Believer Church Podcast

Thanks so much for listening to the Believer Church podcast! We're a church family in Albuquerque, New Mexico, learning what it looks like to follow Jesus and love our city. Every week we post the Sunday message here, so whether you're part of BC or just curious, you can listen in from anywhere. We'd love to have you join us in person too!

Service Times:
Sundays at 10AM (online + in-person)
Tuesdays at 7PM (in-person only)

Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube @BelieverChurchABQ
To learn more about Believer Church, visit believerchurch.com
To submit a prayer request, or to get connected with a pastor, visit believerchurch.churchcenter.com/people/forms/797629
Planning to join us? Let us know you're coming: believerchurch.com/plan-your-visit

Nobody has ever sat across from a pastor and said, “My problem is I love to be first.” It doesn’t feel like a spiritual problem. It feels normal. That’s what makes it dangerous.

In week one of The Ghost of Diotrephes, Pastor David opens the shortest book in the Bible to meet a man remembered for a single sentence, and walks through three truths about who gets to tell you who you are.

You can’t tell yourself who you are. You’ve never once seen your own face, and you can’t judge your own qualities either. We all need a word from the outside, and we all have our places we go looking for it: work, kids, a parent’s approval that never comes.

Attention is not love. King Saul had the crowd’s song until somebody else got a louder one, and the comparison poisoned him for life. The approval of people is great candy and terrible food. Build a life on it and you’ll starve with your mouth full.

You are who the Father says you are. The Father has already spoken over you, lavished his love on you, and he sings over you. Your obedience can please the Father, but it can never produce the Father’s love.

The message ends where Jesus lived: secure in the Father’s “This is my son,” with no need to be first.

Scriptures: 3 John 1:9, Philippians 2:3, James 3:16, 1 Samuel 18:7, 1 John 3:1, Hebrews 13:16, Zephaniah 3:17

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#BelieverChurch #Identity #FathersLove #TheGhostOfDiotrephes

Thanks so much for listening to the Believer Church podcast! We're a church family in Albuquerque, New Mexico, learning what it looks like to follow Jesus and love our city. Every week we post the Sunday message here, so whether you're part of BC or just curious, you can listen in from anywhere. We'd love to have you join us in person too!

Service Times:
Sundays at 10AM (online + in-person)
Tuesdays at 7PM (in-person only)

Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube @BelieverChurchABQ
To learn more about Believer Church, visit believerchurch.com
To submit a prayer request, or to get connected with a pastor, visit believerchurch.churchcenter.com/people/forms/797629
Planning to join us? Let us know you're coming: believerchurch.com/plan-your-visit

Thanks so much for listening to the Believer Church podcast! We're a church family in Albuquerque, New Mexico, learning what it looks like to follow Jesus and love our city. Every week we post the Sunday message here, so whether you're part of BC or just curious, you can listen in from anywhere. We'd love to have you join us in person too!

Service Times:
Sundays at 10AM (online + in-person)
Tuesdays at 7PM (in-person only)

Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube @BelieverChurchABQ
To learn more about Believer Church, visit believerchurch.com
To submit a prayer request, or to get connected with a pastor, visit believerchurch.churchcenter.com/people/forms/797629
Planning to join us? Let us know you're coming: believerchurch.com/plan-your-visit

Thanks so much for listening to the Believer Church podcast! We're a church family in Albuquerque, New Mexico, learning what it looks like to follow Jesus and love our city. Every week we post the Sunday message here, so whether you're part of BC or just curious, you can listen in from anywhere. We'd love to have you join us in person too!

Service Times:
Sundays at 10AM (online + in-person)
Tuesdays at 7PM (in-person only)

Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube @BelieverChurchABQ
To learn more about Believer Church, visit believerchurch.com
To submit a prayer request, or to get connected with a pastor, visit believerchurch.churchcenter.com/people/forms/797629
Planning to join us? Let us know you're coming: believerchurch.com/plan-your-visit

Most of us got our picture of hell from a movie, a cartoon, or an angry preacher, not from the Bible. So this week Pastor David opens the Bible on hell and reads it honestly, as much and as little as it actually says.

“Hell” is one word in English, but four words in the Bible. Sheol, Hades, Tartarus, and Gehenna got flattened into one, and a thousand years of medieval imagery got poured in behind it.

Jesus describes Gehenna in pictures, not floor plans. Whatever else hell is, he keeps calling it a place of real and terrible loss.

Hell was made for the devil and his angels, not for people. The devil isn’t hell’s manager, he’s hell’s first inmate.

Jesus defeated hell, so you don’t have to go. The keys of death and Hades are in nail-scarred hands.

Every warning Jesus gave about hell, he gave on his way to a cross to make sure you’d never go there.

Scriptures: Matthew 25:31-41; Psalm 16:10; Acts 2:31; Luke 16:22-23; Mark 9:47-48; Revelation 1:17-18; Revelation 20:12-15; Luke 23:42-43; John 3:16-17

Facebook: / believerscenter Instagram: / believerscenter Giving: https://pushpay.com/g/believerscenter First Time: https://believerscenter.churchcenter.com/people/forms/797243 Salvation / Rededication: https://believerscenter.churchcenter.com/people/forms/797600

#BelieversCenter #Hell #Grace #Jesus

Thanks so much for listening to the Believer Church podcast! We're a church family in Albuquerque, New Mexico, learning what it looks like to follow Jesus and love our city. Every week we post the Sunday message here, so whether you're part of BC or just curious, you can listen in from anywhere. We'd love to have you join us in person too!

Service Times:
Sundays at 10AM (online + in-person)
Tuesdays at 7PM (in-person only)

Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube @BelieverChurchABQ
To learn more about Believer Church, visit believerchurch.com
To submit a prayer request, or to get connected with a pastor, visit believerchurch.churchcenter.com/people/forms/797629
Planning to join us? Let us know you're coming: believerchurch.com/plan-your-visit

Thanks so much for listening to the Believer Church podcast! We're a church family in Albuquerque, New Mexico, learning what it looks like to follow Jesus and love our city. Every week we post the Sunday message here, so whether you're part of BC or just curious, you can listen in from anywhere. We'd love to have you join us in person too!

Service Times:
Sundays at 10AM (online + in-person)
Tuesdays at 7PM (in-person only)

Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube @BelieverChurchABQ
To learn more about Believer Church, visit believerchurch.com
To submit a prayer request, or to get connected with a pastor, visit believerchurch.churchcenter.com/people/forms/797629
Planning to join us? Let us know you're coming: believerchurch.com/plan-your-visit

Thanks so much for listening to the Believer Church podcast! We're a church family in Albuquerque, New Mexico, learning what it looks like to follow Jesus and love our city. Every week we post the Sunday message here, so whether you're part of BC or just curious, you can listen in from anywhere. We'd love to have you join us in person too!

Service Times:
Sundays at 10AM (online + in-person)
Tuesdays at 7PM (in-person only)

Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube @BelieverChurchABQ
To learn more about Believer Church, visit believerchurch.com
To submit a prayer request, or to get connected with a pastor, visit believerchurch.churchcenter.com/people/forms/797629
Planning to join us? Let us know you're coming: believerchurch.com/plan-your-visit

Thanks so much for listening to the Believer Church podcast! We're a church family in Albuquerque, New Mexico, learning what it looks like to follow Jesus and love our city. Every week we post the Sunday message here, so whether you're part of BC or just curious, you can listen in from anywhere. We'd love to have you join us in person too!

Service Times:
Sundays at 10AM (online + in-person)
Tuesdays at 7PM (in-person only)

Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube @BelieverChurchABQ
To learn more about Believer Church, visit believerchurch.com
To submit a prayer request, or to get connected with a pastor, visit believerchurch.churchcenter.com/people/forms/797629
Planning to join us? Let us know you're coming: believerchurch.com/plan-your-visit

Thanks so much for listening to the Believer Church podcast! We're a church family in Albuquerque, New Mexico, learning what it looks like to follow Jesus and love our city. Every week we post the Sunday message here, so whether you're part of BC or just curious, you can listen in from anywhere. We'd love to have you join us in person too!

Service Times:
Sundays at 10AM (online + in-person)
Tuesdays at 7PM (in-person only)

Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube @BelieverChurchABQ
To learn more about Believer Church, visit believerchurch.com
To submit a prayer request, or to get connected with a pastor, visit believerchurch.churchcenter.com/people/forms/797629
Planning to join us? Let us know you're coming: believerchurch.com/plan-your-visit

Thanks so much for listening to the Believer Church podcast! We're a church family in Albuquerque, New Mexico, learning what it looks like to follow Jesus and love our city. Every week we post the Sunday message here, so whether you're part of BC or just curious, you can listen in from anywhere. We'd love to have you join us in person too!

Service Times:
Sundays at 10AM (online + in-person)
Tuesdays at 7PM (in-person only)

Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube @BelieverChurchABQ
To learn more about Believer Church, visit believerchurch.com
To submit a prayer request, or to get connected with a pastor, visit believerchurch.churchcenter.com/people/forms/797629
Planning to join us? Let us know you're coming: believerchurch.com/plan-your-visit