Hillside Christian Fellowship

If you’ve ever struggled with holding a grudge, felt hurt by someone close, or wondered how to truly let go and move forward, this week’s sermon is for you. Pastor Steve reminds us that while opportunities to be offended are unavoidable, but what we do about that offense can make all the difference. As we learn to be the best ... Read More

The key to being able to forgive like God is to truly understand God’s heart towards us. In Part 3 of Pastor Steve’s series on forgiveness, we learn about the problem of unforgiveness, but also of the power of allowing the fruit of God’s love to grow in our hearts. When we let God’s love grow in our hearts, we ... Read More

Proverbs 4:23 says to “Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life.” In this week’s message, Pastor Steve talks about how to watch our over hearts, particularly in the area offense. He discusses this from two angles – how to avoid hanging on to offense, and also how to receive the grace to ... Read More

In this week’s message, Pastor Steve brings us back to the Gospel. Knowing what we freely received allows us to freely give in ways that have “no strings attached”. When we understand how much we’ve been forgiven, we are able to forgive in that same extraordinary, extravagant measure.

Pastor Steve talks about Cities of Refuge – a concept introduced in Numbers 35:9-29. Cities of Refuge were something needed for the Israelites living in a very rough, uncivilized society, but they need not be read and understood as purely dead history. As Pastor Steve teaches, he introduces a powerful concept – the Church is now the modern City of ... Read More

This week, Pastor Steve continues with part 2 of What the Angels Long to See.  As we ponder the course of our lives, we should ask ourselves three questions: – Are we living for today? Are we living for tomorrow? Are we living for eternity? These questions will help guide us as we experience the fires of life. Even as ... Read More

What do the Angels long to see? Pastor Steve talks us through 1 Peter 1:3-12 and settles on the powerful revelation that in Christ, mercy triumphs over judgement. What the angels long to see is this: God’s kind of mercy being manifest over the earth… and guess what – we as humans get to be a part of it!

When you think of praising God, what comes to your mind? Singing at the top of your lungs to your favorite worship playlist? Pastor Steve exhorts us today about the need to involve more than just our lungs and our mouths in worship. In today’s message he encourages us to allow our hearts to inform the rest of our body ... Read More

Do you feel like you’re in a dry season? Pastor Steve shares a word from Psalm 84. In these times of dryness, we need to dig new wells. Pastor Steve encourages us not to rush through these desert times, but to apprehend all that God has for us – even in, or especially in, the times the feel the driest.

This week, Pastor Steve talks about the power of weakness. Does anyone like to be (or even appear weak)? Weakness is a quality pretty far down the list of attributes of a what one would think a good Christian should be. As Pastor Steve unpacks 2 Corinthians 12, we learn even of boasting in our weaknesses, of acknowledging and embracing ... Read More