Aletheia Church, Providence RI

Spiritual family is much more than God's way of giving Christians good vibes. In this sermon, Pastor Justin teaches from 1 Peter 1–2, where we see how important spiritual family is in the way God brings about his purposes in the world.

Everyone's a builder. In our decisions, relationships, families, careers—there's a way we can build wisely or build foolishly. In this sermon, Pastor Justin unpacks 1 Corinthians 3, where Paul explains what it takes to be a "wise master builder."

In 1 Timothy 3, Paul calls the church a pillar and buttress of the truth. In this sermon, Pastor Justin unpacks what that means and how it shapes the mission of our church.

Today, we're wrapping up our series in Ecclesiastes *and* beginning a new, upward-looking series about Good and Beautiful Vision. In this sermon, Pastor Adam draws from the Old and New Testament to offer a hopeful, optimistic understanding of the ways that a good and beautiful vision for anything begins with a good and beautiful vision of God.

God wants people to live with hope… and he's given us the church to help us do that. In this first part of our Vision for the House series, Pastor Justin looks at Hebrews 10:19–24 and how it shows us the church's role in our ability to hold onto hope.

Life reveals at least one grim truth: we will all face death at some point. Given that, what is the best way to approach death and overcome fear of it? In this sermon, Pastor Justin explores Ecclesiastes to uncover the Scripture's claims about how we can overcome slavery to the fear about death.

As citizens of one of the most learned cities in the world, we're likely to believe that the Good Life is found in the wisdom of the academy. However, the author of Ecclesiastes proposes a strong challenge to those who would seek salvation in wisdom alone. In this sermon, Pastor Adam navigates Ecclesiastes 7 and 8 to unveil how both wisdom and knowledge without character produce condemnation.

In a thoroughly capitalist society and an increasingly globalizing world, money has attained a kind of divinity. It is the altar at which far too many of us worship. And yet, the worship of money is not a new phenomenon to the author of Ecclesiastes. In this sermon, Pastor Justin unpacks Ecclesiastes' warnings about the futility of the love of money.

Time tends towards cycles, or so implies the author of Ecclesiastes. We've all experienced something like this: we experience ups, downs, highs, lows, periods of great joy, and periods of great turmoil. We may seek stability, normalcy, or consistency in life, but we rarely find any of these for very long. What might the author of Ecclesiastes have to say about our constant struggle to cleave to th...

Time tends towards cycles, or so implies the author of Ecclesiastes. We've all experienced something like this: we experience ups, downs, highs, lows, periods of great joy, and periods of great turmoil. We may seek stability, normalcy, or consistency in life, but we rarely find any of these for very long. What might the author of Ecclesiastes have to say about our constant struggle to cleave to th...

In a culture obsessed with social mobility, what does the author of Ecclesiastes say about our desire to seek satisfaction from attaining higher earthly heights? In this sermon, Pastor Justin Chapman from Aletheia Providence describes how even the summits under the sun can't be the source of the meaning we crave.

Today, we're beginning a new sermon series in Ecclesiastes entitled "Chasing The Wind." The Bible is full of wisdom and promises, but more often than we like to admit, life doesn't align with our expectations. We invest, we build, and we plan, and yet, our lives are still contain suffering and disappointment. Why? In this sermon, Pastor Adam explores the wisdom of the writer of Ecclesiastes to hel...

Many of the established routines of our lives have been disrupted by the COVID-19 crisis. How can we make sure that we are still being worshipful with the new habits that are developing in our "new normals?" In this sermon, Pastor Adam shows that the good story of the gospel empowers us to build habits of Christlike virtue.

Even before the COVID-19 crisis, anxiety was a defining characteristic of this generation. How does the Gospel speak to anxiety or other thoughts that plague our minds and attempt to distance us from God? In this sermon, Pastor Justin shows us from the Book of Philippians how when we practice gospel thoughts, we welcome in the God of peace.

Emotions can be tough, and sometimes, we can fail to properly engage our emotions honestly. On the other end of the spectrum, the Scriptures don't allow our lives to be driven entirely our emotions. In this sermon, Pastor Adam explores the ways in which The Good Story shapes our emotions.

As we step into out new series entitled The Good Story, we consider a confrontation between Jesus and the Pharisees in Matthew. Jesus notes a close connection between the spoken words of the Pharisees and true natures of their hearts. How are our own words connected to the inner substance of our hearts? Do our words glorify God and edify others, or do they debase God and other people? In this serm...

On this most unusual of Easters in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, we remember the unusual, surprising, and altogether earth-shattering story of the event celebrated on this Christian holy day - The Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

How do you find peace when you're in the middle of a crisis? In this sermon, Pastor Justin pauses from our Romans series to see how the Bible can help us in a time of stress, confusion, and unease.

Only the Christian story is big enough to include everyone without flattening anyone. In this sermon, Pastor Justin unpacks Romans 12, where Paul describes how, in the people of the gospel, there's both a strong "me" and a strong "we."

In chapter eleven of Romans, Paul builds into a crescendo and breaks into song. We all want his same experience of awe and wonder, but we need to see that he gets there through the most surprising route—by thinking about God's severity and kindness. In this sermon, Pastor Justin unpacks what it is about God's severity and kindness that should lead us to worship and humility.

When Jesus offered to go and heal a centurion's servant in Matthew 8, the centurion said no. Well, he still wanted Jesus to heal his servant, but he believed Jesus could do it from anywhere. His faith made Jesus marvel. In this sermon, Pastor Justin explores that interaction to find out what it was about the centurion's faith that impressed Jesus, and what it means to put that into practice in our...

We’ve looked at some mind-bending topics over the past two weeks as Paul endeavors to give us a peak into the mind of God. In the rest of chapter ten, however, he’s going to show us that that the while the inner workings of God’s mind may be complicated, His plan is simple. In this sermon, Pastor Justin explores Romans 10 to uncover Paul's conviction that the gospel is simple, has a simple message...

What does it mean for the gospel to be "a stumbling block of offense?" Is it ever ok for the gospel to be offensive, and, if so, to whom is the gospel meant to be offensive? In this sermon, Pastor Justin explores Romans 9 to unveil how the Gospel is a stumbling block of offense to the self-righteous.

This week, we begin Romans Season 3 with a stunning passage from Romans 9. In it, Paul seems to imply that God chooses whom to love and chooses others to relegate to destruction. How can a God like this be just or loving? In this sermon, Pastor Justin illustrates how the Apostle Paul explains the gospel in a way that responds to these objections and expounds upon the striking conclusion that God c...

Before we enter into Season 3 of Romans, we're taking a week to look back over the arc of Paul's thinking in chapter 5–8. Pastor Justin leads us through a fly-over of Romans 5-8 and unpacks the life-changing benefits of a new relationship and a new identity in Christ through Jesus.