June 2, 2019 Flip Wilson was an African-American comedian with a variety show in the late 60s and early 70s. Time Magazine featured him on their cover and called him “TV’s first black superstar.” One of his alter-egos regularly on the show was known as Geraldine Jones, when Wilson would dress in drag to play the character. Sayings […]
EVANGELISM INCLUDES PROSTELYIZING
May 26, 2019 According to Mirriam-Webster’s dictionary, to proselytize is to induce someone to convert to one’s faith. Similarly, Oxford Dictionary defines it as, to convert or attempt to convert someone from one religion, belief or opinion to another. And so, a proselyte is a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief or sect to […]
HAS AUTHENTICITY REPLACED HOLINESS
May 19, 2019 A few years ago, we had an interesting conversation with Glen Massey, who was at that time our College Pastor. The wewere the other Alliance pastors. He was talking about how college students valued what he called authenticityin worship. We asked what that meant. He said, they don’t like things to be too polished – too rehearsed – […]
HEBREWS 13:20-25
May 12, 2019 The fifth century church father, St. Augustine, once described all humanity, throughout time, in four different states – kind of going through time, from the original Garden of Eden, to the new garden in the New Jerusalem: At creation, in the Garden of Eden, humanity was created perfect, with both the ability […]
MARK 10:4-52
May 5, 2019 Turn in your Bibles to Mark 10:46-52. Look at one of my favorite stories in the New Testament—this life-changing encounter between a blind beggar named Bartimaeus and Jesus. Throughout the gospel of Mark, Jesus is pictured as the Suffering Servant King, who IDENTIFIES with us in our suffering. So, even though He’s […]
HEBREWS 13:17-19
April 28, 2019 I have wanted to talk to you for a while now about some challenges facing the church of Jesus Christ. But I knew our text today, Hebrews 13:17, was coming. The text? “Obey your leaders and submit to them…” It’s even worse when you understand the word obey means to put your […]
Acts 2:14-41
Easter Sunday // April 21, 2019 The gospel narratives do not paint a very positive picture of Peter, the Galilean fisherman. In fact, if the New Testament ended with the gospels, it’s doubtful there would be a St. Peter’s Basilica, doubtful Peter would have been named the first Pope, and doubtful we would speak of […]
HEBREWS 13:15-16
April 14, 2019 The word altar first appears in the Bible in Genesis 8, when Noah first came off the ark. He built an altar and offered sacrifices of every clean animal and every clean bird. That’s a lot of sacrifices. Of course, this idea of sacrificing to God goes all the way back to […]
The Wisdom and Power of God
April 7, 2019 Message by Michael Talley, Discipleship Pastor Last week our text in the book of Hebrews ended with a strong command. After reminding the church that Jesus had suffered outside the city in order to sanctify them through his blood, he encouraged the members of the church to go outside the camp and […]
HEBREWS 13:7-14
March 31, 2019 So Christianity has been around for a couple thousand years now. But of course, it has its roots in the Jewish religion – Judaism – which goes back a couple thousand years before that. So, thousands of years of a religion – I would gently say the religion – of God revealing […]
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