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The NewChurch Live podcast hosted by Pastor Chuck Blair is dedicated to spirituality and community. We aim to be an anytime, anywhere destination for regular inspiration. It is our goal to meet you where you are on your spiritual journey. The mission of NewChurch Live is to provide an accepting space where everyone belongs. To help fit worship and spiritual inspiration into your life, not the other way around. On this podcast we will share our Sunday messaging as well as interviews with people from our church community. We are a community here to support and learn from each other through our personal struggles and victories. This podcast is designed to provide the space for spiritual connection with one another and ultimately providing a spiritual home.
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Sunday Mar 28, 2021
Sunday Mar 28, 2021
3/28/21
In the face of impending crisis and violence, Jesus remained throughout the Easter story both saddened and at peace, aware of what was occurring, yet consistently choosing a higher path that leads to a “calm, quiet sea.”
Sunday Mar 21, 2021
Sunday Mar 21, 2021
3/21/21
One author beautifully noted how we will all experience “the grace of exhaustion,” or “the sacrament of stuck.” Those are, paradoxically, the places of exhaustion or feeling stuck where miracles often happen. The experience entails a journey through a truth telling that leads to the hope that is core to the Easter message. Bring your “stuckness” with you and we’ll try to appreciate it together!
Sunday Mar 14, 2021
Sunday Mar 14, 2021
3/14/21
Blessing it all is NOT easy. The Easter story is filled with very human stories of both blessing and betrayal, of light and dark, of heaven and hell.
As we launch our four-part Easter series, we will explore how to hold those extremes in more life-giving ways. Winter gives way to spring....
Sunday Mar 07, 2021
Sunday Mar 07, 2021
3/7/21
How the Darkest Times in Our Lives Bring Us Closer to God
As we begin emerging from a time when nearly all of us have struggled in one way or another, it brings up the question: why does God allow us to struggle at all? We’ll explore a mechanism that uses our times of powerlessness to strengthen our connection to our creator.
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
In this season of lent, we are reminded to offer a sacred “no.” We all wrestle with parts of life that we know do far more harm than good.
Sometimes as we move toward becoming who we feel God is calling us to be, we have say “no” to those areas in our life that hold us down, and in that process find an even greater yes!
Sunday Feb 21, 2021
Sunday Feb 21, 2021
2/21/21
We face the temptation to either subscribe to the view that everything is possible or that nothing is possible in the long run. The real question that God asks us to hold is what is possible for each of us today?
Let us look at life giving ways to reframe ourselves to sharpen our attention around small things we can do today to make the world better.
Sunday Feb 14, 2021
Sunday Feb 14, 2021
2/14/21
God finds us WHERE WE ARE. Simple and profound. He finds us in the reality of our everyday lives and calls upon us there.
Even within the mundane limitations of our everyday lives, God gently leads us toward a new hope that says, together, we can make the world better.
Join us!
Sunday Feb 07, 2021
Sunday Feb 07, 2021
2/7/2021
Jesus never commanded people to worship him. Instead, we find a consistent invitation to follow him. In that consistent invitation, and in following, we are encouraged to take responsibility for the world and our place in it.
Sunday Jan 31, 2021
Sunday Jan 31, 2021
1/31/2021
Finding our way towards a chance to make things better means we must first be open to rethinking.
Rethinking our values, our goals, how we spend our time, and how we spend our money can enable us to rediscover a foundational sense of awe, finding God and our truest selves anew.