North Ridge Life Church

We believe the Holy Spirit dwells within every believer in Christ as an abiding helper, teacher, guide and comforter. We believe the Holy Spirit empowers believers for Christian witness and service, desiring to continually fill each believer and impart his supernatural gifts for the edification of the Body and the work of ministry in the world. We believe that all the gifts of the Holy Spirit at work in the church of the first century are available today and are to be earnestly desired and practiced in an orderly manner; and that these gifts are essential in the mission of the Church in the world today.

“I am an historian. I am not a believer; but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.” - H.G. Wells (author, science fiction writer) Listen as Pastor Marc Sharp continues the series on truths we embrace, turning our attention to the central figure in all of Scripture; the one whom the Old Testament foretold, the one who has come and pleased the Father in every way, and is forever put forward by the Spirit: Jesus, the Son.

Was the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus sufficient to save us? Today, Pastor Marc Sharp revisits some key elements of the ordinance of baptism discussed in depth on June 10, 2018, and then he and Pastor David Walt baptize eight believers into new life by their obedience in observance of this sacrament.

Today, Pastor Marc Sharp continues the series about "What We Believe" by looking at what scripture says about God, the Father, the first person of the Trinity. The challenge this week is to distinguish the person of the Father within the Triune God when we see the terms “God” or “The Lord” in the Bible.

God is. He exists. He is real. He is the truth in all the universe. This means all life is God’s life, all creation is God’s creation, all truth is God’s truth; no life, creation or truth exists which he does not omnipotently observe and govern. Listen in as Pastor Marc Sharp continues the series about our core beliefs, today speaking about "The Trinity".

If you visit our website, www.northridgelife.org, and click on the ‘Statement of Beliefs’ tab, you will find 10 subheadings and a brief description of what we believe about each one. We will be taking a week to look at each one of these because we want to know what we believe and why we believe it. We should be able to articulate what we believe (that’s not just the pastors job). Today, we begin by looking at what we believe about the Scriptures, or the Bible.

The church is also known as the "Body of Christ". Listen as Randy Daniel gives fresh insight into how the Body of Christ is supposed to act, how it has been called to function in the world, and how it should minister to others, especially those who are part of the body.

Today, Pastor Marc Sharp wraps up a 2 week mini-series called “The Ordinances of Christ”. Baptism was discussed in the first message. This week, in Part 2, Pastor Marc takes a look at communion, or the Lord’s supper (some congregations refer to it as the Eucharist) and lists six things that the Lord’s Supper should remind us of every time we gather to partake.

Today, on Father's Day 2018, Pastor Marc shares two fundamental things from the scriptures about being a dad. These two things will not answer every specific question about how to encourage, discipline, or inspire your kids, but without the foundation of these two things, your parenting will be difficult, with a decreased chance of success. They apply to all stages of fathering.

Listen as Pastor Marc Sharp begins a 2 week mini-series called “The Ordinances of Christ”. Baptism is being discussed in this message. Later, in Part 2, Pastor Marc will take a look at communion, or the Lord’s supper. The visible sign of Baptism is water. The invisible grace which is at work in us is five-fold. Each of the five will be discussed.

The highest characterizing mark of believers should be the love that exists between them. What the watching world needs is a representation (re-presentation) of the living, breathing, loving, forgiving Christ. The Bible is very clear that for God, true love is always made evident by sacrifice.

Today, we conclude our PROOF series on grace. Listen in as Elder Don Lytton explores the meaning of "forever" grace.

Today, we continue our "PROOF" series with God’s Overcoming Grace. Overcoming Grace is how God works in our lives to transform our rebellion against him into unconditional surrender so that we freely repent and recognize Christ as the risen King. The idea of Overcoming Grace is really a way to state the miracle of how God’s Spirit comes to those who are spiritually dead, wanting absolutely nothing to do with Christ or his kingdom, and works in them to abandon our self-idolatry and worldly desires and to desire to be reconciled to God, longing for holiness and increasingly surrendering to Christ and his way.

Mothers are managers, teachers, pastors, doctors, referees, counselors, mechanics, chefs, and so forth, all within the context of the miracle we call “motherhood”! The essence of motherhood is not maternity, but womanhood. With this idea that “womanhood is the essence of motherhood”, today we attempt to address the culture of misogyny, sexism and the abuse of women that the Lord has allowed to be exposed in recent months, directly with the heart of God the Father.

Today, we continue our “P.R.O.O.F.” series considering the doctrines of God’s grace, based on the book by Daniel Montgomery and Timothy Jones. We will explore God’s Outrageous, Scandalous, Incomprehensible and Amazing Grace. God chooses those to be saved on the basis of his sovereign will and good pleasure; not because of what we do or bring to the table.

Today we turn our attention to God’s Resurrecting Grace, seeking to answer three questions: “Who will come to God?” “Can you come to God in your own power?” and “How does the Holy Spirit make us alive?”

Grace…we’ve all heard about it, especially if we’ve grown up in church. We talk about it; we sing about it; we “say grace” before we eat; we name our kids after it; we get tattoos on our extremities; we preach about it quite a bit… But what if we don’t fully understand the scandal, the audacity, the extravagance, the glory, the unbelievably good news of God’s grace?

In today's market-oriented society, we are constantly being sold, coerced, and manipulated into being aligned with and branded by various products, beliefs, and "norms". If we are believers in and followers of Jesus Christ, then we have already been "branded" by Him and the power of His name, which can keep us from falling into traps skillfully laid out by enemies of the cross.

A word from the Elders of North Ridge Life Church on the occasion of the ordination of new Elders David Walt and Don Lytton.

The CEO model of church leadership is not biblical. God actually intended the oversight of the church to be handled by a team of godly men who were more concerned with souls than dollars. The elders’ primary role is really to be a co-equal shepherd (spiritual care provider) with the primary pastor-teacher!