Jesus praying in the Garden of Gethsemane gives us the ultimate framework for how to pray and live in the midst of challenging circumstances and intense temptations. He shows us how we can actually make choices that align with God’s will.

A life of abiding in friendship with Jesus will transform your desires to the degree that you will be able to choose His ways.

Prayer is not a means to an end or an equation - prayer is a path to the person of Jesus. In His presence you will find everything that you need.

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02.02.25 Sermon Guide

Last week, Alex shared why we pray - for the reordering of ourselves and the world we have responsibility for. 

This week we will be looking at the Lord’s Prayer to see how it is we are to pray. The Lord’s Prayer offers not just a prayer to be recited but a worldview to live into. 

We have a Father who desires relationship with us before anything. We also have a God who is holy - completely other. Our ability to grasp the holiness of God is the doorway into all kingdom activity. It’s His kingdom and His will that we are after on earth - meaning, we are invited to surrender all our own ideas and expectations for our life to see Him glorified. 

When we pray the Lord’s Prayer with our lives, we become the bridge between heaven and earth that we were designed to be.

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01.19.25 Sermon Guide

Last week we talked about depth in our gathering and how adding a cross to our physical space helps us view our gathering as sacred.

This Sunday Alex shared about depth in our mission as the Church. Our mission cannot aim at securing cultural relevance or political power. Rather, each one of us must be faithful to sow the seeds that God has given us, and depend on His power to bring about the promised harvest. 

At Saints' Hill we are limiting our mission to connection with God (prayer). All fruitfulness is tied to communion with Him, so we look forward to how He will bring about the harvest in our town and in our time. 

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01.05.25 Sermon Guide

Every year our senior leader, Alex Rettmann, takes time to pray and think about a word that might give an aim for the coming year. This year that word is depth. 

In an age where the Church is thought of as a place to help you realize your project self, we want to put front and center, the Cross.

It requires depth and maturity to recognize that we live by faith in a world of brokenness, while also living with the possibility of heaven on earth. 

Thank you Jesus for the Cross.

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12.29.24 Sermon Guide

In this season of Advent we contemplate two things at once - the first coming of Christ and the second.

Throughout Scripture we see that both come as a surprise.  And in fact - all of God's activity in the world has been surprising.  The Christian life isn't a life of calculating but a life of wonder at the comedy of grace.

God wants to take us on a trust journey of partnership to see his outrageous goodness manifested in our world.

May this season of Advent let the "yes" of Mary rise up in your heart, and may the love of Christ overflow in you and produce the kingdom around you.

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12.15.24 Sermon Guide