Faith Alive Church - Sunday Message

Joshua Boyd As we look for buildings and see the seemingly large number of churches in the area, including others like ours that have lived in different locations, I started talking to the Lord about our church.  Are we just getting lost in a crowd of church choices?  Do we have a unique voice and purpose?   Are there already enough churches in Greenville/Anderson area?    God didn’t directly answ...

Jordon Gilmore Preparation helps the one preparing and those who will benefit from the preparation.   Luke 2:8-12

Joshua Boyd God is giving God.  He loves therefore He gives.  God’s love gives.  When we have God’s love in our hearts, we give too.  The more we love we walk in, the more we give.  The converse is true, no giving, no love.   In what the world calls “the season of giving” let’s let our light of God’s love shine even brighter by giving.  This is one of the things that helped the early church stand...

Jordon Gilmore As we walk through this Advent season, a season of earnest expectation, let us pray in good faith, not bad faith,  and in earnest expectation! 

Joshua Boyd God is a giving God.  He gives because He loves.  For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son.  God’s love, the only true type of love, gives.  What the world considers love, when it shows selfishness, isn’t love at all, but desire.   This morning I believe the Holy Spirit has a Word concerning a gift we haven’t thought as a gift too often or at all:  the gift of repentance. ...

Jordon Gilmore Some key points from today's message include: Gratitude is nourishment for our soul during the waiting that faith requires. Gratitude tunes our spiritual ears to the frequency on which God is operating. Gratitude is a tangible witness to the world that God is good!

Joshua Boyd Abraham’s life is an example for us to follow and learn from.  He is the father of the Jewish nation and the father of all who walk in faith according to Romans 4.  So let’s learn more from our faith dad this morning.   Last week we saw that we must live in God’s time zone.  That we, like Abraham learned, do not step out trying to jump start the promise God has given us.  Instead we sh...

Joshua Boyd As humans, we constantly think about time. Whether it is the clock or the calendar, time drives our decisions and motivates or frustrates us with its constant movement.  This morning we set our clocks back an hour and began to hear the bi-annual comments about keeping or getting rid of daylight savings.  It is amazing how much conflict an hour of time brings but it shows how much we th...

Jordon Gilmore This morning I want to focus on a particular topic,  one of the the tasks of the Holy Spirit in our lives: He is an equipper.  God doesn't ask or command us to do anything without giving us what we need to be obedient. One of the primary ways that he does that is through the Holy Spirit. 

Jordon Gilmore Joshua Boyd Jordon and Joshua together teach on the principles and importance of being led by the Spirit.   In recent weeks we’ve been talking about hearing from the Lord about our next season and our new building.  We took the step of fasting together in agreement over our requests.  But how are you led by the Lord, by His Spirit, how do you hear from Him?   Romans 8:14 For all who...

Joshua Boyd Transitions are the change from one season to another.  Solomon, when becoming king, asked God for one thing: wisdom to lead:   2 Chronicles 1:10 Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this great people of Yours?” In Deuteronomy, the Lord promises the blessing to those who obey His Word: 6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou co...

Jordon Gilmore Don't miss opportunities assuming you'll have time to do them later. 

Joshua Boyd In the Old Testament, fasting was done often in time of desperation.  Think about Esther before she went before the King.  When they were rebuilding Jerusalem after the time of Babylonian captivity, Ezra and Nehemiah both used the fast to get the people focusing on God. Ezra, the high priest, and the people of Israel, needed protection for a challenging journey.  They escalated the emp...

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Joshua Boyd   In our final message on discipleship, we are addressing perhaps the greatest requirement of it.  In our discipleship learning journey, we’ve seen that discipleship involves preparing for growth, planting the seeds—both actions on our part.  Then comes growth with God giving the increase of the seed planting.   When you show results, fruit, that is when you are a disciple.  Being a di...

God Cares Deeply For You  2 Kings 6:1-7 God expects us to follow Him God cares about out comfort It is always good to invite God into your life and decision making, especially when life happens.

Joshua Boyd How many of you have experienced going to the ATM or using a debit card only to find out the needed funds weren’t there?  Insufficient funds.  Not enough. I have.  It isn’t fun.  Not only is it embarrassing if you are at the cashier, it is disheartening and discouraging because you don’t get what you needed when you needed it.   Many believers have experienced similar disappointment wh...

Jordon Gilmore Ways that God protects us (continued): 4. He hides us in His pavilion, His presence. Ps 27:4-6, Gal. 5:16-17 5. He can handicap the enemy. 2 Kings 6:8-19 6. He fights the battle for us. Judges 7:19-22

Joshua Boyd The call of discipleship is the call to suffer.  The cost of discipleship is high.  It will require your life.  While those statements sink in, let me further explain that this suffering doesn’t mean sickness or anything under the curse that we’ve been delivered from with the work of Christ on the cross.  It is the suffering of dying to self and the persecution that comes from others w...

Jordon Gilmore “Then Moses called Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and of good courage, for you must go with this people to the land which the Lord has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall cause them to inherit it. And the Lord, He is the One who goes before you. He will be with you, He will not leave you nor forsake you; do not fear nor be dismayed.”” ‭‭...

Joshua Boyd Disciples show fruit.  That is the sign.  Not how many years you have been a believer.  Not because your parents took you to church as a child.  It is when you produce results in the Kingdom.   John 15:9 9 “I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love. 10 When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in h...

Jordon Gilmore Let's talk about why wisdom is valuable to you.  For you business-minded folks, this is the value proposition.  

Joshua Boyd How many of you have experienced this scenario yourself or observed it in someone else:  you start out learning something new and after a short period begin to be comfortable with the knowledge.  However, it goes one step too far in beginning to think you know everything about the subject or process.  You don’t.  You’ve scratched the surface of a wealth of knowledge.   Those who know t...

Joshua Boyd Hebrews 5:11-14 11 There is much more we would like to say about this, but it is difficult to explain, especially since you are spiritually dull and don’t seem to listen. 12 You have been believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things about God’s word.[ c ] You are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid...

Jordon Gilmore 1 Kings 3:3-15 Knowledge can exist without wisdom but not the other way around. “If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.” ‭‭James‬ ‭1‬:‭5‬ ‭NIV‬‬ 1 God is the source of wisdom and He will give it to you if you ask 2 There can be no knowledge that leads to wisdom without the fear of the Lord.  “Th...