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NewChurch Live — 508 episodes

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Title
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Spiritual Growth: A Practical Guide

2

Trusting What We Can’t Always See

3

Consider the Lilies

4

The Spiritual Framework for Marriage and Intimate Relationships

5

Where Do We Draw the Line?

6

When Do We Draw the Line?

7

The Headlines Don’t Get the Last Word

8

How to Spot Heaven and Hell in Daily Life

9

How to Build a Life on Philippians 4

10

Easter

11

The Love that Finds Us

12

Is Life Getting Better?

13

Turn the Leaf: How to accept happiness from God

14

How they are still with us!

15

Give Church a Try

16

Living with Light When Trust Is Hard

17

Next Level Love: Challenge Accepted

18

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

19

Finding God in the Wilderness of Life

20

Still Struggling: The Lone Road Around Loss

21

Soul-Level Freedom

22

Choosing Focus in a Distracted Year

23

Breaking the Routine

24

Gathering “It” in the New Year

25

Celebrate Christmas Eve

26

Christmas Part III: Gifts and Givers

27

Christmas I: Light One Candle

28

Breaking Free from Your Inner Pharaoh

29

Grateful For All the Ways We Are Connected

30

No more “If.” No more “When.”

31

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

32

The Shape of Joy: A Humble Heart

33

The Shape of Joy: Mattering

34

The Greatest Love

35

After the Fire: Opening Our Hearts Again

36

After the Fire: Walking Through the Ashes

37

Can All Religions Lead to Heaven?

38

Characters that Make Life A Joy

39

Are Problems Problems?

40

Writing A Better Story: The Power of Redemption

41

Calming Life's Storms

42

Paying Attention

43

Chasing Approval

44

Choosing Life

45

A More Perfect Union

46

It’s Ok to Not Know

47

A Steady Heart in an Unsteady World

48

Stillness is the Answer

49

What To Do When You Can't Help

50

Church in 2025: Faith as Attentiveness

51

What Are Young People Thinking?

52

Seasons Of Change

53

How to Keep Your Soul Intact

54

Control or Connection

55

What "Jesus Christ" Really Means

56

When to Let Go: The Gift of Moving Forward

57

When to Let Go of a Relationship

58

When to Let Go of a Mindset

59

A Bedrock of Trust

60

Easter Sunday

61

The Two Ingredients of Happiness

62

Lessons in Humility

63

A Place for It All

64

When The Good Thing You Wanted Doesn't Happen

65

The Big Mistake

66

Hearing the Hard Things

67

3 Parables That Will Change Your Life

68

Loving Difficult People

69

Remember This About Trials

70

Traveling With

71

Embracing the Spirit of Adventure

72

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

73

Why is Hell Hell?

74

Why is Heaven Heaven?

75

Bending Without Breaking: God's Gentle Touch

76

Christmas Eve: A Weary World Rejoices

77

Surprised That It Is All True

78

Surprised by Joy

79

Surprised by Hope

80

Celebrating Goodness

81

Listening to the Whisper: Trusting God's Gentle Nudge

82

Don't Let This Election Make You Hate People

83

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

84

The 13th Disciple

85

Can We Do Better?

86

A Humble Offer of Friendship

87

Moving Past Grudges

88

How to Find Heavenly Peace

89

Your Best Note

90

Finding Strength in Unexpected Places

91

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

92

When the Bottom Falls Out

93

Facing the Chatter that Defeats Us

94

Be Humble, Be Useful, Be Happy

95

Celebration, Gentleness, Gratitude, and Trust

96

What is the Imperfection Jesus Calls Us To?

97

From Nervous to Centered

98

Reverence Restored: Rediscovering Our Respect for the Sacred

99

Hope in Uncertain Times

100

The Gift of Perspective: Seeing in New Ways

101

Was Jesus Happy?

102

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

103

You Are Seen

104

Light in the Darkest Moments

105

Transforming Negativity

106

How God Lifts Us Out of Despair

107

Forward in Faith

108

It Is All a Miracle

109

From Emptiness to Purpose

110

The Innocence of Wisdom

111

The Bread of Heaven

112

Learning How to Pray

113

There's Only One Good Reason to be Religious

114

Celebrating Easter

115

Embracing the Hard Stuff

116

Why Easter Matters

117

Your Job is Sacred

118

What Are You Anxious About?

119

What Are You Mad At?

120

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

121

Creating a Pause

122

Deep Knowing

123

What Happens When We Die

124

Moving Through Seasons of Loss

125

Not the Way It Used to Be

126

Living a Life That Matters

127

The Easiest Way to Understand Who Jesus Is

128

The Gift of Love: On Christmas Eve

129

The Gift of Joy: At Christmas

130

The Gift of Peace: At Christmas

131

Purpose and Heaven

132

The Gift of Hope: At Christmas

133

Conscience: Your Access Point to Heaven

134

Glimmers of Goodness: Trust and Connection

135

Glimmers of Goodness: Our Light Shines

136

As In Heaven

137

What Matters Most

138

Life’s Many Layers

139

Place and Heaven

140

Life Worth Living

141

Surprise: The Power to Be Different

142

The 5 Secrets of Heaven

143

Conflict with Others

144

Conflict with Ourselves

145

Problems Are Ok

146

Finding Faith

147

Slowing Down

148

People and Heaven

149

Love Is Patient

150

What Are Heaven and Hell?

151

House Building 101

152

Do Not Worry

153

Strong and Generous in the Face of Hate

154

How Love Works in Heaven

155

The Sermon on the Mount: Staying Kind in Hard Places

156

A New Creation

157

God Will Wipe Away Every Tear

158

The Fruits of the Spirit

159

Playing All The Notes

160

Freedom From The Voices That Haunt Us

161

Freedom to Live

162

Understanding Where We Are - A Family Meeting

163

A New Definition of Freedom

164

Baptism

165

Commitment to Doing the Work

166

Family Commitment

167

Swedenborg and the New Church Perspective

168

Commitment to Relationships

169

Easter

170

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

171

Grief and Joy

172

The Beauty in Finding God Again

173

Finding Beauty in the World Around Us

174

The Beauty of Doing the Right Thing

175

You Are Not Alone

176

Where Do We Go From Fear?

177

What Do You Worry About?

178

The Joy of Cleaning Ourselves Up

179

How to Find Your Purpose and Passion in Life

180

Discovering Life’s Purpose Through Relationships

181

What is my Purpose? Spiritually

182

Spiritual Journey: Exploring Faith in High School

183

One Body: A New Way to See the Human Race

184

Helping Teens Find Their Spiritual Self

185

Believe in Love: Christmas Eve

186

Believe in Joy

187

Believe in Peace

188

Believe In Hope

189

Spiritual Connection Through Prayer

190

A Prayer for Gratitude: Thankfulness is the Greatest Happiness

191

Creating Community and Supporting Children at Christmas

192

Finding Gratitude as We Age

193

Failing Forward with Gratitude

194

Honoring Domestic Violence Awareness Month

195

Practicing Gratitude

196

The Six Ways that People Need Help

197

Community Support for Families Struggling with Addiction

198

Addiction: Can We Find an Anchor? - 10MofC

199

Biblical Angels: Love Makes Room

200

The Promise in Hard Times - 10 Minutes of Calm

201

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

202

Letting Go of What We Cannot Change - 10MofC

203

Always With Wonder

204

Everything in Everything - 10 Minutes of Calm

205

God Cannot Count - 10 Minutes of Calm

206

Mirrors and Windows

207

What is Good in Everyone? - 10 Minutes of Calm

208

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

209

Beyond the Books - 10 Minutes of Calm

210

A Tiny Window of Understanding - 10 Minutes of Calm

211

You Are Always Protected - 10 Minutes of Calm

212

Higher Perspective

213

The Honest Idea that Our Motives are Mixed - 10MofC

214

A Good Way to Compartmentalize - 10MofC

215

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

216

Remember that Time in Junior High School? - 10MofC

217

Masters of Suspicion - 10 Minutes of Calm

218

When Your Relationship Needs a Turnaround

219

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

220

What Accomplishes More, Love or Anger? - 10MofC

221

Where the Ocean Meets the Shore - 10MofC

222

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

223

What Do You Want to Hear?

224

What Life Knows - 10 Minutes of Calm

225

What Can We Learn in Hard Times? - 10MofC

226

What Mercy Can Teach Us - 10 Minutes of Calm

227

Larger Self, Larger Purposes - 10 Minutes of Calm

228

Live from State College, PA - 10 Minutes of Calm

229

You Were Made to Help

230

Live From Ocean City, NJ - 10 Minutes of Calm

231

One Fact About Cynicism - 10 Minutes of Calm

232

Friends Believing Crazy Things - 10 Minutes of Calm

233

The Hidden Gold in Everyone - 10 Minutes of Calm

234

When Everything Feels Alive - 10 Minutes of Calm

235

Transformational vs. Transactional

236

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

237

Everyone. Always. - 10 Minutes of Calm

238

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

239

Giving And Receiving All in One - 10 Minutes of Calm

240

The Common Good

241

How Angels Find Joy - 10 Minutes of Calm

242

How Angels Become Angels - 10 Minutes of Calm

243

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

244

Mistakes on the Journey Home - 10 Minutes of Calm

245

Trusting Our Gut - 10 Minutes of Calm

246

Creation Never Ends

247

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

248

How Do Love and Truth Connect - 10 Minutes of Calm

249

The Case for Simple - 10 Minutes of Calm

250

What is Beneath the Surface? - 10 Minutes of Calm

251

The Importance of Not Knowing - 10 Minutes of Calm

252

Love Above All Else

253

Variety is Perfection

254

What is True Beauty? - 10 Minutes of Calm

255

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

256

Good Competition/Bad Competition - 10 Minutes of Calm

257

How Can We Stop Pretending? - 10 Minutes of Calm

258

Contentment - 10 Minutes of Calm

259

A New Kind of Creative - 10 Minutes of Calm

260

Connecting on the Ground Floor - 10 Minutes of Calm

261

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

262

How Do Faith and Forgiveness Go Together? - 10MofC

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Immediately and Forever - 10 Minutes of Calm

264

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

265

Tattoo You - 10 Minutes of Calm

266

Cleaning out the Closet - 10 Minutes of Calm

267

Using Those Difficult Parts as a Seed - 10MofC

268

The 3 Kinds of Love

269

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

270

Contrasting Opposites - 10 Minutes of Calm

271

A Way Past Distraction - 10 Minutes of Calm

272

The Secret Prayers of Ruby Bridges - 10MofC

273

10 Minutes of Calm - Faith Has a Purpose

274

Faith is the Eye of Love

275

Bigger Tables Not Higher Walls

276

Journey Together

277

Loneliness vs. Solitude

278

The Broken and the Blessed

279

The Three Rivers

280

Gratitude

281

Connection

282

Coordinates

283

The Seven Stages of Life

284

Easter Sunday

285

Trial and Denial

286

Praying in the Dark

287

3 Keys to Looking at People From Love

288

Chasing Beauty

289

Stay**

290

Grieving a Loved One

291

A New Frame

292

A New Kind Of Clarity

293

Beyond Our Tribe

294

Beyond Ourselves

295

Finding Home

296

Welcome to the Afterlife

297

The Beloved Community

298

A Fresh Start for Stuck Relationships

299

Possibility

300

We’re Getting Somewhere

301

Christmas Eve

302

Love In a New Light

303

Joy In a New Light

304

Peace In A New Light

305

Hope In A New Light

306

Finding Enough

307

God Is A Way Of Life

308

Two Of Us

309

Two of You

310

Two of Me

311

A Simple Faith

312

Contact vs. Connection

313

Battle

314

Crossing Over

315

The Two Things That Solve Everything

316

Back to School

317

Moving Forward

318

Filled With Challenges

319

A Taste of Heaven

320

How to Develop Heavenly Habits

321

Living Our Best Future Now

322

Call it Grace. Call it Mercy.

323

Something Being Born

324

The Beauty of Imperfection

325

Writing a New Story

326

Declaring Spiritual Independence

327

The City of Brotherly Love

328

Amy Michaud's Memorial Service

329

Paul West: Capturing Our Lives In A Work Of Art

330

First Things First

331

Balancing It All Part 2

332

Balancing It All Part 1

333

The Wise Child

334

Learning to Live Gracefully

335

Living Your Best Life

336

We Can Be Unhappy Anywhere

337

Humility as a Way of Life

338

The Territory of Our Kindness

339

Embracing Our Chance

340

There Is A Hunger In Us, Isn’t There?

341

Easter Sunday! : Join Us to Celebrate Life

342

A Calm, Quiet Sea

343

The Grace of Exhaustion

344

The Hard Work of Blessing It All

345

The End of the Pandemic Winter

346

Forrest Keys Memorial Service

347

The Power of a Sacred "No"

348

What is Possible Today?

349

The Call in the Ordinary

350

Deciding to Follow

351

A Chance to Make Things Better

352

Memorial Service for Steven Petaccio

353

Finding a Home in Our Minds

354

Memorial Service for Bob Johnson

355

Living Gratefully Part 4: New Voices

356

Living Gratefully Part 3: All a Gift

357

Living Gratefully Part 2: Patience When It All Goes Wrong

358

Living Gratefully Part 1: The Infinite Game

359

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

360

Resilience Part 4: Showing Up for the Ones We Love

361

Resilience Part 3: Confronting Reality with Unwavering Hope

362

Resilience Part 2: Patience When It All Goes Wrong

363

Resilience Part 1: Will We Survive This?

364

How to Disagree Like an Angel

365

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

366

Beauty In the Storm Part 2: Faith to Move

367

Beauty In the Storm Part 1: Facing Hopelessness

368

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

369

Coming Home Part 3: The Art of Homecoming

370

Coming Home Part 2: Challenges in the Family

371

Coming Home Part 1: Pilgrimage

372

Between Two Worlds Part 2: Every Experience Can Be Spiritual

373

Between Two Worlds Part 1: The Near Death Experience

374

Daring to Imagine Part 3: A Life of Gentle Answers

375

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

376

Daring to Imagine Part 1: Learning to Dream

377

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

378

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

379

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

380

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

381

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

382

Online church | Near Me

383

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

384

A Greater Hope - Part 2: Riding out the storm

385

A Greater Hope - Part 1: Preparing for the storm

386

What is the future of church?

387

Battling Lonliness

388

Wake Up In Safety Part 3: The broader story

389

Dealing with Loss

390

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

391

Wake Up In Safety Part 2: Outside the Gates

392

Wake Up In Safety Part 1: Bending to Serve

393

Moving Forward Part 4: Straining Towards Meaning

394

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

395

Moving Forward Part 2: When the Storm hits

396

Moving Forward Part 1: Moving Forward with Grief Nora McInerny

397

Commitment 4: Making Stone Soup

398

Commitment 3: The Mess and the Beauty of Our Families

399

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

400

Commitment 1: Living In a Miracle

401

Belonging Part 5: Lostness Does Not Matter

402

Belonging Part 4: Picturing a New World

403

Belonging Part 3: Navigating the Teenage Years

404

Belonging Part 2: The Crisis of Lonliness

405

Belonging Part 1: What Is Love?

406

Vulnerable Love Part 5: Christmas Eve

407

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

408

Vulnerable Love Part 3 - The Risk of Loving

409

Vulnerable Love Part 2 - Moving from Imagination to Courage

410

Vulnerable Love Part 1- Love is Born an Infant

411

Thankful for Different Things

412

A Bigger Circle

413

Becoming an Angel

414

How guardian angels are with us

415

When angels feel absent from us.

416

What do angels do?

417

Angels 101

418

First Steps Part 3: Stepping onboard

419

First Steps Part 2: Stepping into the game

420

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

421

Simplicity Part 2: Decluttering our lives

422

Back to school blessing

423

Simplicity Part 1: What is grace?

424

Better: Part 3 - A call to engage

425

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

426

Better: Part 1 - Less Anger

427

Service At Work - Part 3: Finding our gifts

428

Service At Work - Part 2: Using our talents

429

Service At Work - Part 1: Identifying our talents

430

Kindness First Part 2: Throwing rocks, skipping stones

431

Kindness First Part 2: Grounded, not rigid

432

Kindness First Part 1: Let kindness lead

433

Home Part 4: New contents, new container

434

Home Part 3: A new view from Sunday

435

Home Part 2: A new question

436

Home Part 1: A new beginning

437

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

438

Sacrifice: Love's final gift

439

Memorial Service for Megan Ward

440

Grit - Part 3 - Surprised to be Loved

441

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

442

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

443

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

444

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

445

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

446

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

447

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

448

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

449

Speak - Part 3 - The Light In All Things

450

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

451

Speak - Part 1 - Daring to Understand

452

Opening Up - Part 4 - Share the Load

453

Opening Up - Part 3 - Trusting Love

454

Opening Up - Part 2 - Trauma and Limitation

455

Opening Up - Part 1- Dr Dan Gottlieb Visits NCL

456

Brothers and Sisters - Part 4 - The Drum Major Instinct

457

Brothers and Sisters - Part 3 - Rippers and Weavers

458

Brothers and Sisters - Part 2 - We Have A Problem

459

Brothers and Sisters - Part 1 - The 23rd Psalm

460

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

461

Hope Rekindled - Part Four - Welcome the Savior

462

Hope Rekindled - Part Three - Welcome the Trust

463

Hope Rekindled - Part Two - Welcome the Interruption

464

Hope Rekindled - Part One - Welcome the Gifts

465

Practicing Heaven Now - Part Four - Practicing Friendship

466

Practicing Heaven Now - Part Three - Practicing Amazement

467

Practicing Heaven Now - Part Two - Practicing Peace

468

Practicing Heaven Now - Part One - Practicing Giving

469

Love Like You Have Never Been Hurt

470

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

471

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

472

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

473

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

474

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

475

Better Together - Part Three - Moving Towards Life Giving Commitment

476

Better Together - Part Two - Back to School Blessing

477

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

478

Perfect - Part Two - Purpose Over Perfection

479

Perfect - Part One - Joy Over Perfection

480

Thin Places - Part Three - Prayer

481

Thin Places - Part Two - Heaven Among Us

482

Thin Places - Part One - The Challenges Of Life

483

Ephesians - Part Three - Living Deeply In The Present

484

Ephesians - Part Two - Finding Reality Behind What We See

485

Ephesians - Part One - Becoming A Two Handed Giver

486

New... - Part 3 - New Relationship

487

New... - Part 2 -New Covenant

488

New... - Part 1 -New Command

489

Wait. Listen. Move

490

Courage - Part 4 - Matthew Penniington

491

Courage Part 3 - Open Heart

492

Courage Part 2 - Soft Front

493

Courage Part 1 - Strong Back

494

Finding Purpose - Mike Reichenbach and Life After Football

495

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

496

Restored - Part 2 - Restored Faith

497

Restored - Part 1 - Restored Hope

498

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

499

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

500

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

501

Identity Theft - Part 4 - Art of Homecoming

502

Identity Theft - Part 3 - More Than Our Roles

503

Identity Theft - Part 2 - The Big Lie

504

Identity Theft - Part 1 - Deep Magic

505

Re-Engage - Part 3 - Reconstruct

506

Re-Engage - Part 2 - Deconstruct

507

Re-Engage - Part 1 - Construct

508

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