All of Life Church Sermon Audio

It can be very helpful to know your history. Your family history helps explain why you are how you are. Your medical history helps explain what you may face and what to do about your health. Our "Spiritual" story begins before we even come into existence. All of our personal stories, begin with the Great Big Story of God, revealed in Jesus Christ. Our All of Life story is a continuation of the Big...

As All of Life Church moves into our new building, it's a new chapter, out of the same book. Importantly, our story is a small part in the middle of a much bigger and better story - God's Story. Next week, we look at some of the details of our story, but this week, we enjoy and remember The Great Big Story we are a part of.

The Gospel of Jesus is unique in the whole world - because it is, purely, Good News. The Old Testament prophet Hosea is dense, intense, and a bit confusing - which is why it ends with a call to read wisely, and listen discerningly. As we do so, we see that Hosea foreshadows Jesus’ role in the rescue of his people. He is the faithful husband, who fully knows the depth of his people’s unfaithfulness...

Does God have emotions? Does viewing him this way "anthropomorphize" him to make him in "our image"? Or is it honoring the way he presents himself in scripture? The more we understand and trust God and his “emotional world”, the more we will engage in loving personal relationship. In Hosea God shares his internal world, so that we can understand and trust him. We see that God's heart is full of lo...

Hosea 1-3 acts as an executive summary of the whole book of Hosea. It gives the primary plot points, and uses Hosea's real life to express God's relationship with his people. God views his relationship with his people as a marriage. And he chooses to "marry" them, knowing ahead of time that they will be unfaithful. In "Movement II", Hosea's wife Gomer is unfaithful. God uses this to express how he...

When God begins speaking through Hosea, God's very first instruction is that Hosea goes and marries a woman, knowing that she will be unfaithful to him. And this is to illustrate how God's people have been unfaithful. And, it also illustrates how God views his relationship with his people - as a marriage. God is married to his people, and will be faithful to them.

True Followers of Jesus listen to Him and do what He asks of them.

The Reality is there are two senior kingdoms governing the world, and you I are citizens of one or the other, but not both. Our way of life and words signal which kingdom we belong to.

Choosing rest is an act of trust. Jesus Values our rest and Jesus values our mercy, and when it seems the two are in competition, trust Jesus and choose mercy.

Frederick Dale Bruner: "The classic Christian conviction is this: There is no knowledge anywhere of the Father that is not mediated through God the Son and that is not brought into the individual heart through God the Holy Spirit. If God is the God revealed in Scripture, Christians feel they must say these things: "No one really knows the Father except the Son and the one to whom the Son chooses t...

Doubt is most compelling when we find ourselves enduring tough circumstances. In this message, we’ll begin to see there’s a difference between doubt and unbelief. Jesus is gentle with our doubts, and He doesn’t tip-toe around our unbelief.

Jesus continues His mission-instructions for the Twelve, which include sober warnings about the cost and the rewards for allegiance to Him.

In this passage we see Jesus display his heart and the surprising invitation He extends to His disciples to join Him in His work.

What if God means to use our pain to push us to the most direct route to faith in Jesus? In this message, we will learn from six people whose intense pain strengthened their faith.

Jesus is authoritative and controversial, bringing joy to many and anger to others.

Whether inner storms or outer storms, Jesus is the Great Lord who has authority over it all

Summer in North Idaho is a treasure, and we are all gearing up for it! As a Church family, we want to savor the delights of summer, while maintaining spiritual health and heart-level contact with Jesus, abiding in Him all summer long. Here are some helpful ways of approaching "Abiding", that will build our faith and community this summer season.

Heaven. There are few concepts in our post-christian culture that are so thoroughly misunderstood. Is heaven a religious ideal used by governments and the “ruling class” to suppress the people? Is is the crutch of fantasy created by the poor and down trodden? Or, is it a logical and sturdy reality fully in line with the robust worldview of Jesus of Nazareth? The Revelation of Jesus invites us to t...

Are you a good person? “Well, I’m not on the evening news for committing some heinous crime, and I mostly try to be good, so… yes?” That’s a fair response - though Jesus and the New Testament writers may have something else to say. Don’t worry, their goal isn’t to judge you or get you to comply with a new set of behavioral rules. They hope you see the futility of defending our “goodness” to a perf...

Christians celebrate a risen Jesus. In layman’s terms: A not dead Jesus! Jesus’ resurrection verified his identity and power as God’s Son. In his death and resurrection, he paid our penalty, triumphed over death and Satan, and secures our future resurrection. Today he continues to empower his people through the Holy Spirit, and daily intercedes for you and I, his beloved saints.