The Weekly

We live in a world that is visibly broken, and it's tempting to shrug, look away, or settle into comfort. In this message, we look at why Scripture calls us to something very different.

We begin with how people talk about judgment, from the casual "go to hell" to the ancient images of Sisyphus and Tantalus, and ask what our fascination with endless, unreachable punishment says about the human heart. Then we turn to what Jesus actually taught. Through Mark 9:43-48, Matthew 7, Luke 16, and John 5, we see how seriously He treated sin, stumbling, and eternal separation from God, and why He used such vivid language about the hand, the foot, and the eye.

But the warning is never the whole story. Ezekiel 33:11, 2 Peter 3:9, John 3:16-17, and 1 Timothy 2 remind us that God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked. He is patient, He desires all to be saved, and He sent His Son to rescue rather than condemn. We also explore how sight, the quickest path to lust, pulls us toward the world's cravings for excitement, possessions, illicit relationships, fame, and wealth, and what it means to guard our hearts.

Our ministries are not an impressive display. They are a Gospel net through which God's love keeps flowing until people encounter the Son He gave.

Scriptures referenced: Mark 9:43-48, Matthew 7:13-14, Matthew 8:12, Matthew 25:31-46, Luke 16:19-31, John 3:16-17, John 5:28-29, Ezekiel 33:11, 1 Timothy 2:3-6, 2 Peter 3:9

Ash delivers a timely message about the tension between honoring what God has already spoken and staying open to what He's saying right now. Reflecting on a gathering (NCCB) where leaders shared testimony after testimony of fulfilled prophetic promises and cautions against idolising the certainty of past words at the expense of hearing God's present voice.

The core message: God isn't abandoning His previous promises — He's redirecting the shape, style, mission, and timing of how those promises unfold. What may feel like sacrifice or loss in this season could actually be the very doorway to increase and breakthrough. This episode is a call to lean into the "now word" without losing sight of the "yesterday word," and to trust that God can take old promises and make them new.

NCCB 47th & King's 40th Birthday Sunday — with Julian Adams

To celebrate 47 years of NCCB and 40 years of King's, we're honored to welcome special guest speaker Julian Adams. Bringing a prophetic word for this milestone season, Julian unpacks Genesis 22:1-14 — the story of Abraham's test of faith on Mount Moriah — as a picture of God's faithfulness, provision, and the unwavering trust He calls us to as we step into the next chapter. A powerful message of legacy, obedience, and "The Lord Will Provide" for a church stepping boldly into its future.

Procrastination doesn't just steal time—it can steal the promises God has spoken over your life. In this message, Ash unpacks the crucial difference between godly patience and disobedience disguised as caution.

Drawing from the dramatic conversion of Saul on the road to Damascus, along with God's calls to Abram and Joshua, Ash walks through three postures of faith: Holding ("I'm still considering it"), Descending ("I've committed myself"), and Landing ("I'm putting weight on what I said I believed").

Sometimes waiting is faith—but when God has already said "Go," continued waiting becomes delay dressed up in the language of prudence. Ash challenges listeners to stop analyzing the risks and finally land on what they believe.

Key themes: obedience, faith vs. delay, stepping into God's calling, biblical examples of immediate obedience (Abram, Joshua, Saul/Paul)

Dan Webster | NCCB

Jesus said, "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it abundantly" (John 10:10). In this Sending Sunday message, Dan Webster unpacks what it really means to live the abundant life Christ promised — going beyond the world's version of "success" (fame, riches, achievement) to the real and eternal life found only in Him.

Drawing from John 10, John 6:68, Matthew 16:24-25, and the Priestly Blessing of Numbers 6, Dan explores the Greek concepts of zōē (life) and perissos (abundantly/to the full), and lays out four things the abundant life will require: learning to hear God's voice, faith and trust, courage, and laying down your life. The message closes with a call to receive God's blessing — His name, face, grace, peace, and favor resting upon us — as we're sent out to live and share that abundant life with others.

Join us as Trevor continues our "Digging Your Wells" series with a powerful new chapter: Streams of Living Water. In this teaching, Trevor explores what it means to move beyond simply drawing from a well to becoming a source—a life from which living water flows freely to others. Come expectant for fresh revelation and a deeper encounter with the Spirit.

In this message, Ash Bell traces the story of Isaac in Genesis 26, who reopened the wells his father Abraham had dug and then broke fresh ground of his own — despite conflict, opposition, and loss. From there, Ash walks through the great "wells" of church history — the Reformation's recovery of grace and Scripture, the Anabaptists' reopening of believer's baptism, the Holiness Movement's call to sanctification, the Pentecostal outpouring of the Spirit, and the modern rediscovery of mission — showing a pattern: God never intends His people to merely inherit yesterday's wells. He calls every generation to reopen what's been neglected and dig fresh ones of their own.

But wells run dry — filled in not by God, but by comfort, distraction, busyness, and a casual view of holiness. So what shovel do we pick up? Prayer, Scripture, obedience, worship, repentance, generosity, community, faith — practices nobody else can do for us.

This episode is a challenge to every listener: drink deeply from the wells others dug for you, then leave the next generation something that flows even stronger than what you inherited.

Scripture references: 2 Kings 2:19–22, Genesis 26:12–33, Amos 9:13