There are many would-be followers of Jesus who struggle to understand that the way he walks is often fraught with challenges and even suffering. In the Gospel of Luke 9:51-62, Jesus tells his disciples, and others nearby, that the path he walks will call them into discomfort. He emphasizes how high the stakes are; a calling more important that even our familial ties. This episode unpacks these themes. In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8. If you’d like to join our mailing/emailing list, please write in to [email protected]. 

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Take a breath and buckle up. This one is a doozy. Not only is the passage from the Bible we’ll consider quite unpleasant, it forces us to reckon with similar unpleasant things today; specifically, the slaughter of children in the name of our wars. This episode considers a story from the book of 2 Samuel 21:1-14 in which a woman named Rizpah fought for the dignity of her children and of others. In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8. If you’d like to join our mailing/emailing list, please write in to [email protected]. 

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In this episode, we consider one of Jesus’ most famous commandments. He commanded us to love one another, and that by this love, others would know that we are followers of Jesus. Seems simple enough, but is it? In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8. If you’d like to join our mailing/emailing list, please write in to [email protected]. 

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This episode is called, “Now, It’s Ours.” But what is ours, exactly? After reading this story, we find that ours is the power to call life from unexpected or dead places. What Jesus had the power to do in life, so now does the Church to proclaim life in the midst of grieving communities scrapping for hope. This episode is about these things. In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8. If you’d like to join our mailing/emailing list, please write in to [email protected]. 

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This episode reflects on a story as told in the Gospel of John 21:1-19. In this story, Jesus meets with his disciples after a long night of fishing. Using their vocation as a metaphor, he called them to join him in his life-giving, albeit exhausting, mission. How might we receive this call today? What can it mean in 2025? This episode explores these questions. In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8. If you’d like to join our mailing/emailing list, please write in to [email protected]. 

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This episode was recorded live at Northwood Christian Church on Easter Sunday. In these reflections, Heath describes the barriers to belief in the more literal interpretations of the Easter events, carving out room for doubt and uncertainty, even whilst edging toward faith. Also, this sermon invites us to believe in the most wild claims as well, as a discipline and practice of hope; to see how this perceptive opens possibilities for life in our own circumstances. In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8. If you’d like to join our mailing/emailing list, please write in to [email protected]. 

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This episode was recorded live at Northwood Christian Church on Palm Sunday. It reflects on the various expectations we place upon Jesus; the ways by which we expect him to liberate us. However, God’s ways often, if not usually, confound our expectations. Jesus rode into Jerusalem to confront the forces of empire, but he did not bring a bigger, better gun. The passage here considered is Luke 19:28-40. In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8. If you’d like to join our mailing/emailing list, please write in to [email protected].

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This episode was recorded live in early January of this year. In it your host, Heath Jones, preaches on a text from the Gospel of John, specifically John 1:1-18. This is a fairly well known passage that likens Jesus’ coming into our world to light piercing the darkness. We discover that this light is the love of God, revealed and reflected through and in Jesus. This light is ours to share with the world. This episode explores these themes. In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8. If you’d like to join our mailing/emailing list, please write in to [email protected].

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This episode was recorded live in early December of last year. It reflects on the coming chaos as described in Luke 21:25-33. Jesus uses a fig tree as a teaching tool to describe how close the coming of God’s Realm is, even when things seem topsy turvy. This episode reflects on these themes. In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8. If you’d like to join our mailing/emailing list, please write in to [email protected]

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In the 12th chapter of Mark’s Gospel, Jesus is asked by a scholar which of all the religious commands in their holy texts were the most important to keep. Jesus answers simply and directly: 1.) Love God. 2.) Love Others. All else will fall into place when these two primary commands are kept. This episode explores these themes. In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Northwood Christian Church, please visit our website at www.indyncc.org. If you’d like to donate, please follow this link: https://giv.li/ub25h8. If you’d like to join our mailing/emailing list, please write in to [email protected].

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