NMC Audio Podcast

Most people enter marriage and family life anticipating creating a romance novel. Unfortunately, it often turns into war stories. While coaching, conferences, and seminars can play a valuable role in moving towards building a healthy family, being filled with the Holy Spirit is foundational. Some things are worth fighting for. Healthy families and marriages are at the top of the list.

There is a great conflict all around us and even in us. There is a battle being waged for the heart, mind and soul of every person. Will I live to gratify the desires of the flesh or of the Spirit? The call is to bear good fruit, but how does one bear good fruit? As always, the Holy Spirit guides to the Truth and to the Answer.

Be filled with the Spirit! That’s a call heard throughout the Bible. There’s something inside a believer that wants more. There’s a desire to go deeper. How can I be filled and live filled with the Holy Spirit?

Come Holy Spirit, come. In Jesus’ ministry, He has a conversation with a man named Nicodemus, a renowned religious leader in the Jewish community. Jesus tells Nicodemus, “No one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.” More specifically speaking, Jesus clarifies that one must be born of the Spirit. Like Nicodemus, we must ask the question, “What does this mean?”

The normal, Christian life is living, walking, and filled with the Holy Spirit. Yet, the Holy Spirit is rarely talked about. He is usually ignored, or at best, an afterthought. Jesus, in His desire to make sure the disciples were fully equipped for the challenges they would face, extensively taught them about the Holy Spirit. It’s impossible to live an overcoming life without the work and presence of the Holy Spirit. Come, Holy Spirit. We need you.

Lots of people can tell their version of stories, but the best one to share is the first eyewitness. The first eyewitness to the resurrection was an unlikely person. She was a woman with a checkered past. God, in His meticulous providence, didn’t choose one of the 12 disciples. It was a woman who turned a page and allowed God to write a new chapter. God is still choosing people today and writing new chapters in our lives.

Michel Khalil shares updates and prayer needs of our partners in the Middle East.

Elijah is an OT Great who reveals to us so much about the very nature of God. God appointed Elijah to the office of prophet, to be his mouthpiece for Israel in a very difficult time in history. The northern kingdom of Israel had turned their backs on God, breaking the covenant relationship by worshiping false gods. So God tasked Elijah with confronting King Ahab, Jezebel, and the prophets of Asherah and Baal in an epic showdown.

Marriage and family specialist Dan Seaborn focuses in on the core of healthy relationships: being certain of how much God loves you and certain of how much you love Him!

David is an OT Great with a story that has many highs and many lows. He is often remembered as a man after God’s own heart, but he also has a checkered past that includes adultery and murder. He has euphoric experiences, like victoriously bringing the Ark of the Covenant into Jerusalem. However, he also has deep moments of despair, like running for his life from his son. David’s life teaches a valuable lesson—our lives are not defined by a moment.