds). We struggle still today to determine how to coexist with others, especially if they mean us harm. This episode reflects on these themes. In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8. If you’d like to join our mailing/emailing list, please write in to admin@indyncc.org.
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In this episode we consider one of Jesus’ most well-known parables: the Parable of the Sower. This parable calls us to a greater love, to endure through hardships, and to reject the allures of greed and rampant consumption. We are called to consider our own receptivity to the life-giving message of Jesus. In this message we’ll explore these themes. In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8. If you’d like to join our mailing/emailing list, please write in to admin@indyncc.org.
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In this episode we consider some statements made by Jesus in Matthew 10:40-42. In this passage Jesus tells his disciples of the reward that is received by those who treat his disciples well. While this seems a bit self-serving at first blush, these statements in fact call us towards a greater love and devotion to God and humanity. This episode reflects on these things. In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8. If you’d like to join our mailing/emailing list, please write in to admin@indyncc.org.
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In this episode we consider some statements made by Jesus in Matthew 10:24-39. Some of these are are hard words to for us to hear, for they warn us of the divisive nature of the Gospel message. Jesus’ message does not always fall as welcome words for eager ears. No, he was met with much resistance in his time. Some of the pushback came from his close friends and relatives. How are we to navigate the tension caused by the divisions that come between us today? This episode reflects on these things. In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8. If you’d like to join our mailing/emailing list, please write in to admin@indyncc.org.
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In this episode we consider some statements made by Jesus in Matthew 9. Upon looking at the mass of people in need of help, he remarks how “…the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.” This captures the sentiment of many who have spent their life’s efforts and energies towards improving the world, only to discover that there is far more work for one single individual to take on. What to do? Is there any help to be had? This episode reflects on these things. In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8. If you’d like to join our mailing/emailing list, please write in to admin@indyncc.org.
Also, as is mentioned in the episode, here are the links to Dr. Richard Hamm’s two seminars given at Northwood:
Seminar #1: https://youtu.be/CRTacHxg2ok
Seminar #2: https://youtu.be/OhW-ISrMFwc
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Today we consider two parables told by Jesus about our need to be flexible and adaptable to life-giving changes in our community. It is human nature to be resistant to change. Some things ought not to change. But whenpositive changehas occurred in times pastchurches have oftenresistedand reactedto the changein fear and anger.This message explores these tendencies andchallenges us to be more flexible and receptive to the newness God wants to bring into our lives. In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8. If you’d like to join our mailing/emailing list, please write in to admin@indyncc.org.
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Much of what has been familiar and dependable has changed or is gone. This reality has likely been true for most generations. The question becomes: How is one to live whilst our beloved ‘temples’ topple around us? Luke’s Gospel was written for an audience who had literally witnessed their beloved and sacred temple torn down by Roman imperialists. All that they knew had changed, yet they endured. What was their secret? This episode reflects on these themes.In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8. If you’d like to join our mailing/emailing list, please write admin@indyncc.org.
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The prophet Habakkuk wrote during a time of great duress, yet he was not willing to give up on his people’s future. He did not believe God would abandon the people, so he cried out to God for justice and some relief. This message reflects on his writings and considers what they have to say to us today. In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8. If you’d like to join our mailing/emailing list, please write admin@indyncc.org.
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This message marks the fourth in a series on the Lord’s Prayer. This series corresponds with Northwood’s yearly stewardship campaign; a time when we look hopefully into the next year with a mind to plan how we will use our resources to make the world a better place. Part 4 considers the line in the prayer that reminds us of the ways God has delivered desperate people in the past. Our forebears testify to the ways God has seen them through good times and bad. This message reflects on these themes. In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8. If you’d like to join our mailing/emailing list, please write admin@indyncc.org.
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This message marks the third in a series on the Lord’s Prayer. This series corresponds with Northwood’s yearly stewardship campaign; a time when we look hopefully into the next year with a mind to plan how we will use our resources to make the world a better place. Part 3 considers the lines in the prayer that acknowledge the temptation we will face along the way. In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8. If you’d like to join our mailing/emailing list, please write admin@indyncc.org.
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This message marks the second in a series on the Lord’s Prayer. This series corresponds with Northwood’s yearly stewardship campaign; a time when we look hopefully into the next year with a mind to plan how we will use our resources to make the world a better place. Part 2 considers the lines in the prayer that draw our attention to our ‘debts’ and ‘daily bread.’ In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8. If you’d like to join our mailing/emailing list, please write admin@indyncc.org.
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This message marks the first in a series on the Lord’s Prayer. This series corresponds with Northwood’s yearly stewardship campaign; a time when we look hopefully into the next year with a mind to plan how we will use our resources to make the world a better place. We hope to see what we pray for in the Lord’s Prayer come alive around us! And, how might you play a part? In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8. If you’d like to join our mailing/emailing list, please write admin@indyncc.org.
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Today, we’ll be going over a Bible passage found in Luke 16:19-31. In this passage Jesus tells a parable about a rich man who could not see his poor neighbor for who he truly was. This message reflects on our tendency to do the same. In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8. Also, check out The Northwood Podcast at www.WishTV.com/podcasts
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Today, we’ll be going over a Bible passage found in Luke 16:1-15. In this passage Jesus tells a parable about a manager who gamed the system to his advantage. Jesus appears to laud the shrewd dealings of the dishonest manager. What gives? Could Jesus really condone such behavior? Of course not, but then, how to make sense of this parable? This message unpacks these things. In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8. Also, check out The Northwood Podcast at www.WishTV.com/podcasts.
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Today, we’ll be going over a Bible passage found in Luke 15:1-7. In this passage, Jesus tells us a parable meant to help open us understand the depths of God’s love for us. The Parable of the Lost Sheep challenges our assumptions about who is worthy of our efforts to help and journey through life with. In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8. Also, check out The Northwood Podcast at www.WishTV.com/podcasts.
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Today, we’ll be going over a Bible passage found in Luke 14:25-33. In this passage, Jesus warns his disciples upfront about the cost of being his disciple. His warnings are sobering, even dire. So much so that in the midst of these ominous warnings we one can forget that the end goal makes the cost worth it. In the end, we make sacrifices along with Jesus for the sake of a better world and a better future. Today’s episode reminds us that what this life costs us is worth every penny in the end. In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8. Also, check out The Northwood Podcast at www.WishTV.com/podcasts.
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Today, we’ll be going over a Bible passage found in Luke 20:27-40. In this story, Jesus is confronted by a religious leader with a question about marriage. But at root this question was not about marriage, but about maintaining the status quo; the current unjust order of things. Today’s message considers this stories’ implications for us today. In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8. Also, check out The Northwood Podcast at www.WishTV.com/podcasts.
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Today, we’ll be going over a Bible passage found in Luke 13:10-17. In this story, Jesus is approached by a woman with a bent back, who has been unable to stand up straight for nearly 20 years. Jesus heals the woman, and she and her community rejoice. However, not everyone is happy, and Jesus is confronted by a religious leader who is upset at Jesus’ actions. Today’s message considered this story’s implications for us today. In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8.
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We’re back from a long hiatus to go over a Bible passage found in Luke 12:32-40. Here, Jesus tells two parables meant to prepare the people for something amazing; some good news about to break in upon them. We’ll consider the implications for us today. In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8.
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In today’s story Jesus reads from the prophet Isaiah. In the passage he reads the prophet casts a vision for the people that is beyond what they dared to hope for. It foretold of their liberation and restoration. What’s more, Jesus claimed to have come to make the dream come alive! What might this mean for us today? If you are interested in learning more about Northwood Christian Church, please check out our website at www.indyncc.org. Also, please subscribe or write a review.
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Today, we’re going to be going over a story from the Bible found in the Gospel of Mark 2:13-17. In the story we discover that Jesus was not adverse to sitting down for awkward meals with exceedingly flawed persons. In fact, he seems to have sought out these moments in hopes to reconcile people to God and to one another. At church, our communion tables are meant to reflect the table set by Jesus for “tax collectors and sinners.” If you are interested in learning more about Northwood Christian Church, please check out our website at www.indyncc.org. Also, please subscribe or write a review.
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Today, we’re going to be going over a passage in the Bible found in the Epistle of James 3:1-12. We won’t read it in total for the sake of time, but will be touching on a verse here or there, but here’s the gist. James compares the tongue to the rudder of a ship. This metaphor is meant to emphasize the point that we can create wonderful things with our words. We can build up a life, encourage someone who needs to hear a word of hope, or we can tear down a life and speak poison into the life of another. Today’s episode is all about words; how they can harm or help. If you are interested in learning more about Northwood Christian Church, please check out our website at www.indyncc.org. Also, please subscribe or write a review.
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Today, we are going to continue to talk about the topic of last week which was hope. We’ll approach the topic by way of the prophet Jeremiah who was challenged to purchase a piece of land during a time when his nation was under siege. From his vantage point this seemed like a poor investment, but what at first seemed a poor investment was in fact a choice to invest in a positive future; a future where he and his people were free and living well. What similar investments might we make in faith today? If you are interested in learning more about Northwood Christian Church, please check out our website at www.indyncc.org. Also, please subscribe or write a review.
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Today’s topic for conversation is hope; hope for our future, especially in the face of uncertainty and calamity. It may seem that there are few reasons to hope in the year 2021, especially after the year we’ve just had. Just when it seems that there is light at the end of the tunnel hope stalls out, and relief from the challenges we face seems still further off. As we wonder about the future, have we reason to hope? This episode explores this question. If you are interested in learning more about Northwood Christian Church, please check out our website at www.indyncc.org. Also, please subscribe or write a review.
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One day, thousands of years ago, twelve persons were tasked with feeding thousands of people. Jesus turned the twelve and said, “You feed them.” The disciples pushed back, and gist of their response can be summarized in two words: With what? With what will we feed them? This question still haunts us today. The world is still filled with people in desperate need. We’d like to meet those needs, but is there enough to go around? This episode explores this question. If you are interested in learning more about Northwood Christian Church, please check out our website at www.indyncc.org. Also, please subscribe or write a review.
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Jesus once famously said, “Prophets are not without honor, except in their hometown” (Mark 6:4). In other words, the prophets we are most apt to miss are the ones most familiar to us. Might there be prophets in our midst that we fail to notice because of their familiarity and seeming insignificance? If so, what wisdom and insights might we be missing for our failure to see the prophets near and around us? In this message we consider these questions. If you are interested in learning more about Northwood Christian Church, please check out our website at www.indyncc.org. Also, please subscribe or write a review.
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If you listened to last week’s message you’ll know that we began a two part series meant to prompt the question: In what ways might we bring healing and wholeness into a world that desperately needs it? This week we’ll pick up the story we where we left off and consider the fate of Jairus’ daughter. If you are interested in learning more about Northwood Christian Church, please check out our website at www.indyncc.org. Also, please subscribe or write a review.
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We will never be fully aware of the ways our lives impact those around us. We are, each and every day, influencing the lives of others for good or for ill. With this in mind, we should make every effort to be a healing presence in our communities and social networks. With each word and action we must try to bring life and wholeness into the lives of those around us; even strangers. This week’s episode is the first of a two part series that considers the question: What might it look like us to be healers like Jesus?
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The storms of life are bound to find us, and they can leave us feeling disoriented, afraid, or hopeless. Jesus once found himself asleep in a boat during a violent storm. His friends were flabbergasted at his ability to sleep in the midst of such chaos. What peace and calm did Jesus possess, and might that peace and calm find us in the midst of our own storms?
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Mother’s Day Special: The Bible includes multiple instances where God’s ways and nature are described using feminine language and metaphor. When we do not see God reflected in our mothers, we cut ourselves off from a powerful example of God’s active love for us. If you enjoyed listening to this episode please subscribe to The Northwood Podcast. If you are interested in learning more about Northwood Christian Church, please check out our website at www.indyncc.org.
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God constantly strives to reconcile humanity in spite of all our divisions. The spirit of God is on the move calling all peoples across traditions together. We must try and become a part of this work; moving with the spirit as she calls all persons together in unity. If you enjoyed listening to this episode please subscribe to The Northwood Podcast. If you are interested in learning more about Northwood Christian Church, please check out our website at www.indyncc.org.
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Mark’s telling of the Easter story concludes with more questions than answers. It calls us to live in the tension between hope and fear. Much of life is lived in that tension. The message of Easter calls us to hope in spite of our fears. This episode of The Northwood Podcast considers what it may be like for us to find the faith to live as if our redemption were just around the corner. If you enjoyed listening to this episode please subscribe to The Northwood Podcast. If you are interested in learning more about Northwood Christian Church, please check out our website at www.indyncc.org.
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Jesus once said that before a seed may grow it must first die a kind of death; fall to the ground and seemingly fade away. But we all know that what comes next is new life and rebirth. In a similar way we must discern what of ourselves we must let go of before we are transformed into the better persons we hope to become. Today’s episode considers what might happen if we are able to let go of what keeps us from finding new life. If you enjoyed listening to this episode please subscribe to The Northwood Podcast. If you are interested in learning more about Northwood Christian Church, please check out our website at www.indyncc.org.
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Jesus was once asked whether it was right to pay taxes to the Roman Empire. Questions about our civic responsibilities are still with us today. Today’s episode considers a question Jesus once presented to an antagonistic crowd: What Belongs to Caesar? In other words, what do we owe to our society, and what do we owe to God? If you enjoyed listening to this episode please subscribe to The Northwood Podcast. If you are interested in learning more about Northwood Christian Church, please check out our website at www.indyncc.org.
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We do well to avoid suffering but not at the expense of doing the right thing. Sometimes living well calls us away from security and complacency and out onto a more dangerous path. In fact, Jesus taught that the way to a life that matters will inevitably pass through suffering. Those who avoid danger and discomfort for the sake of protecting their material wellbeing may well lose all that really matters in the end. Today’s episode considers what a dangerous life may cost us, but also what we gain along the way.
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Sometimes it is difficult to name the truth. It can be difficult to face what is true about ourselves, let alone speak our truth to others. This week’s episode considers what might happen when/if we confess the truth about our shortcomings and weaknesses so that we might step foot on the path to healing, wholeness, and restoration to our communities.
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There’s no denying it. These are isolating times. Not only are we isolated from one another, but we have been cut off from our sacred spaces by a pandemic. We’ve avoided public gatherings in our houses of worship for safeties’ sake, but this has made many of us feel so alone. Today’s story is about a man who was also isolated, but discovered that God was with him even while he was unaware.
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In Isaiah 40 the inhabitants of Planet Earth are compared to grasshoppers. Upon first blush this does not seem flattering at all. I mean, if we are only as valuable as grasshoppers, then surely we are not worth very much? But what if our perception of grasshoppers is all wrong? What if the smallness of their size tells us nothing of their worth and value? Today we consider the question: What is a grasshopper?
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