Hillside Covenant Church

Happy Saturday Hillside! Tomorrow we gather again to be with the Lord and be with each other. Our passage from James is just two verses but it’s as big as the distance between the earth and the sun. I’m excited to share its vast contents with you. Enjoy your day and see you for church. Come worship with Hillside Covenant Church LIVE at 10:00 AM both online and in person as Dan Seitz teaches from J...

Happy Saturday Hillside! Tomorrow we gather again to be with the Lord and be with each other. Our passage from James is just two verses but it’s as big as the distance between the earth and the sun. I’m excited to share its vast contents with you. Enjoy your day and see you for church. Come worship with Hillside Covenant Church LIVE at 10:00 AM both online and in person as Dan Seitz teaches from J...

Dear Hillside: Not long ago I read about an unfortunate soul who tried to escape a DUI investigation by dropping off the roadway and scampering for freedom. The problem? The state was Louisiana and the terrain was swamp. A swamp filled with gators. What you imagined happened happened, though it could have been far worse as the man only suffered minor chomp wounds. I’m tempted to laugh but I dare n...

Dear Hillside: Not long ago I read about an unfortunate soul who tried to escape a DUI investigation by dropping off the roadway and scampering for freedom. The problem? The state was Louisiana and the terrain was swamp. A swamp filled with gators. What you imagined happened happened, though it could have been far worse as the man only suffered minor chomp wounds. I’m tempted to laugh but I dare n...

Hello Hillside! Josh Lund here. Normally I’m leading the worship team on Sundays, but this week I have the privilege of preaching on James 3:13-18. Have you ever wondered how human wisdom differs from God’s wisdom? Or what it looks like to truly live out the wisdom that comes from God? This Sunday, we will explore the contrast between earthly and heavenly wisdom, with the goal of finding practical...

Hello Hillside! Josh Lund here. Normally I’m leading the worship team on Sundays, but this week I have the privilege of preaching on James 3:13-18. Have you ever wondered how human wisdom differs from God’s wisdom? Or what it looks like to truly live out the wisdom that comes from God? This Sunday, we will explore the contrast between earthly and heavenly wisdom, with the goal of finding practical...

Greetings, my Hillside friends! Pastor Jane here. I hope you have some fun plans for today to celebrate this BIG birthday of our country. May you sleep well tonight, with images of fireworks dancing in your heads! Then you and I will be ready to chew on a few more verses of James on Sunday morning. We will consider a topic that is near and dear to James’ heart, and we will leave with a few practic...

Greetings, my Hillside friends! Pastor Jane here. I hope you have some fun plans for today to celebrate this BIG birthday of our country. May you sleep well tonight, with images of fireworks dancing in your heads! Then you and I will be ready to chew on a few more verses of James on Sunday morning. We will consider a topic that is near and dear to James’ heart, and we will leave with a few practic...

Hello Hillside! What a stunning claim about spiritual reality James makes in this week’s passage. Can he be serious? Of course he is! Pastor James means what he says in these five surprising verses, and the possibilities for our lives are pretty tremendous. So, I (Pastor Dan) invite you to join your church family this Sunday at 10:00 AM for family connection, a message from God’s Word, and musical...

Hello Hillside! What a stunning claim about spiritual reality James makes in this week’s passage. Can he be serious? Of course he is! Pastor James means what he says in these five surprising verses, and the possibilities for our lives are pretty tremendous. So, I (Pastor Dan) invite you to join your church family this Sunday at 10:00 AM for family connection, a message from God’s Word, and musical...

Hello Hillside! Because this sermon on the very famous and challenging passage of James 2:14-26 wrung from me every last drop of wit and wisdom I have (at least until Monday morning when the new delivery arrives), I find I don’t have anything clever left for this blurb. So, I’ll simply invite you to join your church family for our weekly gathering in the presence of our loving God this Sunday at 1...

Hello Hillside! Because this sermon on the very famous and challenging passage of James 2:14-26 wrung from me every last drop of wit and wisdom I have (at least until Monday morning when the new delivery arrives), I find I don’t have anything clever left for this blurb. So, I’ll simply invite you to join your church family for our weekly gathering in the presence of our loving God this Sunday at 1...

Dear Hillside Family.  Mercy, Mercy, Mercy - the theme for this week’s sermon.  Those of you who are jazz aficionados will point out that this is the title to a jazz classic by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet.  Sorry to disappoint, but our focus will not be on jazz but it will most definitely be on mercy - our need for it, the great mercy that God gives to us and the responsibility we have to be m...

Dear Hillside Family.  Mercy, Mercy, Mercy - the theme for this week’s sermon.  Those of you who are jazz aficionados will point out that this is the title to a jazz classic by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet.  Sorry to disappoint, but our focus will not be on jazz but it will most definitely be on mercy - our need for it, the great mercy that God gives to us and the responsibility we have to be m...

Hello Hillside! Yes, it’s Saturday which means our day to gather as the family of God is just around the corner. Tomorrow’s 10:00 AM service will be special (but aren’t they all?). Looking forward to being together for musical praise, church updates, a one verse sermon from James (though don’t let that fool ya, ’cuz there’s a lot to that one verse), and more besides. Why not call someone you’ve ha...

Hello Hillside! Yes, it’s Saturday which means our day to gather as the family of God is just around the corner. Tomorrow’s 10:00 AM service will be special (but aren’t they all?). Looking forward to being together for musical praise, church updates, a one verse sermon from James (though don’t let that fool ya, ’cuz there’s a lot to that one verse), and more besides. Why not call someone you’ve ha...

Dear Hillside: Recently, I was reading about the thousands of pioneers who crossed the United States in wagon trains during the mid-nineteenth century. Think about what they endured: blizzards, grizzly bears, and hostility from locals unhappy with the intrusion. And think of how few Peets Coffees there were along the way. This puts everything in perspective for me. Of course, they made that harrow...

Dear Hillside: Recently, I was reading about the thousands of pioneers who crossed the United States in wagon trains during the mid-nineteenth century. Think about what they endured: blizzards, grizzly bears, and hostility from locals unhappy with the intrusion. And think of how few Peets Coffees there were along the way. This puts everything in perspective for me. Of course, they made that harrow...

Dear Hillside: Here’s a quick quiz. I’m going to name a famous forest, and you reply with the story it’s from. Warning: They get more challenging as they go. Ready? No Googling. 1. Sherwood Forest 2. Mirkwood Forest 3. The Enchanted Forest 4. The Forest of Arden. Did you get any right? If you got number four, I’m impressed. I’m doubly impressed if you got number four and you weren’t an English maj...

Dear Hillside: Here’s a quick quiz. I’m going to name a famous forest, and you reply with the story it’s from. Warning: They get more challenging as they go. Ready? No Googling. 1. Sherwood Forest 2. Mirkwood Forest 3. The Enchanted Forest 4. The Forest of Arden. Did you get any right? If you got number four, I’m impressed. I’m doubly impressed if you got number four and you weren’t an English maj...

James 1:22 says, “Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.” But what does that actually mean for Christians today? In this sermon, Kian Ameli challenges the modern church to confront the danger of a domesticated faith: a faith that hears God’s Word but does not act on it. Using the story of the Great Blondin and the image of the mirror in James 1, this message explores the...

James 1:22 says, “Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.” But what does that actually mean for Christians today? In this sermon, Kian Ameli challenges the modern church to confront the danger of a domesticated faith: a faith that hears God’s Word but does not act on it. Using the story of the Great Blondin and the image of the mirror in James 1, this message explores the...

Dear Hillside: I invite you to join your church family (new members and old) for the worship service tomorrow at 10:00 AM. Remember, tomorrow we have one 10:00 AM service (We’re now in one service mode until fall when we’ll kick it back to two). Friends, let’s never forget the priority of worship in our lives as children of God and individual “stones” of his new “temple.” If we’ve come to view the...

Dear Hillside: I invite you to join your church family (new members and old) for the worship service tomorrow at 10:00 AM. Remember, tomorrow we have one 10:00 AM service (We’re now in one service mode until fall when we’ll kick it back to two). Friends, let’s never forget the priority of worship in our lives as children of God and individual “stones” of his new “temple.” If we’ve come to view the...

James is concerned about many things in the young churches scattered around the Roman Empire – sometimes he’s focused on godly behavior, and sometimes – like today’s text – on the very life blood of the church: faith. Join us this Sunday as Pastor Jane DeYoung leads us in exploring James’ big picture passion. Oh - and you’ll also get Jane’s best guess as to what James looked like. Come worship wit...