Aletheia Church, Providence Ri

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.

Today, we're beginning a new sermon series in Ecclesiastes entitled "Chasing The Wind." The Bible is full of wisdom and promises, but more often than we like to admit, life doesn't align with our expectations. We invest, we build, and we plan, and yet, our lives are still contain suffering and disappointment. Why? In this sermon, Pastor Adam explores the wisdom of the writer of Ecclesiastes to help us determine how to respond to the glitches in the systems of our lives.

Many of the established routines of our lives have been disrupted by the COVID-19 crisis. How can we make sure that we are still being worshipful with the new habits that are developing in our "new normals?" In this sermon, Pastor Adam shows that the good story of the gospel empowers us to build habits of Christlike virtue.

Even before the COVID-19 crisis, anxiety was a defining characteristic of this generation. How does the Gospel speak to anxiety or other thoughts that plague our minds and attempt to distance us from God? In this sermon, Pastor Justin shows us from the Book of Philippians how when we practice gospel thoughts, we welcome in the God of peace.