A sermon podcast of Hope Alliance Church
To grow more and mature disciples takes all of us inviting. In the book of John we see that personal encounters with the person of Jesus should lead to personal invitations to Come and See!
Serving shapes us into Christ-likeness and strengthens us against the enemy of our souls. And when we serve one another in the church, we are able to fulfill our calling of maturing as the body of C…
Church is not a product to consume. It's a people that commit. As we move into what's "Next" for Hope Alliance, it will take all of us committing to Simply Jesus and to one another as fully engaged…
At Hope we are committed to making disciples to the glory of God. To be intentional about this, we embrace a simply Jesus identity and a multi-congregational structure that desires to see the gospel…
At Hope Alliance we want to grow for God's glory. But HOW do we grow? According to Jesus in Matthew 28, we grow by making MORE and MATURE disciples who bear the name of God and look like Jesus...al…
In this next season at Hope Alliance we want to focus on why and how we can grow Hope Alliance...for the glory of God!
On July 11 we celebrated a baby dedication and several baptisms. In this talk we look into why we baptize people. In short, it is an act of obedience, announcing and aligning our lives with the st…
After all the people of God have been through in the wilderness, God makes it clear that He will be faithful to finish what He started...to fulfill the promises He made to His people to provide for t…
In Numbers 32, some folks decided to settle for "good enough". But doing so is never God's enough. Moses knows this and challenges these folks that settling for good enough is a lack of faith that …
In Numbers 31 God brings judgement on the Midianites for their opposition to His kingdom advancement. In His providence He has mercy on Israel but condemns Midian. When we really analyze God's jud…
After multiple failures, we see in Numbers that God's covenant love still remains. And that covenant love is actually what motivates our commitment and obedience to Him.
With a new census, we once again see the faithfulness and the goodness of God. And both of these are even more apparent when God resounds to the daughters of Zelophehad. Though their father's sin h…
Idolatry is zeal for anything other than God's honor. Fleshly zeal and religious zeal both end in pain and separation from God. But what we see in Numbers 25 is that zeal for God's honor starts wit…
God's promises spoken cannot be broken. What He has blessed cannot be cursed. He the power and the heart to fulfill all of His promises for His people...in and through Jesus.
When you plan isn't working, perhaps God is. That's not meant to be motivational drivel. It's meant to encourage us that when God stops us and gets our attention, perhaps He is calling us to repent…
The new generation of Israel has moments of great faith followed by a massive failure. God's faithfulness sees them through as they learn to depend on Him daily and regularly repent. We can do the …
Because of the resurrection, Godly people develop Godly peace personally and communally. The seeds of peace are sown in faith in what God has done, is doing, and will do someday in making all things…
Love begins and ends with liberation. Instead of seeking our liberation FOR self, the resurrection gives us liberation FROM our selves. That liberation makes us better lovers of God and others...wh…
Because of what God has done, is doing, and will do, we can cultivate the fruit of joy in our lives.