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NewChurch Live — 514 episodes

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Title
1

Meeting Pain Head On

2

Let Prayer Do the Work

3

Moving from Seeing Threats Everywhere to Seeing God in All Things

4

The Ultimate Power Couple

5

Three Practical Truths that You Should Know About Your Soul

6

The Afterlife: A Practical Guide

7

Spiritual Growth: A Practical Guide

8

Trusting What We Can’t Always See

9

Consider the Lilies

10

The Spiritual Framework for Marriage and Intimate Relationships

11

Where Do We Draw the Line?

12

When Do We Draw the Line?

13

The Headlines Don’t Get the Last Word

14

How to Spot Heaven and Hell in Daily Life

15

How to Build a Life on Philippians 4

16

Easter

17

The Love that Finds Us

18

Is Life Getting Better?

19

Turn the Leaf: How to accept happiness from God

20

How they are still with us!

21

Give Church a Try

22

Living with Light When Trust Is Hard

23

Next Level Love: Challenge Accepted

24

Don’t Give Up: It’s Not All for Nothing

25

Finding God in the Wilderness of Life

26

Still Struggling: The Lone Road Around Loss

27

Soul-Level Freedom

28

Choosing Focus in a Distracted Year

29

Breaking the Routine

30

Gathering “It” in the New Year

31

Celebrate Christmas Eve

32

Christmas Part III: Gifts and Givers

33

Christmas I: Light One Candle

34

Breaking Free from Your Inner Pharaoh

35

Grateful For All the Ways We Are Connected

36

No more “If.” No more “When.”

37

A New Way to Define "Greatness", a New Way to Rediscover Joy

38

The Shape of Joy: A Humble Heart

39

The Shape of Joy: Mattering

40

The Greatest Love

41

After the Fire: Opening Our Hearts Again

42

After the Fire: Walking Through the Ashes

43

Can All Religions Lead to Heaven?

44

Characters that Make Life A Joy

45

Are Problems Problems?

46

Writing A Better Story: The Power of Redemption

47

Calming Life's Storms

48

Paying Attention

49

Chasing Approval

50

Choosing Life

51

A More Perfect Union

52

It’s Ok to Not Know

53

A Steady Heart in an Unsteady World

54

Stillness is the Answer

55

What To Do When You Can't Help

56

Church in 2025: Faith as Attentiveness

57

What Are Young People Thinking?

58

Seasons Of Change

59

How to Keep Your Soul Intact

60

Control or Connection

61

What "Jesus Christ" Really Means

62

When to Let Go: The Gift of Moving Forward

63

When to Let Go of a Relationship

64

When to Let Go of a Mindset

65

A Bedrock of Trust

66

Easter Sunday

67

The Two Ingredients of Happiness

68

Lessons in Humility

69

A Place for It All

70

When The Good Thing You Wanted Doesn't Happen

71

The Big Mistake

72

Hearing the Hard Things

73

3 Parables That Will Change Your Life

74

Loving Difficult People

75

Remember This About Trials

76

Traveling With

77

Embracing the Spirit of Adventure

78

God’s Main Command for Us: Don’t Worry

79

Why is Hell Hell?

80

Why is Heaven Heaven?

81

Bending Without Breaking: God's Gentle Touch

82

Christmas Eve: A Weary World Rejoices

83

Surprised That It Is All True

84

Surprised by Joy

85

Surprised by Hope

86

Celebrating Goodness

87

Listening to the Whisper: Trusting God's Gentle Nudge

88

Don't Let This Election Make You Hate People

89

God Already Forgave You (now here's what to do next)

90

The 13th Disciple

91

Can We Do Better?

92

A Humble Offer of Friendship

93

Moving Past Grudges

94

How to Find Heavenly Peace

95

Your Best Note

96

Finding Strength in Unexpected Places

97

The Unfinished Chapters: Writing Your Story in the Book of Life

98

When the Bottom Falls Out

99

Facing the Chatter that Defeats Us

100

Be Humble, Be Useful, Be Happy

101

Celebration, Gentleness, Gratitude, and Trust

102

What is the Imperfection Jesus Calls Us To?

103

From Nervous to Centered

104

Reverence Restored: Rediscovering Our Respect for the Sacred

105

Hope in Uncertain Times

106

The Gift of Perspective: Seeing in New Ways

107

Was Jesus Happy?

108

Do You Need Church to Find God? - with Curtis Childs

109

You Are Seen

110

Light in the Darkest Moments

111

Transforming Negativity

112

How God Lifts Us Out of Despair

113

Forward in Faith

114

It Is All a Miracle

115

From Emptiness to Purpose

116

The Innocence of Wisdom

117

The Bread of Heaven

118

Learning How to Pray

119

There's Only One Good Reason to be Religious

120

Celebrating Easter

121

Embracing the Hard Stuff

122

Why Easter Matters

123

Your Job is Sacred

124

What Are You Anxious About?

125

What Are You Mad At?

126

We Don’t “Move On” From Grief. We Move Forward With It

127

Creating a Pause

128

Deep Knowing

129

What Happens When We Die

130

Moving Through Seasons of Loss

131

Not the Way It Used to Be

132

Living a Life That Matters

133

The Easiest Way to Understand Who Jesus Is

134

The Gift of Love: On Christmas Eve

135

The Gift of Joy: At Christmas

136

The Gift of Peace: At Christmas

137

Purpose and Heaven

138

The Gift of Hope: At Christmas

139

Conscience: Your Access Point to Heaven

140

Glimmers of Goodness: Trust and Connection

141

Glimmers of Goodness: Our Light Shines

142

As In Heaven

143

What Matters Most

144

Life’s Many Layers

145

Place and Heaven

146

Life Worth Living

147

Surprise: The Power to Be Different

148

The 5 Secrets of Heaven

149

Conflict with Others

150

Conflict with Ourselves

151

Problems Are Ok

152

Finding Faith

153

Slowing Down

154

People and Heaven

155

Love Is Patient

156

What Are Heaven and Hell?

157

House Building 101

158

Do Not Worry

159

Strong and Generous in the Face of Hate

160

How Love Works in Heaven

161

The Sermon on the Mount: Staying Kind in Hard Places

162

A New Creation

163

God Will Wipe Away Every Tear

164

The Fruits of the Spirit

165

Playing All The Notes

166

Freedom From The Voices That Haunt Us

167

Freedom to Live

168

Understanding Where We Are - A Family Meeting

169

A New Definition of Freedom

170

Baptism

171

Commitment to Doing the Work

172

Family Commitment

173

Swedenborg and the New Church Perspective

174

Commitment to Relationships

175

Easter

176

Come In The Name of the Lord: The Secret Power of Palm Sunday

177

Grief and Joy

178

The Beauty in Finding God Again

179

Finding Beauty in the World Around Us

180

The Beauty of Doing the Right Thing

181

You Are Not Alone

182

Where Do We Go From Fear?

183

What Do You Worry About?

184

The Joy of Cleaning Ourselves Up

185

How to Find Your Purpose and Passion in Life

186

Discovering Life’s Purpose Through Relationships

187

What is my Purpose? Spiritually

188

Spiritual Journey: Exploring Faith in High School

189

One Body: A New Way to See the Human Race

190

Helping Teens Find Their Spiritual Self

191

Believe in Love: Christmas Eve

192

Believe in Joy

193

Believe in Peace

194

Believe In Hope

195

Spiritual Connection Through Prayer

196

A Prayer for Gratitude: Thankfulness is the Greatest Happiness

197

Creating Community and Supporting Children at Christmas

198

Finding Gratitude as We Age

199

Failing Forward with Gratitude

200

Honoring Domestic Violence Awareness Month

201

Practicing Gratitude

202

The Six Ways that People Need Help

203

Community Support for Families Struggling with Addiction

204

Addiction: Can We Find an Anchor? - 10MofC

205

Biblical Angels: Love Makes Room

206

The Promise in Hard Times - 10 Minutes of Calm

207

Are You Tired of Your Self? - 10 Minutes of Calm

208

Letting Go of What We Cannot Change - 10MofC

209

Always With Wonder

210

Everything in Everything - 10 Minutes of Calm

211

God Cannot Count - 10 Minutes of Calm

212

Mirrors and Windows

213

What is Good in Everyone? - 10 Minutes of Calm

214

Yep, That Part Just Has to Go... - 10 Minutes of Calm

215

Beyond the Books - 10 Minutes of Calm

216

A Tiny Window of Understanding - 10 Minutes of Calm

217

You Are Always Protected - 10 Minutes of Calm

218

Higher Perspective

219

The Honest Idea that Our Motives are Mixed - 10MofC

220

A Good Way to Compartmentalize - 10MofC

221

Noah’s Ark Was Not a Boat - 10 Minutes of Calm

222

Remember that Time in Junior High School? - 10MofC

223

Masters of Suspicion - 10 Minutes of Calm

224

When Your Relationship Needs a Turnaround

225

What Would You Tell a Group of College Students? - 10MofC

226

What Accomplishes More, Love or Anger? - 10MofC

227

Where the Ocean Meets the Shore - 10MofC

228

Should We Let Our Kids Fail? - 10 Minutes of Calm

229

What Do You Want to Hear?

230

What Life Knows - 10 Minutes of Calm

231

What Can We Learn in Hard Times? - 10MofC

232

What Mercy Can Teach Us - 10 Minutes of Calm

233

Larger Self, Larger Purposes - 10 Minutes of Calm

234

Live from State College, PA - 10 Minutes of Calm

235

You Were Made to Help

236

Live From Ocean City, NJ - 10 Minutes of Calm

237

One Fact About Cynicism - 10 Minutes of Calm

238

Friends Believing Crazy Things - 10 Minutes of Calm

239

The Hidden Gold in Everyone - 10 Minutes of Calm

240

When Everything Feels Alive - 10 Minutes of Calm

241

Transformational vs. Transactional

242

1 Goal for the Weekend... - 10 Minutes of Calm

243

Everyone. Always. - 10 Minutes of Calm

244

We Will Exhaust Our Friends If We Fail To... - 10MofC

245

Giving And Receiving All in One - 10 Minutes of Calm

246

The Common Good

247

How Angels Find Joy - 10 Minutes of Calm

248

How Angels Become Angels - 10 Minutes of Calm

249

What Gets Born Out of Failure? - 10 Minutes of Calm

250

Mistakes on the Journey Home - 10 Minutes of Calm

251

Trusting Our Gut - 10 Minutes of Calm

252

Creation Never Ends

253

Is There Any Way to be Comfortable with Change? - 10MofC

254

How Do Love and Truth Connect - 10 Minutes of Calm

255

The Case for Simple - 10 Minutes of Calm

256

What is Beneath the Surface? - 10 Minutes of Calm

257

The Importance of Not Knowing - 10 Minutes of Calm

258

Love Above All Else

259

Variety is Perfection

260

What is True Beauty? - 10 Minutes of Calm

261

Living Through Other People’s Eyes - 10 Minutes of Calm

262

Good Competition/Bad Competition - 10 Minutes of Calm

263

How Can We Stop Pretending? - 10 Minutes of Calm

264

Contentment - 10 Minutes of Calm

265

A New Kind of Creative - 10 Minutes of Calm

266

Connecting on the Ground Floor - 10 Minutes of Calm

267

Never a Complete Success. Never a Complete Failure. - 10MofC

268

How Do Faith and Forgiveness Go Together? - 10MofC

269

Immediately and Forever - 10 Minutes of Calm

270

Biblical Angels: The Joy of Knowing They Have Been With Us All Along

271

Tattoo You - 10 Minutes of Calm

272

Cleaning out the Closet - 10 Minutes of Calm

273

Using Those Difficult Parts as a Seed - 10MofC

274

The 3 Kinds of Love

275

What Can We Do About the Mean People in Our Lives? - 10MofC

276

Contrasting Opposites - 10 Minutes of Calm

277

A Way Past Distraction - 10 Minutes of Calm

278

The Secret Prayers of Ruby Bridges - 10MofC

279

10 Minutes of Calm - Faith Has a Purpose

280

Faith is the Eye of Love

281

Bigger Tables Not Higher Walls

282

Journey Together

283

Loneliness vs. Solitude

284

The Broken and the Blessed

285

The Three Rivers

286

Gratitude

287

Connection

288

Coordinates

289

The Seven Stages of Life

290

Easter Sunday

291

Trial and Denial

292

Praying in the Dark

293

3 Keys to Looking at People From Love

294

Chasing Beauty

295

Stay**

296

Grieving a Loved One

297

A New Frame

298

A New Kind Of Clarity

299

Beyond Our Tribe

300

Beyond Ourselves

301

Finding Home

302

Welcome to the Afterlife

303

The Beloved Community

304

A Fresh Start for Stuck Relationships

305

Possibility

306

We’re Getting Somewhere

307

Christmas Eve

308

Love In a New Light

309

Joy In a New Light

310

Peace In A New Light

311

Hope In A New Light

312

Finding Enough

313

God Is A Way Of Life

314

Two Of Us

315

Two of You

316

Two of Me

317

A Simple Faith

318

Contact vs. Connection

319

Battle

320

Crossing Over

321

The Two Things That Solve Everything

322

Back to School

323

Moving Forward

324

Filled With Challenges

325

A Taste of Heaven

326

How to Develop Heavenly Habits

327

Living Our Best Future Now

328

Call it Grace. Call it Mercy.

329

Something Being Born

330

The Beauty of Imperfection

331

Writing a New Story

332

Declaring Spiritual Independence

333

The City of Brotherly Love

334

Amy Michaud's Memorial Service

335

Paul West: Capturing Our Lives In A Work Of Art

336

First Things First

337

Balancing It All Part 2

338

Balancing It All Part 1

339

The Wise Child

340

Learning to Live Gracefully

341

Living Your Best Life

342

We Can Be Unhappy Anywhere

343

Humility as a Way of Life

344

The Territory of Our Kindness

345

Embracing Our Chance

346

There Is A Hunger In Us, Isn’t There?

347

Easter Sunday! : Join Us to Celebrate Life

348

A Calm, Quiet Sea

349

The Grace of Exhaustion

350

The Hard Work of Blessing It All

351

The End of the Pandemic Winter

352

Forrest Keys Memorial Service

353

The Power of a Sacred "No"

354

What is Possible Today?

355

The Call in the Ordinary

356

Deciding to Follow

357

A Chance to Make Things Better

358

Memorial Service for Steven Petaccio

359

Finding a Home in Our Minds

360

Memorial Service for Bob Johnson

361

Living Gratefully Part 4: New Voices

362

Living Gratefully Part 3: All a Gift

363

Living Gratefully Part 2: Patience When It All Goes Wrong

364

Living Gratefully Part 1: The Infinite Game

365

Resilience Part 5: Who Do We Want To Be When This Is over?

366

Resilience Part 4: Showing Up for the Ones We Love

367

Resilience Part 3: Confronting Reality with Unwavering Hope

368

Resilience Part 2: Patience When It All Goes Wrong

369

Resilience Part 1: Will We Survive This?

370

How to Disagree Like an Angel

371

Beauty In the Storm Part 3: Storms Pushing Us Towards Beauty

372

Beauty In the Storm Part 2: Faith to Move

373

Beauty In the Storm Part 1: Facing Hopelessness

374

Between Two Worlds Part 3: There Is Hope in the Struggle

375

Coming Home Part 3: The Art of Homecoming

376

Coming Home Part 2: Challenges in the Family

377

Coming Home Part 1: Pilgrimage

378

Between Two Worlds Part 2: Every Experience Can Be Spiritual

379

Between Two Worlds Part 1: The Near Death Experience

380

Daring to Imagine Part 3: A Life of Gentle Answers

381

Daring to Imagine Part 2: A Vision Worthy of Our Lives

382

Daring to Imagine Part 1: Learning to Dream

383

What doesn't change part 5 - Good will always be brought out of evil

384

What doesn't change part 4: The future is the present

385

What doesn't change part 3 - God will always be with us

386

What doesn't change part 2 - A prayer for peace

387

What doesn't change part 1 - There is always a bigger picture

388

Online church | Near Me

389

A Greater Hope - Part 3: A first glimmer of hope

390

A Greater Hope - Part 2: Riding out the storm

391

A Greater Hope - Part 1: Preparing for the storm

392

What is the future of church?

393

Battling Lonliness

394

Wake Up In Safety Part 3: The broader story

395

Dealing with Loss

396

Practicing Radical Kindness in the Face of COVID 19: A Conversation with Martha Pitcairn and Chuck Blair

397

Wake Up In Safety Part 2: Outside the Gates

398

Wake Up In Safety Part 1: Bending to Serve

399

Moving Forward Part 4: Straining Towards Meaning

400

Moving Forward Part 3: In the Face of the Corona Vus

401

Moving Forward Part 2: When the Storm hits

402

Moving Forward Part 1: Moving Forward with Grief Nora McInerny

403

Commitment 4: Making Stone Soup

404

Commitment 3: The Mess and the Beauty of Our Families

405

Commitment 2: Finding Our Heart's Call with Curtis Childs

406

Commitment 1: Living In a Miracle

407

Belonging Part 5: Lostness Does Not Matter

408

Belonging Part 4: Picturing a New World

409

Belonging Part 3: Navigating the Teenage Years

410

Belonging Part 2: The Crisis of Lonliness

411

Belonging Part 1: What Is Love?

412

Vulnerable Love Part 5: Christmas Eve

413

Vulnerable Love Part 4: When the Hard Parts of Christmas Show Up

414

Vulnerable Love Part 3 - The Risk of Loving

415

Vulnerable Love Part 2 - Moving from Imagination to Courage

416

Vulnerable Love Part 1- Love is Born an Infant

417

Thankful for Different Things

418

A Bigger Circle

419

Becoming an Angel

420

How guardian angels are with us

421

When angels feel absent from us.

422

What do angels do?

423

Angels 101

424

First Steps Part 3: Stepping onboard

425

First Steps Part 2: Stepping into the game

426

First Steps Part 1: Moving beyond tragedy - Guest Marjorie and Matthew Pennington

427

Simplicity Part 2: Decluttering our lives

428

Back to school blessing

429

Simplicity Part 1: What is grace?

430

Better: Part 3 - A call to engage

431

Better: Part 2 - More honesty (sound issues in spots)

432

Better: Part 1 - Less Anger

433

Service At Work - Part 3: Finding our gifts

434

Service At Work - Part 2: Using our talents

435

Service At Work - Part 1: Identifying our talents

436

Kindness First Part 2: Throwing rocks, skipping stones

437

Kindness First Part 2: Grounded, not rigid

438

Kindness First Part 1: Let kindness lead

439

Home Part 4: New contents, new container

440

Home Part 3: A new view from Sunday

441

Home Part 2: A new question

442

Home Part 1: A new beginning

443

2 Hours of Music from the last 10 years by the NCL Band(s)

444

Sacrifice: Love's final gift

445

Memorial Service for Megan Ward

446

Grit - Part 3 - Surprised to be Loved

447

Grit - Part 2 - Allowing the Face of the Other to Change Us

448

Grit - Part 1 - A Faith and Love Greater Than Life's Circumstance

449

Hope For Tomorrow - Easter Sunday - April 21st, 2019

450

Hope For Reconnecting - Easter Series - April 14th, 2019

451

Hope For Healing - Easter Series - April 7th, 2019

452

Light In the Darkness of Anxiety - March 31th, 2019

453

Light In the Darkness of Fear - March 24th, 2019

454

Light In the Darkness of Addiction - March 17th, 2019

455

Speak - Part 3 - The Light In All Things

456

Speak - Part 2 - The Truth That Will Set You Free

457

Speak - Part 1 - Daring to Understand

458

Opening Up - Part 4 - Share the Load

459

Opening Up - Part 3 - Trusting Love

460

Opening Up - Part 2 - Trauma and Limitation

461

Opening Up - Part 1- Dr Dan Gottlieb Visits NCL

462

Brothers and Sisters - Part 4 - The Drum Major Instinct

463

Brothers and Sisters - Part 3 - Rippers and Weavers

464

Brothers and Sisters - Part 2 - We Have A Problem

465

Brothers and Sisters - Part 1 - The 23rd Psalm

466

Hope Rekindled - Part Five - Welcome the Advent - Christmas Eve 2018

467

Hope Rekindled - Part Four - Welcome the Savior

468

Hope Rekindled - Part Three - Welcome the Trust

469

Hope Rekindled - Part Two - Welcome the Interruption

470

Hope Rekindled - Part One - Welcome the Gifts

471

Practicing Heaven Now - Part Four - Practicing Friendship

472

Practicing Heaven Now - Part Three - Practicing Amazement

473

Practicing Heaven Now - Part Two - Practicing Peace

474

Practicing Heaven Now - Part One - Practicing Giving

475

Love Like You Have Never Been Hurt

476

5 Things God Wants for Your Family - Part Five - Freedom

477

5 Things God Wants for Your Family - Part Four - Play

478

5 Things God Wants for Your Family - Part Three - Belonging

479

5 Things God Wants for Your Family - Part Two - Joy

480

5 Things God Wants for Your Family - Part One - Courage with Scarlett Lewis

481

Better Together - Part Three - Moving Towards Life Giving Commitment

482

Better Together - Part Two - Back to School Blessing

483

Better Together - Part One - Moving Past the Silence of Unconcern

484

Perfect - Part Two - Purpose Over Perfection

485

Perfect - Part One - Joy Over Perfection

486

Thin Places - Part Three - Prayer

487

Thin Places - Part Two - Heaven Among Us

488

Thin Places - Part One - The Challenges Of Life

489

Ephesians - Part Three - Living Deeply In The Present

490

Ephesians - Part Two - Finding Reality Behind What We See

491

Ephesians - Part One - Becoming A Two Handed Giver

492

New... - Part 3 - New Relationship

493

New... - Part 2 -New Covenant

494

New... - Part 1 -New Command

495

Wait. Listen. Move

496

Courage - Part 4 - Matthew Penniington

497

Courage Part 3 - Open Heart

498

Courage Part 2 - Soft Front

499

Courage Part 1 - Strong Back

500

Finding Purpose - Mike Reichenbach and Life After Football

501

Restored - Part 3 - Restored Earth (Pastor Chuck only)

502

Restored - Part 2 - Restored Faith

503

Restored - Part 1 - Restored Hope

504

Easter 2018 - Walk With Us - Part 3 - Walk In Joy

505

Easter 2018 - Walk With Us - Part 2 - When We Are Angry

506

Easter 2018 - Walk With Us - Part 1 - When We Had Hoped

507

Identity Theft - Part 4 - Art of Homecoming

508

Identity Theft - Part 3 - More Than Our Roles

509

Identity Theft - Part 2 - The Big Lie

510

Identity Theft - Part 1 - Deep Magic

511

Re-Engage - Part 3 - Reconstruct

512

Re-Engage - Part 2 - Deconstruct

513

Re-Engage - Part 1 - Construct

514

One More Place At The Table - Part 3 - The Dinner