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The NorthWord — 205 episodes

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The Inner Battle: Flee Like a Fugitive, Pursue Like a Predator

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The Inner Battle: Gold or God

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Sunday Sermon: On Forgiveness

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Rule 1483

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The Harder Half

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Love Gone Cold

7

Married to Goodness

8

Un-play-acted

9

Beloved, Even Then

10

The Life You Are Trying to Save

11

Your Loss, Their Gain

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Your Cross, Not His

13

Come After Me

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Lightning Isn't Going to Strike You

15

The Wrong Neighborhood

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God Did Not Dig Your Pit

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The Quarry You Were Dug From

18

God’s Calling Won’t Spare You the Hardship

19

Coming to The Table

20

The Impossible Prayer

21

The Delayed Answer

22

In An Unexpected Place

23

The Journey Home

24

Sunday Sermon: Called Out, Not Turned Away

25

Entering Someone Else's Sickness

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Faith, Hope, and Love — the Collect

27

Paul's Wish to Be Cursed

28

The Kolbe Story

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Love Isn't Syrup

30

Sunday Sermon: Syrup or Sacrifice

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Feel It In Your Guts

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The Difference Between a Kayak and a Ship

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Nothing Can Pry You Loose

34

A Love That Needs Nothing From You

35

Cargo is Not Ballast

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Sunday Sermon: Ballast or Cargo

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What the Battle Made You

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Maturity and Completeness

39

Not Endurance — Extraction

40

What the Struggle Produces

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The Struggle Is Not the Tunnel

42

Sunday Sermon: The Goodness You Didn't Ask For

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The Only Question That Matters

44

What Are You Building?

45

Beneficial vs. Constructive

46

The Cost of Freedom

47

You Know and You Still Do It

48

Sunday Sermon: Wheat & Weeds

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Strive Until You Become

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The Prize Is Not Achievement

51

The Difference Between Effort and Grace

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One Step Further

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Spectators vs. Participants

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Sunday Sermon: Dual Citizenship

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Disciples Are Always Being Formed

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The Purpose of Difficulty

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Even If You Know Better

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Two Kinds of Discipline

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The Day My Father Slapped Me

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Sunday Sermon: The Wrong Burdens

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You Can't Love Alone

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What Rises from the Death

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The Old Self Has to Go

64

The Cost of Becoming

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You Don't Have to Become Dead

66

You Cannot Hold Yourself

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When Identity Becomes a Cage

68

The Four Stages

69

Desire Is Not Destiny

70

Grace That Floods

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Stop. Stay. See.

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Running vs. Transitioning

73

Equipped for Your Exact Season

74

Don't Move On Before You've Moved In

75

Blessings for Today

76

Come Empty-Handed: The Trap of Performance

77

Faith Is What You Do

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The Gift of Failing the Test

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Mercy at the Table

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The Medicine You Didn’t Earn

81

When God Doesn’t Make Sense

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Faith Makes No Sense! Sunday Sermon

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The Holy Kiss

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The Inward Test

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Unity Is Not Uniformity

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Room for the Doubter

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The Box That Breaks You

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Many Gifts, One Spirit

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Confess, Listen, Act

90

The Three Marks of a True Gift

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When the Compass Goes Silent

92

The Spirit's Inner Compass

93

The Alignment with the Spirit

94

You Were Not Built for Isolation (The Case for Real Community)

95

The Dinner Table Is an Altar (Why Family Comes Before Career)

96

Confess, Listen, Act

97

Two Kinds of Pain (And Why the Difference Matters)

98

Everything Closed. Church Full. (The Cost of Holy Priorities)

99

Which Hat Are You Wearing?

100

Wearing the Right Hat: The Logic of Holy Sacrifice

101

Throwing Off the Cloak

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The Crowd That Tells You to Hush

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Sitting in Jericho: When Victory Is Everywhere Except Your Life

104

Why Are We Still Cutting the Ends Off the Ham?

105

Exile Isn't Escape

106

Holy Doesn't Mean Perfect

107

One Race

108

You Are a Priest

109

Rubble or Wall?

110

Strip It Off

111

Dig, Plant, Water, Grow

112

You Can't Do This Alone

113

By His Wounds

114

Even Though

115

More Than Survival

116

Who Are You Actually Following?

117

The Good Shepherd — It Matters the Chief

118

The Four Movements of the Road

119

Bread on the Side of the Road

120

The Burning Was Him

121

He Gets on the Road With You

122

The Road That Won't Stay in Focus

123

We Are the People of the Way

124

Stay on the Road — 3rd Sunday of Easter

125

Where Are You Still Under a Yoke?

126

The Lie of "You Do You"

127

Search Me, O God

128

Midweek — Where Are You Choosing?

129

The Yoke You Don't See

130

Free — But Not Like That

131

More Than a Feeling — 2nd Sunday of Easter

132

Bring the Real One — Easter Week, Day 6

133

The Pilate Question — Easter Week, Day 5

134

The Daily Practice of Evangelism — A Conversation with Rev. Jeremiah Raible

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Fully Alive — Easter Week, Day 4

136

Wednesday in Easter Week

137

Program or Relationship? — Easter Week, Day 2

138

The Dry Drunk — Easter Week, Day 1

139

Easter Sunday — He Wants Your Heart

140

Just Staying | Black Saturday | "Anchored"

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The Anchor Holds | Good Friday | "Anchored"

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The Basin and the Towel | Maundy Thursday | "Anchored"

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Spy Wednesday | Wednesday of Holy Week | "Anchored"

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Driven and Tossed | Tuesday of Holy Week | "Anchored"

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The Boat and the Wave | Monday of Holy Week | "Anchored"

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Anchored | Palm Sunday

147

What Are You Bringing to the Cross? | the Master

148

Open Hands | the Master

149

Shrunk or Expanded | the Master

150

The Annunciation of Our Lord

151

But Now | the Master

152

Salt Water | the Master

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The Mineshaft | The Master

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The Master | The Dark Road to Dawn, Week 5

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Come As You Are | Valley of Fear

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Sit Down | Valley of Fear

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Feast of St. Joseph | NorthWord Holy Day

158

Blind to Your Blindness | Valley of Fear

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The Church Calls This the Halfway Point for a Reason | Valley of Fear

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You Called the Wound a Virtue | Valley of Fear

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It Knows the Address | Valley of Fear

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Valley of Fear | The Dark Road to Dawn — Lent 4

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Valley of Shame | Walking Into Sunday With Less

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Valley of Shame | Name It. Confess It. Share It.

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Valley of Shame | Shame vs. Conviction — The Difference That Changes Everything

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Valley of Shame | What Confession Actually Is

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Valley of Shame | Where Shame Hides in Plain Sight

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Valley of Shame | What Shame Is Really Doing to You

169

Valley of Shame | Lent 3 Sermon — John 4:1-42

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Open Hands Catch Grace

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I Confess I Cannot. I Receive Your Grace.

172

You Cannot Manage the Wind

173

Why Nicodemus Came at Night

174

Stop Bringing Your Credentials to God

175

You're Not Arrogant. You're Proud.

176

The Valley of Pride | Lent II Sermon

177

SATURDAY: Coming Home Hungry

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FRIDAY: Stop and Sit

179

THURSDAY: It Is Written

180

WEDNESDAY: Forty Days and What They Mean

181

TUESDAY: The Shortcut That Doesn't Deliver

182

MONDAY: Your Desires Aren't the Problem

183

Valley of Desire — The Dark Road to Dawn (Week 1)

184

SATURDAY - From Mountain to Mission

185

FRIDAY - The Three G's for Lent

186

THURSDAY - God's Light Through Your Humanity

187

WEDNESDAY - Preparing for the Descent

188

TUESDAY - What You Do When You Don't Get the Answer

189

MONDAY - The Mountain Top Problem

190

The Source of the Shine — Transfiguration Sunday

191

SATURDAY: One More Sleep Till Sunday

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FRIDAY: The Practice of Presence

193

THURSDAY: When the Devil Quotes Scripture

194

WEDNESDAY: The Rhythm of Being Seen

195

TUESDAY: Three Ways to Stop Hiding

196

MONDAY: The Private Hobby Problem

197

SUNDAY: Salt and Light - The Posture of the Way

198

Saturday: Preparing for Difficult People

199

Friday: Show Up, Speak Up, Step Up

200

Thursday The Coal in the Fire

201

Wednesday: Stay for Coffee

202

Tuesday: The Rejoicing Problem

203

Monday: You Can't Love Alone

204

Christian Community: Why Love Is Impossible Alone

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