ALIVE Wesleyan

Have you ever found your self in a place where you are suddenly and painfully aware you are an outsider? You look around and have no clue what you are supposed to do or say.

Have you ever had a moment…

Christmas is this tension between style and substance. 

If we remove the manger from the Nativity, can we still have Christmas? 

Matthew 1:1 (NIV84) A record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ the son of…

A few observations about this crossroads:

·     First, we will often choose to listen to our fears more than God. 

·     Second, we will often listen to our selfishness and pride more than God. 

·     T…

A couple of observations about stumps:
There is little to no value in a stump.
There is little to no hope in a stump.
A stump is simply a memorial that something used to live there.

Isaiah 11:1 (NIV84) …

You don’t get to choose your family.

If we are not careful, we begin to believe some of those things about ourselves. 

·     I am less because of where I grew up, so I had better perform or pose. 

·   …

Running is hard.
Hitting wall is going to happen.
Running in a team is better than running alone.
And running with a limp changes the game.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 Therefore I will boast all the more gla…

Hebrews 10:19–25 (NIV84) 19 Therefore, friends, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his…

To reveal the kind of faith required for the life of Christianity and this is revealed through Jesus

Hebrews 11:1 (NIV84) Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

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Maybe you have never ran or cycled in such a way as to hit a wall, but we all share experiences when life became so tough, a season of life was so trying that we felt it was going to crush us and we …

Whether you are believer or not, I don’t have to convince you of evil. We may differ on where evil comes from.  

• Some people believe evil is random.  
• Some believe evil is part of humanity so evil happ…

And now we can see the two main strategies Satan uses in our lives.

Strategy 1: To get you to believe something different than what God says is true about himself or his promises.
Strategy 2: To get y…

Research reveals about 80% of Americans believe in God while only 60% believe in the Devil.

He is saying that fear that there is something under the bed, is a legitimate fear.

The Bible affirms there i…

Can one person really make that big difference

One person can make a difference to God.

So this idea of making a difference to God sounds like an oxymoron,
creation making a difference to the creator.
T…

God honors movement. God honors sacrifice. Today I want to go after the way we think about sacrifice. Throughout the New Testament there is a word that is used 29 times. It is the word “phroneo” whic…

ALIVE will become a multiplying movement.

In order to become a multiplying movement, we have to get intentional about raising up leaders, men and women who understand that God has gifted them and God …

Vision Submission must be part of any group that believes it is being led by God-given vision.

Tom, the daily responsibilities for the ministry have lessened for you but the responsibility of charting…

This lawyer has lived his life in his bubble. But, his bubble was not about personal space thing. Because, from his perspective, eternal life - the good life - a life that would honor God means stayi…

We can never be good enough. We can never earn what we do not deserve. And what the lawyer didn’t understand is what some of us do not understand. The answer to his problem was standing right in fron…