PodCast - Hillside Assembly

Frustration. It's born in the space between our expectations and our actual experiences. "This isn't what marriage was supposed look like." "I thought this job was going to be different." "I never thought my kids would act that way." We have all been there. Overcome with frustration and left with nothing but unmet expectations. How are we supposed to respond? Do we suck it up and get on with life? Do we just lower our expectations? Or is there another way?

Shades of Will is the last message in our teaching series on God's Will. Don't miss the conclusion to the Blueprint

This week Brian Bishop Chi Alpha director at Lawrence University shares with us the importance of reaching and connecting not only college students but the people in our communities and workplaces.

When we accept Christ as Savior, we make the single most important decision of our lives. But once we make that choice, we open ourselves up to endless new decisions, all centering on one over-arching question: what does God want us to do with our lives? Trying to decipher the will of God can be a frustrating prison of fear and second-guessing. But in our new series, The Blue Print we explain a life-altering perspective shift that changes the way we approach our place in God's will.

Few things will derail us faster from the plan God has for our lives than discouragement. The enemy wants us to believe the discouraging words he puts in our heads and our hearts. But the truth is, God has given us everything we need to silence those thoughts that hold us back every day. In part 5 of our series Mind Games, we Examine the Biblical story of Leah. We will look at six ways to use what God has already shown us to quickly counter the discouraging chatter we face everyday.

Our Enemy is full of convincing accusations about who we are and what we're made of. Why we're not good enough today, and why we won't be good enough tomorrow, either. He hangs our shame in front of our face, trying to drown out the identity Jesus has given us as believers. How do we know what voice to listen to? In part four of our series Mind Games, we learn to look beyond the shame of our sin that blocks us from the freedom of God's promises.

Our fears are fueled by worry. Playing out the 'what if?' scenarios of things outside our control and producing nothing more than anxiety and insomnia. But what is really at the bottom of our worst fears? In part 3 of our series (My Hope is not in the Boat), the story of Paul's shipwreck will teach us how to shift our fear to faith, and how, through Christ, we can face any situation with the promise, "God says He will."

At their root, our insecurities don't necessarily make us question God, but they make us question whether or not we are valuable enough to be used by God. How can we give God glory through our lives when we are so dysfunctional, deficient, and doubtful?