Alice Drive Baptist Church Podcast

-        Further, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you. 2 Watch out for those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh. Phil. 3:1-2 -        Real Faith Lasts -        Joy is not a passing sensation of pleasure, but a pervasive sense of well-being. - Dallas Willard -        Who steals y...

·       Matthew 17:14-20 14 And when they came to the crowd, a man came up to him and, kneeling before him, 15 said, “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he has seizures and he suffers terribly. For often he falls into the fire, and often into the water. 16 And I brought him to your disciples, and they could not heal him.” 17 And Jesus answered, “O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be...

·       PIX: Folded Clothes in the dryer ·       What happens in a relationship when there is a failure to communicate?  ·       What happens when we miss the point Jesus is trying to make ·       We have already made up our minds what Jesus wants to say. ·       We are afraid of what Jesus will say, so we don’t listen ·        Our needs drown out Jesus’ message.  ·       Matthew 16:5-12 - 5 When...

·        The exclusion dilemma: I choose something, I exclude other options.  ·       22 Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. 23 After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone, 24 and the boat was already a considerable distance from land, bu...

·       Matthew 8:23-27 - 23 Then he got into the boat and his disciples followed him. 24 Suddenly a furious storm came up on the lake, so that the waves swept over the boat. But Jesus was sleeping. 25 The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Lord, save us! We’re going to drown!” 26 He replied, “You of little faith, why are you so afraid?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the waves, and i...

●      How can we honor our country, with all its success and failures, while living as kingdom citizens? ●      Romans 12:1- I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. ●     Your most important citizenship is in God’s Kingdom. ●     13 Let everyone be subject to the governing...

·       The average American will earn over $1.7 million over his or her lifetime.  ·       You are richer than you think! ·       The average American spends about $3.3 million over his or her life.  ·       Who teaches you to make decisions about money? ·       Proverbs 3:9-10 – Honor the LORD from your wealth; and from all your first products.  Your storehouses will be filled with plenty and ne...

PIX: Jessica Rocha.  Exodus 20:12 - 12 “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. Attachment is the secure bond you have with someone.  Honor what you can and forgive the rest. How to be parents worthy of honor and how to honor our parents.   Proverbs 1:8-9 – Listen my son, to the correction of your father; and do not forsake the teac...

·       What do you do when you don’t know?  ·       First option: you construct a story.  ·      Second option: Walk away.  ·       God punishes the wicked.  Job, you are suffering, therefore, you must be wicked. ·       Beware of people who have a story about God that is not big enough to include your story. ·       Job 31:35-37 - 35 “Oh, that I had someone to hear me! I sign now my defense—let...

·       Are you all in?  ·       Do we serve God because of what he does for us, or because we love him?  ·       Job 1:4-5 - 4 His sons used to hold feasts in their homes on their birthdays, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. 5 When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would make arrangements for them to be purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifi...

·     How you think about God determines how you respond to a crisis. ·       How you think about life, how you think about God determines what you build. ·       Do we worship God because of what he does for us or because we love him? ·       Just because a person speaks in God’s name, doesn’t mean they are speaking for God. ·       Job 42:7 7 After the Lord had said these things to Job, he said...

·       What do you do when life won’t fit in the box?  ·        Job 1:1-3 - In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. 2 He had seven sons and three daughters, 3 and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large number of servants. He was the...

·       Matthew 16:24-26 24 Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.  ·       25 For whoever would save his life[ a ] will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. ·       26 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his...

·       1 Peter 1:3 - 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,  ·       Easter is a day to speak well of God.  ·       Today, tell someone what the resurrected Jesus has done in your life!  ·       Jesus’ resurrection means we have a new birth!  ·       The sad...

·       Colossians 2:13-15 - 13 When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, 14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. 15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, tri...

·       Ephesians 6:12 - 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.   ·       A few people are possessed by demons. ·       Mark 5:2-5 - 2 When Jesus got out of the boat, a man with an impure spirit came from the tombs to meet him. 3 This...

·       Ephesians 6:12- 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms ·     When you hear who Satan is and what he wants, remember God is the opposite and what he wants for you is the opposite of what Satan wants. ·       Satan is God’s enemy....

·       Hebrews 11:1 - Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.  ·       Ephesians 6:12 - 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.  ·       When people die, they do not become angels.  ·       P...

·       What does it look like to have courage? ·      Courage is not JUST what you do, it’s who you trust ·       Who should you trust? ·       Daniel 3:10-18 10 You, O king, have made a decree, that every man who hears the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image. 11 And whoever does not fall down and worship shal...

-      Every victory requires a leap of faith.  -       38 Then Saul dressed David in his own tunic. He put a coat of armor on him and a bronze helmet on his head. 39 David fastened on his sword over the tunic and tried walking around, because he was not used to them. “I cannot go in these,” he said to Saul, “because I am not used to them.” So he took them off. 40 Then he took his staff in his han...

·       They want to understand.  ·       They want to be understood.  ·       They want to be encouraged.  ·       They want to connect. ·       Churches are better at exclusion than inclusion.  ·       Andy Stanley – The reason people don’t go to church is because they’ve been. ·       Joshua 2.  Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim. “Go, look over the land,” he said, “esp...

·     Exodus 3:10-11 - 10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” 11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” ·       God wants us to experience his power flowing through us. ·       Hebrews 11:1 – Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.  ·       ...

·      How do you have faith in a dark place?  ·       Genesis 37:25-28 - 25 As they sat down to eat their meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with spices, balm and myrrh, and they were on their way to take them down to Egypt.  26 Judah said to his brothers, “What will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood? 27 Come, let...

·      God’s promises require action ·       Genesis 11:31-32 -31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there. 32 Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Harran. ·       Before you settle, ask if you are settling. ...

·       PIX: Leap of Faith.  ·       Faith is making a good decision to take action. ·       The Situation.  ·       Genesis 6:5-7 - 5 The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. 6 The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply trou...