Saints‘ Hill Church Podcast

The second identity that helps us host God’s Presence well is the ache of the Bride. 

All throughout Scripture the Bible gives us marriage as a picture of God’s desire for humanity and humanity’s need for God. The ache of the Bride is a strategic gift from the Holy Spirit to reveal our need for Jesus in a way that causes us to cry out for Him. We must empty ourselves of all other loves and illusions so that we may be filled with His love and His fire. 

God goes where He’s wanted. We’re praying that this desire for Him will become a service to our town and that people will be drawn into real life with Him as a result. 

 

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10.20.24 Sermon Guide

This last Sunday Alex gave part one of his teaching on our fourth core value: we have the privilege of hosting the Father’s Presence. 

We believe the Scriptures teach that the Church is supposed to be a home for God’s Presence, an access point between heaven and earth. (1 Pet 2v4-5, Gen 28v11-17)

The first identity that we want to take on as a church to host the Presence of God well, is the ministry of a priest. 

Priests in the Old Covenant offered up physical sacrifices, but since Jesus offered himself as the ultimate physical sacrifice, our ministry as New Covenant priests is to offer up spiritual sacrifices. Like David, we are to center our entire lives around praise, thanksgiving, song, and gazing upon the Lord. 

This is one of the primary ways we participate in heaven coming to earth. You are a priest! 

 

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10.13.24 Sermon Guide

We come together as the church because for us there is but one God, one Lord - Jesus Christ who is worthy of our worship.
This last Sunday, Bria taught on our third core value: Jesus is Lord. 

Lives that speak “Jesus is Lord” are anchored in eternity with eternal priorities. Those who are anchored in eternity fear God alone - acknowledging their need for Him and refusing to live life apart from Him. They do not live for Self, but under the leadership and authority of Jesus, they become all that God created them to be. They are marked by singular love for Jesus.  

Let Him find in us a pure and spotless bride - not distracted with loves of this world, but drawn to His heart and in pursuit of His way. 

 

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10.06.24 Sermon Guide

This past weekend we had our very first all church camp out at the Oregon coast. Our senior leader, Alex Rettmann, spoke from 1 Peter 4:7-11 about the two priorities we have as we live in the last days: People and Prayer.

This last Sunday Alex kicked off our annual Fall Vision Series with a teaching on our first core value - God is good. 

In the Old Testament, God declares that He is compassionate, forgiving, just, and patient. In the New Testament, we get the fullest representation of God through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. 

Though our beliefs about God don’t change who He is, they radically affect how we interact with Him and who we become in this life. 

When we agree with the truth about who God is, we get to experience life the way we were designed to. It’s not a life absent of suffering, but it’s a life full of His unconditional love, His gentle leadership, and His satisfying Presence.

 

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09.15.24 Sermon Guide

On Sunday we spent some time looking at the incredible story in Luke 17v11-19. 

What we can ascertain from this story is that God’s intention behind signs and wonders is always relational. Jesus’ ultimate goal on earth was to restore connection and right relationship between God and the people He created. 

Every healing, every miracle you experience in this life is designed to draw you to the feet of Jesus and bring you into deeper connection with Him.  

We received our ultimate healing, salvation, and deliverance through Jesus’ perfect sacrifice on the cross. May your heart be stirred up again to respond in praise and thanksgiving for all that His blood has done for you.

 

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09.08.24 Sermon Guide

On Sunday, we got to hear from one our deacons, Chris Sharp. Chris continued in our Luke Series with a teaching on Luke 17v1-10.

All throughout the gospels, Jesus reveals to us that to follow Him and to live in His kingdom looks like something. This teaching in Luke highlights how radical it will be to live as a child, to offer forgiveness, and to exercise our faith.

This lifestyle of complete trust and obedience to God requires us to repent of lesser pursuits and be strengthened and comforted by His unending love and provision for us through His body and his blood.

 

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09.01.24 Sermon Guide

This last Sunday we continued in our Luke series with a parable from Luke 16v19-31 about the relationship between worldly wealth and eternal wealth. 

In this story, the rich man is the example of someone so consumed with lack, that they cannot use the material of their life to tell the truth of compassion and friendship.

God is, and always has been, after a people who are so aware of His love for them that they can’t help but join in and use the physical world to tell the truth of God’s love to others. 

As New Covenant believers, our inheritance is Jesus! His Presence is our portion, and don’t have to settle for lesser things. 

 

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08.25.24 Sermon Guide

On Sunday Alex led us through Jesus’ teaching in Luke 16v14-18.

In this teaching, Jesus is highlighting the shift from the era of the law and the prophets, to the era of His kingdom. To live in His kingdom is to submit to the internal rule of God within your heart.

Jesus’s critique of the Pharisees is that they spend all their time trying to justify themselves by the law, yet their hearts grow cold to the things that God loves. This new kingdom requires radical trust and submission to Jesus. 

We can only do this to the degree that we receive His overwhelming love and depend on Him for the grace needed in every situation.

On Sunday we looked at an interesting parable in Luke 16v1-15 about a dishonest manager.

Through this parable, Jesus teaches us that there is a way of using possessions and money that tells a heavenly truth but an earthly lie. 

In the same way that Jesus used His possessions to gain our friendship, our lives on earth are to declare heavenly truth. Friendship, love, and generosity are eternal things that will last in the age to come. May we be the kind of people who pursue these eternal things over and above the perishing things that the world finds value in.

 

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08.11.24 Sermon Guide