Aletheia Church, Providence Ri

[There was a problem with our video for this sermon, so there's only audio.] The story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego is well-trodden territory as an example of biblical loyalty to God, but what can we learn about hope and its sources from this story? What kind of hope would motivate these Hebrew men to accept the death sentence by rejecting the popular idolatry of their day? How can we look to these men for hope as we reject idolatry in our own lives? In this sermon, Pastor Justin looks at Daniel 3 to uncover how hoping in God proves superior to hoping in idols.

The book of Daniel has a large scope, but it begins with a small story… about meat and vegetables. In this sermon, Pastor Justin illustrates how Daniel and his friends navigate the tension of being in Babylon, and how Christians can learn to do the same in our current cultural moment.

Great conversation is the lifeblood of a great relationship. How then can we have meaningful conversation with God? In this final part of our With God series, Pastor Justin looks out the Lord's prayer and how it helps us understand how to pray.

In chapter four of James, he calls the people he's writing to "an adulterous people." Describing sin as adultery is an uncomfortable metaphor, but in this sermon, Pastor Justin explains why it's a helpful metaphor in understanding how we can have a life-giving relationship with God.

Having a close, life-giving relationship with God involves more than just God and you—it requires that we love others too. In this sermon, Pastor Justin looks at 1 John 4, where John explains how the love we're called to have for each other is so profound, that it defies hate.

Jesus used a profound image when describing what it means to live your life with God. In the same way that a fruit-producing branch "abides" in a vine, so a fruit-producing person "abides" in God. In this second part of the series, Campus Ministry Director, Jonathan Cothron, explains what that means and how we can abide in Christ.

Our new sermon series is about discovering how to spend time with God. Some of us find ourselves chasing after wealth, sex, money, power, and other sources of pleasure in the world. Others of us find it hard to seek because we feel we aren't worthy to seek God, or we bear difficult resentments against God. In this sermon, David Fulton examines the story of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15 to show us how we indeed can come home to be with God.

In this final installment of our Vision for this House series, Pastor Justin unpacks Ephesians 2–3. In these chapters, the Apostle Paul explains his personal motivation for being part of God's house, and why it's worth it, even though it landed him in prison. His reasoning shows that being part of God's house is worth any cost.

How should Christians view and relate to non-Christians? It's an important question, and in this sermon, Pastor Justin preaches from Jesus's confrontation in the temple to answer it. God's house must have God's heart to help outsiders become insiders.

Spiritual family is much more than God's way of giving Christians good vibes. In this sermon, Pastor Justin teaches from 1 Peter 1–2, where we see how important spiritual family is in the way God brings about his purposes in the world.

Everyone's a builder. In our decisions, relationships, families, careers—there's a way we can build wisely or build foolishly. In this sermon, Pastor Justin unpacks 1 Corinthians 3, where Paul explains what it takes to be a "wise master builder."

In 1 Timothy 3, Paul calls the church a pillar and buttress of the truth. In this sermon, Pastor Justin unpacks what that means and how it shapes the mission of our church.

Today, we're wrapping up our series in Ecclesiastes *and* beginning a new, upward-looking series about Good and Beautiful Vision. In this sermon, Pastor Adam draws from the Old and New Testament to offer a hopeful, optimistic understanding of the ways that a good and beautiful vision for anything begins with a good and beautiful vision of God.

God wants people to live with hope… and he's given us the church to help us do that. In this first part of our Vision for the House series, Pastor Justin looks at Hebrews 10:19–24 and how it shows us the church's role in our ability to hold onto hope.

Life reveals at least one grim truth: we will all face death at some point. Given that, what is the best way to approach death and overcome fear of it? In this sermon, Pastor Justin explores Ecclesiastes to uncover the Scripture's claims about how we can overcome slavery to the fear about death.

As citizens of one of the most learned cities in the world, we're likely to believe that the Good Life is found in the wisdom of the academy. However, the author of Ecclesiastes proposes a strong challenge to those who would seek salvation in wisdom alone. In this sermon, Pastor Adam navigates Ecclesiastes 7 and 8 to unveil how both wisdom and knowledge without character produce condemnation.

In a thoroughly capitalist society and an increasingly globalizing world, money has attained a kind of divinity. It is the altar at which far too many of us worship. And yet, the worship of money is not a new phenomenon to the author of Ecclesiastes. In this sermon, Pastor Justin unpacks Ecclesiastes' warnings about the futility of the love of money.

Time tends towards cycles, or so implies the author of Ecclesiastes. We've all experienced something like this: we experience ups, downs, highs, lows, periods of great joy, and periods of great turmoil. We may seek stability, normalcy, or consistency in life, but we rarely find any of these for very long. What might the author of Ecclesiastes have to say about our constant struggle to cleave to the peaks of our lives in a world set on cycling? In this sermon, Pastor Adam explores Ecclesiastes 3 to show that only God can sustain us through life's seasons.

Time tends towards cycles, or so implies the author of Ecclesiastes. We've all experienced something like this: we experience ups, downs, highs, lows, periods of great joy, and periods of great turmoil. We may seek stability, normalcy, or consistency in life, but we rarely find any of these for very long. What might the author of Ecclesiastes have to say about our constant struggle to cleave to the peaks of our lives in a world set on cycling? In this sermon, Pastor Adam explores Ecclesiastes 3 to show that only God can sustain us through life's seasons.

In a culture obsessed with social mobility, what does the author of Ecclesiastes say about our desire to seek satisfaction from attaining higher earthly heights? In this sermon, Pastor Justin Chapman from Aletheia Providence describes how even the summits under the sun can't be the source of the meaning we crave.