Beyond Sunday is a podcast from Aloma Church where we go deeper into the conversations started on Sunday and explore how biblical truth shapes everyday life. Each episode unpacks Scripture, answers real questions, and discusses relevant topics through the lens of the gospel, helping you follow Jesus beyond the walls of the church and into your everyday rhythms.
Whether it’s theology, culture, relationships, leadership, mental health, discipleship, or practical next steps in faith, Beyond Sunday is designed to help you grow deeper in your understanding of God’s Word and live it out throughout the week.
Going deeper. Living it out.
One of the most honest questions a Christian can ask is whether they are genuinely fighting their sin or have quietly made peace with it. Drawing from Numbers 15, there is an important distinction between unintentional sin and sinning with a high hand, which is a defiant, unrepentant posture that essentially raises a clenched fist toward God. Hebrews 10 takes this seriously, warning that those who go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth have trampled the Son of God underfoot, profaned the blood of the covenant, and outraged the Spirit of grace. This is not a description of someone who stumbles and repents. It is a description of someone who has heard the truth, rejected it, and refused to turn back.
First John 3 provides an essential clarification. Christians sin, but they do not practice sin. The difference is not about perfection but about direction. A person who practices sin keeps returning to it, loves it, and has no real desire to turn away. A believer, by contrast, is regularly convicted by the Spirit, confesses their sin, and turns back to God. That cycle of conviction and repentance is the very mark of new life. Hebrews 10:14 captures this beautifully, describing believers as those who have been perfected through Christ's finished work and are being sanctified through His ongoing work. They are perfectly imperfect, covered by a perfect Savior.
The assurance of forgiveness is not found in claiming perfection. It is found in repentance. If your conscience is regularly pierced by the Spirit's conviction, if you confess and turn back to God, and if you are genuinely fighting against sin rather than excusing it, that is the evidence that you belong to Him. The Gospel is not a license to sin. It is the power to be free from it, and the repentant heart is the heart that has accepted what Christ has done rather than profaned it.
21 Oct 2026
The sacrifice that covers all time
One of the most profound questions in all of Scripture is how people were saved before Jesus came. If salvation comes through faith in Christ, what happened to Abraham, Moses, David, and the countless others who lived and died before the cross? The answer is rooted in a concept called imputed righteousness. No one can earn a right standing before God through perfect obedience to the law. Instead, the perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ is credited to the account of every person who places their faith in God's promise. When God looks at a believer, He sees not their failures but the righteousness of His Son deposited in their name.
Abraham is the clearest example. Genesis 15:6 records that Abraham believed God, and God counted it to him as righteousness. He was not justified by works but by faith. Paul builds on this in Romans 4, making clear that no one, including Abraham, arrived in heaven through perfect law-keeping. Everyone who is saved is saved through the New Covenant, through grace and faith alone. The Old Testament sacrificial system, though God-ordained, was never capable of truly removing sin. It was a shadow pointing forward to the only sacrifice that could: the Lamb of God.
The death of Jesus on the cross covers sins committed before it ever happened, because God exists outside of time. He applied the credit of Christ's future sacrifice to those who lived before it, based on their faith in His promise of a coming Messiah. Romans 3 confirms that God, in His divine forbearance, passed over former sins, and that the righteousness of Christ is applied to all who believe. Every person in heaven is there because of Jesus, from the earliest Old Testament saint to the believer who trusted Him last week. Salvation has always been by grace through faith, and it always will be.
7 Oct 2026
What you must fear to find rest
Fear and rest seem like opposites, yet Hebrews 4 places them side by side and shows us that one leads to the other. Drawing on the contrast between the rest Joshua offered Israel in the Promised Land and the greater rest Jesus offers through the Gospel, the passage makes clear that Jesus is greater than Joshua and His rest surpasses any earthly peace. But right in the middle of this beautiful promise, the text introduces fear, and that raises a question worth sitting with: how can fear and rest coexist? The answer begins with an honest look at the human heart. Our hearts are deeply deceptive, and we are often the last ones to recognize it. Just as people in a dispute both believe they are right, we can convince ourselves we are walking in faith while our hearts are actually turned inward. God’s Word functions as the judge in this situation, cutting through our assumptions and exposing what we are truly trusting in besides Christ.
Hebrews 4 lays out a clear progression: we fear, we strive, we give an account, and then we draw near with confidence. The fear described here is not the kind that drives us to hide from God, as Adam did in the garden after his sin. It is the fear of our own self-reliance, the recognition that we cannot trust our own hearts to lead us to truth. That kind of fear drives us toward Christ, because He alone has paid the price and done the work. Repentance becomes the ongoing practice of laying our failures, wrong intentions, and sinful thoughts at His feet, trusting that they have already been nailed to the cross. True rest is not the absence of struggle. It is the confidence that comes from knowing Christ has covered everything we bring before Him, and that confidence is available to anyone who will stop striving to earn what He has already freely given.
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