How should we celebrate the Lord together, and what sorts of things get in the way of the joy that we have in him? How can we grow in our joy individually, but also as the gathered people of God? In today's sermon, which is both the 8th part in our "Life Together" series, but also fitting for our November Celebration Sunday, Pastor Joshua Shirey shares a message about our shared joy in the Lord from a wonderful Old Testament narrative from the book of Nehemiah.

As we continue to study our shared Life Together as the body of Christ, we take time today to consider a passage in 1 John that shows us that we are able to see and recognize who God is by Jesus' offering of himself, in love, for our sins; and that through this knowledge of God that we grow in our love for one another as fellow members of one another.

Continuing our series on our shared "Life Together" as a church, Pastor Joshua Shirey implores the people of God to strive to take hold of the future blessing of Jesus Christ on their lives. Drawing from Philippians 3, a theologically rich and endlessly practical passage from the Apostle Paul, we are encouraged to "forget what lies behind and to struggle for what lies ahead", to grow in maturity, and in the likeness of Christ. While we often look to passages like these with a view to our individual walk with the Lord, Pastor Joshua reminds us that we are called to strive together in community, to cross the finish line together with our brothers and sisters in Christ.

In this fifth part in our series on our shared Life Together, Pastor Joshua Shirey turns to an uncommon passage to give prudent advice to the young men and women of our church as they think about God's will for them in regards to marriage. As part of his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus taught the people in Matthew 6:25-34 not to worry, but instead, to seek first the kingdom of God. Building upon this teaching, Pastor Joshua encourages our young people to focus their attention on the kingdom of God, and to let the Lord worry about the details of marriage.

In today's sermon, Pastor Joshua Shirey shares a message from one of the richest gospel centered chapters in all of the New Testament: Romans chapter 3. Paul's teaching here helps us to understand how we are able to receive God's grace through faith, how God's righteousness and goodness is vindicated through the gospel, and how the gospel should provide such rich assurance to all who rightly claim the name of Christ.

In this third part of our series on the church and our shared “Life  Together”, Pastor Joshua Shirey shares from Paul’s admonition toward the  Corinthian church regarding the inherently collective and communal  nature of the Lord’s Supper. How was it that this early Christian church  neglected the Lord’s Supper to the detriment of the Lord’s church? And  how do we struggle to reconnect the sacred and the celebratory in our  own gatherings?

In today's sermon Kirk shares with us a summons to give praise to the  Lord for all he has done for us. He shows us how the psalmist encourages  all of God's creation to give him praise, and how, as his children, we  should especially trust him with our lives.

Speaker: Kirk Clemons

Today we take a look at one of the most beloved Psalms written by the  Shepherd-King David, Psalm 23. Matt Irving brings a message of  encouragement to look to the Lord as our sovereign Good Shepherd and to  trust him to direct our steps.

Guest Speaker: Matt Irving

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Deuteronomy 6:4-9

Many years ago, the Lord established the family as the primary means of making his name known in the land of Israel. In this week's sermon, NorthStar's Preaching Pastor Joshua Shirey explores what we can learn about God's plan for every believing family, and also how these same principles reach even further into the family of God in the church.

When Jesus was asked to weigh in on which is the first and great commandment, in Matthew 22, he responds with two: to love the Lord and to love one another. Although his adversaries were silenced by his answer, they did not obey Jesus' commands, but continued in their sinful rejection of the Messiah. In today's sermon, Pastor Joshua Shirey shares how believers in the Lord Jesus can actually obey the Lord's greatest commandments in a way that the Pharisees never could, but how it takes genuine commitment on our part to make the time and effort to do so.