Newchurchlive.tv: Pastor Chuck Blair

Life Worth Living What is worth wanting? What in the end truly matters? Let's look at these questions in a deep and caring way because, in the end, the answers will largely shape our lives.  From the service aired on 10/15/23 If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to Subscribe and review our podcast wherever you get your podcasts. It is the #1 way to support this podcast, and it’s free! Go to the main podcast page, scroll down and at the bottom you’ll find a place to rate the podcast and to leave a review.  Follow us on Facebook and Instagram and YouTube @newchurchlive  Visit our Website and Make a donation to support our church community Video of Service HERE

Surprise: The Power to Be Different One Rabbi famously said that "God is the God of surprises." That is true. God forever seems to show up in unexpected ways, surprising people and places. From the service aired on 10/8/23 If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to Subscribe and review our podcast wherever you get your podcasts. It is the #1 way to support this podcast, and it’s free! Go to the main podcast page, scroll down and at the bottom you’ll find a place to rate the podcast and to leave a review.  Follow us on Facebook and Instagram and YouTube @newchurchlive  Visit our Website and Make a donation to support our church community Video of Service HERE

The 5 Secrets of Heaven Heaven is a state of mind we can be in right now. Here are five handy tools to get you there and keep you there. with Curtis Childs  From the service aired on 10/1/23 If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to Subscribe and review our podcast wherever you get your podcasts. It is the #1 way to support this podcast, and it’s free! Go to the main podcast page, scroll down and at the bottom you’ll find a place to rate the podcast and to leave a review.  Follow us on Facebook and Instagram and YouTube @newchurchlive  Visit our Website and Make a donation to support our church community Video of Service HERE

Conflict with Others Heaven is more interested in solving problems than conflict. Hell, on the other hand, would have us flip, prioritizing conflict over actual constructive engagement with others to solve problems. Let's choose the better approach.  From the service aired on 9/24/23 If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to Subscribe and review our podcast wherever you get your podcasts. It is the #1 way to support this podcast, and it’s free! Go to the main podcast page, scroll down and at the bottom you’ll find a place to rate the podcast and to leave a review.  Follow us on Facebook and Instagram and YouTube @newchurchlive  Visit our Website and Make a donation to support our church community Video of Service HERE

Conflict with Ourselves Every human being is a mix. Blessed and broken. Saint and sinner. True self and false self. How can we hold all the conflict in a healthy way as God would have us hold it. From the service aired on 9/17/23 If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to Subscribe and review our podcast wherever you get your podcasts. It is the #1 way to support this podcast, and it’s free! Go to the main podcast page, scroll down and at the bottom you’ll find a place to rate the podcast and to leave a review.  Follow us on Facebook and Instagram and YouTube @newchurchlive  Visit our Website and Make a donation to support our church community Video of Service HERE

Problems Are Ok As much as we'd all like to avoid the challenges and setbacks we're faced with, there's an incredibly potent silver lining that comes with them. Today we look at how God's Providence uses everything negative that happens to us for the benefit of our soul. with Curtis Childs  From the service aired on 9/10/23 If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to Subscribe and review our podcast wherever you get your podcasts. It is the #1 way to support this podcast, and it’s free! Go to the main podcast page, scroll down and at the bottom you’ll find a place to rate the podcast and to leave a review.  Follow us on Facebook and Instagram and YouTube @newchurchlive  Visit our Website and Make a donation to support our church community Video of Service HERE

Finding Faith Many of us want more faith in our lives. "Lord, I believe. Help my unbelief" seems like a common experience. And God does answer that desire. It’s an answer far more about a living faith than a static set of beliefs. Let’s look a bit closer at finding faith vs belief. From the service aired on 9/3/23 If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to Subscribe and review our podcast wherever you get your podcasts. It is the #1 way to support this podcast, and it’s free! Go to the main podcast page, scroll down and at the bottom you’ll find a place to rate the podcast and to leave a review.  Follow us on Facebook and Instagram and YouTube @newchurchlive  Visit our Website and Make a donation to support our church community Video of Service HERE

Slowing Down We live in a time in which we relentlessly pursue efficiency. Efficiency has many positive attributes, but it rapidly can cost us our presence. How can we learn more about being present to God and to others? Perhaps a little less efficiency would serve us well.  From the service aired on 8/27/23 If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to Subscribe and review our podcast wherever you get your podcasts. It is the #1 way to support this podcast, and it’s free! Go to the main podcast page, scroll down and at the bottom you’ll find a place to rate the podcast and to leave a review.  Follow us on Facebook and Instagram and YouTube @newchurchlive  Visit our Website and Make a donation to support our church community Video of Service HERE

The People in Heaven In the afterlife we encounter various people who help guide us to our heavenly home. In this episode Chuck and Curtis discuss the people you meet, how we find people with similar interests and backgrounds to settle into our spiritual home. How heaven is designed with the human form in mind and the topic of sole mates as it relates to finding our place in heaven.   EPISODE WEBSITE

Love Is Patient One of the most powerful definitions and descriptions of love can be found in 1st Corinthians 13. The first line is... "Love is Patient." Why is being patient key? How can we, with God's help, learn how to be patient in our lives and with those we love? From the service aired on 8/20/23 If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to Subscribe and review our podcast wherever you get your podcasts. It is the #1 way to support this podcast, and it’s free! Go to the main podcast page, scroll down and at the bottom you’ll find a place to rate the podcast and to leave a review.  Follow us on Facebook and Instagram and YouTube @newchurchlive  Visit our Website and Make a donation to support our church community Video of Service HERE

What Are Heaven and Hell? Is there a place of eternal reward called heaven? And a place of eternal punishment called hell? Join us as we explore Heaven, Hell, and how they both might be more familiar than we think. with Curtis Childs From the service aired on 8/13/23 If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to Subscribe and review our podcast wherever you get your podcasts. It is the #1 way to support this podcast, and it’s free! Go to the main podcast page, scroll down and at the bottom you’ll find a place to rate the podcast and to leave a review.  Follow us on Facebook and Instagram and YouTube @newchurchlive  Visit our Website and Make a donation to support our church community Video of Service HERE

House Building 101 Jesus asks us to build our house “on the rock.” What is the “rock” we can build on? What are the “sands” we need to remain leery of? From the service aired on 8/6/23 If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to Subscribe and review our podcast wherever you get your podcasts. It is the #1 way to support this podcast, and it’s free! Go to the main podcast page, scroll down and at the bottom you’ll find a place to rate the podcast and to leave a review.  Follow us on Facebook and Instagram and YouTube @newchurchlive  Visit our Website and Make a donation to support our church community Video of Service HERE

Do Not Worry We live in an anxious time. How can we rediscover a God-given trust that helps lessen the anxieties that haunt us?  From the service aired on 7/30/23 If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to Subscribe and review our podcast wherever you get your podcasts. It is the #1 way to support this podcast, and it’s free! Go to the main podcast page, scroll down and at the bottom you’ll find a place to rate the podcast and to leave a review.  Follow us on Facebook and Instagram and YouTube @newchurchlive  Visit our Website and Make a donation to support our church community Video of Service HERE

Strong and Generous in the Face of Hate We will all have “enemies” of a sort - those who committed an actual wrong that in some way harmed. When facing such harm, how can we find that higher place, a place where forgiveness and reconciliation might someday be possible? From the service aired on 7/23/23 If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to Subscribe and review our podcast wherever you get your podcasts. It is the #1 way to support this podcast, and it’s free! Go to the main podcast page, scroll down and at the bottom you’ll find a place to rate the podcast and to leave a review.  Follow us on Facebook and Instagram and YouTube @newchurchlive  Visit our Website and Make a donation to support our church community Video of Service HERE

How Love Works in Heaven Sure, we talk about love a lot. We look for it, we sing about it, but do we really know what it is or the kind of power it has? Let’s learn more about this crucial part of existence by peering into the spiritual side of life. with Curtis Childs From the service aired on 7/16/23 If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to Subscribe and review our podcast wherever you get your podcasts. It is the #1 way to support this podcast, and it’s free! Go to the main podcast page, scroll down and at the bottom you’ll find a place to rate the podcast and to leave a review.  Follow us on Facebook and Instagram and YouTube @newchurchlive  Visit our Website and Make a donation to support our church community Video of Service HERE

The Sermon on the Mount: Staying Kind in Hard Places The Sermon on the Mount is considered Jesus' "magnum opus" or "great work”. In ways very subtle, the message gently calls to look at life in a new way ... and to live in new ways even in hard places. The key notes are struck in the famous beginning to the sermon, commonly known as the Beatitudes. From the service aired on 7/9/23 If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to Subscribe and review our podcast wherever you get your podcasts. It is the #1 way to support this podcast, and it’s free! Go to the main podcast page, scroll down and at the bottom you’ll find a place to rate the podcast and to leave a review.  Follow us on Facebook and Instagram and YouTube @newchurchlive  Visit our Website and Make a donation to support our church community Video of Service HERE

A New Creation One of the most beautiful promises of a spiritual life centers on newness. As Paul phrased it "...the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!" How do we welcome that newness? From the service aired on 7/2/23 If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to Subscribe and review our podcast wherever you get your podcasts. It is the #1 way to support this podcast, and it’s free! Go to the main podcast page, scroll down and at the bottom you’ll find a place to rate the podcast and to leave a review.  Follow us on Facebook and Instagram and YouTube @newchurchlive  Visit our Website and Make a donation to support our church community Video of Service HERE

God Will Wipe Away Every Tear The Bible is full of strife, pain, disruption, and hopelessness, but it actually has a happy ending! Our lives can have a lot of the same hard things in them, but guess what? There’s a “happy ending” carefully being built for your life right now. with Curtis Childs From the service aired on 6/25/23 If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to Subscribe and review our podcast wherever you get your podcasts. It is the #1 way to support this podcast, and it’s free! Go to the main podcast page, scroll down and at the bottom you’ll find a place to rate the podcast and to leave a review.  Follow us on Facebook and Instagram and YouTube @newchurchlive  Visit our Website and Make a donation to support our church community Video of Service HERE

The Fruits of the Spirit In the book of Galatians (5:22-23), Paul lists nine "fruits of the spirit" - love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. This list should leave us all inspired about how a life of faith in action should work.  From the service aired on 6/18/23 If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to Subscribe and review our podcast wherever you get your podcasts. It is the #1 way to support this podcast, and it’s free! Go to the main podcast page, scroll down and at the bottom you’ll find a place to rate the podcast and to leave a review.  Follow us on Facebook and Instagram and YouTube @newchurchlive  Visit our Website and Make a donation to support our church community Video of Service HERE

Playing All The Notes Galatians like many of the books in the Bible covers a wide variety of human experience from the dark side to the light. Out of those different notes, a God given harmony grows and we hear the music in new ways.  From the service aired on 6/11/23 If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to Subscribe and review our podcast wherever you get your podcasts. It is the #1 way to support this podcast, and it’s free! Go to the main podcast page, scroll down and at the bottom you’ll find a place to rate the podcast and to leave a review.  Follow us on Facebook and Instagram and YouTube @newchurchlive  Visit our Website and Make a donation to support our church community Video of Service HERE