A new MP3 sermon from Indian Hills Community Church is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: Stewardship of God's Grace Gifts

Subtitle: 1 Peter

Speaker: Gil Rugh

Broadcaster: Indian Hills Community Church

Event: Sunday - PM

Date: 3/20/2016

Bible: 1 Peter 4:10

Length: 51 min. (64kbps)

Overview: God says that when He saves individuals He brings each one into a new relationship with Him but that that also involves a new relationship with others who are saved. A family relationship is formed with love for one another as well as a special spiritual giftedness to be used for the benefit of the others in serving them as together He is being served. As with physical body parts, God never intended for believers to grow alone or live separated from and in isolation from one another. In this family relationship each one is enabled and responsible as a steward to use what God has given for His glory and the good of the others. There is to be unity in the body while there will be diversity of the spiritual gifts. That being the case for every believer being gifted, the main focus and thrust in the individual-s service will be in the area of the giftedness.

A new MP3 sermon from Indian Hills Community Church is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: Only One Way or the Other

Subtitle: Psalms

Speaker: Gil Rugh

Broadcaster: Indian Hills Community Church

Event: Sunday - AM

Date: 3/6/2016

Bible: Psalm 1

Length: 60 min. (64kbps)

Overview: Distinctions between humanity ultimately comes down to Godas evaluation of each individual being declared by Him as righteous or wicked. The relationship each one has to God is evident and influential throughout life and the resulting lifestyle. For all of life and everyone throughout life the greatest need is to know God and have the wisdom of God. There are blessings from God to be realized in the life of those who are living with God and for God as well as judgment and destruction to be realized by those who reject Him and choose their own way. The life of each individual is ultimately lived only one of two ways, the way of the Lord or the way of devil and the end of this earthas way will be with the one whose way life was so lived.

A new MP3 sermon from Indian Hills Community Church is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: Made New to Live New Together

Subtitle: 2 Corinthians

Speaker: Gil Rugh

Broadcaster: Indian Hills Community Church

Event: Sunday - AM

Date: 2/28/2016

Bible: 2 Corinthians 13:11-14

Length: 57 min. (64kbps)

Overview: When you are born again you are made a new creation in Christ to live a new life in a new family of other believers. The new life results in a new lifestyle with the transformation of character is carried out by the indwelling Holy Spirit from the inside outward. As a child of God and a member of the family of God there are many blessings to be realized and much potential as each believer is gifted and enabled to serve the Lord. This epistle concludes with five commands to believers to be doing ongoing in this new life. Believers are to rejoice in the Lord, be being restored and mended, be comforted, be like-minded, and to live in peace with one another. The degree of oneness in the local body of Christ will be according to the measure that each individual is being and becoming who God has made them to be, in effect, maximizing their potential as a child of God and new creation in Christ.

A new MP3 sermon from Indian Hills Community Church is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: Balance In the Exercise of Authority

Subtitle: 2 Corinthians

Speaker: Gil Rugh

Broadcaster: Indian Hills Community Church

Event: Sunday - AM

Date: 2/21/2016

Bible: 2 Corinthians 13:5-10

Length: 53 min. (64kbps)

Overview: An examination by believers of their own lives should give evidence of the powerful ministry of the indwelling Holy Spirit through the Word of God by the transformation ongoing. The testimony of the transformation is also evidence that the teaching of the Word by the preacher is as a genuine servant of the Lord and in Paul-s case, as an apostle. At Corinth, Paul refused to be pressured to misuse his apostolic authority for the purpose of gaining more approval and respect from persons in the church. As a servant of the Lord his goal and commitment was to please the Lord first and most. As a godly leader, he called the believers to demonstrate the power of Christ in their lives by repenting of their sin and pursue righteousness. His driving motives was their edification not demise and destruction. With the love, humility, and patience of Christ he was determined to be biblically balanced in the exercise of the authority he had been given by the Lord over His church.

A new MP3 sermon from Indian Hills Community Church is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: Baptism Pictures Salvation From Judgment

Subtitle: 1 Peter

Speaker: Gil Rugh

Broadcaster: Indian Hills Community Church

Event: Sunday - PM

Date: 2/21/2016

Bible: 1 Peter 3:18-22

Length: 59 min. (64kbps)

Overview: Noah was a believer when he got on the ark and the water was the element used by God to bring judgment on the earth. God brought Noah safely through those waters of judgment at the time of the global flood. Corresponding to that, submersion and being brought up out of the water in baptism is a picture of the sinner who believes the gospel and in effect has died with Christ and is raised to new life. By faith Noah and the seven members of his family believed God-s message of coming judgment and got on the ark. By faith, the sinner upon believing God-s message of coming judgment and trusting in the rescue offered by Christ, is brought safely through the judgment and begins the new life. This identification with Jesus Christ death, burial, and resurrection by faith inwardly is what is pictured externally by water baptism. It is a demonstration of the faith that has saved the one being baptized not a means of being saved.

A new MP3 sermon from Indian Hills Community Church is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: The Spirit of Christ Proclaimed Coming Judgment

Subtitle: 1 Peter

Speaker: Gil Rugh

Broadcaster: Indian Hills Community Church

Event: Sunday - PM

Date: 2/14/2016

Bible: 1 Peter 3:19-20

Length: 59 min. (64kbps)

Overview: Who are the spirits- When did Christ do this- Where are the spirits- These are questions that need to be answered to best understand the point Peter was making in this section. The spirit of Christ made proclamation to the spirits of sinful mankind who were living on the earth during the 120 years Noah was building the ark. Their willful and stubborn rebellion was demonstrated by their disobedience to the proclamation being made to them warning of coming judgment. At the time Peter was writing, those people who had heard and rejected the message during Noah-s day were long dead, continuing to live under the judgment yet beyond the original readers down to today. No one man or angel who rebels against God escapes judgment.

A new MP3 sermon from Indian Hills Community Church is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: New Power Over Old Sin

Subtitle: 2 Corinthians

Speaker: Gil Rugh

Broadcaster: Indian Hills Community Church

Event: Sunday - AM

Date: 2/14/2016

Bible: 2 Corinthians 13:1-4

Length: 56 min. (64kbps)

Overview: The believer can and is responsible to live a life and lifestyle free from sin, even the sin that dominated the old life. There is no excuse for a believer to sin and there is full responsibility to exercise the will to deny sin and sinful desires because of what God has done and provides those who are saved. The indwelling Spirit of God is the new divine power source to resist temptation and residual desires of the flesh. The new heart and mind of the believer will grow in understanding righteousness as well as the desire to do what is righteous. For a believer to live like they did before being born again is a contradiction of the faith professed and a failure to realize the seriousness of sin.

A new MP3 sermon from Indian Hills Community Church is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: The Church Rebuked for Being Deceived

Subtitle: 2 Corinthians

Speaker: Gil Rugh

Broadcaster: Indian Hills Community Church

Event: Sunday - AM

Date: 1/31/2016

Bible: 2 Corinthians 12:11-12

Length: 58 min. (64kbps)

Overview: Paul rebukes the church for allowing themselves to be deceived. He had taught them the message of truth from God. With that they were equipped to recognized and identify false teachers and their teaching. A series of willful foolish choices by the church had put them in the vulnerable position of allowing themselves to become more enamored by physical appearance and personality than the truth of GodDs word. By turning their back on the true messenger of God they were in effect turning their back on their message which was the very word of God. To alter the message of the only means of deliverance from hell condemns the proclaimer of the corrupted message along with the hearers to hell. Such dire and deadly consequences were the motive for the blunt and strong rebuke from Paul to the church at Corinth. Such deceptions are still taking place in the church of God. Having the Word of God makes leaders and laity equipped to be discerning and responsible for choices regarding teachers and the content of their teaching. All claims of prophets and apostles today are easily recognized as false by the very requirements of such offices clearly given in the Scriptures. Those making such claims of holding those positions are self-appointed and not genuine ministers to the church today.

A new MP3 sermon from Indian Hills Community Church is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: Live Ready to Testify

Subtitle: 1 Peter

Speaker: Gil Rugh

Broadcaster: Indian Hills Community Church

Event: Sunday - PM

Date: 1/31/2016

Bible: 1 Peter 3:13-17

Length: 59 min. (64kbps)

Overview: The believers is to and is enabled to live in a manner pleasing to the Lord regardless of circumstances or people. That is not a guarantee that life will be easier, more successful, and pleasant but it does mean the God you live to please while in full control is able to use all the issues of life whatever their nature for the good of those who are His. In so doing the very life of the believer will be different as observed by unbelievers as the actions and reactions will be tempered by the new Christ-like character being produced in the believer by the Spirit of God. While leading with the life the believer will then have opportunity to share the good news of Jesus Christ as the source of hope and strength for living life so differently than the world without hope and only the strength that can be personally mustered. Being ready, being available, and being willing to draw attention to the object of hope and source of strength, Jesus Christ, and share the truth about Him is the privilege and responsibility of every believer.

A new MP3 sermon from Indian Hills Community Church is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: Strength In Weakness

Subtitle: 2 Corinthians

Speaker: Gil Rugh

Broadcaster: Indian Hills Community Church

Event: Sunday - AM

Date: 1/24/2016

Bible: 2 Corinthians 11:30-12:10

Length: 57 min. (64kbps)

Overview: What outwardly appears to be weakness in the apostle Paul, as he was being compared to the false teachers, had a purpose in the plan of God. The spiritual purpose for his physical affliction served to keep him humble and having the right perspective on what was real success in his ministry. God's power working through Paul was most effective and perfected through and because of his physical weakness because he was all the more dependent upon God for his strength. The strength God supplies by His limitless grace is much more sustaining and empowering than any human means. God's grace supplied Paul, and all believers who live dependently, sustenance for every physical and spiritual need to do the will of God and do the work divinely assigned. Trials and weaknesses can be the greatest opportunity to be a vessel more fully filled with God's grace and more fully experience God's power at work. In the so doing the believer matures and the experiencing of contentment that settles the soul and guards the heart.