Alderwood Community Church Weekly Teaching

Most of us know what we believe. The harder part is whether our everyday lives actually show it: how we spend our evenings, where we turn when we’re stressed, what we get most excited about for our kids.

In this message, you’ll walk away with:

• An honest way to check whether your daily habits match what you say matters most
• Freedom from the pressure to have it all figured out before you can grow
• A fresh look at what might be quietly pulling you off course
• Encouragement that your ordinary, faithful choices matter more than you realize

This message is for those who have felt like their faith and their Monday-through-Saturday life don't line up.

Most of us are chasing something we think will finally make life feel complete: the next promotion, a healthier body, a little more in savings, a family that looks like it has it all together. And most of us have had that moment of getting what we wanted and still feeling restless.

This week, Pastor Jack looks at how Paul’s own story got rewritten, and what that looks like for the rest of us.

In this message, you’ll walk away with:

• A way to spot what you’re really leaning on for your sense of worth
• Relief from the nagging feeling that you’re never doing enough for God
• An honest look at how the comforts we reach for at the end of a long day can keep us from what we actually want
• Hope that your mistakes don’t have to define the rest of your story

Whether life feels like it’s working right now or falling apart, this one will meet you where you are.

Some Bible verses are dangerous. Handle them the wrong way, and they can quietly undermine your confidence in God’s love for you.

This week, Pastor Wyatt takes on one of those verses, a line from Paul that has left plenty of Christians wondering whether they’ve done enough to stay in God’s good graces.

In this message, you’ll walk away with:

• A fuller picture of what salvation actually is, and why the version many of us grew up with might be too small
• Real security in your relationship with God, especially if you’ve ever worried he’s keeping score
• A clearer sense of what your part in following Jesus is, and what it isn’t

If you’ve ever felt like you’re never quite good enough for God, or wondered why growing in faith takes so much effort, this one’s for you.

At a dinner party in Luke 14, Jesus says that everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted. It's a paradox at the heart of the gospel, and in Philippians 2, Paul shows how it plays out in the life of Jesus himself.

In this message, Pastor Wyatt walks through how Christ modeled humility and three everyday choices we can make to build that same humility.

If you've only ever heard "be humble" without hearing why, this message gives you the rest of the story.

Unity Through Humility | Philippians 2:1-4 | Jack Doney

Every parent wants their kids to get along. Paul felt the same way about the church in Philippi. They were doing so much right, but they weren't getting along with each other, and it was keeping his joy from being complete.

In this message, Pastor Jack makes the case that being part of God's story means being part of God's family. He walks through what that looks like:

• Unite around what matters most: the mind, love, Spirit, and mission of Christ
• Resist what can tear us apart from the inside, including a simple test for telling selfish ambition from godly ambition
• Honor others above yourself, because the only path to unity runs through humility

If there's a relationship in your life that needs reconciling, this message will give you the push to take the first step.

What Does "To Live Is Christ" Mean? | Philippians 1:21-30 | Wyatt Martin

If you won $50 million tomorrow, what would you do with your life? That question gets at what we really believe will make life fulfilling.

Paul answers it from the opposite position: arrested, a thousand miles from home, his life's work on hold, possibly facing execution. And he says he hasn't lost his purpose at all. "For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain."

In this message, Pastor Wyatt unpacks:

• The Greek wordplay behind Paul's famous line, and how it pushes back on the Roman motto "life is good"
• What Paul does and doesn't mean by "to die is gain"
• What it means to live as citizens of heaven, marked by unity, confidence, and purpose
• How suffering can be called a gift, and why that's hard to believe

Week two in Philippians, and Paul is writing from house arrest. Chained to a rotating shift of Roman guards, awaiting a trial that could end in execution. Paul's perspective was, "What happened to me actually advanced the gospel."

This message is a deeper conversation about setbacks and suffering, and how seeing your life as part of Jesus' story can change the way you carry them.

Pastor Wyatt walks through:

• God uses circumstances you wouldn't choose
• God uses people you wouldn't choose — including the leaders preaching Christ out of envy and rivalry, and Paul's surprising response to them
• You don't get to choose what God allows or who He uses, but you do get to choose your perspective

Trade the unanswerable questions we ask in suffering for better ones.

We kick off a new series in Philippians — a letter Paul wrote from prison, chained to a Roman guard, awaiting a trial that could cost him his life. And he can't stop talking about joy.

The big idea: everything changes when your story becomes part of Jesus' story.

Pastor Wyatt walks through four ways that shift plays out:

• Your story gets smaller
• Your joy grows deeper
• Your future becomes certain
• You become whole — who you were actually made to be

Along the way you'll get some helpful background on Philippi, a city obsessed with status, and why Paul introduces himself not as an apostle but as a servant.

If you're chasing joy in the places our culture says to find it, or carrying fear about what's ahead, this one's for you.

Join us each week as we learn more about Jesus and how to Follow Jesus Together at Alderwood Community Church. This week, Pastor Wyatt laid out some of our hope for this upcoming 2026-2027 year as a church! Our hope is that these messages can help guide and teach you in your walk with Jesus. To learn more, visit alderwood.cc or join us on a Sunday morning!

Join us each week as we learn more about Jesus and how to Follow Jesus Together at Alderwood Community Church. This week, Pastor Wyatt laid out some of our hope for this upcoming 2026-2027 year as a church! Our hope is that these messages can help guide and teach you in your walk with Jesus. To learn more, visit alderwood.cc or join us on a Sunday morning!