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How to Build a Life on Philippians 4

2

Easter

3

The Love that Finds Us

4

Is Life Getting Better?

5

Turn the Leaf: How to accept happiness from God

6

How they are still with us!

7

Give Church a Try

8

Living with Light When Trust Is Hard

9

Next Level Love: Challenge Accepted

10

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

11

Finding God in the Wilderness of Life

12

Still Struggling: The Lone Road Around Loss

13

Soul-Level Freedom

14

Choosing Focus in a Distracted Year

15

Breaking the Routine

16

Gathering “It” in the New Year

17

Celebrate Christmas Eve

18

Christmas Part III: Gifts and Givers

19

Christmas I: Light One Candle

20

Breaking Free from Your Inner Pharaoh

21

Grateful For All the Ways We Are Connected

22

No more “If.” No more “When.”

23

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

24

The Shape of Joy: A Humble Heart

25

The Shape of Joy: Mattering

26

The Greatest Love

27

After the Fire: Opening Our Hearts Again

28

After the Fire: Walking Through the Ashes

29

Can All Religions Lead to Heaven?

30

Characters that Make Life A Joy

31

Are Problems Problems?

32

Writing A Better Story: The Power of Redemption

33

Calming Life's Storms

34

Paying Attention

35

Chasing Approval

36

Choosing Life

37

A More Perfect Union

38

It’s Ok to Not Know

39

A Steady Heart in an Unsteady World

40

Stillness is the Answer

41

What To Do When You Can't Help

42

Church in 2025: Faith as Attentiveness

43

What Are Young People Thinking?

44

Seasons Of Change

45

How to Keep Your Soul Intact

46

Control or Connection

47

What "Jesus Christ" Really Means

48

When to Let Go: The Gift of Moving Forward

49

When to Let Go of a Relationship

50

When to Let Go of a Mindset

51

A Bedrock of Trust

52

Easter Sunday

53

The Two Ingredients of Happiness

54

Lessons in Humility

55

A Place for It All

56

When The Good Thing You Wanted Doesn't Happen

57

The Big Mistake

58

Hearing the Hard Things

59

3 Parables That Will Change Your Life

60

Loving Difficult People

61

Remember This About Trials

62

Traveling With

63

Embracing the Spirit of Adventure

64

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

65

Why is Hell Hell?

66

Why is Heaven Heaven?

67

Bending Without Breaking: God's Gentle Touch

68

Christmas Eve: A Weary World Rejoices

69

Surprised That It Is All True

70

Surprised by Joy

71

Surprised by Hope

72

Celebrating Goodness

73

Listening to the Whisper: Trusting God's Gentle Nudge

74

Don't Let This Election Make You Hate People

75

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

76

The 13th Disciple

77

Can We Do Better?

78

A Humble Offer of Friendship

79

Moving Past Grudges

80

How to Find Heavenly Peace

81

Your Best Note

82

Finding Strength in Unexpected Places

83

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

84

When the Bottom Falls Out

85

Facing the Chatter that Defeats Us

86

Be Humble, Be Useful, Be Happy

87

Celebration, Gentleness, Gratitude, and Trust

88

What is the Imperfection Jesus Calls Us To?

89

From Nervous to Centered

90

Reverence Restored: Rediscovering Our Respect for the Sacred

91

Hope in Uncertain Times

92

The Gift of Perspective: Seeing in New Ways

93

Was Jesus Happy?

94

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

95

You Are Seen

96

Light in the Darkest Moments

97

Transforming Negativity

98

How God Lifts Us Out of Despair

99

Forward in Faith

100

It Is All a Miracle

101

From Emptiness to Purpose

102

The Innocence of Wisdom

103

The Bread of Heaven

104

Learning How to Pray

105

There's Only One Good Reason to be Religious

106

Celebrating Easter

107

Embracing the Hard Stuff

108

Why Easter Matters

109

Your Job is Sacred

110

What Are You Anxious About?

111

What Are You Mad At?

112

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

113

Creating a Pause

114

Deep Knowing

115

What Happens When We Die

116

Moving Through Seasons of Loss

117

Not the Way It Used to Be

118

Living a Life That Matters

119

The Easiest Way to Understand Who Jesus Is

120

The Gift of Love: On Christmas Eve

121

The Gift of Joy: At Christmas

122

The Gift of Peace: At Christmas

123

Purpose and Heaven

124

The Gift of Hope: At Christmas

125

Conscience: Your Access Point to Heaven

126

Glimmers of Goodness: Trust and Connection

127

Glimmers of Goodness: Our Light Shines

128

As In Heaven

129

What Matters Most

130

Life’s Many Layers

131

Place and Heaven

132

Life Worth Living

133

Surprise: The Power to Be Different

134

The 5 Secrets of Heaven

135

Conflict with Others

136

Conflict with Ourselves

137

Problems Are Ok

138

Finding Faith

139

Slowing Down

140

People and Heaven

141

Love Is Patient

142

What Are Heaven and Hell?

143

House Building 101

144

Do Not Worry

145

Strong and Generous in the Face of Hate

146

How Love Works in Heaven

147

The Sermon on the Mount: Staying Kind in Hard Places

148

A New Creation

149

God Will Wipe Away Every Tear

150

The Fruits of the Spirit

151

Playing All The Notes

152

Freedom From The Voices That Haunt Us

153

Freedom to Live

154

Understanding Where We Are - A Family Meeting

155

A New Definition of Freedom

156

Baptism

157

Commitment to Doing the Work

158

Family Commitment

159

Swedenborg and the New Church Perspective

160

Commitment to Relationships

161

Easter

162

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

163

Grief and Joy

164

The Beauty in Finding God Again

165

Finding Beauty in the World Around Us

166

The Beauty of Doing the Right Thing

167

You Are Not Alone

168

Where Do We Go From Fear?

169

What Do You Worry About?

170

The Joy of Cleaning Ourselves Up

171

How to Find Your Purpose and Passion in Life

172

Discovering Life’s Purpose Through Relationships

173

What is my Purpose? Spiritually

174

Spiritual Journey: Exploring Faith in High School

175

One Body: A New Way to See the Human Race

176

Helping Teens Find Their Spiritual Self

177

Believe in Love: Christmas Eve

178

Believe in Joy

179

Believe in Peace

180

Believe In Hope

181

Spiritual Connection Through Prayer

182

A Prayer for Gratitude: Thankfulness is the Greatest Happiness

183

Creating Community and Supporting Children at Christmas

184

Finding Gratitude as We Age

185

Failing Forward with Gratitude

186

Honoring Domestic Violence Awareness Month

187

Practicing Gratitude

188

The Six Ways that People Need Help

189

Community Support for Families Struggling with Addiction

190

Addiction: Can We Find an Anchor? - 10MofC

191

Biblical Angels: Love Makes Room

192

The Promise in Hard Times - 10 Minutes of Calm

193

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

194

Letting Go of What We Cannot Change - 10MofC

195

Always With Wonder

196

Everything in Everything - 10 Minutes of Calm

197

God Cannot Count - 10 Minutes of Calm

198

Mirrors and Windows

199

What is Good in Everyone? - 10 Minutes of Calm

200

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

201

Beyond the Books - 10 Minutes of Calm

202

A Tiny Window of Understanding - 10 Minutes of Calm

203

You Are Always Protected - 10 Minutes of Calm

204

Higher Perspective

205

The Honest Idea that Our Motives are Mixed - 10MofC

206

A Good Way to Compartmentalize - 10MofC

207

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

208

Remember that Time in Junior High School? - 10MofC

209

Masters of Suspicion - 10 Minutes of Calm

210

When Your Relationship Needs a Turnaround

211

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

212

What Accomplishes More, Love or Anger? - 10MofC

213

Where the Ocean Meets the Shore - 10MofC

214

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

215

What Do You Want to Hear?

216

What Life Knows - 10 Minutes of Calm

217

What Can We Learn in Hard Times? - 10MofC

218

What Mercy Can Teach Us - 10 Minutes of Calm

219

Larger Self, Larger Purposes - 10 Minutes of Calm

220

Live from State College, PA - 10 Minutes of Calm

221

You Were Made to Help

222

Live From Ocean City, NJ - 10 Minutes of Calm

223

One Fact About Cynicism - 10 Minutes of Calm

224

Friends Believing Crazy Things - 10 Minutes of Calm

225

The Hidden Gold in Everyone - 10 Minutes of Calm

226

When Everything Feels Alive - 10 Minutes of Calm

227

Transformational vs. Transactional

228

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

229

Everyone. Always. - 10 Minutes of Calm

230

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

231

Giving And Receiving All in One - 10 Minutes of Calm

232

The Common Good

233

How Angels Find Joy - 10 Minutes of Calm

234

How Angels Become Angels - 10 Minutes of Calm

235

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

236

Mistakes on the Journey Home - 10 Minutes of Calm

237

Trusting Our Gut - 10 Minutes of Calm

238

Creation Never Ends

239

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

240

How Do Love and Truth Connect - 10 Minutes of Calm

241

The Case for Simple - 10 Minutes of Calm

242

What is Beneath the Surface? - 10 Minutes of Calm

243

The Importance of Not Knowing - 10 Minutes of Calm

244

Love Above All Else

245

Variety is Perfection

246

What is True Beauty? - 10 Minutes of Calm

247

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

248

Good Competition/Bad Competition - 10 Minutes of Calm

249

How Can We Stop Pretending? - 10 Minutes of Calm

250

Contentment - 10 Minutes of Calm

251

A New Kind of Creative - 10 Minutes of Calm

252

Connecting on the Ground Floor - 10 Minutes of Calm

253

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

254

How Do Faith and Forgiveness Go Together? - 10MofC

255

Immediately and Forever - 10 Minutes of Calm

256

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

257

Tattoo You - 10 Minutes of Calm

258

Cleaning out the Closet - 10 Minutes of Calm

259

Using Those Difficult Parts as a Seed - 10MofC

260

The 3 Kinds of Love

261

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

262

Contrasting Opposites - 10 Minutes of Calm

263

A Way Past Distraction - 10 Minutes of Calm

264

The Secret Prayers of Ruby Bridges - 10MofC

265

10 Minutes of Calm - Faith Has a Purpose

266

Faith is the Eye of Love

267

Bigger Tables Not Higher Walls

268

Journey Together

269

Loneliness vs. Solitude

270

The Broken and the Blessed

271

The Three Rivers

272

Gratitude

273

Connection

274

Coordinates

275

The Seven Stages of Life

276

Easter Sunday

277

Trial and Denial

278

Praying in the Dark

279

3 Keys to Looking at People From Love

280

Chasing Beauty

281

Stay**

282

Grieving a Loved One

283

A New Frame

284

A New Kind Of Clarity

285

Beyond Our Tribe

286

Beyond Ourselves

287

Finding Home

288

Welcome to the Afterlife

289

The Beloved Community

290

A Fresh Start for Stuck Relationships

291

Possibility

292

We’re Getting Somewhere

293

Christmas Eve

294

Love In a New Light

295

Joy In a New Light

296

Peace In A New Light

297

Hope In A New Light

298

Finding Enough

299

God Is A Way Of Life

300

Two Of Us

301

Two of You

302

Two of Me

303

A Simple Faith

304

Contact vs. Connection

305

Battle

306

Crossing Over

307

The Two Things That Solve Everything

308

Back to School

309

Moving Forward

310

Filled With Challenges

311

A Taste of Heaven

312

How to Develop Heavenly Habits

313

Living Our Best Future Now

314

Call it Grace. Call it Mercy.

315

Something Being Born

316

The Beauty of Imperfection

317

Writing a New Story

318

Declaring Spiritual Independence

319

The City of Brotherly Love

320

Amy Michaud's Memorial Service

321

Paul West: Capturing Our Lives In A Work Of Art

322

First Things First

323

Balancing It All Part 2

324

Balancing It All Part 1

325

The Wise Child

326

Learning to Live Gracefully

327

Living Your Best Life

328

We Can Be Unhappy Anywhere

329

Humility as a Way of Life

330

The Territory of Our Kindness

331

Embracing Our Chance

332

There Is A Hunger In Us, Isn’t There?

333

Easter Sunday! : Join Us to Celebrate Life

334

A Calm, Quiet Sea

335

The Grace of Exhaustion

336

The Hard Work of Blessing It All

337

The End of the Pandemic Winter

338

Forrest Keys Memorial Service

339

The Power of a Sacred "No"

340

What is Possible Today?

341

The Call in the Ordinary

342

Deciding to Follow

343

A Chance to Make Things Better

344

Memorial Service for Steven Petaccio

345

Finding a Home in Our Minds

346

Memorial Service for Bob Johnson

347

Living Gratefully Part 4: New Voices

348

Living Gratefully Part 3: All a Gift

349

Living Gratefully Part 2: Patience When It All Goes Wrong

350

Living Gratefully Part 1: The Infinite Game

351

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

352

Resilience Part 4: Showing Up for the Ones We Love

353

Resilience Part 3: Confronting Reality with Unwavering Hope

354

Resilience Part 2: Patience When It All Goes Wrong

355

Resilience Part 1: Will We Survive This?

356

How to Disagree Like an Angel

357

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

358

Beauty In the Storm Part 2: Faith to Move

359

Beauty In the Storm Part 1: Facing Hopelessness

360

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

361

Coming Home Part 3: The Art of Homecoming

362

Coming Home Part 2: Challenges in the Family

363

Coming Home Part 1: Pilgrimage

364

Between Two Worlds Part 2: Every Experience Can Be Spiritual

365

Between Two Worlds Part 1: The Near Death Experience

366

Daring to Imagine Part 3: A Life of Gentle Answers

367

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

368

Daring to Imagine Part 1: Learning to Dream

369

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

370

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

371

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

372

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

373

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

374

Online church | Near Me

375

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

376

A Greater Hope - Part 2: Riding out the storm

377

A Greater Hope - Part 1: Preparing for the storm

378

What is the future of church?

379

Battling Lonliness

380

Wake Up In Safety Part 3: The broader story

381

Dealing with Loss

382

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

383

Wake Up In Safety Part 2: Outside the Gates

384

Wake Up In Safety Part 1: Bending to Serve

385

Moving Forward Part 4: Straining Towards Meaning

386

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

387

Moving Forward Part 2: When the Storm hits

388

Moving Forward Part 1: Moving Forward with Grief Nora McInerny

389

Commitment 4: Making Stone Soup

390

Commitment 3: The Mess and the Beauty of Our Families

391

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

392

Commitment 1: Living In a Miracle

393

Belonging Part 5: Lostness Does Not Matter

394

Belonging Part 4: Picturing a New World

395

Belonging Part 3: Navigating the Teenage Years

396

Belonging Part 2: The Crisis of Lonliness

397

Belonging Part 1: What Is Love?

398

Vulnerable Love Part 5: Christmas Eve

399

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

400

Vulnerable Love Part 3 - The Risk of Loving

401

Vulnerable Love Part 2 - Moving from Imagination to Courage

402

Vulnerable Love Part 1- Love is Born an Infant

403

Thankful for Different Things

404

A Bigger Circle

405

Becoming an Angel

406

How guardian angels are with us

407

When angels feel absent from us.

408

What do angels do?

409

Angels 101

410

First Steps Part 3: Stepping onboard

411

First Steps Part 2: Stepping into the game

412

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

413

Simplicity Part 2: Decluttering our lives

414

Back to school blessing

415

Simplicity Part 1: What is grace?

416

Better: Part 3 - A call to engage

417

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

418

Better: Part 1 - Less Anger

419

Service At Work - Part 3: Finding our gifts

420

Service At Work - Part 2: Using our talents

421

Service At Work - Part 1: Identifying our talents

422

Kindness First Part 2: Throwing rocks, skipping stones

423

Kindness First Part 2: Grounded, not rigid

424

Kindness First Part 1: Let kindness lead

425

Home Part 4: New contents, new container

426

Home Part 3: A new view from Sunday

427

Home Part 2: A new question

428

Home Part 1: A new beginning

429

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

430

Sacrifice: Love's final gift

431

Memorial Service for Megan Ward

432

Grit - Part 3 - Surprised to be Loved

433

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

434

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

435

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

436

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

437

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

438

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

439

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

440

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

441

Speak - Part 3 - The Light In All Things

442

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

443

Speak - Part 1 - Daring to Understand

444

Opening Up - Part 4 - Share the Load

445

Opening Up - Part 3 - Trusting Love

446

Opening Up - Part 2 - Trauma and Limitation

447

Opening Up - Part 1- Dr Dan Gottlieb Visits NCL

448

Brothers and Sisters - Part 4 - The Drum Major Instinct

449

Brothers and Sisters - Part 3 - Rippers and Weavers

450

Brothers and Sisters - Part 2 - We Have A Problem

451

Brothers and Sisters - Part 1 - The 23rd Psalm

452

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

453

Hope Rekindled - Part Four - Welcome the Savior

454

Hope Rekindled - Part Three - Welcome the Trust

455

Hope Rekindled - Part Two - Welcome the Interruption

456

Hope Rekindled - Part One - Welcome the Gifts

457

Practicing Heaven Now - Part Four - Practicing Friendship

458

Practicing Heaven Now - Part Three - Practicing Amazement

459

Practicing Heaven Now - Part Two - Practicing Peace

460

Practicing Heaven Now - Part One - Practicing Giving

461

Love Like You Have Never Been Hurt

462

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

463

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

464

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

465

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

466

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

467

Better Together - Part Three - Moving Towards Life Giving Commitment

468

Better Together - Part Two - Back to School Blessing

469

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

470

Perfect - Part Two - Purpose Over Perfection

471

Perfect - Part One - Joy Over Perfection

472

Thin Places - Part Three - Prayer

473

Thin Places - Part Two - Heaven Among Us

474

Thin Places - Part One - The Challenges Of Life

475

Ephesians - Part Three - Living Deeply In The Present

476

Ephesians - Part Two - Finding Reality Behind What We See

477

Ephesians - Part One - Becoming A Two Handed Giver

478

New... - Part 3 - New Relationship

479

New... - Part 2 -New Covenant

480

New... - Part 1 -New Command

481

Wait. Listen. Move

482

Courage - Part 4 - Matthew Penniington

483

Courage Part 3 - Open Heart

484

Courage Part 2 - Soft Front

485

Courage Part 1 - Strong Back

486

Finding Purpose - Mike Reichenbach and Life After Football

487

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

488

Restored - Part 2 - Restored Faith

489

Restored - Part 1 - Restored Hope

490

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

491

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

492

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

493

Identity Theft - Part 4 - Art of Homecoming

494

Identity Theft - Part 3 - More Than Our Roles

495

Identity Theft - Part 2 - The Big Lie

496

Identity Theft - Part 1 - Deep Magic

497

Re-Engage - Part 3 - Reconstruct

498

Re-Engage - Part 2 - Deconstruct

499

Re-Engage - Part 1 - Construct

500

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