NBCC Podcast

In "After The Benediction—Then What?," the latest message in NBCC's "Church Without Walls" series, Pastor Hurmon Hamilton invites us to discover what it looks like to carry God's presence into every part of our lives. This message speaks to anyone longing to feel closer to God this week — not just for an hour on Sunday, but in the middle of everyday life, right where you need him most. Pastor Hamilton reminds us that God's Spirit gives us the power to live out his purpose in every relationship, routine, and challenge we face. God meets you exactly as you are — unfinished, and still being formed — and simply asks you to let that presence shine through in how you love your family, show up for a friend, or respond with grace under pressure.

In this message, we are reminded to engage in an active relationship with God. When times get hard for us, God can honour our desires to be disconnected in relationship. However, even when we don’t believe in God, God believes in us. We can be far from God and still experience God’s goodness.

We must ask ourselves: “Do I have an active relationship with God?” We must never confuse God being good to us and us being close to God, so we should prioritise our relationship with Him, practice being in God’s presence and persist in being in His presence.

Join us for the concluding message in the "Armor Up!" series as Pastor Ja'Mell Agustin shares how God equips us for life's toughest battles. Drawing from Paul's letter to the Ephesians, she helps us see that the armor of God isn't reserved for life's biggest crises — it's for the everyday spiritual warfare we face in our relationships, our homes, our workplaces, and the quiet battles going on in our own minds. If you've ever felt worn down by hard relationships, daily struggles, or fights that feel impossible to face alone, this message was made for you. We're reminded to remember our salvation, fight with God's Word, and never fight alone. The battle is real — but so is our Savior. God has already given us everything we need to stand firm. We simply need to put it on.

In this message of the Armour Up! series, we study the sandals of peace and shield of faith. The shoes of peace keep us steady when life gets hard and keep us calm when spiritual battles come. They don’t protect us from storms, the storms we go through expose the shoes we're standing in. The Shield of Faith is our shield against the enemy’s attacks. When the enemy throws his fiery arrows at us, faith helps us stand firm.

You don’t put on the shoes of peace or use the shield of faith by pretending there isn’t a storm, you put them on by remembering who is standing with you through the storm. Let us put on these pieces of armour by remembering that we are children of God, reaching out to mature believers who can pray with us and calling the name of Jesus!

In this message, Pastor Kaloma Smith challenges us to reflect on how feeling stuck may limit our relationship with God and the blessings we share with others. Often, we find ourselves feeling put together on the outside, but feeling stuck on the inside, sacrificing our well-being, our community, and our ultimate purpose by remaining in situations where we understand what is happening to us, but where our circumstances may not be healthy, or may be limiting our lives.

Using an illustration from Second Kings, Pastor Kaloma reminds us that in moments like this, we should ground ourselves in God's word, rather than listening to opinions that are uninformed about our individual circumstances. In addition, we must start taking bold steps that rely on our trust in God. In those moments, God blesses our actions and we are able to receive new blessings and purpose that can then be shared with otyhers.

In this message, Pastor Jesse explores the Belt of Truth and the Breastplate of Righteousness, revealing how God's truth anchors us and His righteousness guards our hearts so we can live with confidence and remain steadfast in Christ.

Sometimes the greatest victory isn’t moving forward, it’s refusing to move backwards. When life gets tough, we want to move. Sometimes we need to stand where God has planted us. What does it mean to stand? Standing means trusting God when life does not make sense. We don’t stand strong because of ourselves, we stand strong because of Jesus. Our strength has never been our own, it has always been His.

Truth is rooted in the word of God and righteousness is a life consistently surrendered to Christ. We need both truth and righteousness together. Truth without righteousness is knowledge without transformation. Righteousness without truth is religion without relationship.

Let us allow God to transform our hearts this week!

This is the opening message in NBCC's new series, Armor Up! Pastor Hurmon challenges us to rethink who our real enemy actually is — reminding us that our greatest battles aren't ultimately against people, but against the spiritual forces working to pull us from God's purpose. Drawing from Ephesians 6, he unpacks how God has equipped believers with His armor so we can stand firm in His truth and walk in victory, whatever we're facing. If you've ever fought a battle that left you exhausted and confused about who — or what — you were really up against, this message will change the way you see every struggle in your life.

In this message, we interrogate who God is forming us to become, especially through seasons of waiting.Through our lives, God is forming us to become like Jesus. God forms us through prayer, scripture and community, expanding our capacity to love deeply and endure faithfully.

The process of becoming involves waiting. It is our internal spiritual capacity to endure faithfully when we go through hard times. God does not abandon us when we are waiting, He uses waiting to form us. In seasons of waiting that can stretch years, we should ask ourselves: “What is God teaching me while I wait?”.

Waiting is where God forms us into the people we're becoming. Stop trying to control timing and let God work on you in the waiting season!

In this message, Paster George Hinman discusses two stories within Mark 6: the story of Herod's banquet, and Jesus feeding the 5,000. He then illustrates how the two stories inform us about different ways we might approach our encounters with God's sovereignty in our lives.

We often find ourselves in the halls of Herod, where everything is comfortable and we appear to have everything we need. However, the halls of Herod can be deceptive. While we are offered a relationship with God, we may find ourselves putting limits on God and operating from a relationship with fear, which interferes with our ability to trust God, and ultimately leads to disappointment. When we are in the halls of Herod, we must fast and deny ourselves, and follow God's will and plan for us.

On the other hand, when we follow God, rather than attempting to dictate our relationship, it may at first feel as though we are in what appears to be a deserted land. However, God responds to his followers with compassion, provides community, and provides delight and provision in what at first felt like a crisis. When we find ourselves in the wilderness with Jesus, we must remember to rejoice and remember our true identity, as ransomed and reconciled to Him.

In this message, we are reminded that the Jesus Way is not simply something we practice, it is the way in which we become more like Jesus. Part of that is engaging with people at the level of their story, practising empathy and kindness and demonstrating life-changing generosity.

Jesus’ love is agape love, the highest form of love. Agape love is what we DO, not just what we say. Jesus loves us through people. We are also called to love others. Sometimes we have learnt to love from wounded people, so we have to unlearn false presentations of love and learn real love.

Let us DO the same this week: demonstrate agape love and do life together the Jesus Way.