Extra Takes

Letters To His Church | Week 5

Join us for further discussion of sermon number 5 of our Letters To His Church series. Pastor Josh and Matt Shiles dive even deeper into the story of Jezebel to drive home the main point which Pastor Josh summarized 3 ways: 1: Revolutionary living rejects friendship with the world to remain faithful to the King, or 2: Revolutionary living renounces that which Jesus rejects, or 3: Revolutionary living requires faithfulness to the word of God rather than friendliness to the ways of the world. This is a longer episode that deals with your personal interface with the world.  

Letters to His Church | Week 4

In this week's Extra Takes, Pastor Josh and Matt Shiles discuss the 4th sermon of the Letters to His Church series. Matt Shiles leads Pastor Josh through a discussion of Revelation 2:12-17, where Jesus reveals what is IN alignment, what is OUT OF alignment, how to FIX what's out of alignment, and finally, what happens when they do and don't achieve alignment.  

Letters to His Church | Week 3

Join us this week as Pastor Josh and Matt continue to dig into Revelation 2 and how the Church at Smyrna was able to be faithful to end. Learn about the three gladiators we face in this world as well as whether we should engage in cancel culture. We also get a preview of the coming week’s message.

Letters to His Church | Week 2

Welcome to another edition of Extra Takes! In this episode, Pastor Josh talks with Matt Shiles about his vacation to California, and then dives into discussing how he prepared for this more difficult message from Revelation. Matt asks Pastor Josh to discuss how people can fall out of love with Jesus, or maybe miss the whole thing from the start, working off his main point of: Revolutionary living requires love for Jesus rather than a religious lifestyle that might look like Jesus.

Letters to His Church | Week 1

Join us for another episode of Extra Takes as Pastor Josh and Matt Shiles introduce this series. Pastor Josh will spend a few minutes giving advice on how to listen to a sermon, then they dive into further explanation of how Revelation is a letter, and how we can embrace our Revolutionary Lord and his Revolutionary Life. 

Building a Healthy Church featuring "The Dans"

Join Pastor Josh along with his usual co-host Matt Shiles as they welcome "The Dans", Pastors Dan Elkins and Dan Young into the studio. Pastor Dan Elkins' sermon from this past weekend is discussed, along with conversation about the Next-Gen programs that are being launched here at Northland. As a bonus, careful listeners will find out what Pastor Josh's original name for this podcast was! 

A&E 2024: New Songs, Same Humanity | Week 4 of 4 | PART 2 of 2

Join us for the final thoughts on our summer A&E series! Pastor Josh and Matt Shiles spend lots of time going over why we have such a summer series, and diving into the struggles with engaging the larger culture from a Christian perspective. Pastor Josh shares his heart for bringing Christians to a place where they can see Jesus in the most unlikely places.

A&E 2024: New Songs, Same Humanity | Week 4 of 4 | PART 1 of 2

This is part one of two of a very special Extra Takes, wrapping up our summer A&E series for 2024. Join Pastor Josh and Matt Shiles as they start to discuss this weeks sermon which dealt with the songs of Music Megastar, Taylor Swift. Pastor Josh spends time talking about how we should be different in the way we engage culture, rather than simply boxing it out and condemning it. Be ready for Part Two, coming up next week, where Pastor Josh and Matt will close out with the conclusion of this series.

A&E 2024: New Songs, Same Humanity | Week 3 of 4

In this episode of Extra Takes, Pastor Josh and co-host Matt Shiles continue their "Same Song, New Humanity" series, focusing on pain and suffering. They analyze Benson Boone's song "Beautiful Things" from a biblical perspective and discuss its cultural impact. The episode highlights the need for discernment in guiding younger generations and explores the inner journey of artists and their influence. They also reflect on the story of Job and its correlation to the themes in Boone's song

A&E 2024: New Songs, Same Humanity | Week 2 of 4

Join in for the discussion of this week's sermon with Pastor Josh and Matt Shiles. They"ll spend time explaining why we have the A&E series, then dive into the message regarding the song, "Saturn", by the artist Siza. Pastor Josh spends time explaining what we as Christians do with culture: create, celebrate, consume, critique or condemn. Finally, there's discussion about the Church in general dealing with the culture around her.