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Alastair Moyer teaches through the story of Deborah in Judges 5. This story demonstrates the rescue of God, who saves his people through unlikely leaders - even despite his people's disobedience. It points us ahead to Jesus, the great (and seemingly unlikely) rescuer and leader of humanity, who brings peace and completion to a disobedient humanity.

Andy Cooley teaches through the stories of Othniel and Ehud in Judges 3. Here we begin to see the spiraling of God's people away from him and his ways, and their lack of consistency in telling the next generation the story of his faithfulness. This leads into story after story of God's pursuit of his people - even when they forget, neglect, and drift away from him. We see in this book that God's anger is actually a sign of his love. His nature is "slow to anger", which means that for him to wield his anger, his people must have gone far away from him. His anger is a sign of his grace and love, meant to bring us back to him.

Andy Cooley begins our series, Judges: This Great Salvation, by giving an overview and introduction to this graphic, adventurous, and helpful book of the Bible. At the beginning of the story we find God's people entering into the Promised Land and entering into a time of transition and a new generation of leadership. As the book progresses, we are faced with the question: "Will God's people trust him and his ways, or will they trust in other gods, other leaders, or themselves?" Time and time again, we find that God's people know ABOUT him, but they don't KNOW him...or his ways. They are ensnared by idolatry, yet each and every time they call on him to save them he still does. This is more than a cautionary tale, it's a book that reminds us of the great, constant, and consistent salvation of Father God - both then and now.

Wes Swarthout teaches through Jesus' statement that he is the way, the truth, and the life, and that no once can come to God the Father except through him. This exclusive statement is full of grace, because it means that there is indeed a way to God the Father! Jesus makes the incredible statement that he, himself, is the way AND the destination; he is the personal embodiment of truth; and he is the only one who can give the gift of abundant life in the here-and-now and for all eternity.

Joe Miriello teaches through Jesus' statement, "I am the true vine." He builds off of God's original call to Adam and Eve to "be fruitful" and ties this call into Jesus' promise that we WILL be fruitful if we abide in him and keep his commandments. This fruitful abiding starts in our inner-being as we learn to experience the Father's love and joy through Jesus. It then grows into a fruitful abiding that blesses and encourages others - bearing fruit that is enjoyed and experienced by those around us. Without being attached to, and drawing life from the True Vine that is Jesus, we will wither and dry out - yet God, in his love and mercy, tends to us, prunes us, and takes care to help us remain and abide.

Bo Noonan teaches through Jesus' statement "I am the good shepherd." In this statement, Jesus shows us that he meets our deepest need for leadership and he alleviates our fear of abandonment. Jesus unpacks what it means that he has authority as the leader of his sheep, and he shows that his authority is protective, loving, and sacrificial. This authority calls us, as his sheep, to lay down our attempts to take authority back and to repent. It also means that instead of focusing on our trouble, pain, and suffering, we can put our focus on our Good Shepherd, who is trustworthy, loving, and will never abandon us.

Bo Noonan teaches through Jesus' statement in John 10: "I am the door". In the context of these verses, Jesus is directly contrasting himself with the religious leaders of Israel. He uses strong language to say that they are illegitimate shepherds - thieves and robbers - trying to create illegitimate ways into God's family, and he is the only real way in. Key Old Testament stories speak of doors into God's presence (the Garden of Eden, the Ark, the Tabernacle, and Holy of Holies) that were closed off and guarded so that no one could enter without God's permission. Jesus says that he has become the entry point - the door - that allows us to enter into the family and presence of God - and his protection, provision, and security.

Bo Noonan teaches through Jesus' statement that he is the Light of the World. In saying this, Jesus is not only tying himself to the sacred name of God the Father - the I am - he is also saying that he is essential for life. He is light, the thing that sustains the world. He brings growth and fruit, he illuminates and allows us to see beauty, he shows the way forward, and he not only exposes the sin that we keep in the darkness - he also heals it.

Bo Noonan teaches on the biblical definition and natural flow of prophecy in the midst of the church and our gatherings. We are encouraged to weigh prophetic words, give them in the context of other believers, and give them with love and in a way that builds up.

Bo Noonan teaches through Jesus' statement: "I am the bread of life" found in John 6. Here we find Jesus living out the profound truth that he is much more than a good teacher; rather, he both proclaims and demonstrates the truth that he is the only answer to the deepest hunger of humanity's souls. Instead of chasing after created things to satisfy our deepest need, we find that Jesus is the sustenance that will satisfy us for all of eternity.

Bo Noonan teaches on Jesus' first "I Am" statement during Easter Sunday. In John 11 we find the story of Lazarus' death...and resurrection. In the midst of the sickness and death of his friend, Jesus puts both his humanity and his divinity on display. He shows us his anger and sadness in regards to the power of death, but then shows his amazing power by calling forth his friend from the grave - showing that even death has no power over him. He was the resurrection and the life then, he is now, and he will be for all time.

Andy Cooley teaches on the arrival of the King of the Kingdom of God. As Jesus arrived in Jerusalem to sacrifice his life on the cross, he was received with adoration and rejoicing, yet a few days later, those who welcomed him became those who reviled him. They had projected their desires on him and he didn't deliver what they expected, so they turned on him. There is a temptation for us to do the same - to look to Jesus to do what we want, rather than recognizing and following him as the King of the Kingdom of God. Jesus' invitation is to fall in behind him as our leader - to follow him, and to love him, and to love his ways.

Bo Noonan teaches on the Kingdom of God and healing. Throughout the entire Bible we find God revealing himself as a healer, and this is seen in great detail throughout the life and ministry of Jesus. God even calls himself by the name of Healer in Exodus 15:26. As followers of Jesus we are those who are partnering with him in his continued ministry of healing as we pray for his kingdom to come and his will to be done in this world. We are called to "give it a go" and to pray with authority, with compassion, and in faith. Our calling is to try, and to leave the results up to God and his kingdom purposes.

Bo Noonan looks at how the Kingdom of God speaks to sex and sexuality. All of us will be discipled in sex and sexuality in some way, but many of us have not been discipled by a biblical view. The Bible has a lot to say, and in this teaching we find an incredibly beautiful view of sex that leads to life and abundance - and it starts with the creation narrative.

Bo Noonan teaches on how the Kingdom of God speaks to how we use power and authority in all areas of life. According to God's word, all power and authority in heaven and on earth belongs to Jesus; therefore, any power and authority we have on earth is ours to steward and use as a gift from him. In a culture that says that power and authority belong to us to use for our own gain, the Kingdom of God shows us a different way that was modeled by Jesus. We come as Jesus did - not to be serve, but to serve.

Bo Noonan teaches on how the Kingdom of God speaks to our work. The Bible has a lot to say about the purpose and eternal significance of work. Work existed before sin entered the world, so it is important for us to see work as God himself sees it. In the Kingdom of God, we see that we are made in God's image and that God himself is a worker. We also see that, no matter what job we have, our job has value because we get to partner with God as we do our work for him and with him. Our jobs can have eternal value as we see them as the current place God has called us to.

Bo Noonan teaches on what the Kingdom of God has to say about money and possessions. We see that money and possessions are not neutral things in our lives, but rather things that vie for our affections and worship. As followers of Jesus we want to view them in light of his reign and rule, which allows us to use them as tools rather than following them as masters.

Joe Miriello teaches on how the Kingdom of God interacts with and ultimately answers the question of how we can be content in this life. As we learn to trust in Jesus and his ways and seek his kingdom first, we find concrete responses to the problems of anxiety, wants, insufficiencies, and discontentment.

Bo Noonan kicks off our series The Kingdom of God with an overview of what the kingdom of God is. God himself is working out a plan to save his children, to restore all things, and we get to partner with him in that plan. In this teaching we see the overall narrative of creation > chaos > redemption > and finally new creation - and how we get to partner with the God of the Bible in this plan.

Bo Noonan closes out our series Joyful Endurance with 2 Timothy 4:9-22. In these verses we see clearly that this letter is from a real person who really followed Jesus and his ways. Paul's relationships, needs, and desire for Timothy's good, and the good of the Church, are seen in loving detail. He ends by underscoring the truth that Jesus is enough, and that soon he will be with Jesus, in his kingdom, for all eternity.

Bo Noonan teaches from 2 Timothy 4:1-8, where Paul encourages Timothy to teach and live out the truth of God's unfailing word with consistency and patience. He continues by encourages him to stay true to the calling that is on his life to trust God as his Father, to follow in his ways, and to be motivated by the reward that is laid up for him through the grace and mercy of Jesus.

Bo Noonan teaches from 2 Timothy 3:10-17. Here we find Paul continue a thought from verses 1-9, where Paul describes people who love themselves and their ways, rather than Jesus and his ways. In verses 10-17, he encourages Timothy by commending him for being different. Instead of following the way that leads to deceptions, Timothy has followed two things: 1) Paul's teaching and way of life (which has led to both difficulty AND salvation) and 2) the God-breathed scriptures of the Bible (which have helped him mature as a person and brought salvation to his soul). This contrast is both commended and recommended to us as well. Instead of following culture, self, and deconstructing God's word we can be examined, built up, and saved by submitting to God's word and following the example of other people who do the same.

Bo Noonan teaches during session 2 of ManCamp 2025 and speaks about the habitat we are creating for life.

Bo Noonan teaches during session 1 of ManCamp 2025 and asks the question: What are we becoming?

Alastair Moyer teaches through 2 Timothy 3:1-9, where Paul begins a list of "make sures" for Timothy. In these verses, Paul encourages Timothy to make sure that he can recognize behaviors that lead to destruction and to guard and guide the church away from them. This list is just as important for us today and it encourages us to say no to sin and say yes to Jesus and his ways - not in order to live morally, but to live lives of power that point to Jesus and his love and goodness.

Bo Noonan teaches through 2 Timothy 2:20-26, as Paul continues to encourage and strengthen Timothy. Here we find that no matter what the narrative of a person's life has been, it can be different through Jesus. No one has to live a life of condemnation and uselessness. When we come to Jesus we receive honor, purpose, and the ability to say no to unhelpful things and yes to helpful things as we learn to be with him, be like him, and do what he did.

Bo Noonan teaches through 2 Timothy 2:14-19 where Paul continues to encourage Timothy to remember and to rightly handle the word of truth. Here he calls Timothy to remember to hold on to what matters and to let go of what doesn't. He calls him to preserve what needs to be preserved in the church and to persevere through what needs to be persevered through - and to know the difference.

Bo Noonan teaches through 2 Timothy 2:8-13 where Paul teaches Timothy that the fuel he needs to keep going is to remember. When we feel "wobbly" - as Timothy seemed to be - it is essential that we remember Jesus' story and his current position as the Risen King, full of grace, mercy, and welcomer of those who come to him.

Bo Noonan teaches through 2 Timothy 2:3-8, where Paul encourages Timothy to endure. Endurance is a call on the lives of those apprenticing to Jesus, and in these verses Paul does two things for Timothy's (and our) benefit: 1) he paints a picture of true apprenticeship to Jesus, and 2) he shows the purpose of true apprenticeship to Jesus.

Bo Noonan teaches on the amazing truth that Jesus, fully God for all eternity past, became flesh - fully human - so that humanity could become part of his family for all eternity future. This is the story of Christmas, and God's amazing gift to all of humanity.

Andy Cooley teaches through 2 Timothy 1:8-2:2 in our series Joyful Endurance. In these verses, Andy builds on three points in regards to Paul's encouragement to Timothy concerning the gospel of Jesus: 1) The gospel is true and of extreme and ever-deepening worth. 2) The gospel and our faith in it are entrusted to us by God and need to be guarded. And 3) The gospel needs to be passed on to others. 

Bo Noonan teaches from 2 Timothy 1:6-12, where Paul encourages Timothy to "fan into flame" the Holy Spirit's presence and purposes in his life through diving into the gospel and being with God's people. In Paul's day, and in ours, there is a call to give our lives to SOMETHING. Paul's encouragement to Timothy is to spend his life, not on himself, but on the gospel of Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit. To fan God's purposes into an all-consuming fire that allowed him (and us) to burn in community with others, keeping each other set alight, so that many may come to know the grace of Jesus.

Bo Noonan teaches from 2 Timothy 1:1-5, where we begin with a story of deep friendship, joy, and generations of faith. Paul then charges Timothy to give himself to a life well-lived, as he follows Paul's example. That said, Paul's definition of a life well-lived flies directly in the face of what culture might expect. Paul's life included difficulty, prison, beatings, rejection, and much lack of physical things - but it was soaked in the gospel, the grace of Jesus, and passion for Jesus and his ways to be made known to all. We are faced with the question: are we pursuing a life a life well-lived according to the Bible's standard, or our culture's?

Bo Noonan kicks off our new series, Joyful Endurance, which will be a walkthrough of the 2 Timothy - Paul's letter to his faithful apprentice, Timothy. In this overview of the letter, we find out that Timothy is in the city of Ephesus doing his best to equip the church, lead himself, and point people to Jesus. It has been a hard go for Timothy...and for Paul, who is in prison has he writes this letter. As we work through each verse of this letter we will find Paul encouraging Timothy to do four things: guard the good news of Jesus, share in Paul's sufferings, continue in the good news of Jesus, and engage in preaching the good news of Jesus. As a church, we need this encouragement too, and will dig into it through this series.

Carl Medford teaches about becoming a community who wars, not against other people, but against the things the Bible calls us to war against. The good news is that Jesus has won the ultimate war, allowing us to be brought back into an eternal and loving relationship with our Father. As a result, we now battle against spiritual enemies that would try to hijack that relationship for us and for others whom God is drawing to himself. Ultimately, the church is victorious because the One who began a good work in us will be faithful to complete it in Christ Jesus!

Bo Noonan teaches on the counter-cultural type of leadership that Jesus calls his followers to. Throughout scripture we see the complimentary roles that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have played throughout eternity past and into eternity future - they are fully equal in standing, yet they play different roles. It is the same in the church. We are all equal in standing because of the work of Jesus, yet as we grow in leadership of ourselves and others, we learn to lay down our rights more and more and take on differing roles and responsibilities. According to scripture, our character must come before our giftings and abilities as we lead through serving one another.

Bo Noonan teaches on the importance of being both a Word and Spirit community. We believe that the Bible is fully true and points us to God's order, way of life, and his love. We also believe that we fully need the empowering presence and the seal of adoption that the Holy Spirit gives us, which allows us to know God intimately as Father. We are a both/and church that is learning to give ourselves fully to the ways of Jesus and the power and presence of his Holy Spirit, so that we can be equipped for the mission he has called us to.

Bo Noonan teaches about remembering the benefits we have as followers of Jesus - especially the presence of God in healing. As we pray for others and trust God in his work of healing, we see in his word that we should pray with authority, with compassion, and with great faith. May we be a church that believes God, prays for others to be healed, and begins to act on every nudge from the Holy Spirit to pray for healing!

Bo Noonan teaches about being a healthy and healing community, not just physically, but emotionally and spiritually. Being a healthy church means that we must remain in love with Jesus, connected to him as our Source, and continually be receiving from the power and presence of the Holy Spirit. That said, it remains true that many have experienced real hurt in the church in many forms. By God's grace and the love of a healthy church community, even those with deep hurts can find healing, wholeness, and a way forward. In Jesus, there is hope.

Lisa Mesler and Kate McSharry teach on the theme of God's faithfulness during the 2024 Women's Retreat: All My Days.

Alissa Cooley teaches on the theme of God's faithfulness during the 2024 Women's Retreat: All My Days

Travis Aicklen, from Radiant Church in Visalia, CA, encourages us to be a community that endures. He takes us to the story of Timothy and Paul, and their exchanges in 1 and 2 Timothy. Through these exchanges he helps us see a way to endure and continue on in faithfulness to the call that God has placed on us as a church. As we look to the faithfulness of Jesus over generations and see it in the lives of others, we can find encouragement to press on through the "dips" of life.

Bo Noonan teaches through Jesus' model of mission from the story of the "Samaritan Woman at the Well" in John 4. He unpacks a biblical model of mission seen in the acronym B.L.E.S.S. - Begin with prayer / Listen / Eat together / Serve / Share your God story. This model can be lived out in our lives, our families/friend groups, and through our Community Groups.

Andy Cooley teaches about the biblical value of the community of the Church and how that is worked out here at NCC through Community Groups. Community is a central theme in Jesus' teaching and a loving mandate to anyone who is learning to be with him, like him, and do what he does.

Bo Noonan kicks off our new series: Becoming New Community Church by diving into the amazing truth of being "one new man in Christ". The truth about the Church is that we are a miracle! We are the profound work of God doing the impossible through his son Jesus: he has taken separated, dead enemies and made us into fully alive children of God! Because of this, we are not just a gathering of people or a social club; instead, we are the redeemed people of God, created in the Christ Jesus for good works. We are the miraculous work of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit...we are the Church!

Bo Noonan teaches through the last line in the Lord's prayer: lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. In the Lord's prayer we learn to believe what Jesus believed and to pray as he prayed, and he ends his prayer in a somewhat surprising way. From this ending, we can see that his desire for his people is that we are delivered from Satan and his ways and that we find fulness of life in our Father in heaven and his ways.

Mark Knutson teaches through the phrase "forgive us our debts as we also forgive our debtors" during our teaching series through the Lord's Prayer.

Andy Cooley teaches through the phrase "give us this day our daily bread" during our teaching series through the Lord's Prayer.

Bo Noonan teaches through the phrase "your kingdom come, your will be done" in our series on the Lord's prayer. In this teaching he focuses on three questions: 1) What is the kingdom? 2) Why ask for the kingdom to come? and 3) How should we pray for the kingdom come?

Willy Verduzco from Origen Church in Guadalajara, Mexico - part of our Confluence family of churches - encourages us as a family of churches to sow the seed of our lives, just as Jesus did, for the joy of many people coming to know Jesus and his love. He encourages us from the book of Isaiah to "enlarge our houses" and to fix our eyes on Jesus and his mission.

Rhys Scott from Trinity Central Church in Vancouver, BC - part of our Confluence family of churches - takes us on a tour of the life of Elijah, helping us see the deep and amazing truth of God's great care for his people. God walked with Elijah in times of triumph, depression, and recommissioning. As individuals, as churches, and as a family, God is doing the same with us. Rhys calls us to be open to God resetting us, calling us and recommissioning us into mission.