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Learning Forgiveness

For Lent this year we’re studying forgiveness: Forgiveness from God, forgiveness with one another, giving and receiving. Today we introduce the series…

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Posted on March 1, 2020 by altonmission in Sermons, Uncategorized

The Shepherds’ Worship

Our worship leaders today are the shepherds who visited the newborn Savior in Luke 2.15-20. Afterwards, they proclaim the good news to…

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Posted on December 22, 2019 by altonmission in Sermons, Uncategorized

Song on the Margins

The angels’ song in Luke 2.8-14 comes in an unlikely place to some unlikely people. The gospel announcement to the shepherds living…

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Posted on December 15, 2019 by altonmission in Sermons, Uncategorized

Who We Become

We were created to be image bearers who become like what we behold. So who we become is determined by who we…

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Posted on November 10, 2019 by altonmission in Sermons, Uncategorized

Grace, Peace and Affection

The beginning of our new fall sermon series on Philippians. Today we focus on Paul’s greeting and opening prayer (1.1-11). While grace…

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Posted on September 15, 2019 by altonmission in Sermons, Uncategorized

Forgive Each Other

Today we consider one of the most basic–as well as one of the hardest–disciplines to practice in community: forgiveness. We look at…

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Posted on March 17, 2019 by altonmission in Sermons, Uncategorized

Bear with One Another

Creating a healthy community often comes down to graciously helping others with their burdens. Bearing with one another isn’t smiling and pretending…

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Posted on February 3, 2019 by altonmission in Sermons, Uncategorized

The Way of Salvation

Paul tells Titus to teach about the grace that trains us. Titus 2.11-15 is a window into a more complete picture of…

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Posted on November 18, 2018 by altonmission in Sermons, Uncategorized

A Story Worth Living

Today we begin a new summer series on the power of our stories with a look at one 1 Thessalonians 1. The…

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Posted on June 24, 2018 by altonmission in Sermons, Uncategorized

The Mercy You Give, The Mercy You Get

Jesus is straightforward in Matthew 5.7: “Blessed are the merciful for they will be shown mercy.” Can mercy from God really be…

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Posted on May 13, 2018 by altonmission in Sermons, Uncategorized

Healing Friendships

John 5.1-15 tells the story of Jesus going where people who are disabled, forgotten, and facing poverty gather for healing. There he…

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Posted on March 18, 2018 by altonmission in Sermons, Uncategorized

How God Doesn’t Love Us (And How God Does)

1 John 3.1-3 is one of the most prominent scriptures where our identity as dearly loved children of God is established. But…

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Posted on February 18, 2018 by altonmission in Sermons, Uncategorized

The Way of Grace

Isaiah 35 is a promise of restoration given through an image of a highway on which we may safely journey back home…

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Posted on January 28, 2018 by altonmission in Sermons, Uncategorized

Sin and Confession

Today we focus on Psalm 38, a confession of sin and prayer for mercy. Jesus is our Great Physician who not only…

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Posted on January 21, 2018 by altonmission in Sermons, Uncategorized

Disciples, Advocates, and Adversaries

From Luke 15.1-3, 11-32 comes the story Jesus tells to sum up the whole story of what he’s doing: the Parable of…

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Posted on January 7, 2018 by altonmission in Sermons, Uncategorized

Zacchaeus Learns Mercy

From Luke 19.1-10 comes the famous story of Zacchaeus’s encounter with Jesus. Zacchaeus, like the tax collector praying at the temple in…

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Posted on November 26, 2017 by altonmission in Sermons, Uncategorized

The Overflowing Well and the Broken Cisterns

Kristen Gaither preaches on John 4.1-30, the story of the woman at the well whom Jesus offers a spring of living water….

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Posted on October 15, 2017 by altonmission in Sermons, Uncategorized

Adopted

We’re celebrating an adoption in our church by looking at 1 John 3.1-3 and remembering how our adoption as lavishly loved children…

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Posted on October 8, 2017 by altonmission in Sermons, Uncategorized

The Earth Is the Lord’s and Everyone in It

Jonah is the disobedient prophet who was called beyond the borders of his people, his nation, and his compassion. We catch up…

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Posted on August 27, 2017 by altonmission in Sermons, Uncategorized

Baptizing

Baptism was commanded by Jesus in the Great Commission, but why? What does baptism have to do with the gospel? Today we…

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Posted on July 16, 2017 by altonmission in Sermons, Uncategorized
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