Water baptism symbolizes the believer’s total trust in and total reliance on the Lord Jesus Christ, as well as a commitment to live obediently to Him. It also expresses unity with all the saints (Ephesians 2:19), that is, with every person in every nation on earth who is a member of the Body of Christ (Galatians 3:27–28). Water baptism conveys this and more, but it is not what saves us. Instead, we are saved by grace through faith, apart from works (Ephesians 2:8–9). We are baptized because our Lord commanded it: “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 28:19).
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Research shows that our generation is laughing less and having to juggle more. Prescriptions for anxiety and depression medications are all on the rise. There's a word that describes what we're feeling; it is gravity.
We're not talking about the physics kind of gravity like the earth's gravitational pull; we're feeling the "gravity" of life.
We put on smiles and wear our Christmas red and tell everybody "Merry Christmas," but underneath all that, there's a heaviness to our lives. So we put up the façade and keep pushing.
You know what we need? We need the opposite of gravity. It's called levity. When you bring levity to a situation, it lightens the load. Levity makes the burden a little lighter.
We need to be in environments and have experiences that lift us. We believe God has sovereignly appointed you to come across this service recording today to bring some levity to the gravity of your situation.
The Old Testament prophet Isaiah said a lot about Christmas and the coming Christ child hundreds of years before any of that ever happened. He foretold many things about this child who would change the world. He said Jesus would come:
Isaiah 61:3 NKJV
To console those who mourn in Zion,
To give them beauty for ashes,
The oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness
When Isaiah says that Jesus will give you beauty for ashes, it means every place where your life is ugly and burnt he's going cause something beautiful to spring from the ash of that situation.
We were made to live in community with others, and one way to find that at Northplace is to get in a group! No matter what kind of group you’re looking for or what stage of life you’re in, we want you to be in a community with people who encourage you, help you grow, and have fun!
Freedom groups equip believers to live the victorious and abundant life Christ came to give us. In addition to the 12-week Small Group is a powerful conference focused on overcoming the past and laying a foundation for walking in daily freedom.
The purpose of Serving & Outreach at Northplace Church is to train and equip ordinary people to go and do extraordinary things in the name of Jesus so that all might see, hear and experience God’s love in tangible ways.
