Austin Life Church

Christ, having been nailed to the cross for our sins, rose from the dead, with holes in his hands, giving righteousness to any who call on his name and believe in their heart! The only way to salvation is through a perfectly righteous judge and a perfectly loving Father who would not let the punishment needed for sin fall on His children if they return to Him.

The Spirit is not a distant power we occasionally access, but the very personal presence of God dwelling within us. When we understand that, everything changes about how we relate to him and how we live.

We believe that all who repent and believe in Jesus will be redeemed from the domain of darkness and transferred into the kingdom of the beloved son. Eternal and abundant life begins at the moment of saving faith as we become a new creation in Christ Jesus and are now commissioned to live our lives for Him who died and rose again on our behalf.

We believe that, according to the eternal plan of God, Jesus the Son left heaven to come live among us as our servant and savior. He was at all times fully God and fully man. He came to defeat sin and death and create a way for mankind to have reconciliation and abundant life with Him.

We believe that all people have fallen short of God’s good design to love, trust, and follow Him. Deceived by Satan, our first parents, Adam and Eve, and every subsequent person after, have rejected God and gone astray to live.

We believe that God is the creator of all things, heaven and earth and all within, and that He has created every person, both male and female, beautifully and uniquely in His image, and all that He created was good. 

We believe that God has revealed Himself to humanity through His creation (of the world and mankind), through human consciousness made in His image, through Jesus the Son, through His authoritative Scriptures, and through His Spirit. 

We believe in one, true God, who has eternally existed in three equally divine persons - Father, Son, Spirit – known as the Trinity. 

The final prophet before Jesus, Malachi, is speaking to a people who have yet again drifted away from God. Repent and return, for His glory and for your good! 

The final prophet before Jesus, Malachi, is speaking to a people who have yet again drifted away from God. Repent and return, for His glory and for your good! 

Zechariah is written to the faithful remnant of Israel, just as Haggai was. And he, too, is writing to keep the people’s focus on the Lord. The LORD is faithful. A king is coming, with a new and eternal kingdom. Keep your focus ahead; stay the course. 

It happens. We all drift and get distracted from what matters most. The problem with that, though, is that when we get our priorities out of order, our lives get out of order. So what matters most? Seeking first the kingdom of God! 

As long as there is time, God is working to transfer people from the domain of darkness into the kingdom of His Son. And sometimes He will use the wrath of His just judgement to wake us up and see our need for Him. This is the message of Zephaniah - while there is time, repent and return to the Lord. 

“Where are you, God? I feel like you’ve forgotten me! How can this be right? Good?” These are common heart prayers of lament, prayers we have all prayed, prayers Habakkuk prayed. Yet still Habakkuk rejoiced in God. How? How can we rejoice even when suffering and hurt surrounds?

Within a few Generations of Nineveh repenting of their sins in the book of Jonah, the book of Nahum tells us they have gone right back to their sinful ways. We must NOT forget the work of God to save us. He takes sin VERY seriously.

God is perfectly just and must punish the guilty. But God is also full of mercy and offers forgiveness to all who repent and turn to Him with their sins. But how? How does get “get away” with that behavior? Chapter 5 tells of a Shepherd-King who is the answer to how God both executes justice and provides mercy.

Jonah is written to tell the story of God’s radical and relentless love and mercy for all people; both the irreligious (Nineveh) and the religious (Jonah). The interesting twist in Jonah is that it’s Jonah, the “God worshipper”, whose heart is harder towards God than Nineveh. 

Amos confronts us with an uncomfortable truth: religious activity without genuine heart transformation is detestable to God. Through the prophet Amos, we witness God's judgment falling heaviest not on the pagan nations, but on His own covenant people Israel. Why? Because they honored God with their lips while their hearts remained far from Him.

In the marriage of Hosea with Gomer, we see a picture of God’s relentless and forgiving love. Hosea is called to marry Gomer, a woman of promiscuity, who will not keep her covenant with Hosea. Yet, Hosea will still pursue her in relentless and forgiving love, just as God has done for Israel, and us. 

From the Trinity's eternal community of love to the creation of Adam and Eve as two halves of a whole humanity, we discover that isolation contradicts our very design. Yet sin fractured these relationships, leaving us in a world marked by loneliness, polarization, and selfishness. The good news? Through Christ's blood, God is creating one new humanity, tearing down the dividing walls and a...

Christians ought to excel in the grace of cheerful generosity. Why? Because God says so? How? Only when we have enough extra? Cheerful generosity is a grace given from a grace received, the grace of Jesus Christ.

If you are saved, you are sent. For all who have trusted in Christ and surrendered their lives to following Him, then we are called to follow Him in bold proclamation as well, showing with our lives and telling with our words how the One More around us can have eternal and abundant life in Jesus. 

As a follower of Jesus, as one who aims to know, love, and become like Jesus, we must take on the position of Jesus, servant to all. And this position, of servant to His Father and to all was not a position of begrudging duty, but of joyful delight!

Formation is always happening. You are either being conformed to this world, or you're being transformed to know and discern what is the will of God, basically being transformed into Jesus. At ALC, we believe mutual formation, the intentional practice of giving of yourself to help someone else become more like Jesus, is a critical part of the process of being formed into the image of Christ!

We exist to help every person know, love, and become like Jesus. That means being and helping one another to be, a people of gathered worship.