SM Summer Camps aren’t too far off! Senior high and junior high are heading to the Kern River. SH will be there June 25-30, while JH’s stay will be June 26-30. Get more information or register online by clicking here. Continue Reading
Sermon Notes Secret Sins (and the Wounds That Cleanse Them) Proverbs 20:9-30 Pastor John Sloan Introduction: In literature, a rhetorical question is one that is asked where the answer is self-evident. It’s the same way when such questions appear in the Bible. When Solomon, the great wise one, asks, “Who can say, ‘I have made… Continue Reading
This week, Pastor John hands over the TAGD keyboard to Pastor Brent Whitefield, Northpoint’s Pastor of Missions and Outreach. Summer Missions Update Hello Family, I want to take this space this week to give you an update on some of the overseas missionary endeavors and summer activities with which we are involved, to keep in your… Continue Reading
Sermon Notes Closer Than a Brother Proverbs 18 Pastor John Sloan Introduction: Americans are the loneliest people in the world. Thus revealed a study in one of our country’s most trusted journals. But what’s the source of the problem? Is it Facebook, as some contend, and the freedom it affords to have connectivity without intimacy?… Continue Reading
5.25.2017 This week, Pastor John hands over the TAGD keyboard to Marti Wiegman, Northpoint’s Director of Women’s Ministries. Vacation Plans “So do you have any plans for the summer?” It’s a question you hear a lot this time of year. The kids will be out of school in a matter of days and summer is… Continue Reading
Truth [Not Greater Than] Grace Recently, I was sitting in a gigantic ballroom listening to a (very good) preacher share his personal testimony of being rescued by God’s Spirit from a life of debauchery and rebellion. It was pretty powerful stuff. Even so, among the 1,800 of us who crowded around tables surveying this… Continue Reading
Make it for a late lunch or come by for dinner TOMORROW, May 20, at the Corona Crossings Chick-fil-A, from 2:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m., for our VBS Spirit Night Fundraiser. Sign your name on the clipboard once there, and we’ll receive 20% of your order total! Continue Reading
The Northpoint Celebration Choir will present their spring concert, Songs of Reformation, THIS Sunday, on May 21, at 6:00 p.m., in the Auditorium. Join them as they celebrate in song, the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. Continue Reading
The Danger of Skipping Church Hello Friends, I have been praying for you this week, that “the Lord would be your portion … and that your hope would be in him” (Lamentations 3:24). In October 2015, I was in Raleigh, North Carolina at a conference for church planters and pastors who were considering launching a… Continue Reading
Sermon Notes The Rewards of Righteousness Proverbs 11:1-10 Pastor John Sloan Introduction: “And his commands are not burdensome” (1 John 5:3). Because God loves us, he wants us to thrive. And as our Creator, he has the wisdom to know how we should live and what actions usher in the greatest delight. Consequently, his commands… Continue Reading