Jesus, the fulfillment of the law Advent, NY tools - 2025 = seeking him and knowing him in a deeper way Which we are always all about and invite each of you into this! Trust & Obey Sermon on the Mount revisited - where we are now in the new year. And we read that we are salt and light. We are like a preservative for this decaying world. And we make…

A New Year, A New Opportunity - Hello 2025 Philippians 3:12-14 We are having our worlds collide this morning by combining our Shandel Group Coaching with the Alley Church. This is a motivational message for setting goals in the new year in the most important area in your life. Your relationship with Jesus. SMART goals for Jesus people! specific, me…

What is love How could we preach this sermon without using John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. Advent culminates, we light the Christ candle on Tuesday and what He did for us we celebrate today with the ultimate expression of love: God sending H…

Week 3 of Advent: Joy God Has Come to Earth Luke 2:8-14, Matthew 2: 1-18 Advent means “coming” from the latin word adventus and that is what we are celebrating. First, that Jesus came as the Messiah, the Christ, to die for our sins, And He is coming again in all His fullness, power and glory.

Matthew 1:18-25 This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quie…

Take a moment and close your eyes. I want you to think about Christmas. What comes to mind? What images of Christmas do you see? How many of you had images of family gathered around a Christmas tree? How many thought of presents, maybe the best gift you ever received? Maybe you have sad thoughts about Christmas? Because of good and or bad memories …

Thanksgiving! And what we mean is Give Thanks! Phil 4: 6-7 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving (gratitude), present your requests to God. (Promise) And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Begin here: I’m naturally…

We Are Like Salt And Light Matthew 5:13-16 (13) “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. (14) “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put …

Quick Review The Bible’s mega theme: the Kingdom of God / or Kingdom Heaven has come! The Kingdom of God is “God reigning”. To live in the Kingdom means aligning our lives with God’s will, which transforms our character to reflect Christ Now, there exists two kingdoms. The Kingdom of Jesus and the Kingdom of Satan or the kingdom of this world…it is…

The Beatitudes Matthew 5:1-12 Now when Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him, (2) and he began to teach them. He said: (3) “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (4) Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. (5) Blessed are the meek, for they will inh…

The Beatitudes tell us who we are, our identity as God sees us living in His Kingdom. It is for those who believe and are followers of Jesus. The remainder of the sermon is instruction as to how we should live. Today we are starting with the meek, but let’s read it in context. The Beatitudes Matthew 5:1-12 Now when Jesus saw the crowds, he went up …

The Beatitudes - pt 1 The message of the Bible is about the Kingdom of God / Heaven Matthew 5:1-12 Now when Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him, (2) and he began to teach them. He said: (3) “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (4) Blessed are those who mourn, fo…

Welcome to our series on the Gospel of Matthew This morning we’ll be doing an overview of Matthew, main themes, and touching on the genealogy of Jesus. We would like to invite you to read through Matthew and we included a great way to do it on Facebook page. And of course The Chosen show and Bible Project overview…

Pastor Dan Frank of Grace Church Reno was a guest speaker answering the question: Can I trust my bible?By Dr. Scott Sutherland and Mrs. Shandel Sutherland

Spiritual Warfare Pt 2 Lifestyle Christianity …Scripture…Romans 12:1-2 - OUR WILL We continue the WILL section today with the big question we got on spiritual warfare. WE will not do this justice, this is a Huge subject. Podcast last week. Bottom line. Whether you are a believer in Jesus or not, we are all in a spiritual war. There is a kingdom of …

We are in Pt 3 of answering your questions. You’ve given us some doozies. We have wrapped them effortlessly into Romans 12:1-2 1: Give your bodies to God. 2: Give God your mind. 3: Give God your will. Romans 12:1-2 I want to read this in the New Living Translation And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God becaus…

The #1 Lifestyle Christianity issue today is compartmentalization—the tendency to separate faith from daily life. Many Christians struggle to integrate their faith into every aspect of their lives, treating Christianity as something that applies primarily to Sundays or specific spiritual activities, while leaving their personal, professional, or so…

Lifestyle Christianity How many of you want to KNOW God’s Will? How many of you would do God’s Will if you did KNOW? If you did KNOW how many of you would DO God’s Will if it conflicted w/ yours? Romans 12:1-2 NIV "Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to G…

Our own Laura Leiss shares her story in a wonderful powerful way!By Dr. Scott Sutherland and Mrs. Shandel Sutherland

Q & A on The Endtimes with Pastor Dan FrankBy Dr. Scott Sutherland and Mrs. Shandel Sutherland

John has led us well through his theme: True Teaching, True Loving, True Living (20) We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true by being in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. (21) Dear children, keep yourselves from idols. NIV (…

Usually we read from the New International Version of the Bible, and this AM We are reading from the NLT this morning because we believe it captures the heart of this passage ideally. (18) We know that God’s children do not make a practice of sinning, for God’s Son holds them securely, and the evil one cannot touch them. (19) We know that we are ch…

1 John 5:16-17 (16) If you see any brother or sister commit a sin that does not lead to death, you should pray and God will give them life. I refer to those whose sin does not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I am not saying that you should pray about that. (17) All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death.…

1 John 5:13-15 (13) I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. (14) This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. (15) And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.…

Bill Secord is an elder at Alley Church and an incredible friend to us all. He delivered a powerful message from Numbers 13.By Dr. Scott Sutherland and Mrs. Shandel Sutherland

Today, we’re going to be going over 1 John 5:6-12, which speaks to the testimony God has given us about His Son, Jesus Christ. This passage not only deepens our understanding of who Jesus is but also gives us practical insights into living out our faith with confidence and assurance. Let’s read the passage together: (6) This is the one who came by …

Joyful Obedience I John 5:1-5 (1) Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. (2) This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. (3) In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensom…

(17) This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. (18) There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. (19) We love because he first loved us. (20) Whoever claims t…

Living In Him 1 John 4:12-16 (12) No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us. (13) And God has given us his Spirit as proof that we live in him and he in us. (14) Furthermore, we have seen with our own eyes and now testify that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of th…

Knowing God Through Love Part 2 1 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 h…

“Every Christian would agree that man’s spiritual health is exactly in proportion to his love for God.”- C.S. Lewis Knowing God Through Love - PT 1 1 John 4:7-11 7 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 o…

1 John 4:1-6 Dear 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 acknowled…

Hearts at Rest 1 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 h…

What is Love 1 John 3:10-17 John 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 pla…

Being A Child of God 1 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 app…

Continue As You Began 1 John 2:24-29 True 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 a…

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) Thes…

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 15:12 12 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…

By Dr. Scott Sutherland and Mrs. Shandel Sutherland

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 M…

The One Thing: One Thing You Need, One Thing You Lack, One Thing I Do EXERCISE…Take out the lyrics in front of you HOW SATISFIED / HAPPY? On the piece of paper write down on a scale of 1-10 10 being can’t name one thing that would make me more satisfied than I am today. 1 - being I have really nothing satisfying about my life. Quickly just name a f…

Cindy Roper rocks it !By Dr. Scott Sutherland and Mrs. Shandel Sutherland

What to love and what not to love. That is the question. Last week we had the comforting, assuring message to prepare ourselves for this week!!! :) I can chase the things of this world or I can choose the things of God. Jesus said we can’t serve 2 masters, we can’t serve both God and mammon. (15) Do not love the world or anything in the world. If a…

Today we are going to receive this encouragement no matter what stage of Christian Growth you are in. Some of us are precious embryos not get birthed into the loving arms of our Savior. Some are babes in Christ (baptism), little children all the way to being elders and aged in Jesus. We have two groups John is going to speak to all of us as dear ch…

1 John 2:7-11 (7) Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning. This old command is the message you have heard. (8) Yet I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in him and in you because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining. (9) Anyone who claims to be in t…

Scott does a recap of what it means thus far to read the book of 1 John with the heart of true teaching, true loving, and true living.By Dr. Scott Sutherland and Mrs. Shandel Sutherland

1 John 2:1-6 My dear children, I am writing this to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate who pleads our case before the Father. He is Jesus Christ, the one who is truly righteous. (2) He himself is the sacrifice that atones for our sins—and not only our sins but the sins of all the world. (3) And we can be sure …

1 John 1:8-2:2 The Heart of God (8) If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. (9) If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. (10) If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us. (1) My dear children…

1 John 1:5-7 (5) This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. (6) If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. (7) But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood o…

1 John 1:1-4 Before we read this, let’s jump in with “we” are the apostles, eyewitnesses, and disciples…perhaps just a few were left on Earth, but mainly John is saying, look…this gnosticism is crap... I WAS THERE, WE WERE THERE…And we are telling you there is JOY in this. Back then personal testimony held huge weight so he is starting out strong a…