The Alley Church Podcast

Knowing God Through Love Part 21 John 4:7-11(7) Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. (8) But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. NLT(9) God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. (10) Th

“Every Christian would agree that man’s spiritual health is exactly in proportion to his love for God.”- C.S. LewisKnowing God Through Love - PT 11 John 4:7-117 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us,

1 John 4:1-6Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. (2) This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, (3) but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is t

Hearts at Rest1 John 3:18-24(18) Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.(19) This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: (20) If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. (21) Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have conf

What is Love1 John 3:10-17John Wescott said, and I actually don’t know who this is, “Life reveals the children of God.” END QUOTE!There is no way of telling what a tree is other than by its fruits, and there is no way of telling what a person is other than by their conduct, how we love. (our property which is new to us has a lot of trees and plants. We didn’t know and some

Being A Child of God1 John 3:1-10(1)See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. (2) Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we s

Continue As You Began1 John 2:24-29True Teaching, True Living, True Loving(24) As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. (25) And this is what he promised us—eternal life.(26) I am writing these things to you about those who are trying to lead you astray. (27) As for you, the anointin

1 John 2:17 And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. Contrasted with But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever. (18) Dear children, the last hour is here. You have heard that the Antichrist is coming, and already many such antichrists have appeared. From this we know that the last hour has come. (19) These people left our churches, but th

The Resurrection What do we celebrate at Easter? Jesus' resurrection.Today we will discuss why the resurrection is so important. ASK: Why is it?I Cor 15:1212 But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 14 And if Ch

HOLY WEEK EXERCISES Truly search your heart and determine who or what is your King. What is the King of your life? What are you giving your life to? What do you bow down to and worship with your time, money, and energy/thoughts? Holy Monday - Dig deep… Where am I looking religious, yet only have the appearance of a fruitful life (fig tree parable Mark 11)? Do I see this as hypocr