Next Level Church - Charlotte

Power for the Journey - Week 5

The power of the Spirit isn't something we're waiting on. It's something we've been given and haven't learned to live from. In this final message of the series, Lead Pastor Clay Monkus walks through Ephesians 1 and Paul's astonishing prayer — that we would grasp the power already at work in us. The same resurrection power that defeated death is alive in every person who follows Jesus. If you've spent your life waiting to feel ready, this message is for you. You don't need more willpower, and you don't need to get your act together first. The Spirit of God has no limits, and neither do you. It's time to wake up to what you already carry. Part of the series "Power for the Journey – Life in the Holy Spirit."

Power for the Journey - Week 4

The Spirit doesn't make our lives safer. He makes us brave enough to do what we couldn't do before. In this message, Pastor Bradley Medford walks through Acts 4, where the early church — facing real opposition — prayed not for safety but for boldness. The Spirit's power isn't for comfort. It's for courage. If fear has been holding you back, this message is for you. The same Spirit that emboldened the first believers is alive and available to you right now. The question is simple, even if the answer isn't easy: What's the one thing you've been too afraid to do? Part of the series "Power for the Journey – Life in the Holy Spirit."

Power for the Journey - Week 3

The Spirit's power isn't primarily emotional. It's transformational. In this message, Lead Pastor Clay Monkus walks through Galatians 5 and challenges the way we often measure God's presence — by how we feel in the moment. Real Spirit-power shows up somewhere less flashy but far more lasting: in the slow, stubborn growth of becoming a different kind of person. If you've ever chased the spiritual high only to crash back into the same old patterns, this message is for you. The fruit of the Spirit isn't manufactured through willpower or emotion. It grows as we learn to walk in step with the Spirit — and that quiet, steady transformation is more powerful, not less. Part of the series "Power for the Journey – Life in the Holy Spirit."

Power for the Journey - Week 2

Pentecost wasn't a one-time event. It was the beginning of a new way of being human. In this message, Pastor Christian Nichles walks through Acts 2 and the moment everything changed — when the Holy Spirit arrived like fire and wind and transformed frightened followers into bold witnesses. The same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead is alive and available to you right now. If you've ever felt like you know what you believe but just can't seem to live it out, this message is for you. The answer isn't more effort or willpower. Pentecost is the opening chapter of a story we're still living in — and the power for your journey has already been given. Part of the series "Power for the Journey – Life in the Holy Spirit."

More Than Sunday - Week 6

Every series eventually has to reckon with the hardest question faith faces: what do you do when you believe all the right things, and it still doesn't get better? In this final episode of More Than Sunday, Pastor Brad Medford brings the series home in the most pastoral and unflinching way possible. The text is Lamentations 3:21–24 — one of the rawer passages in all of Scripture — where a man crouched in the wreckage of his entire world makes a choice that has nothing to do with his circumstances improving. No rescue has arrived. No reason has been given. And yet he turns toward God and declares what is still, somehow, true. What it offers is something more durable: the conviction that suffering is real but not final, that the resurrection didn't eliminate hardship but it did strip it of its power to have the last word, and that those two realities can be held together without one canceling out the other. This is the pastoral week of the series — the one that speaks directly to the person who has been sitting in the back row, wondering if any of this holds up when life falls apart. It does. And this episode is the honest, careful, hopeful case for why. More Than Sunday has been a six-week series exploring what changes when the resurrection stops being a once-a-year event and starts reshaping every part of how we live — our work, our identity, our money, our rest, and even our pain.*