The Northwood Podcast flows from the conviction that the world needs more love, justice, and hope in it. It is produced by Heath Jones, pastor of Northwood Christian Church, who hopes to bring a message of hope and liberation for the needy and downtrodden. Take heart! Hold fast to hope! Love will win out in the end!
Latest episodes
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27 min
No Time Like the Present
There are many would-be followers of Jesus who struggle to understand that the way he walks is often fraught with challenges and even suffering. In the Gospel of Luke 9:51-62, Jesu…
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23 min
Children on Crosses
Take a breath and buckle up. This one is a doozy. Not only is the passage from the Bible we’ll consider quite unpleasant, it forces us to reckon with similar unpleasant things toda…
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13 min
Let’s Show Them
In this episode, we consider one of Jesus’ most famous commandments. He commanded us to love one another, and that by this love, others would know that we are followers of Jesus. S…
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14 min
Now, It’s Ours
This episode is called, “Now, It’s Ours.” But what is ours, exactly? After reading this story, we find that ours is the power to call life from unexpected or dead places. What Jesu…
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18 min
I Don’t Wanna Fish
This episode reflects on a story as told in the Gospel of John 21:1-19. In this story, Jesus meets with his disciples after a long night of fishing. Using their vocation as a metap…
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16 min
Try and Believe It All
This episode was recorded live at Northwood Christian Church on Easter Sunday. In these reflections, Heath describes the barriers to belief in the more literal interpretations of t…
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19 min
A Little Like Judas
This episode was recorded live at Northwood Christian Church on Palm Sunday. It reflects on the various expectations we place upon Jesus; the ways by which we expect him to liberat…
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17 min
Reflections (Send the Light)
This episode was recorded live in early January of this year. In it your host, Heath Jones, preaches on a text from the Gospel of John, specifically John 1:1-18. This is a fairly w…
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18 min
It’s Closer Than You Think
This episode was recorded live in early December of last year. It reflects on the coming chaos as described in Luke 21:25-33. Jesus uses a fig tree as a teaching tool to describe h…
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19 min
Restoration
In the 12th chapter of Mark’s Gospel, Jesus is asked by a scholar which of all the religious commands in their holy texts were the most important to keep. Jesus answers simply and…
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21 min
Can We See Again?
At the tail end of the 10th chapter of Mark’s Gospel, Jesus is approached by a blind man named Bartimaeus whose sight he restored. This, however, is more than a simple miracle stor…
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33 min
Don’t Leave Sad
At the end of the 10th chapter of Mark’s Gospel Jesus is approached by a rich man who feels lost. We wants to know how to discover a life worth living. He has already done all that…
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22 min
Get Salty
At the end of the 9th chapter of Mark’s Gospel Jesus answers one of the disciples questions concerning the casting out of evil. Apparently, they were uncomfortable with someone exe…
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21 min
Even the Dogs
In today’s story from Mark 7 we consider an encounter between Jesus and a foreign woman asking for help. At first, in a very un-Jesus-like manner, he treats her very rudely; even c…
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21 min
We’re About to Find Out
Today’s message reflects on a story we’ve been discussing for the past two weeks, the story of Jesus’ feeding of the 5000. This time, we’ll consider the story from the Gospel of Jo…
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22 min
Seeing People
Today’s message is really part two of a talk I gave a week prior at my church. However, this week’s works as a standalone as well. It considers two passages found in Mark 6 as well…
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24 min
All Covered in Dust
Today’s Bible passage for consideration has two quite memorable lines, those being: 1.) “A prophet is without honor in their hometown” (Mark 6:4), and 2.) “If any place will not we…
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25 min
Two Daughters
There are two miracle stories of Jesus that are presented to us in an interlocking fashion. These stories are found in Mark 5 and are about the restoration of two different daughte…
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16 min
Mustard Beats Oak
Jesus told many parables to help his disciples better understand God and God’s values. Today’s is no exception. In it, Jesus calls our attention to a mustard bush to make the case…
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27 min
House(s) Divided
Abraham Lincoln once delivered a speech at the 1858 Republican National Convention now called ‘A House Divided.’ What you may not know is that this title comes from a much older sa…