Episodes
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Gospel of Matthew - chapter 8:1-17
Join us as we explore chapter 8 verses 1-17 in the Gospel of Matthew. Jesus finishes his Sermon on the Mount and he walks back to Capernaum with large crowds following him. It's into that context that people begin coming to Jesus and interrupting him to ask for healing. First it's a man with a…
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Gospel of Matthew - chapter 7
Join us as we explore chapter 7 in the Gospel of Matthew. Jesus finishes his Sermon on the Mount and what it means to live in his Kingdom (chapters 5-7) by teaching us how we should judge, how God wants good for us, and to live by the Golden Rule. Then Jesus looks us in the eye and says - now…
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Gospel of Matthew 6:19-34
Join us as we explore the Gospel of Matthew 6:19-34. Jesus teaches us to live our lives for God! "Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and God will give you everything you need." (v.33) "Store your treasure in heaven." (v.20) What gets in the way of that? Money....
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Gospel of Matthew 6:1-18
Join us as we explore the Gospel of Matthew 6:1-18. Jesus warns us to not do our good deeds publicly, to be admired by others. Jesus repeatedly teaches “don’t do as the hypocrites do” (v2, 5, 16) – aka play to the crowd (the term was used for actors who wore a mask - not the more common…
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Gospel of Matthew 5:27-48
Join us as we explore the Gospel of Matthew 5:27-48. Matthew wants us to understand that Jesus is the Messiah. He is the fulfillment of what God has been doing through Abraham, King David, and now the focus goes to Moses. Jesus teaches about the law of Moses and even goes so far as to reinterpret...
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Gospel of Matthew 5:13-26
Join us as we explore the Gospel of Matthew 5:13-26. As we begin to explore Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, we peek ahead to the end of the sermon, where Jesus tells his followers that their lives will change when they obey his teaching. Jesus' says that they are foolish to listen to his teaching…
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Gospel of Matthew 4:12-25
Join us as we explore the Gospel of Matthew 4:12-25. David Nelson shares with us today about how God is using this scripture in his own life and how it might apply to ours as well. May Jesus the Messiah keep forming us into the people of God - called to act and be a blessing to all the families…
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Gospel of Matthew - Temptation
Join us as we explore the Gospel of Matthew 4:1-11. In this scripture, Jesus is in the wilderness for 40 days and nights and faces 3 temptations. The purpose of these temptations was to: 1) get Jesus to question his identity - "If you are the Son of God..." (verses 3 & 6) 2) stop Jesus from…
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Gospel of Matthew - chapter 3
Join us as we explore chapter 3 of the Gospel of Matthew. This sermon was focused on our graduating seniors! Hopefully God will use it in your life as well. There were 3 hopes for our graduates that Pastor Daron took from the scripture: 1) How God felt about Jesus... is the same way God feels…
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Gospel of Matthew - chapter 2
Join us as we explore chapter 2 of the Gospel of Matthew. Like the wise men, Jesus teaches us to keep on SEEKING and you will find. Like Joseph, the dad who raised Jesus, we are invited to pay attention and LISTEN to God. Like both the wise men and Joseph, may we trust God enough to ACT on what…
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Gospel of Matthew - Mary, the mother of Jesus
Join us as we explore what it was like to be the mother of Jesus. Who was Jesus' mom? What was it like being the mother of Jesus? How might God form us today through her story? We have a number of scriptures that teach us about Mary and her relationship with her son, Jesus. So we broke it into 4...
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Gospel of Matthew - Jesus is King!
Join us as we begin our study of the Gospel of Matthew. Matthew describes his own story as one of an "outsider". Someone who the religious people of the day didn't think was good enough for Jesus. But Matthew held on to Jesus' teaching that "healthy people don't need a doctor, sick people do".…
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The Prophets - Jesus the Prophet
Join us as we explore Jesus as a prophet. Matthew 23:37-39 are the last words that Jesus says to the crowds: "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones God's messengers! How often I have wanted to gather your children together as a hen protects her chicks beneath her...
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Celebrating & Thanking God for 20 Years of Alive!
On Sunday, March 8, 2026 we celebrated 20 years as a church! This sermon & these stories Thank God for how we have been loved and how this community has impacted our lives.
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The Prophets - Jesus & the Beatitudes
Join us as we explore Jesus as a prophet. Jason Ulven is our guest preacher today! Jason focuses us on how Jesus calls us back to God through the Beatitudes in the Gospel of Matthew (3:3-10). He encourages us to let Jesus' words search us, soften our hearts and turn us back to God with humility…
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The Prophets - Jesus & Injustice
Join us as we explore Jesus as a prophet. Chris Ramsey is our guest preacher today! The Bible bears witness to a God who has always been deeply concerned about justice and rectifying injustice on the earth. We will all have times when we are responsible for injustice and times when we suffer from...
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The Prophets - Jesus - Identity & Motivation
Join us as we explore Jesus as a prophet. Jesus understood himself as a prophet, and as the fulfillment of the prophets of the Old Testament. The prophets were known for calling God's people to come back to God. In this sermon we explore the temptations Jesus faced (Matthew 3:13-4:11) to take his...
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The Prophets - Jesus
Join us as we explore Jesus as a prophet. In Luke 4 we read that Jesus understood himself as a prophet - "I tell you the truth, no prophet is accepted in his hometown" - and the fulfillment of what the prophet Isaiah had written: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring...
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The Prophets - Hosea
Join us as we explore the prophets of the Old Testament. Today we look at Hosea. Many of the prophets were asked by God to do things that would appear foolish to the crowd that observed their behavior. Hosea is at the top of that list. Through his words and his own life, Hosea paints God as the...
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The Prophets - Ezekiel
Join us as we explore the prophets of the Old Testament. Today we look at Ezekiel. At the same time Jeremiah was back in Jerusalem being a prophet to the remnant, God came to Ezekiel while he was in captivity in Babylon and called him to be a prophet to his fellow Judean exiles. Our focus will be...
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The Prophets - Isaiah
Join us as we explore the prophets of the Old Testament. Today we look at how Isaiah called the whole community to come back to God. Specifically we will look at chapter 58 where Isaiah calls out the people for worshipping God for the purpose of getting what they wanted. True worship is listening...
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The Prophets - Jeremiah
Join us as we explore the prophets of the Old Testament. Today we look at how Jeremiah called the whole community to come back to God. As we follow Jeremiah's life we learn how difficult it was to be a prophet, and how God formed Jeremiah through the ups and downs. Through Jeremiah's example, we...
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Jesus Teaches Us About Prayer
Gary Walter takes us through Jesus' teaching about prayer in Luke 11:1-13. These are some of the questions that Jesus answers for us in this scripture: What can we pray about? What is important about our heart when we pray? What does Jesus teach us about God's heart? If you want more intimacy…
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Sermon for our Graduates
How do you get the Holy Spirit into your life? As we celebrate & remember Pentecost... that's the question Pastor Daron focuses on as he shares a sermon with our graduating seniors.
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Why Do We Do What We Do? Summer schedule - Celebrating & Remembering
How does God want you to change and grow and become more like Jesus this year? We are starting off 2025 by connecting the dots on Why Do We Do What We Do? as a church. In the summer, our 4th Sunday becomes a house church Sunday where we gather to Celebrate & Remember. Why do we do that? How does...
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Easter - Jesus' Death & Resurrection... and how it changes us
He is Risen! No one wants to go through Good Friday to get to Easter. ... even if you know Easter will happen. We try to get away from pain. We try to avoid suffering. In our Easter sermon, Pastor Daron invites us to explore the 3 acts of Jesus' death & resurrection: Act 1 - the one time…
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Why Do We Do What We Do? 3rd Sundays - Sharing a Meal & Discussing the Scripture - Part 2
How does God want you to change and grow and become more like Jesus this year? We are starting off 2025 by connecting the dots on Why Do We Do What We Do? as a church. On the 3rd Sunday of the month we gather as house church to share a meal and discuss the scripture. Why do we do that? How does…
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Why Do We Do What We Do? 3rd Sundays - Sharing a Meal & Discussing the Scripture
How does God want you to change and grow and become more like Jesus this year? We are starting off 2025 by connecting the dots on Why Do We Do What We Do? as a church. On the 3rd Sunday of the month we gather as house churches to share a meal and discuss the scripture. Why do we do that? How does...
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Alive's 19th Birthday
We look back to why we started Alive, reflect on how God has worked in our lives through this community over the past year, and talk about our hopes for how God might continue to form us and work through us in the coming year.
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Leaving Lament
Special guest preacher Amber Evola takes us through her own journey of leaving lament. We all go through difficult times in life. The good news is that God is with us even in these dark seasons. His invitation is always waiting for us to engage with Him and discover who He designed us to be. We...
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Why Do We Do What We Do? 2nd & 4th Sundays
How does God want you to change and grow and become more like Jesus this year? We are starting off 2025 by connecting the dots on Why Do We Do What We Do? as a church. On the 2nd & 4th Sundays of the month - all of the house churches gathering for worship together. Why do we do that? How does God...
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Why Do We Do What We Do? 1st Sundays - Loving & Serving our Community
How does God want you to change and grow and become more like Jesus this year? How do you want to change and grow and become more like Jesus this year? We are starting off 2025 by connecting the dots on Why Do We Do What We Do? as a church. On the 1st Sunday of the month we gather as house…
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Christmas as Identity
It's the 4th Sunday of Advent and Christmas is coming... As many people return "home" for Christmas, we look at how Christmas can be a kind of home for us - reminding us of God's unfailing love and faithfulness and that we are God's beloved. But it doesn't end there... Christmas also reminds us…
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What is the true Christmas Spirit?
It's the 2nd Sunday of Advent and Christmas is coming... To help us explore "What is the true Christmas Spirit?", we turn our focus to Mary's Magnificat (Gospel of Luke 1:26-56) and other scripture (Gospel of Luke 4:18-19 and Philippians 2:5-8) that help us to remember why Jesus came into the...
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I'm stuck. We're stuck. ...discover the rhythm of the daily office & sabbath
This series takes us through Peter Scazzero's book, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality. In this sermon we focus on Sabbath - God's gift to us. The whole focus of this series has been learning to slow down so we can listen to and be with God. Sabbath takes that idea to a whole new level. Why does…
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Easter! How does the RESURRECTION change us?
He is Risen! He is Risen indeed! Pastor Daron explores how Jesus' RESURRECTION changed the disciples and Jesus' brothers. But how does the RESURRECTION change us? That is our meditation today.
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I'm stuck. We're stuck. ...enlarging your soul through grief and loss
This series takes us through Peter Scazzero's book, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality. In this sermon, we focus on chapter 5 - Enlarging Your Soul Through Grief and Loss. Most of us try to avoid pain, grief, loss. And we will use anything to do it - television, tik tok, work, "staying busy",...
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I'm stuck. We're stuck. ...the dark night of the soul
This series takes us through Peter Scazzero's book, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality. In this sermon, we focus on The Dark Night of the Soul or as Scazzero calls it in chapter 4 - The Wall. We discuss how all of us will go though a season when our good feelings of God's presence evaporate. Where…
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I'm stuck. We're stuck. ...going back in order to go forward
This series takes us through Peter Scazzero's book, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality. In this sermon, we focus on chapter 3 - Going Back in Order to Go Forward. Through looking at the life of Joseph, we are invited to look at how the blessings and sins of our family going back 2-3 generations…
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I'm stuck. We're stuck. ...becoming self aware
This series takes us through Peter Scazzero's book, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality. In this sermon, we focus on chapter 2 - Know Yourself That You May Know God. Through looking at the life of Kind David, we are invited to recognize, name, and bring our emotions to God.
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I'm stuck. We're stuck.
We begin our series entitled I'm stuck. We're stuck. This series takes us through Peter Scazzero's book, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality. In this sermon, Pastor Daron introduces "why" we are focusing our attention on this book, what are the Top 10 symptoms of emotionally unhealthy spirituality,...
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Thessalonians chapter 4
Pastor Heather continues our focus on a church in Thessalonica, a port city in Greece, that formed 20 years after Jesus' ministry/death/resurrection. Sex is the focus of this chapter and sermon. That's probably enough for you to want to hear more.
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Thessalonians chapter 3
Pastor Heather continues our focus on a church in Thessalonica, a port city in Greece, that formed 20 years after Jesus' ministry/death/resurrection. What does it mean to have faith? What does it mean to live out the Good News? These are the questions that we explore as we listen and think…
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Thessalonians chapter 2
Pastor Daron continues our focus on a church in Thessalonica, a port city in Greece. As we continue our exploration of the letter (chapter 2, verses 1-16), it seems that the writers (Paul, Silas & Timothy) are addressing issues in the lives of the people in that church community that could...
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Thessalonians chapter 1
Pastor Daron continues our focus on a church in Thessalonica, a port city in present day Greece. Today we focus on the first chapter of the letter that Paul, Silas, and Timothy wrote to the church after they were forced out of town by a mob. They are greatly encouraged by how the Holy Spirit...
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Thessalonians Intro
Pastor Daron introduces us to Thessalonica, a port city in present day Greece. This is a story of a healthy church starting against all odds. The founders never wanted to go there - it was Plan B when their first and second options fell through. They only stayed three weeks before being kicked…
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Onesimus, Philemon and the house church in Colossae
Charmaine Doherty shares how Jesus radically changed the lives of Onesimus, Philemon and the church in Colossae. The Holy Spirit's action in their lives challenged what their culture said was acceptable. Their obedience led them from a relationship focused on division and difference to one of...
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Earnest Faith - Mark 1:16-28
Gary Walter shares when Jesus started his ministry, he didn't look for superstar followers. Instead, he chose a group of raw and unrefined folks whose curiosity and earnestness were the primary traits. He introduced them to four tools he will use to shape and mold them, elements he uses still in...
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Graduation Worship Service
What is really real? More and more, it becomes difficult to know what's really real. Images and video can be altered. Audio recordings can be created. Events happen in the world and we have multiple perspectives on what happened. So what is really real? Pastor Daron poses this question to our...
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John 21
John writes his gospel about Jesus because he wants us to understand that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God. John also writes so we begin to think of ourselves as "the disciple Jesus loves" and we understand that Jesus sends us into the world just as God sent him into the world. Pastor Daron...
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