Saints‘ Hill Church Podcast

Easter 2025: A Revelation of Jesus

This Resurrection Sunday we got to hear from one of our elders, Austin Smith. He shared from Scripture and personal experience what it means to encounter the risen Christ. 

The Scriptures identify spiritual blindness as the thing that keeps people from knowing, believing in, and experiencing the person of Jesus and all that He is for us.

When you get a revelation of Jesus, not only do you become spiritually alive and receive power to live a new life, you get the joy of knowing him and being loved by Him. This is the ultimate place to live from and what all of us were made for.

 

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04.20.25 Sermon Guide

The King is Here: The Return of the King

On Sunday, we got to hear from one of our elders, Andoni Montaño on Luke 19v29-38. This passage retells the story of Jesus entering Jerusalem as He begins His journey to the cross. 

In this singular moment we see a multitude of people reject the current world’s opinions and standards of power, leaving their personal issues and problems aside, to honor Jesus as King.  

Our worship of Jesus, even when it’s not practical or convenient, is what moves His heart and ushers in His kingdom.  

 Andoni’s invitation to each of us is to consecrate ourselves again to set Jesus as the priority of our lives. 

 

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04.13.25 Sermon Guide

The King is Here: The Confidence of the Humble

On Sunday, Bria taught on Luke 18v9-14 where Jesus address the self-righteous with a parable about humility.

True humility, Jesus illustrates, is rightly placed confidence. This humility can only come from seeing God rightly, and responding rightly in worship with our whole lives. 

To humble ourselves in worship will invite the conviction of the Holy Spirit, leading us to confession and repentance. If God meets us in reality, then we have to tell the truth in order to receive His grace that covers all. This is what a life of prayer looks like. 

May our need for Him and our confidence in Him continue to grow as we become the Church he made us to be.

 

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04.06.25 Sermon Guide

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