Aletheia Church, Cambridge

Though Jude takes heresy very seriously, he recognizes that God is able to pull his children back from the reaches of false doctrine. In this last sermon of the Heretic series, Pastor Donny explores the final section of Jude to illustrate how clear-eyed contending for the faith means practicing love in the confidence of grace.

In our modern times, political or cultural blasphemies appear to be far more important than blasphemies against God. However, as Jude warns, blasphemy against God is more serious than we could ever imagine. What is blasphemy, and how can we avoid speaking with with our mouths in our lives? In this sermon, Pastor Adam shows us from Jude why we should beware blasphemy, the root of all heresy.

There've been lots of doctrinal disputes in church history, but the greatest threats to the church have always been more sinister: the internal heretics in our hearts. Our internal heretics lead us confess one doctrine with our mouths while declaring other doctrines with our lives. In this sermon, Pastor Adam looks to the book of Jude to show how we must fight the internal heretic that changes grace into license.

What enables our non-Christian loved ones to accept and believe the Gospel? How does someone experience the transformation of their worldview? How can flawed human beings ever seek to carry out God's work on the Earth? In this final installment of This Is Our Time, Pastor Donny Fisher shows us how Jesus answers all these questions for us through the person of the Holy Spirit, who empowers us to live out God's mission for the sake of those around us.

Ministry sounds like something that ministers do, but we can wrongly assume that ministers are only paid professionals, like pastors or church staff. In this sermon, Pastor Adam looks at Ephesians 4, where Paul describes how church leaders are meant to equip disciples for ministry. Leaders do the equipping and all followers of Jesus do the ministry.

"There was no king in those days, and everyone did what was right in his own eyes (Judges 21:25)." These words punctuate a horrific period in Israel's history, and yet, they also seem to parallel our modern world. How can we learn to practice true goodness when our world has so many different definitions of "good living?" In this sermon, Pastor Adam shows that it is only by being established in God's Word that humanity has any hope of escaping enslavement to our desires and the freedom to serve a truly good God.

"There was no king in those days, and everyone did what was right in his own eyes (Judges 21:25)." These words punctuate a horrific period in Israel's history, and yet, they also seem to parallel our modern world. How can we learn to practice true goodness when our world has so many different definitions of "good living?" In this sermon, Pastor Adam shows that it is only by being established in God's Word that humanity has any hope of escaping enslavement to our desires and the freedom to serve a truly good God.

Just as an engaged couple is in-between dating and marriage, so we, engaged to Christ as His church, are in-between a broken world and the redeemed world to come. Yet, our engagement isn't static. We're called to prepare for the wedding. In this sermon, Pastor Adam explores how our engagement to Christ calls us to engage with our world for the sake of the Gospel and the coming Kingdom.

When he was a member of Pharoah's household, Moses had significant political power, extraordinary pleasures, and treasures beyond what most humans have ever seen. Yet, when God called him to identify with God's people and lead them out of slavery, Moses' faith faced its biggest test. In this sermon, Pastor Adam shows from Hebrews 11 how great faith calls us to withstand great pressure from the myriad temptations the world offers.

Abraham and Sarah received some of God's most incredible promises, but their faith in those promises was tested in extraordinary ways. What do we do when God has declared his promises, but the world makes us doubt? In this sermon, Pastor Donny digs into Hebrews to show us how Great Faith calls us to follow God in the present while focusing on his promise.