Northview Church

You're worried about whether Christianity will be tolerated tomorrow. Fair enough. But are you proclaiming Christ today?

In Week 5 of Turn the World Upside Down, Pastor Greg Rains walks through Acts 3:1–4:31. A man lame for forty years walks through the temple gate. Two fishermen get dragged before the same court that put Jesus on trial and are ordered never to speak His name again. Their answer: "We cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard."

They were forbidden, and they couldn't stop. You're free, and you can't seem to start. This message is for anyone sitting silent in a classroom, a breakroom, or at the Thanksgiving table.

Bottom line: Jesus is alive. Silence is not an option.

📖 Scripture: Acts 3:1–4:31 · Acts 1:8 · John 18:15–27 · Psalm 2
🔁 Series: Turn the World Upside Down, Week 5 of 30

Northview Church | Kodak, Tennessee

Love God. Love People. Make Disciples.

Learn more about Northview Church at www.mynorthview.church

It never starts with a decision. It starts with a tournament. Then the lake. Then a Sunday you’re just worn out. Six months later you still call it your church, but there’s not one name from church you’d actually call at 11 p.m.

In Week 4 of Turn the World Upside Down, Pastor Greg Rains walks through Acts 2:42–47 and the original church Jesus built. They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, the fellowship, the breaking of bread, and the prayers. Then God did the adding. Greg also shares his own season of drifting: burned out, faded into the back of a big church, and nobody knew he wasn’t there.

Drifting from God’s people becomes drifting from God. And if you belong to Jesus, you belong to His people.

Bottom line: You can’t love the Groom and ghost the bride.

Northview Church | Kodak, Tennessee

Love God. Love People. Make Disciples.

Learn more about Northview Church at www.mynorthview.church

In Week 3 of Turn the World Upside Down, Joey Marshall walks through Acts 2:22–41, the heart of Peter's first sermon. Who killed Jesus? God planned it. The crowd chose it. Roman hands carried it out. But Peter doesn't let anyone off the hook, and neither does this message. Then comes the empty tomb, the risen Lord, and the question that cut 3,000 people to the heart: "What shall we do?"

That day, about 3,000 people answered it. The church was born. And the same question is still on the table for you.

Bottom line: Jesus changes lives. Changed lives change the world.

📖 Scripture: Acts 2:22–41 · Psalm 16:8–11 · Psalm 110:1
🔁 Series: Turn the World Upside Down, Week 3 of 30
⛪ Northview Church | Kodak, TN

Love God. Love People. Make Disciples.

Learn more about Northview Church at www.mynorthview.church

In Week 2 of Turn the World Upside Down, Pastor Greg Rains walks through Acts 2:1–21, the day the Holy Spirit came at Pentecost. From Ezekiel’s valley of dry bones to a room full of people waiting and praying, this message shows what only God can do: breathe life into what we build.

The Spirit didn’t come for a spectacle. He came with power, so ordinary people would open their mouths and tell the world about Jesus. The clock started that morning, and it’s still running.

Bottom line: You can build the bones. Only God can give the breath.

📖 Scripture: Acts 2:1–21 · Ezekiel 37:1–14 · Psalm 150:6
🔁 Series: Turn the World Upside Down, Week 2 of 30
⛪ Northview Church | Kodak, TN

Love God. Love People. Make Disciples.

Learn more about Northview Church at www.mynorthview.church

There's a name. A face you've been meaning to talk to about Jesus. And you keep telling yourself: next time.

Week 1 of Turn the World Upside Down, a 30-week journey through the book of Acts. Acts 1:1–14: the risen Jesus, the ascension, and the assignment He left His church.

No date. Just a deadline.

📖 Acts 1:1–14 (ESV)
⛪ Northview Church | Kodak, TN

Love God. Love People. Make Disciples.

Learn more about Northview Church at www.mynorthview.church

You knew better. You meant it. And you lost again.

You've tried harder. You've made promises. And the same fight keeps winning. In Galatians 5:16–26, Paul says the answer isn't more willpower, and it isn't giving up. It's following the Spirit so close that the flesh can't keep up.

Part of "Turned Loose," our series through the book of Galatians at Northview Church in Kodak, Tennessee.

Follow the fire, and the flesh falls behind.

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Northview Church exists to help people grow in their faith with the mission to... Love God. Love People. Make Disciples.

Paul looks at a church that's getting more serious about God and tells them they're walking backward. Not sideways. Backward — toward the same slavery they came out of.

In Galatians 4:8–5:1, he flattens a distinction we assume is obvious. Rules and ruin end up in the same column, because both of them are the flesh trying to manage what only God can produce. And the charge against religious performance isn't that it's arrogant. It's that it's weak. It cannot do what you're asking it to do.

If you've been a Christian for years and you're not further along than you were, this message is for you. You didn't stall out because you needed more effort. The effort was the stall.

The work for you is finished. The work in you is not.

Don't go back. Christ isn't done.

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TURNED LOOSE | Week 6
Galatians 4:8-5:1
Pastor Greg Rains

Turned Loose is an 8-week series through the book of Galatians at Northview Church in Kodak, Tennessee.

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Northview Church exists to help people grow in their love for Jesus and become disciples who make disciples.

You're doing everything right and it still feels like a job.

Serving. Giving. Showing up. And somewhere around 3 a.m.
there's a quiet tally running — am I up or down with God
this week.

Paul has a word for that, and it isn't "faithful."
It's "minor."

In Galatians 3:15–4:7, Paul says the law was a guardian
with an expiration date. Not a failure. A finished job.
And when the date came, you didn't get demoted out of the
house — you got the papers.

Slaves obey to earn. Sons obey to be near.

Same rules. Completely different engine.

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TURNED LOOSE | Week 5
Galatians 3:15–4:7 (NLT)
Pastor Greg Rains

Turned Loose is an 8-week series through the book of Galatians at Northview Church in Kodak, Tennessee.

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Northview Church exists to help people grow in their love for Jesus and become disciples who make disciples.

You've been paying a debt that was already cleared.

Paul asks the Galatians a question that lands just as hard today: if you didn't start this by your own effort, why are you trying to finish it that way? In week 4 of Turned Loose, Pastor Greg Rains walks through Galatians 3:1-14 — the sign nobody's looking at anymore, the number every one of us secretly checks, and the curse that was read out loud over a nation standing between two mountains.

Then Paul says something our translations soften: Christ didn't just endure something cursed. He became the curse. The verdict was read, it had a name on it, and it wasn't yours.

It was finished before you started.

Turned Loose is an 8-week series through the book of Galatians at Northview Church in Kodak, Tennessee.

Scripture: Galatians 3:1-14 (NLT)

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Northview Church exists to help people grow in their love for Jesus and become disciples who make disciples.

Peter got it wrong. Paul told him to his face.

One of the most respected leaders in the early church stopped walking in step with the gospel — not because he stopped believing it, but because he was afraid of what people would think. And it took a friend with enough grit to say something.

In week 3 of Turned Loose, Pastor Greg Rains walks through Galatians 2:11-21 and asks a question most of us have never really answered: who in your life actually has permission to tell you the truth?

We look at what fear costs, why "iron sharpens iron" doesn't mean what most people think it means, and what Paul says changes everything — that we're made right with God by faith in Jesus Christ, not by anything we can perform.

Turned Loose is an 8-week series through Galatians at Northview Church in Kodak, Tennessee.

Scripture: Galatians 2:11-21 (NLT)

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Northview Church exists to help people grow in their love for Jesus and become disciples who make disciples.