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08/11/2026

08/11/2026

There is hope

08/06/2026

We don't come to God as a vending machine. We come because without Him, we are broken and undone.

07/08/2026

Growth exposes what's cracked. In Acts 6, a real need got overlooked — and it surfaced as murmuring instead of an honest word to leadership.
The apostles didn't get defensive. They fixed it. The church grew faster.
The question isn't whether friction comes. It's whether we go around each other or to each other.

alg.church/posts/collections/blog/growing-pains-acts-6-1-7

06/29/2026

If deception goes unchecked, it spreads. Ananias and Sapphira are a powerful reminder that unity in the church is worth protecting at all costs.

06/25/2026

One Heart, One Soul

“Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own.”
Acts 4:32

Thought To Consider
Picture the perfect community. We tend to reach for words like unity, humility, loyalty, integrity — the kind of team you’d gladly rejoin tomorrow. In Acts, Luke pulls back the camera from the day-by-day events and shows us how the early church actually lived. The picture is striking: they were of one heart and one soul, they held everything loosely, and “there was not a needy person among them.”

What held them together wasn’t a program or a personality. It was a shared conviction that their lives belonged to God — and that the person beside them mattered as much as they did. When a need appeared, the question wasn’t “Is this my problem?” but “How can I help?” Out of that soil grew a generosity that didn’t need a spotlight.

Luke gives us a face to put on it: Barnabas, the “son of encouragement.” He didn’t even live in Jerusalem, yet he sold a field, brought the money, and quietly laid it at the apostles’ feet — no announcement, no credit taken. He saw the good in people and he met their needs. That kind of love became its own witness. People watching from the outside thought: who wouldn’t want to belong to a community like that?

ASK YOURSELF
When I see a need in the people around me, is my first instinct “How can I help?” or “Is this my problem?”
Who has been a “Barnabas” to me — and whom could I encourage that way this week?

PRAY
Father, make us of one heart and one soul. Give me eyes to see needs and a heart willing to meet them — quietly, without needing credit. Make me an encourager like Barnabas, who drew out the good in others. Let our life together be a witness to the world. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

06/23/2026

Ask people to describe the perfect community and you'll hear the same words: unity, humility, integrity….

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Ask people to describe the perfect community and you'll hear the same words: unity, humility, integrity. We can picture it easily — a group that's honest, where nobody is climbing over anybody else, where everyone pulls in the same direction. The strange thing is how rarely we find it. Most of us ...

06/08/2026

Have you ever noticed how quickly you pick up the habits, phrases, or even the subtle attitude of the people you spend the most time with?
https://www.alg.church/posts/collections/blog/your-circle-matters

05/04/2026

Jesus’ life was deeply intertwined with others. If we are actually following Him, we are to do the same.