Northside Christian Church

Nathan Lawson
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Welcome to the official podcast of Northside Christian Church—where faith meets real life. Each week, you’ll hear inspiring, practical messages rooted in Scripture and designed to help you grow in your relationship with Jesus. Whether you’re exploring faith for the first time or looking to go deeper, these teachings will challenge, encourage, and equip you to live with purpose and hope. Join us on the journey and discover how God is at work in you and through you—right here, right now.

  1. 4d ago

    Reflection 2 | Week 5 | The Shape of Freedom

    Before God says "do," he says "I already did." Exodus 20 opens not with a demand but with a rescue already finished: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt. The Ten Commandments come after that, and they come to people who are already free. So they were never the price of belonging. They are the description of a life worth belonging to, the shape of a home where love and peace and joy have room to grow. We tend to hear the commandments as a fence. This passage asks whether they might be a floor plan.

    8 min

  2. 4d ago

    A New Horizon | Journey Up the Mountain [5 of 9] | Nathan Lawson

    We hear "law" and brace for a fence. Sinai opens differently. Before the first command, God names who he is and what he's already done: rescued them, brought them out. The commands come after the rescue, not before it. In this message, Nathan walks from that opening word through the command against coveting and finds the same thing running underneath all of it. The law at Sinai isn't the price of admission. It's a picture of what rescued, renewed humanity was actually made to look like.

    35 min

  3. 4d ago

    Reflection 1 | Week 5 | The Rusted Bicycle

    Freedom is more than the absence of restraint. It is the capacity to live the way you were made to live. Cut a seized, rusted bicycle free from the rack and you have removed the constraint, but you have not given the bike back to itself. The bearings are frozen, the chain is fused solid, the tires have gone to cracks. Someone still has to repack the bearings, work oil down into the chain, patch the tubes, before it can roll the way it was built to roll. Striking off the lock was only the beginning.

    7 min

  4. Jun 21

    Reflection 2 | Week 4 | Raised Hands

    The first fight Israel faces after Egypt is against the Amalekites, and you'd expect it to turn on the men with swords. It doesn't. It turns on an old man on a hill, holding his hands up in prayer. But Moses gets tired, the way anyone gets tired, and his arms begin to drop. Exodus doesn't treat this as a failure. It shows us Aaron and Hur climbing the hill, finding Moses a stone to sit on, and standing on either side to hold his hands steady until the sun goes down. This reflection on Exodus 17 sits with what that picture has to say about the people who hold us up, and the ones we're called to hold up in turn.

    7 min

  5. Jun 21

    Reflection 1 | Week 4 | Open Hands

    The moment Israel walks out of Egypt, God starts the long work of making them a people. There's no roadmap, no pantry, no plan they can see. Just a wilderness and a promise. So God feeds them, but the way He feeds them is the lesson: bread that falls fresh each morning, enough for the day and not a crumb more. This reflection on Exodus 16 sits with what God is teaching them in that daily dependence, and what He might be teaching us still.

    7 min

  6. Jun 21

    Provision in the Wilderness | Journey Up the Mountain [4 of 9] | Nathan Lawson

    Manna you can't store overnight. Water from a rock. Then a battle won by a man who can't hold his own arms up. In this message, Nathan looks at what God was teaching Israel in the wilderness: to trust him for enough, to be content with today, and to question the quiet assumption that every command is ours to carry alone. Moses keeps his hands raised over the fight all day long, but not by himself. Aaron and Hur are holding his arms up. The work was never meant to rest on one set of arms.

    36 min

  7. Jun 14

    Reflection 2 | Week 3 | What You Cannot Bring

    At Passover, God commands his people to clear every trace of yeast from their homes. Paul picks up that image and turns it inward: the sin and clutter we tolerate works like leaven, quietly spreading until it shapes the whole loaf. Clear it out, and we're freer to follow God wherever he leads.

    7 min

  8. Jun 14

    Crossing into Freedom | Journey Up the Mountain [3 of 9] | Nathan Lawson

    Egypt's army is closing fast behind them, chariots and dust on the horizon, and the only thing in front of them is the sea. There's nowhere to run and nothing to do, which is exactly the position God seems to want them in. Then He opens a road where there wasn't one. This is the moment Israel stops being a band of runaway slaves and starts becoming a people, and it's a picture the church has long seen echoed in the waters of baptism. In this message Nathan Lawson walks us through the story of the Red Sea from Exodus 14.

    36 min
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Welcome to the official podcast of Northside Christian Church—where faith meets real life. Each week, you’ll hear inspiring, practical messages rooted in Scripture and designed to help you grow in your relationship with Jesus. Whether you’re exploring faith for the first time or looking to go deeper, these teachings will challenge, encourage, and equip you to live with purpose and hope. Join us on the journey and discover how God is at work in you and through you—right here, right now.

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  • Creator
    Nathan Lawson
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    34
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2025 N Lawson. All rights reserved.
  • Show Website
    Northside Christian Church

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