In the first part of his sermon on Jesus' teaching that he is the light of the world, Matthew Balentine looks at four areas in which a Christian's walking in the light contrasts with his walking in darkness. ***** Please join us in person at the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ, located in Haleyville, Alabama. You are also invited to join us through social media: Like us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ninthavenuechurch) Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/ninthavechurch) Follow us on I...
Sep 18, 2022•23 min•Ep. 715
Jesus is the true vine, and, as his branches, we must reflect his character and produce new disciples. ***** Please join us in person at the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ, located in Haleyville, Alabama. You are also invited to join us through social media: Like us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ninthavenuechurch) Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/ninthavechurch) Follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/ninthavenuechurch) The song The Ode to Joy is used pursuant to a lice...
Sep 11, 2022•42 min•Ep. 714
Matthew Balentine uses the account of the raising of Lazarus to show that Jesus entered the world of the dying so that he can take us to the world of the living. ***** Please join us in person at the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ, located in Haleyville, Alabama. You are also invited to join us through social media: Like us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ninthavenuechurch) Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/ninthavechurch) Follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/ninthavenu...
Sep 05, 2022•50 min•Ep. 713
Jesus says he is the only way, but Satan tries to tell us that is a lie. ***** Please join us in person at the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ, located in Haleyville, Alabama. You are also invited to join us through social media: Like us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ninthavenuechurch) Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/ninthavechurch) Follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/ninthavenuechurch) The song The Ode to Joy is used pursuant to a license issued by Envato Elements....
Aug 28, 2022•42 min•Ep. 712
Jonathan Germany discusses Jesus's "I am" statement found in John 6, where he says that he is the bread of life following his feeding the 5,000. ***** Please join us in person at the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ, located in Haleyville, Alabama. You are also invited to join us through social media: Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Follow us on Instagram The song "The Ode to Joy" is used pursuant to a license issued by Envato Elements....
Aug 23, 2022•33 min•Ep. 711
Loneliness is one of our greatest anxieties. Using Jesus's farewell address found in John 13-14, Matthew Balentine discusses how Jesus is the answer to this fear. ***** Please join us in person at the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ, located in Haleyville, Alabama. You are also invited to join us through social media: Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Follow us on Instagram The song "The Ode to Joy" is used pursuant to a license issued by Envato Elements....
Aug 14, 2022•41 min•Ep. 710
Looking at the meeting between Jesus and the Samaritan woman in John 4, Matthew Balentine discusses three reasons why we study Jesus and three applications that can be gleaned from this account. ***** Please join us in person at the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ, located in Haleyville, Alabama. You are also invited to join us through social media: Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Follow us on Instagram...
Aug 07, 2022•39 min•Ep. 709
There is a tremendous amount of spiritual power God will unleash when we pray for others.Expounding on this, Matthew Balentine discusses five ideas that will help us understand intercessory prayer. ***** Please join us in person at the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ, located in Haleyville, Alabama. You are also invited to join us through social media: Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Follow us on Instagram The song, "Our God, He Is Alive" (from the album, "Mansions Over the Hilltop") ...
Jul 31, 2022•37 min•Ep. 708
Matthew Balentine discusses how we can get into an intimate relationship with God. ***** Please join us in person at the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ, located in Haleyville, Alabama. You are also invited to join us through social media: Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Follow us on Instagram The song, "Our God, He Is Alive" (from the album, "Mansions Over the Hilltop") can be purchased on iTunes at https://music.apple.com/us/album/our-god-he-is-alive/283357842?i=283358026 . It is pe...
Jul 25, 2022•31 min•Ep. 707
Jonathan Germany discusses how we can learn to be more like Jesus, by looking at the story of "The Wizard of Oz." ***** Please join us in person at the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ, located in Haleyville, Alabama. You are also invited to join us through social media: Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Follow us on Instagram The song, "Our God, He Is Alive" (from the album, "Mansions Over the Hilltop") can be purchased on iTunes at https://music.apple.com/us/album/our-god-he-is-alive/2...
Jul 17, 2022•29 min•Ep. 706
Matthew Balentine begins a series that looks at prayer from different angles. In this first sermon, he discusses how singing is a way to deepen our prayer life. ***** Please join us in person at the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ, located in Haleyville, Alabama. You are also invited to join us through social media: Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Follow us on Instagram The song, "Our God, He Is Alive" (from the album, "Mansions Over the Hilltop") can be purchased on iTunes at https:/...
Jul 11, 2022•43 min•Ep. 705
Matthew Balentine continues his series on being set apart. In this sermon, he discusses how we can live a set-apart life in a world that is becoming increasingly unholy. ***** Please join us in person at the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ, located in Haleyville, Alabama. You are also invited to join us through social media: Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Follow us on Instagram The song, "Our God, He Is Alive" (from the album, "Mansions Over the Hilltop") can be purchased on iTunes a...
Jul 03, 2022•37 min•Ep. 704
Matthew Balentine continues his series on being set apart. In this lesson, he discusses the results of our standing for holiness and four applications we can make from this series. ***** Please join us in person at the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ, located in Haleyville, Alabama. You are also invited to join us through social media: Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Follow us on Instagram The song, "Our God, He Is Alive" (from the album, "Mansions Over the Hilltop") can be purchased ...
Jun 26, 2022•34 min•Ep. 703
As our nation becomes increasingly pagan, God's church must make a difficult decision about how to practice both sacrificial love and uncompromising holiness. In this initial sermon, Matthew Balentine discusses the first two of three steps we must take in order to do so. ***** Please join us in person at the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ, located in Haleyville, Alabama. You are also invited to join us through social media: Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Follow us on Instagram The s...
Jun 19, 2022•30 min•Ep. 702
Matthew Balentine concludes his series on our identity in Christ by addressing this theme: every church has a choice of either lovingly surrendering to God’s spirit or allowing negativity to undermine its mission. ***** Please join us in person at the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ, located in Haleyville, Alabama. You are also invited to join us through social media: Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Follow us on Instagram The song, "Our God, He Is Alive" (from the album, "Mansions Ove...
Jun 12, 2022•39 min•Ep. 701
Matthew Balentine address a very simple, but profound, question: What happens when time runs out? **** Please join us in person at the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ, located in Haleyville, Alabama. You are also invited to join us through social media: Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Follow us on Instagram The song, "Our God, He Is Alive" (from the album, "Mansions Over the Hilltop") can be purchased on iTunes at https://music.apple.com/us/album/our-god-he-is-alive/283357842?i=283358...
Jun 05, 2022•34 min•Ep. 700
Matthew Balentine looks at Jesus’s sending out his disciples and their carrying out his great commission. **** Please join us in person at the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ, located in Haleyville, Alabama. You are also invited to join us through social media: Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Follow us on Instagram The song, "Our God, He Is Alive" (from the album, "Mansions Over the Hilltop") can be purchased on iTunes at https://music.apple.com/us/album/our-god-he-is-alive/283357842?...
May 30, 2022•25 min•Ep. 699
We might ask what kind of church we are going to be: “grace-centered” or “ doctrine and truth.” However, we should be asking what type of church God is calling us to be. Matthew Balentine explains how we can practice balance and be both. ***** Please join us in person at the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ, located in Haleyville, Alabama. You are also invited to join us through social media: Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Follow us on Instagram The song, "Our God, He Is Alive" (from ...
May 22, 2022•35 min•Ep. 698
Continuing to look at Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians, Matthew Balentine discusses what a church must do to be a “ringing out” church. ***** Please join us in person at the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ, located in Haleyville, Alabama. You are also invited to join us through social media: Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Follow us on Instagram The song, "Our God, He Is Alive" (from the album, "Mansions Over the Hilltop") can be purchased on iTunes at https://music.apple.com/...
May 22, 2022•35 min•Ep. 696
In his second letter to the Corinthians, Paul exhorted them to examine and test themselves. Jonathan Germany uses this exhortation to formulate three questions that we need to be able to answer in the affirmative. ***** Please join us in person at the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ, located in Haleyville, Alabama. You are also invited to join us through social media: Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Follow us on Instagram The song, "Our God, He Is Alive" (from the album, "Mansions Ove...
May 16, 2022•26 min•Ep. 697
Matthew Balentine discusses eight things we should do because of Jesus and three things that keep us from being the type of church that does those things. ***** Please join us in person at the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ, located in Haleyville, Alabama. You are also invited to join us through social media: Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Follow us on Instagram The song, "Our God, He Is Alive" (from the album, "Mansions Over the Hilltop") can be purchased on iTunes at https://music...
May 02, 2022•38 min•Ep. 695
In this sermon on "Family First" day, Jonathan Germany and Matthew Balentine discuss that in order to truly make our families first, we must seek the kingdom of God in all that we do. ***** Please join us in person at the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ, located in Haleyville, Alabama. You are also invited to join us through social media: Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Follow us on Instagram The song, "Our God, He Is Alive" (from the album, "Mansions Over the Hilltop") can be purchas...
Apr 25, 2022•39 min•Ep. 694
In looking at the resurrection of Jesus, Wiley Dean discusses the facts proving its happening, the conclusions that can be drawn from it, and the response that each person should have to it. ***** Please join us in person at the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ, located in Haleyville, Alabama. You are also invited to join us through social media: Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Follow us on Instagram The song, "Our God, He Is Alive" (from the album, "Mansions Over the Hilltop") can be ...
Apr 17, 2022•30 min•Ep. 693
Looking at the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem the Sunday before his death, we see that some saw and praised him as their king, while others tried to silence them. Using this passage from Luke 19, Matthew Balentine discusses our need to allow Jesus to be the king of our personal lives and of his church, in spite of the efforts of others to make their personal views rule. ***** Please join us in person at the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ, located in Haleyville, Alabama. You are also invi...
Apr 11, 2022•30 min•Ep. 692
Matthew Balentine presents four lessons that can be learned from the account of the blind beggar and Jesus found in Luke 18. ***** Please join us in person at the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ, located in Haleyville, Alabama. You are also invited to join us through social media: Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Follow us on Instagram The song, "Our God, He Is Alive" (from the album, "Mansions Over the Hilltop") can be purchased on iTunes at https://music.apple.com/us/album/our-god-he...
Apr 04, 2022•31 min•Ep. 691
From the account of Zacchaues, Jonathan Germany shows that this sinner took three actions that went beyond mere agreement with Jesus. ***** Please join us in person at the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ, located in Haleyville, Alabama. You are also invited to join us through social media: Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Follow us on Instagram The song, "Our God, He Is Alive" (from the album, "Mansions Over the Hilltop") can be purchased on iTunes at https://music.apple.com/us/album/o...
Mar 27, 2022•31 min•Ep. 690
Using the Parable of the Sower in Mark 4, Matthew Balentine makes a practical application by showing how Christians who are hard-hearted, challenged, or worried by life can become true disciples by hearing the word, accepting the word, and producing other disciples. ***** Please join us in person at the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ, located in Haleyville, Alabama. You are also invited to join us through social media: Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Follow us on Instagram The song, ...
Mar 21, 2022•33 min•Ep. 689
Using the account of Jesus's healing of a demon-possessed man, Matthew Balentine discusses the effects of sin and how we, like the healed man, must go and tell others about what Jesus has done for us. ***** Please join us in person at the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ, located in Haleyville, Alabama. You are also invited to join us through social media: Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Follow us on Instagram The song, "Our God, He Is Alive" (from the album, "Mansions Over the Hilltop...
Mar 14, 2022•35 min•Ep. 688
Are you afraid? Worried? Stressed? Jesus reminds us that because of Him, we can have courage and not be afraid. ***** Please join us in person at the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ, located in Haleyville, Alabama. You are also invited to join us through social media: Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Follow us on Instagram The song, "Our God, He Is Alive" (from the album, "Mansions Over the Hilltop") can be purchased on iTunes at https://music.apple.com/us/album/our-god-he-is-alive/283...
Mar 06, 2022•36 min•Ep. 687
Jonathan Germany looks at the account of Jesus' rebuking Peter in Mark 8 and points out some important truths: (1) we are not smarter than God and (2) living for Jesus requires us to deny ourselves, to carry our cross, and to follow Jesus. ***** Please join us in person at the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ, located in Haleyville, Alabama. You are also invited to join us through social media: Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Follow us on Instagram The song, "Our God, He Is Alive" (fro...
Feb 28, 2022•30 min•Ep. 686
