Northview Church

Your bank statement might be more honest than your testimony. In this message from James 5:1-6, Pastor Greg Rains asks the question most of us avoid: what does your wallet actually say about your heart?

Part of the "Point Blank: Faith That Doesn't Flinch" series through the book of James, this message unpacks a hard warning to anyone living comfortably while losing sight of Kingdom purpose — landing on one line worth rememberi...

You think you've got time. You think you've got your sin managed, your relationships fine, your future planned out. James says otherwise.

In this message, we walk through James 4:7-17 and ask the question every one of us needs to answer honestly: What is your life? Not the version you'd post about — the real one. The one that either dies in the grave with you, or carries on to eternity with Christ.

We'll look at three places we...

Joel Osteen sold 30 million copies telling people God wants to give them their best life now. James chapter 4 has something to say about that.

This week in our Point Blank series, Pastor Greg Rains takes on one of the most uncomfortable passages in the entire book of James — and shows us why chasing the world's version of the good life doesn't just disappoint us. It destroys us. And it makes us enemies of the God who is offeri...

You're not failing. You're not in some obvious spiral. You're showing up, taking care of your family, staying out of trouble — and somehow a whole week goes by and your faith didn't come up once.

James 3 calls that earthly wisdom. And he says it has a source.
In this message from James 3:13-18, we look at two kinds of wisdom — one that contracts your life down to surviving, and one that produces a harvest in the peopl...

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”

James says otherwise.

In this message from James 3:1–12, we confront the power of the tongue — how words can destroy relationships, wound people made in God’s image, and reveal what’s really happening in the heart.

But the gospel doesn’t just diagnose the problem. It offers transformation.

This sermon explores:

The hidden dama...

What is the difference between believing in Jesus and surrendering to Jesus?

In this message from James 2:14–26, we look at the kind of faith James says is dead, useless, and unable to save. The demons believe the truth about God — but they are not disciples. Judas had proximity to Jesus, ministry experience, and religious knowledge — but he never truly surrendered.

Real faith is not perfection. Abraham’s life...

In James 2:1–13, we’re confronted with a difficult question: who really belongs in your church?

This message exposes the subtle ways favoritism shows up in the church—not always through policies, but through reflexes. We move toward people who impress us, overlook people who make us uncomfortable, and sometimes forget that the Lord of glory made room for us when we had nothing to offer.

James calls believers back to...

What if the problem isn't that you haven't heard enough? 
What if you've heard plenty — and just keep walking away?

James 1:19-27 is one of the most confrontational passages in 
the New Testament. James doesn't call out pagans or skeptics. 
He calls out church people — people who show up, hear the Word, nod along, and go home unchanged. He has one word for that: self-deception.

In this message from...

You know the list. The culture is too sexualized. The season is too busy. The cost of living is too high. The enemy is too active. There's always a reason why you can't seem to break the cycle — and it always points somewhere other than you.James 1:9–18 doesn't let that stand.This week in our series through the book of James, we get into the anatomy of temptation — how it actually works, where it actually comes fr...

Nobody told you following Jesus would feel like this.You believed. You trusted. And life didn't get easier — it got harder. Now you're sitting in the middle of a trial you didn't choose, wondering if any of this is actually worth it.James wrote this letter to people asking that exact question. Scattered. Suffering. Holding onto faith with both hands and losing their grip.His answer wasn't what they expected. And it probably i...

The tomb is empty. So why do so many of us live like it doesn't change anything?In this Easter Sunday message from John 20, Pastor Greg Rains walks through one of the most important chapters in all of Scripture — the resurrection of Jesus Christ. From the empty tomb to Mary in the garden, from the locked upper room to Thomas's confession, this message confronts the most dangerous kind of unbelief: believing just enough to sho...

There’s a name you won’t say out loud. Maybe not even to God. A person you’ve cut off, gone silent on, decided no longer deserves your awareness. You call it moving on. But the wound is still there — and silence never healed anything.In this message from the series Behold the Lamb, we look at what Jesus does while He’s dying. He prays for His enemies. He welcomes the criminal beside Him. He tears the c...

On the night Jesus was betrayed, He did something that would have stopped every Jewish person in that room cold. He left the Passover unfinished. The fourth cup — the cup of completion, the cup that closed the Passover for fifteen hundred years — was still on the table when He walked out into the night.Where did that cup go?In this message from Mark 14:32–50, we follow Jesus into the garden of Gethsemane — w...

With the Triumphal Entry, the crowd got it right and wrong at the same time. They called Him King — and He was. But they wanted a general, and God sent a Lamb. In Luke 19, Jesus rides into Jerusalem on the exact day every Jewish household was selecting their Passover lamb — and He weeps over a city that can't see what's right in front of them. This isn't just their story. It's ours. We've learned to celebrate Jesus with...

Everyone has a response to Jesus. The minimizer calls Him a good teacher. The skeptic says He doesn't add up. The hostile man wants Him silenced. The curious man circles from a safe distance. And the respectful man walks away impressed — but unchanged.In John 7, temple guards were sent to arrest Jesus. They came back empty-handed. Not because they couldn't grab Him. Because they couldn't stop listening to Him.That's the most ...

Fear Him, Fear NothingMost of us have our fear in the wrong place.We're terrified of our circumstances—the storm that's threatening to sink us—but Jesus? He's comfortable. Manageable. Safe.But here's the problem: A Jesus you don't fear can't save you from the storms you do fear.In Mark 4:35-41, the disciples thought they were going to drown in a storm. But when Jesus stood up and commanded the wind and waves to be silen...

In Week 2 of our "Hands for the House" series, Pastor Greg unpacks what Nehemiah did BEFORE he ever approached the king about rebuilding Jerusalem's walls. Spoiler: it wasn't strategy. It was surrender.This message explores three postures we need when seeking God for something big: DEPENDENCE (seek God before you move), ALIGNMENT (let prayer and fasting reshape your heart), and POWER (trust that God's vision requires God's power).W...