York Alliance Family of Churches Podcast

Suffering and disappointment are part of the human experience, and Christians are not exempt from this reality. In fact, it's in the midst of the most powerful work of God that we often experience the formational work of suffering and pain in our lives. While we can't avoid suffering and disappointment, we can prepare ourselves for the inevitability of it and learn to sustain, and even grow, during those difficult seasons.

Our hesitation is no match for the plan of God. He works through imperfect people like us to accomplish profound things in our world. However, He also takes our response to His work seriously and asks us to submit to His Lordship. He can't be Savior unless He's also Lord

When God appears to Moses in the burning bush, He declares one of the most powerful truths about Himself to us as His covenant people: He sees and hears us. There are times when it seems that God is far away and disengaged, and times when our prayers seem to disappear into the air. But the promise of the Bible is that God sees us, hears us, and is acting on our behalf, even when His timing doesn't match ours.

In an LGBTQ+ world, how do we live as faithful followers of Jesus? What does the Bible actually have to say about sexuality, and what does it look like for us to live faithfully and lovingly in the modern world? This is the last of 4 Crossroads classes and has a mix between instruction and Q&A.

God is both transcendant and imminent. He is holy and yet close. He is the God in whose presence we must take off our sandals, but He also the God who invites us to come near. When we come to grips with this paradox, we begin to see the majesty of the salvation story and God's ongoing work of reconciliation in the world.

In an LGBTQ+ world, how do we live as faithful followers of Jesus? What does the Bible actually have to say about sexuality, and what does it look like for us to live faithfully and lovingly in the modern world? This is the third of 4 Crossroads classes and has a mix between instruction and Q&A.

Of the three 40-year periods into which Moses’ life can be divided, we have the least amount of information on the center period of time. However, we know that the man who went to Midian was not the same man who emerged 40 years later. The wilderness is a place where God desires to shape us. All too often, we run away from the wilderness and miss the formational work of Jesus in our lives.

In an LGBTQ+ world, how do we live as faithful followers of Jesus? What does the Bible actually have to say about sexuality, and what does it look like for us to live faithfully and lovingly in the modern world? This is the second of 4 Crossroads classes and is a mix between instruction and Q&A

Through a series of acts of civil disobedience, the line of Israel is sustained and a deliverer is born. In a season when our rights, or the violation of those rights, are a central conversation, the opening sequence of Exodus reminds us of when we are called to disobey the authorities so that we might obey God. While these times are more seldom than one might think, they are powerful examples of courage as God's plan unfolds

In an LGBTQ+ world, how do we live as faithful followers of Jesus? What does the Bible actually have to say about sexuality, and what does it look like for us to live faithfully and lovingly in the modern world? This is the first of 4 Crossroads classes and has a mix between instruction and Q&A.