Southview Community Church

Continuing through the first chapter of Acts, Pastor William Attaway contrasts the hasty behavior and terrible end of Judas with the forgiveness offered by Jesus to the Apostle Peter. Pastor Attaway reminds the church that God works in His own way and timing, almost never with the “microwave results” that we want.

Pastor William Attaway concludes a three-part miniseries on prayer inside of the longer series on the book of Acts with encouragement to speak honestly in our conversations with God. Just like David in the Psalms, we are free to express to God all emotions in our hearts.

Pastor William Attaway continues through the book of Acts with the second of a three-part miniseries on prayer. The apostles prevailed in prayer during the season between Jesus' ascension and the coming of the Holy Spirit. Pastor William addresses the number one problem many of us have with prayer: our attitudes toward God. In order to converse with Him in a healthy manner, we must approach him humbly, trustingly, gratefully, expectantly, and submissively.

When Jesus ascended to Heaven in the first chapter of Acts, He told His disciples to wait for the coming of the Spirit. This week, Pastor William Attaway believed that he needed to slow his original plan for the series on Acts and focus Southview on three verses of this chapter, verses 12-14, in which the disciples spent their waiting time in prayer. This message, the first of three parts, begins to address some of the difficult questions people have concerning prayer. These questions often revolve around our relationship with Christ, and, ultimately, what kind of God we believe He is.

Pastor William Attaway begins what will be a lengthy series on the Book of Acts with the first 11 verses, which contain the last words Jesus spoke to His apostles before ascending to Heaven. Pastor William unravels, section by section, Jesus' promise to send the Holy Spirit and to return one day HImself, as well as the Church's purpose on earth to spread the truth of Christ.

To complete this year’s Easter series and transition to the upcoming messages about the early Christian Church in Acts, Pastor William Attaway outlines the events in the last chapter of John. Here, Jesus comes to restore the Apostle Peter to relationship with Him and to renew his calling to follow Him, despite Peter’s past failures. In so doing, He sets a model for us.

As the conclusion to this year's Easter series, Pastor William Attaway uses the story of "Doubting Thomas" in John 20:24-31 to encourage members of the church that it is safe to express doubts to Jesus. Just like with the apostle Thomas, Jesus already knows all our doubts and is ready to answer them.

Pastor William Attaway continues the Easter series with Jesus' visit on Sunday night to the apostles in the locked room. Jesus takes fearful people like them and us and reconnects us to Himself by the power of His peace, so that we also can forgive and love others.

Continuing the story of Easter, Pastor William Attaway describes the encounter between Jesus and several of His followers on the road, after His first reappearance to Mary at the tomb. These male followers had not believed Mary because they were still blinded by their dead hopes of who Jesus would be and what He would do for them. Pastor William encourages the church to do what Jesus Himself did and clear away false hopes with words of truth from the Bible.

Pastor William Attaway unfolds from John 20:1-18 the account of Mary Magdalene's meeting the risen Christ for the first time. At first, blinded by the grief of Jesus' recent crucifixion and death, Mary could not see Him standing alive right in front of her. She could not see that God had made a new creation for all of us.