Hill Country Bible Church Dripping Springs Sermons

Love is not an abstract list of traits. Paul gives us a personification of love. It is a description of Jesus, the One who loved perfectly. In following Him, we experience His love. That changes our hearts and we show ourselves to be His disciples by the way it is reproduced in our lives.   

Scripture shows us that love is different than the world defines it. Good things can happen through anyone. Exercising gifts with Christ-like love, produces spiritual fruit, eternal in nature. As a people with hearts given to God, this love is a hallmark of Jesus’ disciples.  

Confession is an act of declaring truths of our faith. When we confess our sinfulness, it is the step we take in affirming God’s grace through Jesus. Confession leads to our repentance. Repentance leads to God’s forgiveness. Forgiveness demonstrates our restored relationship with God.  

Sunday services are a glimpse of the worship that takes place, throughout eternity, in heaven. God brings together intrinsically different people, praising Him. We make a harmonious sound; something we can only do among a company of believers.

Sunday morning sermons are not enough. We share personal application of God's word in our lives through intimate, Bible-based small group relationships. As interdependent members of one body, we grow as disciples of Jesus together by fulfilling ministry in small groups.

Reading Scripture with a right motive shows us God’s desires for righteous living by bringing us face-to-face with Jesus.  We read His Word, to both learn something and meet Someone.  

There are over 300 mentions of Jesus’ return in the New Testament. The early church had a conviction that Jesus had been resurrected and that He would return to usher in the new heaven and new earth. His return will complete the reconciliation of people to God and mark the end of history as we know it.

There is extensive historical evidence affirming the resurrection of Jesus. He was raised through the power of the Holy Spirit. The same Spirit is at work in His church today and shows us the life changing transformation only He can bring.

Sin is rejection of a God-ruled life; engaging in a self-ruled life instead. The Bible teaches this is a problemtrue of everyone, handed down to us from Adam and Eve. Ultimately sin is a heart problem and the explanation for the world’s brokenness. In Jesus, we have the only effective answer.

The creation story gives Jesus’ disciples the world view for understanding the purpose of our lives. We must recognize someone who is not Jesus’ disciple has a different perspective, sometimes even hostile to ours. We can lovingly question their perspective on life as an opening to share the Good News.