The Hillside Pulpit

Our lives of worship are wholly integrated including private and public components. Our private worship fuels our public worship and vice-versa. Three basic components of a life of private worship is Bible intake, prayer, and fasting. Receive some practical tips in this sermon delivered to Cottondale Baptist Church on 7/22/18 during the 6pm service by pastor Chad Hendley. www.cottondalebaptistchur...

Jesus died, not merely for a bunch of discrete individuals, but to produce a new family, a new people whose love for one another reflects his love to the world. Listen as pastor Chad describes this community in this sermon delivered to Cottondale Baptist Church in Eastman, GA during the 11am service on 7/22/18.

The Christian community is God's prescribed weapon against unbelief and chosen tool in our sanctification. We need each other. We need each other to remain faithful. We need each other to go further and deeper in our relationship with God than we ever could on our own. We all are obligated to present each other mature in Christ and are responsible to invest in one another. Hear pastor Chad discuss...

The Scripture tells us to offer our entire lives as a living sacrifice to God. But how do we actually do that? How can we actually offer the totality of ourselves to God in a way that is our true "spiritual" worship? Find out in this sermon delivered to Cottondale Baptist Church in Eastman, GA during the 6pm service on 7/15/18 by pastor Chad Hendley. www.cottondalebaptistchurch.com

The cross of Jesus Christ changes everything. It weans us from the world to live for the one to come. It gives us a change of allegiance. It enables us to see reality for what it is--to discern the temporal from the eternal and live accordingly. Because of the cross, external realities don't matter anymore. All that matters is if we are new creation in Christ. Listen in this sermon delivered to Co...

We were made to worship. It is impossible not to worship. The question then is what is the appropriate object of worship? It is God alone. What is false worship, why does it happen, and how do we identify it in our lives? Listen in this sermon delivered to Cottondale Baptist Church in Eastman, GA on 7/8/18 during the 6pm service by pastor Chad Hendley. www.cottondalebaptistchurch.com

Paul nears the end of his exhortations to the Galatians by appealing to them to live by the Spirit, as those who are saved by grace through faith and not works. Their community, their love for one another should display the gospel of Christ. Paul highlights four qualities that should mark the Christian Community: (1) Humility, (2) Accountability, (3) Unity, (4) Generosity. www.cottondalebaptistchu...

Christians have longed maintained that we exist to worship. We all look to something or someone for meaning, happiness, and self-worth. What it means to worship, then, could be the most important question we can ever ask. Here pastor Chad Hendley discusses what the Bible says about what it means to worship God. This sermon was presented to Cottondale Baptist Church on 7/1/18 during the 6pm service...

The Spiritual life is organic. God changes our hearts, thoughts, motives, ,and character over time. As an acorn becomes a mighty oak, so we grow into spiritual maturity by the Spirit. Here, pastor Chad discusses the fruit of Spirit from Gal 5, joy through self-control. Listen in this sermon presented to Cottondale Baptist Church on 7/1/18 during the 11:00am service. www.cottondalebaptistchurch.com

What is a practical system to help make prayer a consistent and powerful means of God's presence and grace in your life? Learn in this fifth and final sermon in our series on Paul Miller's Book, A Praying Life, presented to Cottondale Baptist Church on 6/24/18 during the 6:00pm service by pastor Chad Hendley. www.cottondalebaptistchurch.com

Christian love is "the unyielding posture of heart to be for the eternal good of another even at the expense of one’s self." It is not merely external acts of kindness (which can be done with ulterior motives) but the posture of the heart yearning for the eternal (and not just temporal) good of others. Hear pastor Chad discuss the nature of Christian love in this sermon delivered to Cottondale B...

Being a father is a gift and privilege. It is a sharing in the divine nature of begetting in our own likeness. It is also a great responsibility. Societies rise and fall on the health of the family, in which loving, servant leadership of the father is essential. Hear Pastor Chad discuss (1) basis, (2) practice, and (3) essence of fatherhood in the message delivered to Cottondale Baptist Church in...

To live according to the old age, to live in the flesh, means to be enslaved by sin. Sin at its nature is a breakdown of relationship, a putting of self first before God and others. This manifests itself in numerous ways enumerated by Paul as works of the flesh. In these, we (1) Spurn God, (2) Spurn Others, and (3) Spurn Ourselves. Listen in this sermon delivered to Cottondale Baptist Church in Ea...

Prayer is not a mere transaction. God is not a cosmic vending machine. He is a good Father with a plan and purpose for our lives. Prayer then is not a mechanical "rubbing of the genie's lamp." It is a conversation with a listening God who is writing his story for us. Listen to this sermon based in part on Paul Miller's book A Praying Life delivered to Cottondale Baptist Church in Eastman, GA on 6/...

The biblical sexual ethic is that abstinence apart from one man and one woman in the lifelong covenant of marriage. In an age of sexual insanity, Christians must uphold the biblical beauty, purity, and sacredness of sex. A sermon delivered to Cottondale Baptist Church in Eastman, GA on 6/3/18 during the 11:00am service by pastor Chad Hendley.

Christian freedom is not a license to sin. It is a freedom to loving self-denial for the eternal good of others. Denial, not embrace, of our sinful desires is love. We must put sinful desires to death by the power of the Holy Spirit. A sermon delivered on 5/27/18 during the 11am service to Cottondale Baptist Church in Eastman, GA by pastor Chad Hendley

Listen to this 3rd message in our series through Paul Miller's A Praying Life. This week we examine how the enlightenment affected our Western way of thinking, making prayer to a God both infinite and personal challenging. Hear how God is both transcendent yet close to us, and this changes the way we pray. A message delivered to Cottondale Baptist Church in Eastman, GA on 5/20/18 by pastor Chad He...

Be encouraged by hearing how the Lord is setting people free from addictions through the ministry of Teen Challenge.

Listen to this encouraging message on the essence of motherhood from pastor Chad Hendley delivered to Cottondale Baptist Church in Eastman, GA on 5/13/18 during the 11:00am service.

Cynism is the spirit of the age. This cynicism toward the world easily creep into to our relationship to God, especially our life of prayer. "God won't hear. It won't make a difference. It would have happened anyway." Learn how to fight cynicism with biblical hope and the optimism that only a mighty Christ can give. A sermon delivered to Cottondale Baptist Church on 5/6/18 during the 6pm service b...

The bad news is we are worse than than we ever imagined. The good news is that God grace is greater than we ever dared hope. To try to earn one's right standing before is an exercise in futility. Rather, we must cast ourselves on God's grace in Christ, and there we find the salvation we desperately need. A sermon presented to Cottondale Baptist Church in Eastman, GA on 5/6/18 during the 11am servi...

Listen as Pastor Chad discusses 6 points taken from the book Baptist Foundations concerning the question, "What is the Lord's supper?" Delivered to Cottondale Baptist Church in Eastman, GA on 4/29/18 during the 11:00am service

Listen to this first sermon in a series on Prayer, discussing ideas from Paul Miller's book, A Praying Life.

What does Christian freedom mean in distinction from the world's definition of freedom? How do the "flesh" and the "Spirit" relate? What kind of freedom has Christ purchased for his people? Consider these questions with pastor Chad Hendley in a sermon delivered to Cottondale Baptist Church in Eastman, GA, on 4/22/18 during the 11am service.

Consider the historical evidence for the physical, bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ in this message presented to Cottondale Baptist Church in Eastman, GA on 4/15/18 during the 6:00pm service by Pastor Chad Hendley.