Teachings from Unionville Alliance

We live in a sex-saturated society. Promiscuity is brazenly promoted and sex is divorced from God's purpose. In this passage the sage challenges us to embrace moral purity and enjoy the gift of sex within the boundaries of God's purpose.

The Lord is a God of justice and righteousness and the book of Proverbs enlighten us to his ways and methods. Let righteousness reign in our lives as we seek to fulfill his will in this world.

We all struggle with laziness, slothfulness, and procrastination. Yet the book of Proverbs gives us clear guidance and wisdom to help us live diligent, productive and hard working lives.

Our words our powerful. We can use them to build people up or tear people down. The book of Proverbs gives us wise counsel about our words, the use of our tongue, and the type of speech we should and shouldn't employ. Let's use our tongue to bless the Lord and others while avoiding the pitfalls of negative speech.

We receive continuous solicitation to buy things, do things, be something or somebody. The choices we make define us and have huge significance in our lives. With all the competing voices pressuring us to chose, how do we make good decisions that impact our lives positively? The wise teacher will guide those who desire to make good decisions.

Do you wish your life was more than it is? You look back at decisions you have made with some regrets. What if you could make good decisions that would change your future. We are beginning a series of messages from the Book of Proverbs that can help you live life successfully.

Sometimes it seems as though God is unreasonable in his demands. For instance, he commands that we rejoice. That’s fine in the good times, but what about when our world is collapsing? Rejoice? That may seem too much to ask. But God never asks us to do something that he doesn’t enable us to do. There are “joy busters” in our lives that prevent experiencing joy. Join us in discovering how we can rej...

Entrance exams can be unnerving. Your future is hanging in the balance. Have you ever thought about God’s entrance exam? How do you get into his family? How do you gain entrance into heaven. That’s one exam you want to pass. The apostle Paul will shed light on this critical issue.

The Gospel calls us to Christlikeness in all that we do. We have an excellent example in the life of Christ of what selflessness, humility, obedience and sacrifice is all about. True joy will be the result of us putting on the nature of Christ.

Paul went through sufferings and imprisonment for the sake of the gospel. Yet he rejoiced knowing that it brought boldness to the believers and the gospel was advanced. He concluded that by life or death Christ would be magnified in his body and that was a reason to rejoice! Maybe we have lost the joy in the gospel because we have lost the victory in suffering. Let us follow the example that Paul...

Finding happiness can be so elusive. The apostle Paul found joy in a prison with the prospects of losing his life. One of the things that lifted his spirits and brightened his day was the thought of special relationships. Let’s look into the heart of a truly joyful person to discover what makes him tick.

When we think of worship we may conjure up gatherings of God’s people, music, Scripture, sermons and offerings. But there is a very important yet often overlooked component to worship that may slip our minds—it is obedience. Join us as we explore this critical aspect to what it means to worship.

Money and stuff can be pretty important in our lives. In fact it is easy to make those gifts of God idols that mean more to us than he does. This message probes how material things can detract us from true worship and the solution to that problem.

Music has become synonymous with worship in much of today’s parlance in the church. While music is an important element in our corporate gatherings it can be misunderstood and the source of much controversy and division. We want to examine what true musical worship might look like from Scripture.

Part of worshipping God is serving him and serving others. True and proper worship is to present our lives to God to do his will whatever that may entail. The Christian life is not just about receiving good things from God but living sacrificially for the Lord and for others. What areas of service are you engaged in that in turn produces true worship?

We can learn about worship from what people did in both the New and Old Testaments. In the Lord’s prayer we were instructed to pray for God’s will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. God gives us a peek into worship in heaven that can inform our practice here on earth.

We speak about going to worship, being in the sanctuary or the worship centre. While we understand what this means you may be surprised to discover that worship has changed vastly from the Old Testament times. We worship a whole new way.

You were created to worship God. This goes beyond attending a worship service to a life of worship. Join us as we discover Gods design for our lives.

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"In the name of “personal freedom” many in our culture want to eliminate the fixed categories of male or female in favour of making gender and one’s gender identity entirely a matter of personal choice. But is this even possible, and can it bring true freedom? In this message Scott Stein explores the biblical foundation for human nature as gendered beings, and how only Jesus brings us true freedom...

Having examined the tests John presents to us can be both heartening and disturbing. We are told that we are to live lives that are not marked by sin and overflowing with love. The trouble is that many of us examine our lives and see inconsistencies and failure. We hoped to be more than we are and working harder at living the life can be frustrating. Has God just set the bar so high that we just w...

We have been talking about how a person can have security in their relationship with God. We have talked about different tests to examine the genuineness of our faith. John presents the “love test” as a means of evaluating where we are at spiritually. Let’s take this test to see where we are at.

John says one of the ways we can determine whether we are genuine Christians or not is by how we live our lives. He identifies sin in our life as a determining factor. This can be unsettling because all of are prone to sinning. So how can we be assured of our faith while we are still battling with sin? Let’s discover how this test is appropriately applied in our lives.

Does it really matter what you believe when it comes to your faith? or is it just important that you believe something, but believe with sincerity? That is the predominant theme regarding religion in today’s culture. But when it comes to being sure of your faith, will that hold up with God? This message probes this critical question as we consider the possibility of security with God.

In a world of uncertainty what can you be sure of? How about your relationship with God? How sure are you that God would accept you? Or can you really know for sure? In this series we want to try to answer these questions from the book 1 John in the Bible.