Saints‘ Hill Church Podcast

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

This last Sunday, Bria taught on the parable of the lost coin in Luke 15v8-10.

This parable is situated between two other parables like it, each one centered around God’s great love and pursuit of the lost. This parable in particular emphasizes the thoroughness of God’s pursuit of the lost. It acts as an invitation to receive the heart of God in order to love people the way He loves them.

We receive the heart of God by receiving Jesus - His body broken for us and His blood poured out. The reality of His overwhelming love will change the way we see everything.

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08.04.24 Sermon Guide

This last Sunday Alex taught us through Luke 14v25-35. In this passage, Jesus gives multiple examples of the cost of discipleship.

The West at large has bought into a costless gospel - that is, the idea that you can become a Christian without the demands of being a disciple. 

The demand of discipleship is love - a singular love that orders your entire life. And while many will say the cost of discipleship is what you say no to for Jesus, the real cost is the price of not living in His love. 

The joy of loving Him and being loved by Him, is immeasurably greater than any earthly thing we could give up.

Be invited once again to acknowledge your need for him and surrender to His loving leadership.

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07.21.24 Sermon Guide 

On Sunday we continued in our Luke Series with a teaching on Luke 14v1-24. In this passage Jesus teaches His listeners that what they value in this age will reveal if they will accept His invitation to the next.

Humans have been conditioned to play the game of this age: promotion, repayment, and protection of gain. It all stems from pride in this life. The only way out of pride and into the kingdom principle of humility is to see the love of Christ.

When you are able to recognize your need for Him and receive all that He humbly offered you, all of your deepest longings will be satisfied. You’ll be free from the game of this age, because you will have found your reward in knowing and loving Jesus.

May we spend our days longing after Him, our eternal reward.

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07.07.24 Sermon Guide