NRJohnson Sermon Podcast

Far too many believers today are burnt out and exhausted – our burdens are heavy and our labor is great.

Yet Jesus promises rest and an easy yoke to those who follow Him. In this message, Nathan Johnson examines Matthew 11:28-30 and helps us understand how we can experience Jesus’ promise of an easy yoke.

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Thanksgiving is around the corner and for too many of us, it is our once-a-year time to ponder what we are thankful for.

In this message on the Christian mindset, Nathan Johnson teaches on Philippians 2:6 and talks about what thanksgiving is suppose to look like in the life of a believer.

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Our lives as Christians are to be places of prayer – but most of us pray and wonder if God hears us or why He doesn’t respond.

In this message from Philippians 4:6, Nathan Johnson talks about what it means to be a place of prayer for all the nations and ten key things the Bible tells us that hinders prayer.

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In lesson six of the Christian Mindset series, we talked that a Christian's life is to be marked by peace, joy, and calm regardless of circumstance or situation. In short, there should be no fear, worry, anxiety, foreboding, fretting, or panic in a Christian's life.

Instead, Paul tells us in Philippians 4:6 that a believer's life is to be marked by prayer.

What if every situation of my life didn't produce anxiety but rather pushed me to Jesus in greater intimacy, trust, and dependence?

In this expositional message, Nathan Johnson looks at the Christian mindset and examines how prayer is the solution to fear. We can be islands of tranquility amidst a sea of turmoil!

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Every Christian has a call to ministry, regardless of the profession or job they do. In this episode, we talk about some practical ways you can prepare your life for ministry right where you are at.

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Do you need a breakthrough in your life?

Perhaps its a circumstance or situation … or maybe a relationship – regardless, we each have areas that we need God to breakthrough in and bring life, restoration, reconciliation.

In this message, we look at a passage in 2 Samuel 5 where David deals with the Philistines and God breakthroughs so powerfully that the name of the location changes from the "Valley of Giants" to the place where God is the "Master of Breakthroughs."

If you are needing breakthrough in your life or a reminder of the powerful God we love, serve, and pray to, this sermon will remind you that no matter what you are facing, God wants to be right in the middle of it and cause a breakthrough.

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Hundreds of times throughout Scripture we are told not to fear, worry, be anxious, forebode, fret, or panic.

As Christians, we are to be marked by peace, joy, and calm.

Yet how can we as believers live amidst a chaotic world with a joyful serenity and peace?

Paul declares in Philippians 4:6 that there is no reason to be anxious and commands us to be "anxious for nothing." Yet while he gives the command, he also gives us the secret to living without fear.

In this expositional message, Nathan Johnson looks at the Christian mindset and examines four essential ways we can live without any anxiety or fear.

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The Lord is at hand!

This small statement made by Paul is loaded with depth and life-changing truth.

In this expositional sermon of Philippians 4:5, Nathan Johnson looks at two profound ways we must understand this passage and the significance it holds for how we live today.

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When I hear the word “gentleness” I often think of kindness or someone being nice, perhaps a bit quiet.

But biblically, there are two words for gentleness in Scripture and the word Paul uses in Philippians 4:5 is not at all what you may think of when you hear the term.

In this study of the Christian mindset, Nathan Johnson explores Philippians 4:5 and talks about what true gentleness is and how to demonstrate it to the world around us.

But be warned, gentleness is not what you may think it is … and discovering its meaning will likely change the way you live.

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As we continue our series examining the "Christian mindset" we examine Paul's audacious statement to "rejoice in the Lord always, again I say rejoice!"

What does it mean to have joy in every circumstance and situation and how can we practically live this way?

In this expositional sermon, Nathan Johnson explores joy and how we as Christians can live every moment rejoicing despite our circumstances or situations.

1. We must know the source of joy
2. Joy is a fruit … the natural outflow of the life of the Spirit within us
3. Joy is not about circumstances but a purposeful response amidst the circumstances
4. Rejoicing doesn’t have to make sense … but it does need to happen (always)
5. Joy increases with the increase of pressure (suffering, trial, persecution)
6. Joy is a present declaration in our future hope (we rejoice because we know the future)
7. Joy exposes and declares our focus and trust in God
8. We rejoice because we know trials and difficulty lead to maturity
9. Joy is most evident (or seen more clearly) in our trials, sufferings, hardships, difficulties, and weaknesses
10. We rejoice because we know God is King … and He has overcome the world
11. We rejoice because God is a God of Joy
12. Joy is to be a distinctive mark of a Christian

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