Pastor Scott Andrews | October 1, 2023 Watch Listen Read Luke 2:21-35 There are certain names or even ideas that immediately divide a room – that divide this room.  The list is potentially long, but here’s a few:  President Biden or former President Trump – almost evenly divided the nation.  Republican or Democrat.  Pro-life or […]

Pastor Scott Andrews | September 17, 2023 Watch Listen Read Luke 2:8-20 As I mentioned recently, I’ve been at Alliance for 26 years, which means 26 Christmases.  I looked it up – counting Christmas Eves, the Sundays before Christmas, and the few times I’ve covered the four Sundays of Advent leading to Christmas, I’ve preached […]

Pastor Scott Andrews | August 27, 2023 Watch Listen Read Luke 2:1-7 It would be hard to a find a story more sensationalized and mythologized than the story of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, called Christ.  And yet, there is not another story that needs less editing, less improvement, than this one.  But, by […]

Pastor Scott Andrews | August 20, 2023 Watch Listen Read Luke 1:67-80 I shared this about a year ago, but over the past several decades, one of the challenges in the US church has been the issue of worship.  Style, preferences, elements, instruments.  You may know them as worship wars.  Such wars are internal church […]

Pastor Scott Andrews | August 13, 2023 Watch Listen Read Luke 1:57-66 I’m going to coin a new term today.  Just remember, you heard it here first.  I suspect that some of us, maybe many here this morning might be Theophilites.  You say, what in the world is a Theophilite?  Glad you asked.  It comes […]

Pastor Scott Andrews | August 6, 2023 Watch Listen Read Luke 1:46-56 This past week, our youth, middle and high school students, went to summer camp at Snowbird.  This outdoor wilderness camp is outside Andrews, NC.  How many of you have ever been to Andrews, NC?  When we first moved to Boone, I knew my […]

Pastor Scott Andrews | July 30, 2023 Watch Listen Read Luke 1:39-45 If you’ve been coming to Alliance for any period of time, you know we are committed to expositional preaching.  That is, we study the Bible together, verse by verse, chapter by chapter, book by book.  That allows us to do a couple of […]

Pastor Scott Andrews | July 23, 2023 Watch Listen Read Luke 1:26-38 Several years ago, my Christmas sermon was titled “Joseph, the Forgotten Man of Christmas.”  If you were here, you remember we talked about how Joseph has gotten a bum rap – how’s he is seen as a secondary, non-essential character to the Christmas […]

Pastor Scott Andrews | July 9, 2023 Watch Listen Read Introduction – Part 2 As we finished the book of Revelation a couple weeks ago, we read in the epilogue, some of John’s final words, don’t add to or take away from the book – that is, the book of Revelation.  But, we can, in […]