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We were created to be truly known and loved. The only one who can fully know and love us, is the one who made us, God. Like the woman at the well, we all have a place that we want to hide - a place filled with pain and shame. Jesus wants to meet us in those places and bring light and life and healing.

You cannot be truly known without community. Being known requires three things; pursuing knowing ourselves, pursuing knowing God, pursuing knowing others. Your best moments with Jesus includes others. Small groups are the way that we at NCC make that happen. They aren't the vehicle leading us to the next thing - they are The Thing? We want people to live life together - to be Known!

Life by the Spirit means doing/acting/living, a place in life where we see the fruit actually being lived out. There are always opportunity to minister/serve. It's important to go where Jesus is sending us.

Life is full of choices. Life with Jesus is a choice and a series of choices. What daily choices do you need to make to choose Him everyday?

Who are you being called to come alongside and share their burden? How can we bear the burdens of others well?

Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently.

Living in step with the Spirit is the everyday life of abiding with Jesus. Being lead by God is something that you enter into and continuously go back. If you are going to live in step with the Spirit Jesus has to be more important to you than all other things.

When we grow down into Christ, rooting ourselves deeper and deeper into Him, spending time with Him, digging into His word, seeking Him, we will naturally start to produce the fruit of the Spirit.

Our life with Jesus should produce fruit through the Holy Spirit. This fruit is found in our actions. The question is how do we treat others? "The true measure of a person is how they treat someone who can do them absolutely no good."

Peace and patience are fruits of the Spirit that can be intentionally chosen to be a part of our lives. Through continued practice and time spent with our Father we can be examples of faith even in the face of suffering.

Do you need more love and joy in your life? These are not feeling but fruits of the Spirit. Real freedom comes from loving others. Real joy is not the same as happiness, it comes from being in a relationship with our Father God.

Fruit of the Spirit is the opposite of works of the flesh. We cannot make fruit happen, it is produced by the Spirit. How do we grow this fruit? By keeping in step with the Spirit. Fruit always starts out small. We don't yell at small fruit, rather we cultivate and water it!

Paul was the most Jewish of all of the Jewish leaders, until he encountered Jesus and His grace. Now he is advocating for grace not law. More rules aren't the answer. God's grace really is enough!

Just as the disciples navigated a lot of change during the time of Jesus' resurrection and ascension, so too the church has been experiencing a lot of change. Change even under the best of circumstances can be really difficult. Even though they didn't fully understand what was to come the disciples they still gathered together, prayed together and waited on the Holy Spirit. Sometimes that is the best thing that we can do!

Over and over again we see the disciples of Jesus and wholeheartedly give themselves to worship. Over and over again we see Jesus unpack the meaning of Scripture and prophecy to empower His disciples. After the ascension just as the disciples did we must ask ourselves what now?

Jesus paid the price for all of our sins so that we could be reconciled to him, and so that we don’t need to stay in the brokenness, darkness, and pain of our own sins and the sins done to us. Jesus paid for it. It is finished. We can rest in that truth. Knowing that God redeems broken things.

What does it mean to be a disciple? Are we accidental Pharisees in our quest to purify the church? How are you representing God?

There is an age old theological argument of grace vs law. In the parable of the Shrewd Manager Jesus was speaking directly to the Pharisees about the being good stewards of the things that the Lord has given us to care for. In the end we get the God that we expect and represent. After all we are nothing more than stewards of HIs possessions.

This story is the start of Jesus' ministry - it starts with joy! He knew as He started His ministry that there was pain coming and He still walked it out. His mother Mary had waited for decades for this to begin, to vindicate her story. She trusted Him and laid it all at His feet. How can experience this same joy? By following what Mary told the servants in this story - we must "Do whatever He says".

Let's look at two stories of mother's whom you may not have considered from their perspective, or even noticed that they were in the story.