The Alley Church Podcast Dr. Scott Sutherland and Mrs. Shandel Sutherland

“Every Christian would agree that man’s spiritual health is exactly in proportion to his love for God.”- C.S. LewisKnowing God Through Love - PT 11 John 4:7-117 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that w...

1 John 4:1-6Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. (2) This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, (3) but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.(4) You, dear ch...

Hearts at Rest1 John 3:18-24(18) Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.(19) This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: (20) If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. (21) Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God (22) and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him...

What is Love1 John 3:10-17John Wescott said, and I actually don’t know who this is, “Life reveals the children of God.” END QUOTE!There is no way of telling what a tree is other than by its fruits, and there is no way of telling what a person is other than by their conduct, how we love. (our property which is new to us has a lot of trees and plants. We didn’t know and some things we still don’t know what they are. We are finding that out almost daily now that things are blooming and leaving o...

Being A Child of God1 John 3:1-10(1)See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. (2) Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. (3) All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.(4) Everyone who s...

Continue As You Began1 John 2:24-29True Teaching, True Living, True Loving(24) As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. (25) And this is what he promised us—eternal life.(26) I am writing these things to you about those who are trying to lead you astray. (27) As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches ...