NMC Audio Podcast

For anything to remain strong, there must be an acknowledgment of impending threats. Businesses often use a SWOT analysis – Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, Threat. Understanding threats allows us to prepare a strong defense. As much as this is true in business and leadership, it’s true in our spiritual lives. Acknowledging potential threats to our walk with the Lord allows us to build a strong support system.

Dropping like flies! That’s a phrase often used to describe something that
is falling quickly. It might be people overcome by extreme heat or fatigue.
"Dropping like flies" speaks of being vulnerable to an outside force. Throughout
Scripture, there’s a call to stand. Circumstances, difficulties and challenges can
cause us to drop like flies! Yet, dozens of times we’re called to stand, to stand firm
amidst all of life’s curve balls. Amidst adversity, the call is simple–STAND!

Even when we are under-resourced, outmanned, and facing insurmountable odds and overwhelming circumstances, it’s still possible to be an overcomer. No matter what you’re facing, God’s strength can give you exactly what you need. Although the canon of Scripture is closed, the stories of overcomers are still being written today. We can do more than survive. We can thrive, even when it snows in June.

Rise up, O men of God! The words of this song call men to action. It calls men to die to passivity and half-heartedness. It calls men, and all people, to be strong and courageous. It calls all to be ready for the battle. Life is a war, and only the strong survive. Get ready for battle. Be properly armed and prepared so that victory is assured.

Twice in the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus quotes Hosea 6:6. “I desire mercy, not sacrifice.” Jesus even commands the Pharisees to go and learn what this means. Mercy is a major theme of the Bible, but what exactly is it? What does it look like? By studying the words of Jesus spoken through the prophet Hosea, we can learn a precise blueprint on how to live out mercy.

"Well done, good and faithful servant." These are the words that we hope to hear when we meet Jesus face to face someday, but how do we get there? How do we know that we have been successful in this life? What is success? Not only does Jesus help us redefine the word "success" in the Parable of the Talents, but He also reveals how we can find success in our lives.

When Jim Collins wrote the best-selling business book, From Good to Great, he expounded upon research that showed how average businesses moved to sustainable greatness. Everyone was interested in discovering the "how to" of moving from good to great. What are the factors? What can we do to move to the next level? Discovering the IT factor became an obsession. So just what is the IT factor? What is IT that makes a difference?

What is it that leads you? What is it that fuels your fire? Often, we are led by fear, by safety, by pride, or by ego. When the Holy Spirit is unleashed in our lives, our leadership changes. We live at a higher level, where the Holy Spirit orders our steps. He creates encounters of the divine kind. What happened in the early church can and will happen in our lives as we are led by the Spirit.

Guest Speaker Joel DeSelm

When the Spirit of God fills the spirit of a person, incredible things happen. When we move from getting our power from our flesh to being baptized with His power through His Spirit, amazing things take place. God wants to pour out the Holy Spirit everywhere on everyone. And when the Holy Spirit is unleashed on us, we are unleashed for incredible impact on our world.