Lake Wales Alliance Church

06/19/2026

Calling all adults! Join us this Sunday at 9:30am as we dive into a Bible study on the book of Hebrews. Our goal is to make your own, personal studier richer and more fulfilling. You are welcome here!

06/18/2026

We offer two CHAOS classes (Come Hear About Our Savior) - one for younger elementary students and one for older elementary/middle school. Kids of all ages are welcome here (and so are you!). Our classes run at 9:30am on Sundays, at the same time as our adult Bible study. We hope you can join us!

06/18/2026

God will never leave you nor forsake you.

“Why did you leave me?”

At that point in her life, the only person she had left was Jesus. As she said her prayers every day, she always asked God to guide her on the right path, the straight path. When the voice came, she knew it was God answering that prayer for her—showing her the right, straight path—the path back to Jesus.

Even through her resistance, God made Nabila’s path straight. In reflecting on her journey back to the Lord and the ways He pursued her despite her rejection, Nabila feels accepted by God in a priceless way. She feels loved, welcomed, and at peace. This acceptance and wholeness have ignited in Nabila a desire to share the Jesus she has come to know and love with all the world, “When you feel that . . . you feel like you want to open the window and scream and tell everybody!”

Excerpt from Compelled by the Friendship of Christ https://f.mtr.cool/xlihwxxozu

06/17/2026

Someone needs to know about God's willingness to give a second chance. Pass it along and sing this from your heart today!

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06/17/2026

Please mark your calendar for our special prayer series this summer. There will be singing, some simple teaching on prayer, and of course, lots of prayer together! Please join us on the marked Wednesdays at 6:30pm for these special events. You are welcome here!

06/16/2026

Seek Him today above all else and He will be your strength.

06/16/2026

ICYMI: We had a wonderful celebration together after an incredible weekend block party for our community! We discussed the beautiful gift God gave us in attraction and how that points us to something deeper. You can read more here and join us next Sunday at 10:45am. You are welcome here!

I want you to taste it with me. Close your eyes and focus on the initial chill from the ice cream that hits your tongue, followed by the creamy, smooth vanilla flavor. But just as your tongue registers that icy blast, a dark fire rages up from the still-oven hot chocolate cake. It melts against your...

06/16/2026

This afternoon from 4-6pm, we will be giving away bags of light groceries and snacks at our drive-up food pantry. Come to the church during that time if you are struggling or need some extra help. Your privacy will be respected and no questions asked! You are welcome here! We will be giving out food until we run out of supplies. We'll see you here!

06/15/2026

Understanding the main idea of a book of the Bible is huge! How can you understand the details if you don't see why the author wrote the book in the first place?

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞

Want clarity in your preaching? Finding the Big Idea of a passage or biblical book is one helpful tool for doing just that.

This clarity should make others take notice—like the wife of one Indonesian pastor we trained. She said this about her husband’s improved clarity in preaching:

“Even though you are only preaching a ten or twenty minute sermon [now], the message is very clear. Before WordPartners training, you could preach for 30 minutes to an hour, and the congregation still didn’t understand anything!”

Finding the Big Idea of a book helps us see the focal point around which all of the ideas in the book are organized. It acknowledges that the writer had a message he was trying to communicate through the whole book, not just different ideas in separate passages.

Sweating through this exercise encourages greater fidelity in communicating what God is saying through His Word. What He says will be more clear to us, and we will be less prone to teach our own thoughts and ideas.

Finding the Big Idea of a book is hard work and a long process of working through a text with our hermeneutical principles in mind.

1. Read through the book several times.

There are no shortcuts for the hard work of Bible study. This can’t be a quick surface-level skim, but a deep and curious read.

2. Ask a lot of questions.

Try to understand the questions the book is deliberately raising and answering. We must move beyond the questions we have to the questions that the text is concerned to answer. The questions the text is raising and answering are the important ones for determining the meaning and the Big Idea.

The four questions below will help you discover what the author is communicating:

What does the author say?
How does the author say it?
Why does he say it here? Why in this way?
What is surprising about the text?

𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: https://wordpartners.org/resources/how-to-find-the-big-idea-of-a-book-of-the-bible/

06/15/2026

Tomorrow, June 16, from 4-6pm, we will be giving away bags of light groceries and snacks at our drive-up food pantry. Come to the church during that time if you are struggling or need some extra help. Your privacy will be respected and no questions asked! You are welcome here! We will be giving out food until we run out of supplies. We'll see you here!