The Alley Church Podcast

Hearts at Rest 1 John 3:18-24 (18) Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. (19) This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: (20) If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. (21) Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before...

What is Love 1 John 3:10-17 John Wescott said, and I actually don’t know who this is, “Life reveals the children of God.” END QUOTE! There is no way of telling what a tree is other than by its fruits, and there is no way of telling what a person is other than by their conduct, how we love. (our property which is new to us has a lot of trees and plants. We didn’t know and some things we still don’t...

Being A Child of God 1 John 3:1-10 (1)See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. (2) Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him a...

Continue As You Began 1 John 2:24-29 True Teaching, True Living, True Loving (24) As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. (25) And this is what he promised us—eternal life. (26) I am writing these things to you about those who are trying to lead you astray.  (27) As for you, the anointing you receive...

1 John 2:17 And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. Contrasted with But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever.  (18) Dear children, the last hour is here. You have heard that the Antichrist is coming, and already many such antichrists have appeared. From this we know that the last hour has come. (19) These people left our churches, but they never really...

The Resurrection  What do we celebrate at Easter?  Jesus' resurrection. Today we will discuss why the resurrection is so important. ASK: Why is it? I Cor 15:12 12 But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 14 And if Christ h...

HOLY WEEK EXERCISES  Truly search your heart and determine who or what is your King. What is the King of your life? What are you giving your life to? What do you bow down to and worship with your time, money, and energy/thoughts?  Holy Monday - Dig deep… Where am I looking religious, yet only have the appearance of a fruitful life (fig tree parable Mark 11)?  Do I see this as hypocrisy and decepti...

The One Thing: One Thing You Need, One Thing You Lack, One Thing I Do EXERCISE…Take out the lyrics in front of you HOW SATISFIED / HAPPY? On the piece of paper write down on a scale of 1-10  10 being can’t name one thing that would make me more satisfied than I am today.  1 -  being I have really nothing satisfying about my life.  Quickly just name a few things that would make it a ten or your sco...

Cindy Roper rocks it !

What to love and what not to love. That is the question.  Last week we had the comforting, assuring message to prepare ourselves for this week!!!  :)  I can chase the things of this world or I can choose the things of God. Jesus said we can’t serve 2 masters, we can’t serve both God and mammon.   (15) Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is...

Today we are going to receive this encouragement no matter what stage of Christian Growth you are in. Some of us are precious embryos not get birthed into the loving arms of our Savior. Some are babes in Christ (baptism), little children all the way to being elders and aged in Jesus. We have two groups John is going to speak to all of us as dear children, then fathers who are older in the faith an...

1 John 2:7-11 (7) Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning. This old command is the message you have heard. (8) Yet I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in him and in you because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining. (9) Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister is still in...

Scott does a recap of what it means thus far to read the book of 1 John with the heart of true teaching, true loving, and true living. 

1 John 2:1-6 My dear children, I am writing this to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate who pleads our case before the Father. He is Jesus Christ, the one who is truly righteous. (2) He himself is the sacrifice that atones for our sins—and not only our sins but the sins of all the world. (3) And we can be sure that we know him if we obey his commandments. (4)...

1 John 1:8-2:2   The Heart of God (8) If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. (9) If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. (10) If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us. (1) My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin....

1 John 1:5-7 (5) This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. (6) If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. (7) But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. S ecti...

1 John 1:1-4 Before we read this, let’s jump in with “we” are the apostles, eyewitnesses, and disciples…perhaps just a few were left on Earth, but mainly John is saying, look…this gnosticism is crap... I WAS THERE, WE WERE THERE…And we are telling you there is JOY in this. Back then personal testimony held huge weight so he is starting out strong and establishing his authority to be heard. “That w...

We start a new book today and so let's watch a quick overview of 1 John by the amazing people at The Bible Project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3QkE6nKylM John 1:1-4 In 1st John we are going to examine, What does it mean to be a follower of Jesus? So ASK…What does it mean to be a follower of Jesus?   Background information: Who wrote this letter? John the disciple of Jesus, James brother...

Today is a topic from one of you.   If you have something you’d like us to talk about, please let us know and if you could put it in writing and give it to Sandy, or John that would be great. So today’s topic is answering the question about what is  Progressive Christianity and how we in our church be lovingly “inclusive” of everyone. This is a very important topic because it’s very relevant to ou...

What is living an abundant life? John 10:10  The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. Abundantly here is defined as “that which exceeds necessity”.  Today we’re going to talk about 3 ways to help you live an abundant life.  When you think of an abundant life what does that mean to you? Are you living an abundant life? Living an abun...

The Greatest Gift - Colossians 1: 15-23 What is a gift?  - Hebrew it is a masculine term = grace/gracious gift Freely given freely received To think about the birth of Jesus, the Messiah is to think about the greatest gift of all time.  (PAINT THE BACKSTORY of then, why Messiah was needed) Messiah = anointed one = Anointed:  symbolic of an appointment to a task,  72 times in the NT Messiah is used...

(19) My dear brothers and sisters, if someone among you wanders away from the truth and is brought back, (20) you can be sure that whoever brings the sinner back from wandering will save that person from death and bring about the forgiveness of many sins. Review: Confess your sins to each other, and pray for each other so that you may be healed. This was last week's message. This week is when...

James 5: (16) Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. (17) Elijah was as human as we are, and yet when he prayed earnestly that no rain would fall, none fell for three and a half years! (18) Then, when he prayed again, the sky sent down rain and the earth began to yie...

(12) Above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear—not by heaven or by earth or by anything else. All you need to say is a simple “Yes” or “No.” Otherwise you will be condemned. The Prayer of Faith (13) Is anyone among you in trouble? Let them pray. Is anyone happy? Let them sing songs of praise. (14) Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint...