Aletheia Church Podcasty

Receiving the gospel means we are not only saved but we are also called to change. Why is change necessary? We look at why God changes his people and what is our role in the process of change.Autor: Adam Mabry

As a church we want to see our city and New England changing to look more and more like the kingdom of God. But how does that happen? And what’s our part to play? In this sermon, we look at what it means to walk in the good deeds God has prepared for his people.Autor: Justin Chapman

What is grace? And why do we need to experience God’s grace? We will look at how we not only courageously communicate the truth about sin and salvation as a church, but we must also bring right alongside that the grace and mercy of Jesus.Autor: Adam Mabry

What makes Christianity different to every other faith system in the world? In a word… grace. In this sermon, Pastor Justin explores how grace subverts all our expectations, and how we can bring the good news of grace to others.Autor: Justin Chapman

The gospel is good news because it’s a solution to a problem. If you don’t understand the problem, the solution won’t sound like good news. In this sermon we take a deep dive into the problem the gospel addresses. What we discover is that the problem is worse than we ever imagined.Autor: Justin Chapman

Ephesians 2 gives us a picture of what sin is and what it does to our lives. As a church, we believe in courageously communicating the truth about sin as well as the truth about salvation. PLEASE NOTE: Due to a recording error, the audio is not the quality we would normally share. Thank you for understanding.…

The songs we sing say will shape the lives we live, because songs carry wisdom. But not all wisdom is worth its salt. God has given his people the gift of wisdom songs so that his wisdom shapes their lives most.Autor: Justin Chapman

What we listen to shapes our hearts and minds. In today’s world, we are constantly fighting the battle against the wisdom of the world. Pastor Adam teaches that in order to win the war we must sing God’s words and God’s wisdom.Autor: Adam Mabry

Why would the psalmists write songs about stories from Israel’s history for people to sing? Today we’re looking at psalms that recount Israel’s history. These psalms of memory show us the importance of singing about God’s faithfulness to his people over the generations.Autor: Jonathan Cothron

The Psalms are not just all about praise or lament, they also recount the history of God demonstrating his faithfulness to his people. Tikae shares the importance of these psalms in our practice of remembering God’s faithfulness as an act of worship.Autor: Tikae Mabelane

Some psalms in the Bible are characterized by exuberant praise. Others are characterized by lament. These songs are surprising, raw, and make you wonder if they should even be in the Bible. These songs teach us how to respond to pain, that we can turn to God in these moments rather than away from him.…

The Psalms also contain a collection of emotional outbursts not entirely characterized by praise. In this sermon, Pastor Steve Cabral shares a few points on why and how we should lament as Christians, grieving the grievous as we still praise the praiseworthy.Autor: Steve Cabral

Our perception of praise is usually presented as loud clapping and cheering. However, looking at examples of praise through the Psalms, Pastor Adam shows us how praise can be done in the highs and lows of life and how it is the only way to experience joy in Jesus.Autor: Adam Mabry

Praise is singing characterized by joy and exuberance. It’s also accompanied by hand-raising, hand-clapping, and dancing. What is praise all about, and why do God’s people do it?Autor: Justin Chapman

Sometimes we give out of guilt. Sometimes we give to tilt the divine scales in our favor. For a follower of Jesus, the motivation to give should be completely different. In this sermon, Pastor Adam Mabry explores the surprising and unexpected reason that Christians are called to live generous lives. To learn more about our Big Give offering visit a…

Marriage can be a coin with two very different sides — joy on the one side and pain on the other. The biblical teaching about marriage isn’t ignorant of the pain but rather goes to the source of the pain and redeems it.Autor: Justin Chapman

The command to “honor your father and mother” might be more important than we realize. It’s one of the Ten Commandments, which means it was one of the ways Israel would experience blessing and bless the world.Autor: Justin Chapman

In this sermon, we look at the relationship of children towards their parents. Pastor Adam recounts how obeying and honoring parents is an act of faith for God’s blessing, their benefit, and the beauty of the gospel.Autor: Adam Mabry

All parents have a picture of a preferred future for their children. How do we know we’ve got the right picture in mind? In Deuteronomy, Moses preaches to the Israelites, showing them how to pursue God’s picture for their children.Autor: Justin Chapman

The Bible gives us valuable instructions in parenting our children. Pastor Adam shares with us three points parents need to know in order to fulfill the calling of discipling children toward God’s vision.Autor: Adam Mabry

In this new series, we first look at God’s design for marriage. Pastor Seth Trimmer gives a glimpse of what marriage is and how the love between husband and wife reflects God’s love for his church.Autor: Seth Trimmer

In Galatians 5:6, Paul says that what matters most is faith working through love. In this sermon, we look at what that means and how we actually live that way.Autor: Justin Chapman

This is our final sermon in our Acts series. The details Luke chooses to focus on in the final chapters of Acts show us where his emphasis lies. In this sermon, Jonathan Cothron points to what that focus is and what it means for this generation of Spirit-empowered witnesses.Autor: Jonathan Cothron

Concluding the journey through the book of Acts, we find Paul sailing the seas towards Rome. In this sermon, Pastor Adam points out four providences of God and what we can learn from how Paul responded to them as empowered by the Holy Spirit.Autor: Adam Mabry

After two years in prison, Paul finally got a chance to appeal for his freedom. But what did he do? He preached the gospel. When we get squeezed, what will come out of our lives?Autor: Quentin Bunnell

How are we to be Christ’s witnesses? Approaching the end of Acts, Pastor Donny points out how Paul responded to the pressure of the situation he finds himself in, what he said, and what we can learn from him in order to effectively preach the gospel. *Please note that due to an equipment error, the audio quality for the latter half of the podcast i…

Paul knew the suffering that awaited him in Jerusalem. How was he able to face it head-on? In this sermon, Sarah shares three points on how we, as Christians, can suffer well by holding on to the hope found in Christ.Autor: Sarah McCarthy

Approaching the final leg of Paul's missionary journey, we look at the various people he met and how they responded to the gospel. Pastor Donny shares with us how Paul modeled bravery in all his interactions and what came out of each interaction.Autor: Donny Fisher

Further into Paul’s missionary journey, apart from the persecution he experienced he was also met care and generosity from fellow believers. In this sermon, Pastor Adam shows us what gospel relationships look like, why is it worth it, and what happens when you find yourself in one.Autor: Adam Mabry

Paul made many close friends through his work of spreading the good news about Jesus. There’s something about the mission of Jesus that makes us a strong, flourishing community.Autor: Justin Chapman

Philippi had a special place in Paul’s memory. He’d been especially mistreated there. But the discomfort Paul felt in Philippi was like good soil for unbelievable fruit.Autor: Justin Chapman

In this continuation of the story of Acts, we follow Paul and Silas’ missionary journey. Through their work, Pastor Adam helps us identify what faithfulness is and is not to help us become a more faithful church.Autor: Adam Mabry

How do you respond to troubles in life? Kevin York takes us line by line through David’s psalm and shows us how we can lament before God about our circumstances yet still have confidence in His character.Autor: Kevin York

Phil Bonasso is a co-founder of Every Nation Churches & Ministries, and in this sermon he explores the importance God has placed on relationships. Whether or not we’re willing to accept it, we can’t be who God wants us to be unless we embrace the relationships he wants us to embrace.Autor: Phil Bonasso

As the church continued to grow to include gentile believers, the disciples faced the challenge of differing cultural backgrounds and practices. Pastor Adam shares with us how unity may look different than we thought but is more possible than we have imagined.Autor: Adam Mabry

The Jerusalem council is pivotal in Acts but uninteresting for modern readers at first. In this sermon, Pastor Justin looks at how the challenge facing the Jerusalem council can make or break the mission of the church in any generation.Autor: Justin Chapman

We love stories, and the truth is that we see our lives as part of a story. But is it the right story? In Acts 13, Paul preaches the gospel to a city of Jews and Gentiles, and he tells them the story they’re meant to be living.Autor: Justin Chapman

What purpose do stories serve us? Are they even practical and useful in daily living? Following Paul and Barnabas’ ministry at Antioch, Steve uncovers how God has a plan and His plan is a story—the greatest story that is good news to all of mankind.Autor: Steve Cabral

When God’s character and the actions He takes seem questionable, what do we do? Pastor Adam uncovers the facts we can get from Jesus’ struggle in Gethsemane on how we can still trust God’s character despite the doubt.Autor: Adam Mabry

Behind the moments when God seems slow, silent, absent, or confusing is the feeling that God seems… wrong. When Jesus decided to wait for Lazarus to die, everyone thought he was wrong. This moment from the ministry of Jesus helps us know what to do when we feel like God is wrong.Autor: Justin Chapman

Waiting can be excruciating the more we are used to getting things fast. What do we do when God seems slow in fulfilling His promises? Pastor Adam shows us how we can exercise faithfulness in God’s process rather than taking matters into our own hands.Autor: Adam Mabry

We like things to move fast… like 2-day shipping with Amazon. But God doesn’t always work quickly, even though he has more power than Amazon. What do we do when God seems slow? In this sermon, we look at two people who knew a slow process, Abraham and Sarah.Autor: Justin Chapman

When our thoughts and prayers seem to bounce off the wall, when we experience God’s sovereign silence what do we do? Pastor Adam shares how we should respond to God’s silence and how we can still have faith in His good providence.Autor: Adam Mabry

This is the first sermon in a new series, When God Seems Gone. Everyone who follows Jesus can feel at one point or other that God seems distant. How do we handle those moments? What should we do?Autor: Justin Chapman

The greatest hope of our salvation is found in Jesus’ resurrection. In this sermon, we learn from Pastor Adam how true change is brought about when this story of resurrection moves from just being a Sunday story to spiritual reality.Autor: Adam Mabry

It’s resurrection Sunday and our theme today is “Everything can change.” We’re told so often about how to change for the better, but many of those changes don’t stick. The resurrection, however, is news of a different kind of change… one that sticks.Autor: Justin Chapman

Why was the cross necessary? Pastor Adam revisits the story of the cross and its importance to our life as believers, and helps us understand its significance in order to dispel apathy brought about by familiarity.Autor: Adam Mabry

What causes us to miss the God opportunities before us? Pastor Adam explorers these reasons and the steps we can take in order to walk into the greatest God opportunities we could ever know.Autor: Adam Mabry

What causes us to miss the God opportunities before us? Pastor Adam explorers these reasons and the steps we can take in order to walk into the greatest God opportunities we could ever know.Autor: Tyler Parker

[We only have audio for this sermon because we’re moving into a new auditorium next week.] We have negative associations with kings—tyranny, oppression, self-enrichment—yet on Palm Sunday we celebrate the arrival of Jesus as King. How is it good news that Jesus came to rule as King?Autor: Justin Chapman