Saints‘ Hill Church Podcast

The King is Here: Persistent Prayer

On Sunday we had the privilege of hearing from our friend, Pete Donor on the Parable of the Persistent Widow in Luke 18v1-8. 

In this string of parables in Luke, Jesus is preparing people for how to live in light of His return. The Parable of the Persistent Widow highlights how necessary it is for us to pray at all times and trust God to keep His promises. We must stay aware of our need for God and continually receive His merciful provision through Jesus.

Lord, increase our faith as we prepare for Your return. Find us praying always, with courage and confidence in who You are. 

 

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03.30.25 Sermon Guide

The King is Here: Two Things Can Be True

On Sunday we resumed our Luke Series with a teaching from Bria on Luke 17v20-37. 

This passage highlights the dual realities of the kingdom of God and invites us to faithfulness amidst the tension.  

The kingdom is now and not yet. We live in and stand on the victorious blood of Jesus now, yet we also long for the day when He returns for His bride and makes all things new.  

In the kingdom, the only way to truly live is to die to yourself - to throw off sin and every worldly pursuit so that you can live into your true identity in Christ by the power and grace of the Holy Spirit.

 

The kingdom of God is both visible and invisible. We must steward both if both are true - risking for visible manifestations of His presence, and also believing what He says about the invisible realities in which we live and move.

 

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03.23.25 Sermon Guide

Prayer: Chosen to Bear Fruit

On Sunday we wrapped up our series on prayer with a teaching on John 15 and our identity as those chosen to bear fruit.

The fruit that we are appointed to bear is the renewal of all people to God’s design. We were appointed for this by God and it’s our responsibility to remain connected to Him as our life source in order to do so.

We remain by believing truth about what Jesus’ blood affords and who we are because of it. We remain by living in thankfulness and acknowledging our need for Him. We remain by confessing sin and standing on Jesus’ blood for forgiveness.

Revival is all about the priority of His presence above everything else.  

 

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03.16.25 Sermon Guide

Prayer: Praying the Word of God

On Sunday, we continued this series with a teaching on declaring the word of God as prayer.

David shows us in the Psalms that in prayer there is a time for crying out in petition, exposing your need before God, and there is a time to rise and declare who God is and place your trust in Him.

When the pain of life strikes, we need to know how to strengthen ourselves in the Lord. We do this by staying connected to His voice and feasting on His word!

As we do this, the power of the gospel fills us and enables us to live by the Spirit.

 

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03.09.25 Sermon Guide

Prayer: Tilling Prayer

On Sunday, Alex humbly offered this passage in Jeremiah as a word for our church in this season,

“This is what the Lord says to the people of Judah and to Jerusalem: ‘Break up your unplowed ground and do not sow among thorns.’” (4v3)

Much of the church in the West has been compromised over time through idolatry and arrogance.

Saints’ Hill, we are asking you, as priests and leaders, to set reality again by looking for unused land in your lives and our town, and breaking it up spiritually for a harvest of the kingdom in our time and place.

All of this tilling - the lament over our idolatry, the confession of sin, the return to the fear of the Lord in personal prayer - is meant to touch our valley, for His glory.

 

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03.02.25 Sermon Guide

Prayer: Out of the Garden, Into the Wilderness

This last Sunday, Chris explored the link between prayer and wilderness throughout the Scriptures.

From Moses, to David, to Elijah, and ultimately to Jesus - we see that God meets us in the wilderness. It’s in the wilderness of prayer that our vulnerability and lack of control are exposed. 

It’s in this unique place where God is able to minister His Presence to us, and where we receive our true identity as friend of God. 

We pray that you would venture into the wilderness of prayer, unto knowing Him and loving Him, and being known and loved by Him.

 

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02.23.25 Sermon Guide

Prayer: May They Be One

Jesus reveals in John 17 what He prays for you, what He longs to be true of you…and its oneness. 

From the beginning of creation, God’s desire was to be with you. He stopped at nothing to accomplish this aim, securing oneness with us through the blood of Jesus.  

Now, the overflow of our unity with Christ is our unity with one another. Jesus said that the world would get a revelation of God’s love when they see the way we love and prefer one another.  

Jesus also prays here that we would see His glory. The revelation of the glory of Jesus is what sets the Church apart - it defines our reality. We know in part now, what the world will fully discover when Jesus returns.

Let your heart be encouraged knowing that you are still kept by the prayers of Jesus through the ministry of the Holy Spirit. 

 

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02.09.25 Sermon Guide

Prayer: The War of Desires

Jesus praying in the Garden of Gethsemane gives us the ultimate framework for how to pray and live in the midst of challenging circumstances and intense temptations. He shows us how we can actually make choices that align with God’s will.

A life of abiding in friendship with Jesus will transform your desires to the degree that you will be able to choose His ways.

Prayer is not a means to an end or an equation - prayer is a path to the person of Jesus. In His presence you will find everything that you need.

 

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02.02.25 Sermon Guide

Prayer: The Worldview of Jesus Pt. 2

If Jesus is giving us a worldview in the Lord’s Prayer, the first couple of verses show us how we are to view God. The remaining verses show us how our view of God affects the way we live.  

To be human is to be in need of God, we are to come to Him daily to receive what the day will require of us. 

We have an enemy who intends to accuse us before God. We need the Holy Spirit to reveal truth to us so we don’t expand the enemy’s kingdom by agreeing with his lies. 

THE problem is personal sin, and the solution is forgiveness of sin. Jesus became to first lover and forgiver so that upon receiving His love and forgiveness, we would become those same things to the people around us.

 

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01.26.25 Sermon Guide

Prayer: The Worldview of Jesus Pt. 1

Last week, Alex shared why we pray - for the reordering of ourselves and the world we have responsibility for. 

This week we will be looking at the Lord’s Prayer to see how it is we are to pray. The Lord’s Prayer offers not just a prayer to be recited but a worldview to live into. 

We have a Father who desires relationship with us before anything. We also have a God who is holy - completely other. Our ability to grasp the holiness of God is the doorway into all kingdom activity. It’s His kingdom and His will that we are after on earth - meaning, we are invited to surrender all our own ideas and expectations for our life to see Him glorified. 

When we pray the Lord’s Prayer with our lives, we become the bridge between heaven and earth that we were designed to be.

 

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01.19.25 Sermon Guide