Faith Alive Church - Sunday Message

Joshua Boyd

Continuing our series Parenting 101 this morning, let’s build off the previous topic of imitating those who imitate Christ.  If you aren’t sure how to act or what to say, watch someone else who does.  Just as a child imitates their parents, we should both be the proper example for others to imitate by finding examples to mirror.  

In church, imitate those who are imitating God.  Listen to their testimonies and learn their...

Jordon Gilmore

We are friends of God when we believe in Him and obey Him

John 15:12-15
You and I are friends of God even as we serve the Lord. 

When we think about friends or friendship, many phrases come to mind. 
- Birds of a feather flock together. 
- You can tell a lot about a person by who their friends are. 
- Get into trouble and you’ll see who your real friends are. 

Who are your fr...

Joshua Boyd

People like to joke and say “don’t do what I do, do what I say” indicating that they are doing the opposite of what they are telling others to do.  That isn’t God-like. He always does what He says and says what He does.  Jesus fully followed His Father’s Words and actions. 

Paul expected this too because He practiced it very well. He wrote to the church at Corinth, whose people were acting like toddlers, giving into their...

Joshua Boyd

In the early days of the church, the disciples acted so much like Jesus that people started calling them by a new name:  Christian – little Christ or follower of Christ.  They were talking, acting and doing the same things that Jesus did.  And people noticed.  

Acts 11:26

When he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. Both of them stayed there with the church for a full year, teaching large crowds of people. (It was at...

Joshua Boyd

How To Have Successful Kids

Parents, imaging that you are away on a trip talking to your kids on FaceTime or phone. There are things that you want done around the house before you get home so you give your kids instructions and expect them to carry them out. What you find when you return depends on how well you’ve trained your kids and how well they obey. 
In order for the will of God to be carried out on this ea...

Jordon Gilmore

With increased capacity come increased responsibility. 

Hebrews 5:12-14

“For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. But solid food belongs to those who are of full a...

Joshua Boyd

We are starting a new series today and as usual, I have no idea how many messages it will be.  We will go until the Lord says we are done.  My first reaction when the Lord placed it on my heart was “I am not an expert in this topic.”  Then He started expanding on it and it made more sense.  

As a teacher, specifically a Bible teacher, I attempt to be knowledgeable about anything I teach on of course. There are times when ...

Jordon Gilmore

How do I practically take the things weighing me down and cast them to the Lord?

Energy is the capacity to do work
Work is ability to apply a force that causes movement of an object

Christian energy = our ability to do the work of the Kingdom

Matthew 11:28-30
To accomplish work, you need:
capacity and knowledge 

Matthew 7:13-14
Let’s get rid of the baggage so we can ...

Joshua Boyd

How many want to be used by God?  How many of you parents want your children to fulfill the purpose God has for them?  The obvious answer to these questions has a not so obvious process for getting results.  God has work that needs to be done on this earth, work that requires people to carry out the effort.  But who gets to do that work depends not so much on God, but on the people.   

2 Timothy 2:19-21

But God’s soli...

Joshua Boyd

Today we finish our series The Journey of Faith with our eighth part.  

This weekend is Memorial Weekend which honors those who died serving our country.  We used the word served because a soldier doesn’t do what he wants to do, he does what he is told to do.  In the military, there are consequences for doing your own thing – not just for the one who does the action but for those around who might suffer because one person...

Jordon Gilmore

Ephesians 4:29 ESV

1. It begins with an honest Biblical assessment of where we are, of who God is and what He has done
2. Leads to an attitude adjustment
3. It should build in us a resolve to be steadfast in our hope

Point 1
Psalm 103:1-5
David was continually telling himself to bless the Lord.  

Psalm 42:1-11

Point 2
1 Samuel 30:6
It is only possible ...

Joshua Boyd

This morning we celebrate our moms in the house and the moms that raised us.  I’m very thankful for my mom who, right after she had me and then my sister, realized she didn’t know how to raise two kids as a twenty-four-year-old.  She needed help. She needed God…and found Him.  

From a child, my sisters and I heard Bible faith teaching on the radio every morning.  Mom’s journey of faith, from a devout Catholic with a heart...

Jordon Gilmore

Luke 15:1-7, 10
The passage starts out setting the scene. Large crowds had seen His miracles and are now coming to hear Him.

The Pharisees see no value in the people that came to hear Jesus.

In this passage there are 3 types of people:
1. True disciples
2. Self righteous
3. Sinners

We’ve all played all three roles in our lives. Jesus is telling teach role about themselves ...

Joshua Boyd

Part six of our Journey of Faith series today is going to have a familiar sound to it:  Willing and obedient.  When each of us hear a message from the Lord on Sundays or Wednesdays, we should take it personally – meaning what is the Lord speaking to me right now?  And just as importantly, let me receive this word because there is a reason He is speaking this to me right now.  

God’s Word, especially from your trusted lead...

Jordon Gilmore

Matt 28:16-17

“Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had appointed for them. When they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some doubted.”
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭28‬:‭16‬-‭17‬ ‭NKJV‬‬


Why we doubt: arrogance and pride
Ask yourself: is Christ greater than all I can see? Yes!

“But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and...

Joshua Boyd

Today is Palm Sunday, the start of what is called passion week.  Does anyone know why we call it passion week?  I too had to look it up.  The English word passion comes from the Latin word passio which means “to endure suffering”. So this is celebration of Christ’s week of enduring suffering for us. He, like us had His journey of faith that took Him down a very specific pathway.  It wasn’t easy.  It was very narrow.  So ...

Jordon Gilmore

This is how we stay in the narrow path.

“Of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, 200 chiefs, and all their kinsmen under their command.”
‭‭1 Chronicles‬ ‭12‬:‭32‬ ‭ESV‬‬

We have a fixed period called time. One of the greatest gifts we can have is to understand the time to make the most use of it. 

“For everything there is a season, ...

Joshua Boyd

Growing up, how many of you had moms or dads that warned you not to go with the crowd or do what everyone else is doing just because everyone else is doing it?  I did. Peer pressure starts in early childhood as kids develop their sense of individuality.  It is easy to go with the crowd even when what they are doing is obviously wrong.  We’ve all observed a group of kids start to take a path of disruption and disorganizat...