Teachings from Unionville Alliance

The Lord has created us to be in relationships with the most intimate one being marriage. Discover how a triple-braided cord is not easily broken as we live a selfless life, practice forgiveness, are united in love, and sacrificially support one another. The blessing of marriage is multi-faceted as we grow together in Christlikeness and help one another prepare for eternity with our heavenly bride...

Mother’s Day – A celebration of honouring Motherhood through the desires of God our Father.

The purpose of your life is far greater than your own personal fulfillment or happiness. We were created with purpose and for God’s purpose. The family is an institution that God has intentionally formed to provide community and to accomplish his purpose of reflecting his glory and love to the world. Psalm 128 is a poetic passage that outlines the impact an individual, married couple, child, famil...

We are all single for some portion of our lives. We might go through a season of singleness, a lifetime of singleness, or a return to singleness. Whether we’ve never been married, are divorced, or widowed, there is a way to leverage our singleness for God’s purpose and glory. Jesus has redeemed singleness and given it value and worth within his kingdom. In God’s eyes, being single in a family, and...

The basis of the Christian faith is rooted in the resurrection of Jesus. If Christ didn't rise from the dead then our faith is in vain. The blessings of the cross are clearly seen through the lens of the resurrection. The disciples finally understood the mission and purpose of Jesus as they viewed his ministry post-resurrection. We can also see the clarity of the cross, our blessed hope, and a gli...

The Passover was instituted to help the children of Israel remember how God had brought them out of Egypt. It also gives us a glimpse into Calvary and Christ as the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. We see the power of the blood of the lamb to save and protect, but also the freedom we enjoy because Jesus paid the price for us. Judgement is "passed over" us and victory is ours because of...

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Triumph and Defeat: Can they go together? Are they mutually exclusive? Isaiah paints a prophetic picture of hope emerging from despair as the Suffering Servant defeats death and paves the way for us to be rescued from bondage and to prosper in the land of God’s blessing.

Jesus said that just as Moses lifted up a bronze snake in the wilderness, the Son of Man must also be lifted up. He spoke of his impending death on the cross. But what happened in that wilderness hundreds of years before Christ, pointed to the truth of Jesus taking on a curse for us and being the answer of healing in our lives. Not only does Christ's death on Calvary provide a solution for sin, it...

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Let's learn from International Workers Lorne and Vivian as they share stories from their work and pose the questions: How do you share the Gospel when you don’t share a common language? When you feel the Holy Spirit’s prompting, how do you respond?

We have studied who the Holy Spirit is, his work in the Old Testament and the New Testament. We have seen how he desires us to be planted by streams of living waters so we can live a Spirit empowered life. As we conclude this series, we will focus on the Spirit as the life giver within us. He wants us to experience abundant life through adoption into his family, prayer, fruitful living, and a cont...

How do we discern the difference between trusting in the flesh and trusting in the Spirit? Looking at Jeremiah 17:5-8, we will walk through the ways in which we can plant our trees next to streams of living water, so that regardless to what is around us we stay green and bear fruit.

The outpouring of the Spirit is a promise of the Father and Jesus for the people of God in the New Testament age. We have the privilege and blessing of the indwelling and abiding presence of the Holy Spirit to empower us for life and service. From the Day of Pentecost till today, the Spirit has been empowering people to fulfill and accomplish his will and mission. As we allow the Spirit to fill us...

We see the beauty, power, and work of the Holy Spirit in multiple ways in the Old Testament. He empowered prophets, priests, kings and others to accomplish His will and purpose. In a similar way, the Lord is calling us to be empowered by His Spirit to live out our calling as prophets and priests in this New Testament age. Let’s surrender to the Spirit and allow Him to fill us afresh each day!

Who is the Holy Spirit? Is he God? What is his role? What does he do? How should I relate to the Holy Spirit? These are all excellent questions that we will examine as we launch into our series on the Empowering Spirit. We will discover some of the attributes and functions of the Spirit and his desire to empower us to do his will.

Amazement and Chaos is an overview of the travels of Paul and Barnabas, two early church leaders, who were sent to respond to the growing church in new areas. In these areas, the message of Jesus Christ was received with amazement and followed by chaos. We will consider how Paul and Barnabas navigated the first century culture to better understand how we need to navigate our current cultural reali...

Jesus calls us to follow Him! That is not an easy task, but it is an important one if we desire to deepen our true identity in Him. Following Him means taking up our cross just as He did on Calvary, abiding in His word just as He obeyed the word from His Father, and revealing His love just like Jesus did among the disenfranchised. As we discover our identity as citizens of heaven, we can live this...

Our identity is rooted in who we are in Christ. As we are made new in Christ through repentance and by receiving his gift of forgiveness, he brings us into his family. We can find our identity in doing the will of God as part of his family, by understanding our role in the body of Christ with Jesus as the head, as living stones in the house of God with Jesus as the chief cornerstone, and as his br...

As we move onto our second part of the series on "Who Am I? Discovering our identity in Christ", we will study 2 Corinthians 5:11-21 and discover five clear marks that identify Christians as Ambassadors of Reconciliation, the challenge is: do you accept?

A new year is also a time of new beginnings. A time to leave the past behind and press into newness of life. One part of our identity that brings newness is the fact that we are forgiven by God. Forgiveness is the first step towards a reconciled relationship with God that helps us receive and walk in the fullness of God’s blessings for us. We need to realize that we are forgiven, redeemed, set fre...

What does it mean to be a child of God? We receive every spiritual blessing in Christ and from that comes new life at peace with God! So let us live in this new reality!

We look at the story of the Prodigal Son through the eyes of the Prodigal Father. He was prodigal in his extravagant giving of his possessions and especially his love. He realized that both his sons were lost and both needed to experience the depth of his love like never before. His actions are a beautiful display of the agape love of God which is unconditional, unmerited, and unending. Our heaven...

The older brother in the story of the Prodigal Son was very unprodigal. He didn't want to celebrate with the others, didn't want to accept his brother back, and was upset at his father for showing love and forgiveness to his brother. In many ways he reflects a lot of religious people who have missed the core message of the gospel. He was just as lost as his brother...and maybe even more. However,...

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