Aletheia Sermon Audio

Have you ever felt the frustration of trying to talk to God and hearing nothing back? How do Christians go about hearing God's voice? In this sermon, campus minister David Fulton offers practical tips about how to cultivate meaningful conversation with God.

As we continue in our series "w/ God," we're exploring why sometimes it feels difficult to experience the joy which is promised to us in Scripture. How do we cultivate a life of joy in the presence of God? In this sermon, Pastor Justin of Aletheia Providence looks to James 4 to help us understand how our habits shape our experiences of joy in Jesus.

How does being with God shape the way we relate to other people? In this sermon, Pastor Adam looks to 1 John 4 to examine how being with God produces love in God's people that radically unites us in the mission to love others.

In this sermon, Campus Director Kevin McKenzie explores John 15 to emphasize the essential worship of abiding in Jesus and details practical ways to enter into the peaceful presence of Jesus.

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, Pastor Adam examines the story of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15 to show us how we indeed can come home to be with God.

What is the aim of our lives in Christ? Is it evangelism, obedience, righteousness, or something greater than all of these? In this sermon, Pastor Donny Fisher explores a number of passages in the Scripture to unveil how the beautiful mission of God calls us to unleash our skills and talents towards reflecting His Image in the world.

This week in The Good and Beautiful Vision, we're exploring God's vision for the family. What does it really mean to honor one's father and mother? And what do we do with the complicated legacies our families sometimes leave to us? In this sermon, campus minister David Fulton examines the commandment to honor one's father and mother and unpacks the truth that maturing into God's vision for the family means redeeming the sins of our ancestors.

Human existence is characterized by suffering, uncertainty, doubt, and powerlessness - so much so that it can be difficult to have hope in the triumphant narrative of the Scriptures. How do we tap into the hope that the Scriptures offer to followers of Jesus? In this sermon, Pastor Donny explores the beautiful beginning and end of the Scripture to provide us with a good and beautiful vision of relationship with Jesus in the now.

Human existence is characterized by suffering, uncertainty, doubt, and powerlessness - so much so that it can be difficult to have hope in the triumphant narrative of the Scriptures. How do we tap into the hope that the Scriptures offer to followers of Jesus? In this sermon, Pastor Donny explores the beautiful beginning and end of the Scripture to provide us with a good and beautiful vision of relationship with Jesus in the now.

Being unrighteous doesn’t just mean doing wrong things — although it does mean that! — but also being under the power of sin. But if unrighteousness makes us dead puppets of sin, righteousness makes us alive, kings and queens “seated with Christ in the heavenly places.” In this sermon, Director of Discipleship Sarah McCarthy explores Ephesians 2 to unveil how God meets us in our unrighteousness, and in so doing, gives us new life and a new family.

What if friendship was a vessel of the divine? What if God was going to transform the cosmos through the way you relate to those you love? In this sermon, Aletheia staff member Tyler Parker explores John 15 to uncover the deep, spiritual implications of friendship for developing the Kingdom of God in our world.

What if friendship was a vessel of the divine? What if God was going to transform the cosmos through the way you relate to those you love? In this sermon, Aletheia staff member Tyler Parker explores John 15 to uncover the deep, spiritual implications of friendship for developing the Kingdom of God in our world.

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.

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.