North Park Community Church

02/09/2026

“In the book, ‘The Science of Revenge,’ they've found that vengeance is like a drug. Neurobiologically, co***ne and vengeance are the same. You imagine revenge and this triggers a dopamine hit. You feel enjoyment and pleasure. That cycle becomes addictive like a drug.
So what does Jesus tell us to do instead? Forgive. Forgiveness literally heals your brain because it stops the pain triggers. When you choose to forgive someone, you are letting go of that painful experience. You're not excusing it, but you're letting it go. And when you make that choice day in and day out, it heals us.
Jesus teaches us in Matthew 5:21 that murder is a symptom. The mind of God is that we would go to the root and, through forgiveness, w**d it.” - Lewis Hines
Listen to the whole message here: www.northpark.cc/sermons/the-jesus-lens

02/02/2026

"When our verbal and our non-verbal communication are not in congruence, we call it sarcasm. When that happens, what do people believe? The non-verbal. The delivery rather than the content. When we are salt and light, when we share the good news of Jesus, if our message and our delivery don't align, people will pay attention more to our actions than our words. Being salt and light in Matthew 5 means bearing the name of Jesus well." - Pastor Lewis Hines
Listen to the whole message: www.northpark.cc/sermons/salt-and-light-2

01/28/2026

"Peace-making is difficult, dangerous, and delicate work. It's not for the faint of heart. It's only for those that have a vision of something beautiful that could be made from the fragmented relationships in front of them, and they brave the heat and the exhaustion and the time to carefully work toward that vision. Peace-making. I call it, Shalom forging. Jesus thinks it’s pretty hardcore, and he pronounces those blessed that undertake the work.
Blessed are the shalom-forgers."

- Brianna Hines. Read the whole message here: www.northpark.cc/sermons/shalom-forging

01/21/2026

01/12/2026

Lewis Hines on “The Blessables”:
“The kingdom of heaven is Yahweh's kingdom, and he gets to decide who has ownership of it. And the good news is that he’s making it available to the spiritual zeros. He’s making it available to those who struggle to read their Bible and pray. He’s making it available not just to the scholars and elites, but to anyone and everyone. He is making it available to the drugged out and the stressed out, the spiritually blind and impoverished.” Listen to the whole message:

The Blessables Yesterday Lewis Hines Matthew http://www.northpark.cc/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2026-01-11-The_Blessables-LH.mp3 Save Audio Series: Winter 2026 :: The Sermon on the Mount Tagged with Matthew 5:3–5

12/02/2025

“As Job asks ‘Why?’ over and over again, note that he doesn’t hold those questions IN. Instead he pours them out. He continues in relationship with God even though it hurts. He doesn’t let disappointment poison his faith.”

Listen to the full message here: www.northpark.cc/sermons/advent-2025-hope