Alliance Bible Church - Mequon, Wisconsin

Pull up news headlines circulating at any hour and you'll read about suffering. The loss doesn't have to be death. You might be grieving the loss of your health or the health of a loved one. You might be struggling through a time of financial need. Suffering is a certainty in life. So how do we learn to trust God in the darkness? Join us as we jump into a new series on the book of Job.

Looking at suffering from four vantage points:
1) How Satan sees suffering
2) How God sees suffering
3) How Job sees suffering
4) How you can see suffering

Text: Job 1:1-2:10

The Bible. It is the most widely read, quoted, translated, published, and sold book of all time, but what do you believe about it? In our series, Final Authority, let’s get curious about the claims of this book of books and consider what those claims mean for our lives today. Join us for the second message of this two-part series.

Three very practical ways we can listen to all that God has said in His Word to endure all that this world can do:
1) See it.
2) Receive it.
3) Practice it.

Text: 2 Timothy 3:10-17

The Bible. It is the most widely read, quoted, translated, published and sold book of all time, but what do you believe about it? In our series, Final Authority, let’s get curious about the claims of this book of books and consider what those claims mean for our lives today.

1) Scripture is accurate.
2) Scripture is powerful.
3) Scripture is special.

Text: 2 Peter 1:16-21

"I'm not worthy to be a follower of Jesus Christ."

Has that thought ever crossed your mind? There is good news if it has. Jesus doesn't pigeonhole you into who you currently are. Rather, he sees in you the potential of who you can become. That's worth celebrating!

1) Who he came for
2) What he called for
3) The befitting culmination of it

Text: Luke 5:27-32

"I think when God wants to play a really rotten practical joke on you, he grants you your deepest wish." - Cynthia Heimel

We are easily duped into thinking getting our deepest wishes will satisfy. Celebrities of all walks of life will tell you otherwise. Jesus refuses to play this rotten joke on us. He offers something far better.

1) The place of felt needs
2) The nature of faith
3) The priority of forgiveness

Text: Luke 5:17-26

Unacceptable. Worthless. Unwanted.

There was a man Jesus lovingly engaged with whose life could be described this way. Perhaps you can, on some level, relate. Come find out what Jesus did for him and can do for you.

A transforming encounter with Jesus:
1) The precursor to it
2) The radical nature of it
3) The costly love it requires

Text: Luke 5:12-16

No one is born a Christian. So how does one become a Christian? Luke helps us see how this happens by telling us stories about the first people to ever make the decision to follow Jesus. We'll get a good look at how that happened in the life of the earliest follower of Jesus: the infamous Simon Peter.

How does one become a Christian?
1) Hear
2) Trust
3) Confess
4) Respond

Text: Luke 5:1-11

The modern world struggles with anything that can't be accounted for scientifically. So when we see Jesus casting out demons or healing people, is it reasonable to believe he did such things? If those stories are true, what are they telling us? Perhaps there's a supernatural component to our existence that we have ignored. Join us to find out!

1) Jesus and the miraculous
2) Jesus and the spirit world
3) Jesus and the rest you need

Text: Luke 4:31-44

Michael Richards, who played Kramer in the famed sitcom Seinfeld, severely harmed his career when he let loose a string of ethnic slurs on the stand-up stage. Years later, it doesn't appear his search for absolution has proven to be fruitful. Yet many of us are quietly living lives acutely aware of our unrighteousness and desperate need for forgiveness. But who can give it? Join us to find out.

Jesus announces his mission statement:
1) What he came to do
2) Who he came to reach
3) How he would be received

Text: Luke 4:14-30

Did Jesus really exist? If he did, then everyone has some work to do: to figure out what kind of existence he had. And if we find he was who he claimed to be, then he can't be ignored.

Key phrases:
1) "Many"
2) "fulfilled among us"
3) "eyewitnesses"
4) "carefully investigated… orderly account"
5) "Theophilus"
6) "that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught."

Text: Luke 1:1-4